"When the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, visited this city on his first official mission on taking office, he provided a personal donation of 100,000 US dollars of seed money to help launch in 2008 what is today known as the Moonbeam Youth Training Centre – a centre for young people without the resources or skills to lift themselves out of poverty."
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