YMCA Fellow for Youth – News Letter for Fellow Members

Last Updated (Wednesday, 19 October 2011 11:51)

October 2011, APAY

Basically, YMCA Fellow for Youth is an avenue for developing youth leaders, their potentials, and social awareness, through YMCAs in the Asia and Pacific area. As of this year, this campaign was able to accumulate a grand total 58,000USD.

As the YA Statement being polished, the upcoming Leaders Quadrennial Roundtable would require participation of the youth. To make this possible, the remaining amount from the YMCA Fellow for Youth may be used in support to some of the estimated 7-10 youths. This meeting would be held on 17-19 December 2011 at Bangkok, Thailand. This will be a great strategy to ignite the innovative and powerful minds of the youth and gear them with whatever knowledge that requires them to bring about a meaningful contribution for the Youth Participation and Leadership Development (YPLD) Committee.

August 2011,

APAY Last December 2010, a new campaign entitled “Fellow for Youth” was launched. Basically, YMCA Fellow for Youth is an avenue for developing youth leaders, their potentials, and social awareness, through YMCAs in the Asia and Pacific area. Through the persistent campaigns on videos, pamphlets and mails, supporters outpoured where several leaders, NGSs, and other individuals pledged and became supporters of this campaign. APAY has received 38 pledges and the amounts continuously keep coming: (refer to the list below)

(As of August 18, 2011)
The following Organizations & Individuals have become members of the Fellow for Youth:

Youth Internship

One of the purposes of the generating this kind of support is for a Youth Intern who will work closely with Youth Works. We now have Kristina Velez, who started working with us last March 1, 2011. Mainly, her work focuses on coordinating youth programs such as Global Citizehship Education(GCE), Uni-Ys, Youth Assembly, and others. Last month, she was part of the steering team for GCE Trainings. She coordinated GCE along with the Executive Secretaries and Sub-Regional Coordinators, and facilitated some workshops during the trainings. At this point, she has been diligently working with the Youth Assembly Preparatory Team as the event takes on a full swing preparation.

Global Citizenship Education Trainings of Trainers
YMCA Fellow for Youth is also intended for the empowering the Youth through Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This year we had conducted two GCE Training programs in two sub-regions – South East Asia (Makati, Philippines) and South Asia (Kerala, India). Forty-seven (47) participants from both sub-regions attended the trainings and will soon start starting their own GCE Training programs within their respective movements.

Preparing for the 2nd Youth Assembly and 18th APAY General Assembly
Hugely, the support coming from this campaign is now being utilized as means of encouraging more youth to participate meaningfully for the upcoming Youth Assembly and General Assembly which will happen on 3 – 10 of September 2011. As of August 18, there are almost two hundred (200) registered participants. Among them, around ninety (90) will proceed to the General Assembly and thirty-five (35) of them will be subsidized. As we continuously support the youth in our area, we expect them to realize their potentials, be aware of the happenings globally and locally, and respond to the pressing issues in commitment to the YMCA mission.

In return to those who have intensely helped in this campaign, some fellows had already been awarded as our way of appreciating your great contribution for us last March Executive Committee Meeting. More fellows will be awarded on the upcoming General Assembly. Again, these programs/ projects of APAY would not be possible if not for the heart-warming support you gave us. We, in APAY, would want to extend our sincerest gratitude to all of you.