ETG - Building Bridges Across the River

Speaker 0 00:00:01 So, um, I think I've mentioned to you the audience here, um, these are global, uh, youth development professionals, funders, other folks that are interested in and the best lessons learned in different places. Certainly you guys are a shining example of that. If you had a message to leave people with about the work and in general, um, going forward the vision, um, that needs to be there, what would you tell them? Speaker 1 00:00:29 You know, I would say that this, that, that I think, you know, I said it earlier that life in essence is a series of investments. Um, and the, the younger generation, um, needs a level of effort investment in order to get the yield that we want our world to become. And I think that today we, we have so bad, but I, I do believe that we, if we want to change the world, um, it really, it really lies in the hands of our young people, um, and our youth developers, our, um, mentors guide as teachers, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, servants in order to do that. And so I would say, um, uh, for whatever you can and can do to invest in our young people, that's, that's what we're doing here every single day. Um, that's what I would encourage you. And anyone else listening in to do is continue that investment. Um, and, uh, the last thing I'll say about that investment is the return on that investment named may not be in your lifetime. And so my, my, my suggestion is our recommendation is invest without invest without thinking about the possibility of that return in your lifetime. And that's, that's the, that's the key that I, I think, needs to be told and, and share, and, um, reverberating.