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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