AAA Translation - We'll Take You Global

This past week I spent 4 days in Kansas City, Missouri at the 52nd Annual Sister Cities International Conference. It was the best conference ever and it gave our delegation from St. Louis a new outlook on what Sister Cities is all about. St. Louis - Stuttgart Sister Cities is thrilled to be part of this Citizen Diplomacy Network.

Our hearts went out to the individuals honored for saving babies in orphanages to a Japanese business man spending $1.2 Million Dollars over his life time in sending Japanese students to the United States for high school exchanges, to the president of the Moroccan Assocation of Sister Cities International bringing 25 young adults with him to Kansas City to attend the youth conference and paying for their way. What a difference we can make in young adults lives.

For more information about Sister Cities International, please visit:
www.sister-cities.org - Let's all pull together!

Here is an excerpt of the countries and speakers that were present:

Delegates from the following countries were represented: Benin, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Ghana, Guyana, Japan, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Peru, Phillipines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Korea, Taiwan, and Uganda plus the United States.

Keynote speakers were: Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, a noted international speaker on Sustainability, Corporate social Responsibility, Population, Gender and Justice issues. Henrietta H. Fore, Administrator of the U.s. Agency for International Development (USAID). Goli Ameri, Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs. Senator Sam Brownback furrently serving on the Appropriations, Judiciary and Joint Economic Committees. He also serves in the Helsinki Commission on Security and Coopertaion in Europe, co-chairs the Senate Cancer Coalition and the Human Rights Caucus, chairs the Senate Values Action Team and is a founding member of the Senate Fiscal Watch Team. Mary Jean Eisenhower, President and CEO of People to People International (PTPI).