Vision YouthAction was
founded in 2002 by 30 young leaders who participated
in international volunteer exchange project between
Taiwan and U.S.A . From 2002 to 2007, VYA has been
successful in setting up a regional youth volunteer
center to promote very short term community service
from one day to one week. Over 7,000 young people
served as volunteers, donating more than 260,000
hours to social services in the past few years. In
2007 August, in collaboration with NICE Japan , the
first international workcamp in Taiwan originated in
a small fishing village in the mid-western coast of
Taiwan . It has been developing rapidly and
variously catering to the huge needs of projects &
motivations of people!
Since 2002, VYA had organized 5
international volunteer exchanges program between
Taiwan and U.S.A. And over the years, in total, VYA
had planned over 11 different types of voluntary
service projects. Two of them were very short term
community service projects from one day to one week
and the others were from at least one week to three
weeks.
In total, over 4359 youth
volunteers come from 15 countries had got involved
in all VYA voluntary service projects, which
cooperated with over 255 local NPOs and
international NGOs.
(1)
Very short term community service projects
(VSTCSP): Organizing with National Youth
Commission, VYA encourage Taiwanese young people to
get involved in community voluntary services. Every
year, at least 2000 youth volunteers are involved in
VYA VSTCSP and initiate more than 130 community
service projects by themselves.
(2) Taiwan
International WorkCamp: VYA organizes
workcamps and bridge the gap between local and
overseas NGOs for Taiwan volunteers. The first
Taiwan international workcamp was held in 2007 in
cooperation with NVDA and NICE. In 2007(2008), only
one(3) project with 8(22) international vols and
17(30) local vols/ sent 10(80) vols to 3(14)
countries.
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