
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Dundee &#8211; 8th to 10th of April</h2>



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<p>JCI Scotland will host our 2022 national conference in Dundee, the sunniest city in Scotland!</p>



<p>Our theme for the weekend is Sustainable Leaders. </p>



<p>In the run up to and in the wake of COP 26, the eyes of the world are on Scotland. We are recognised leaders in many industries…but we shouldn’t stop there.</p>



<ul>
<li>What more can be done?</li>



<li>How can we as Leaders be more sustainable?</li>



<li>How can being sustainable help us to be better Leaders?</li>



<li>What can we do to influence change?</li>



<li>What future innovations will we see and create in Scotland</li>
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<p>Facts about Dundee:</p>



<ul>
<li>Sunniest city in Scotland – Gets up to a 3rd more sunlight than other cities</li>



<li>Home of Beano and Dandy comics, where the world-famous Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan come from</li>



<li>4th largest city in Scotland with population of 148,280</li>



<li>Name made up of words with Celtic origins – Dun meaning ‘fort’ and dè, meaning ‘Fire’</li>



<li>James Chalmers, who invented the Adhesive Postage Stamps, was born in Dundee</li>



<li>Home to two world class universities</li>



<li>Famous for its Jute, Jam and Journalism!</li>
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Sustainable Leaders &#8211; National Conference 2022

Why JCI?


<p>JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) award honors ten incredible young leaders under the age of 40 each year. These individuals exemplify the spirit of the JCI Mission and have extraordinary accomplishments regarding individual development, business and entrepreneurship, community action and international cooperation.</p>



<p>Along with the final judging panel, JCI members and friends around the world voted online to select the 2020 JCI TOYP Honorees. The final judging panel was comprised of 2020 JCI President Itai Manyere; Global Youth Empowerment Fund, Board Chair Anthony Parkes; JCI Ambassador and Chairman of the WBAF Board of Directors, Baybars Altuntas; and Monika Froehler, CEO, Ban Ki-Moon Centre. After a record breaking 77,206 votes were cast and the judging panel reviewed the top 20 finalists, ten young active citizens have been selected to receive this honor for exceptional service, creativity and the positive change they have created.</p>



<p>The ten honorees will be recognized at the 2020 JCI Awards Ceremony at the 2020 JCI World Congress in November.</p>



<p>Find out more at:</p>



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TOYP


<p>JCI Edinburgh has done a few days of volunteering at Smalls for All.</p>



<p>Smalls for All are based in a warehouse in Livingston.&nbsp; They collect and distribute underwear to help women in Africa.&nbsp; The help women and children in orphanages, slums, camps and schools as well as those in hospitals suffering form medical conditions like obstetric fistula.</p>



<p>Underwear in countries across Africa is very much a luxury and isn’t easily available.&nbsp;&nbsp; Having a pair of pants can mean a young girl not missing a days of school because she has her period.</p>



<p>&nbsp;Smalls for All have piles of donations piled high in their warehouse of parcels posted to the charity, these all have to be sorted and they only have a small number of volunteers to do so.&nbsp; A group JCI Edinburgh members travelled out one Saturday afternoon to help them get through their donations.</p>



<p>We split into two groups one with the &nbsp;crates of parcels, we opened the donations, checked for correspondence as each person who has donated is recorded and thanked by Maria, the CEO of Smalls.&nbsp; We would sort donations into pants or bras which would also be sorted.</p>



<p>A group would then go through the opened donations of bras and size them to then be counted and some which are not suitable to be sent out to Africa.&nbsp; &nbsp;Smalls for All need to keep track of their numbers which go out to the countries and how many are in the bags.</p>



<p>We volunteered for 4 hours, it soon flew by and we got through a good amount of donations, however there was still piles and piles of unopened donations.&nbsp; it really is a fantastic charity which does amazing work and we would love to be back at a future date to help again.</p>



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