"The Commonwealth's youth is also its future. Without an empowered, enterprising, and educated younger generation, we will not be able to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. This is why the Commonwealth supports Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008. Through it, young people will be inspired with the idea of entrepreneurship and will set free their natural creativity. And I hope that, together, we can build networks of such enterprising young people across the Commonwealth. That would indeed be a great legacy by young people, for young people."

Rt Hon Donald C McKinnon,
Commonwealth Secretary-General