The ASEAN Magazine: ASEAN Youth Ready Together
ASEAN Volunteers, an ASEAN Cooperation Project, aims to foster a caring and sharing community among ASEAN youth through volunteering activities. It aspires to become an ASEAN-led integrated platform for such activities, to promote ASEAN awareness and to foster participatory community building by actively engaging the youth.
The inaugural cycle of the project was organised under the theme “Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness” with funding from the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF). The project deployed approximately 100 young people aged 18-30 from all ASEAN Member States to serve as volunteers in community development projects across the region for 22 days. Many of these volunteers are involved in community projects in their home country.
Read the highlights of the JAIF-funded project, ASEAN VOLUNTEERS: Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness on the ASEAN Magazine: Issue 37 page 46.
