Letter From Secretary General

What is the sun if not the promise of a new day? What is a day if not the gift of a life you get to live? A million things have to go right before you even open your eyes, and perhaps for you, they do. But ask yourself this: what goes right for a child who wakes up to find his mother lost forever to the rubble? A girl, aged ten, waking up in her brand-new marriage bed? Even breathing comes easy for you, but when they take away your hospitals, you finally understand that you depend on each exhale for your life. All the things that go right for you in a minute are equivalent to a lifetime for another; your mortal coil someone's golden fleece.

Friends in arms, we won’t always agree, but your life is mine to protect, and mine is yours. Because when the floods come and steal our wealth, there is no prejudice left when we build the rowboat that keeps us afloat. So it is for you to decide whether you want to save the world now, or when it ends– Either way you will have to. It is a silent consensus you and I must have with each other, an allegiance to this earth; our emblem the break of dawn.

That is not to say you must feel the burdens of the world on your shoulders, but all the wise men knew that we do not win unless all of us win. The star in the sky shines on each man, and scorns those who deafen to the plights of other sun-made men. You keep on basking because the world keeps on turning, day and night. But the promise of dawn isn’t a salve; it isn’t consolation that everything will be okay eventually. It is a warning. It is a summoning of change. Each day morning will come but nothing will change, until it is your lands that become dry and your stomach that goes hungry. So become change before it is too late, before the warmth on your back becomes scorching pain. 

My dearest delegates, therefore I plead: Change, change, change. The world needs you because it is you who has the privilege to stand up head held high, and advocate for people’s lives, for a society that you believe in. It is the highest honour to have the ability to transform a life, and you are bestowed with it. So don’t let it go to waste. Be a wrecking ball, a maelstrom, and the architect that builds everything anew each day. Let your promise to yourself be more imperishable than a sunrise.