Young people are changing and becoming active decision-makers. But while many organisations want to be part of this change, they do not know how. This book therefore could not have come at a better time. The decision to involve the young cannot be postponed. In Africa, HIV/AIDS is succeeding where malaria, slavery and civil strife have failed - it is threatening a continent of young people. Perhaps the question to older generations is: what do you plan to do without us?