{"id":6735,"date":"2018-04-26T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T01:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T02:06:46","slug":"youth-leadership-is-key-to-achieving-housing-goals-in-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/6735","title":{"rendered":"Youth leadership is key to achieving housing goals in Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Thousands of youth in the Asia-Pacific region answered the call to be proactive home and community builders for the culmination of\u00a0 \u201cHabitat for Humanity Young Leaders Build\u201d, an annual volunteer, fundraising and\u00a0awareness campaign that focuses on the need for decent and affordable housing for all. Rick Hathaway, Asia-Pacific vice president for Habitat for Humanity International said, \u201cWe recognize the youth\u2019s\u00a0capacity to shape our future and lead a movement where young volunteers help in building\u00a0safe, resilient, and thriving homes and communities. We want to engage the youth in a\u00a0shared vision of creating homes where families can take better care of each other and enjoy\u00a0access to better health, clean water, improved sanitation, and comfortable spaces for rest,\u00a0recreation and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adequate, safe and affordable housing is a basic need covered under Goal 11 \u2013 Sustainable\u00a0Cities and Communities of the United Nation\u2019s sustainable Development Goals for 2030. In\u00a0the Asia-Pacific region, decent housing remains elusive especially for 570 million people\u00a0living in slums. Habitat for Humanity takes on this challenge\u00a0in partnership with governments, businesses and communities, including the youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Habitat Young Leaders Build initiatives \u2013 a Leadership Academy and an advocacy\u00a0grants program \u2013 further strengthen the youth grassroots movement this year. Participants of\u00a0the HYLB Leadership Academy get to hone their leadership skills and plan for projects that\u00a0improve their communities. To date, 410 youth have been trained in the Academy. At least\u00a010 youth groups in the region have been awarded grants to develop projects to raise\u00a0awareness and advocate the need for decent housing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Volunteering at the HYLB Asia Build in the Bago region of Myanmar, 20-year- old social\u00a0engineering student Ryota Matsumoto shared, \u201cIn the house, we built stairs with bricks, made\u00a0bamboo nails and built the concrete foundation of the house. I thought it would be easy to do\u00a0by seeing the workers doing it; it turns out it wasn\u2019t! My favorite job was to build the\u00a0foundation, because when you do it, it\u2019s easy to see the progress of the work.\u201d\u00a0\u201cI thank all the volunteers, I will remember this time forever, thank you very much for our\u00a0house,\u201d said Habitat homeowner from Myanmar, Thet Woi Htun, 29, in response to the\u00a0efforts of volunteers who went to her village to help her build her family\u2019s new home.\u00a0As part of the culmination of HYLB, groups in 17 countries and one special administrative\u00a0region converged in their communities and schools to build homes and classrooms, paint\u00a0walls, clean women\u2019s shelters, repair pathways and carry out other community works with\u00a0local partners.<\/p>\n

In Japan, HYLB campus volunteers trooped to Fukushima to hold commemorative build\u00a0activities to honor the survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Around 120 HYLB\u00a0volunteers from China and Hong Kong started working on six houses in a three-day build in Guangzhou. Students from South Korea\u2019s top four universities repaired homes in Seoul.\u00a0About 1,500 Filipino volunteers built and painted on 16 sites in the Philippines. Thousands of\u00a0supporters in India took part in hygiene and hand washing training sessions, and worked on\u00a0building houses. Simultaneous builds, community events and awareness raising activities also commenced in Bangladesh, Fiji, Hong Kong, and Thailand. HYLB\u00a0contributes more to help families and communities to achieve strength, stability\u00a0and self-reliance through shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of youth in the Asia-Pacific region answered the call to be proactive home and community builders fo […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_updates","category-youth","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}