Call for Applications for the Volunteer Youth Ambassador Programme for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SUPPLIED
Civil society organisations (CSOs) and five of the Kingdom’s development partners jointly announced the recruitment of 20 volunteer youth ambassadors to participate in the third generation of the Volunteer Youth Ambassador Programme for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to a joint statement, the five CSOs and development partners co-organising the programme are Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), OXFAM in Cambodia, Norwegian People’s Aid Cambodia and Brot fur die Welt, in collaboration with five EU member nations.
Young people who wish to become volunteer youth ambassadors must be between the ages of 18 and 25 and apply no later than October 16.
They must also have sufficient time and ability to commit to carrying out social work and participate in educating, promoting and encouraging the implementation of the SDGs.
Nong Neatnorak, director of liaison and resource mobilisation for the CCC, told The Post on October 4 that 20 young people will be selected as youth volunteer ambassadors for the first term from November 1 of this year to October 31, 2023.
He said that during this one-year term, they will work together to become agents towards contributing to positive change and strengthening youth empowerment in order to set an example for other young people who wish to help Cambodia achieve its SDGs in their community.
“Volunteer youth ambassadors will contribute directly and indirectly to the building of peace and sustainable development. They will become the nation’s great, wise and genius human leaders and capital in the future,” he said.
According to the CCC, during the one-year term, the Volunteer Youth Ambassadors will carry out four main activities: Awareness raising through public awareness programmes, especially among young people; capacity building for the integration of the SDGs and the CSDGs among youth work programmes; promoting partnerships with stakeholders like the government, private sector and civil society organisations on financing for development and reflecting on the progress and achievements – as well as the challenges – of implementing the SDGs and CSDGs through public opinion polling and the voluntary national review process.
The SDGs are goals related to future international development which were set by the UN, with 17 major goals and 169 specific sub-goals within those major goals.
Poch Sreynich, a sophomore IT student, said all volunteer work is beneficial to young people because it allows them to gain experience and learn lessons as well as meet people and network.
As a young person who is often involved in volunteer activities, she encouraged the youth to spend their time participating in volunteer activities as a basis for strengthening their personal abilities for the future and this volunteering work also helps society, including their neighbours and families.
Neatnorak said that the participation of young people in this programme will gain them experience with working as a team and within the community and detailed knowledge about how to work with and engage with Cambodia’s development partners and state institutions.
