Search on for Philippine-Tohoku goodwill ambassadors
MANILA, Philippines - The government of Japan through the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) of the Embassy of Japan as well as the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE), in cooperation with the National Youth Commission (NYC) of the Republic of the Philippines, is calling on Filipino youths to be part of the 400 Tohoku-shinzen-taishi or Philippine-Tohoku goodwill ambassadors who will be Japan-bound early next year under the JENESYS program.
The 400 youth ambassadors will stay in Japan for nine days, including home stay and interaction with Japanese youths in schools and other educational institutions. The youth ambassadors will go to Japan under two different themes. Two hundred youth ambassadors under the JENESYS- “Go Green” will depart for Japan in April 2012. In addition, 200 youth ambassadors under the JENESYS-“Japan’s Disaster Management and Recovery Efforts After 3.11” will leave for Japan in May 2012. All the 400 youth ambassadors will learn and understand Japan’s experience and lessons learned from past natural disasters. They will also witness Japan’s ongoing recovery efforts and see how it was possible for Japan to make a fast turn-around from the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan’s Tohoku region on March 11, 2011.
Interested parties can get the application forms and guidelines from the National Youth Commission, the implementing organization in the Philippines. The guidelines and the application forms can also be downloaded from the NYC website and Embassy of Japan website. All applications should be submitted to the NYC Jenesys Secretariat. Duly-accomplished application forms, along with the complete requirements, must be submitted on or before November 18, 2011.
Applications will only be accepted for the Jenesys’ “Japan’s Disaster Management and Recovery Efforts” program. Application for the Jenesys’ “Go Green” program was closed last year.
For further information, call Marielou Chua, JICC, Roxas Boulevard, 781-1406, 551-5710 local 2313/2318; visit http://www.youth.net.ph, http://www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp.
