TEDxYouthOttawa - Aliai Lual - 03/04/10

Aliai Lual on Empowerment and Engagement

Aliai A.A. Lual, 23, emigrated to Canada from war-torn Sudan with her family on June 10th, 1990. Driven by the passion her parents had in providing opportunities for their community, Aliai was inspired to take on a role as an international voice for Sudanese youth displaced around the world and in refugee camps.

Aliai is a Youth Engagement Officer for 3 Dreads and a Baldhead, powerfully contributing to the black community and the Black Youth Conference Day, an annual event that brings together black youth from different schools and backgrounds in the Ottawa area with the aim of creating a vision for themselves and their community. Among her achievements, Aliai was named the 2008 United Way Community Builder of the Year and one of the Top 50 people who are shaping the future of the Nations Capital (Ottawa Life Magazine).

Presented at TEDxYouthOttawa on March 4, 2010 at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Canada

Video by Adam Langlois, Creative Director, For Youth By Youth (FYBY) News

TEDxYouthOttawa Organizers:
Adam Moscoe
Yusuf Malik
David Millen

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• TEDx
• TEDxYouthOttawa
• Aliai Lual
• 3 Dreads and a Baldhead
• Sudan
• youth engagement
• black youth
• Ottawa
• united way community builder
• motivational speaker

[Africaunite2020]

This is a very beautiful story from a beautiful Sudanese sister...may you cultivate your ways in the West and one day return back to Sudan and help develop it ...long live Africa

[houstontxdanny]

stop being shy sister. any good start of your move keeping going.