January 10, 2012
24th Ship
for World Youth
11 Egyptian youth will be leaving Egypt for Japan on January 17
to participate in 24th Ship for World Youth (SWY)
program, organized by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.
The Egyptian
delegation, headed by Mr. Tarek Sherif, will board the Youth Ship together with
approximately 140 youth from Japan and other 130 fellow participants from 12
countries. A month and a half long voyage will take those young people on board
to India and Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka from 31st
January to 5th March.
Egypt has
participated in the SWY program since 1990. Approximately 150 Egyptian youth
participated in this program and they established Egyptian Association for the
SWY (EASWY) in 1996 as an alumni association. EASWY, in co-operation with the
Japanese embassy, is actively engaged in the cultural events.
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Participants of 24th Ship for World Youth and
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►Official
Site of Ship for World Youth
http://www.shipforworldyouth.org/index.htm
►Ship
for World Youth Alumni Association
http://www.swyaa.org/
The itinerary
of the 24th Ship for World Youth program of FY2011 is as follows:
- Arrival of the participants from overseas: January 18, 2012
- Program for overseas participants in Japan: January 19－23
- Pre-departure Training Session : January 23 - 29
- Departure from Japan (Yokohama) : January 31
- Refuel, food and water supply in Singapore (Singapore) : February 7 - 8
- Port of call activities in India (Chennai) : February 12 - 14
- Port of call activities in Sri Lanka (Colombo) : February 16 - 19
- Refuel, food and water supply in Singapore (Singapore) : February 23 - 24
- Return back to Japan (Tokyo): March 5
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Participating countries for SWY24 will be:
Kingdom of Bahrain
Federative Republic of Brazil
Canada
Arab Republic of Egypt
India
Japan
New Zealand
Republic of Peru
Russia
Spain
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Republic of Turkey
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |
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How the Ship for
World Youth Program started
The international
youth exchange program of the Cabinet Office originally started in 1959 when it
implemented the “Japanese Youth Goodwill Mission Program” which the then Prime
Minister Kishi had proposed personally in order to commemorate the marriage of
H.M. the Emperor, who was at that time the Crown Prince.
In 1967, the “Japanese Youth Goodwill Cruise Program” started as one of the
projects to commemorate the Centennial of the Meiji Restoration. Both the
“Japanese Youth Goodwill Mission Program” and the “Japanese Youth Goodwill
Cruise Program” gave a big dream and hope to the youth of Japan since the
government would take the initiative to send the youth overseas at the time when
it was still very difficult for them to go aboard on their own.
Due to the recent expansion of the international role of Japan and the
remarkable advancement in internationalization in various fields all over the
world, the improvement of the contents of international youth exchange programs
of the Cabinet Office has been found necessary in order to cope with such a
changing social environment. Firstly, therefore, the “Japanese Youth Goodwill
Cruise Program” was reorganized and upgraded to the “Ship for World Youth
Program” in 1988. The main objective of the former program, which was sending
Japanese youth overseas, was changed, so that the exchange between Japanese and
foreign youth became one of the main activities. The contents also became more
academic through the introduction of activities such as discussions and
seminars.
Purpose of the
program
The purpose of the Ship for World Youth program is to broaden the global view of
the Japanese youths, to promote mutual understanding and friendship between
Japanese and foreign youths as well as to cultivate the spirit of international
cooperation and the competence to practice it, and furthermore to foster the
youths with capability of showing leadership in various area of international
society.
In addition, this program aims at establishing networks and promoting joint
activities among youths around the world through providing, as the concrete and
practical opportunity, the cohabitation and the joint activity on the board of
the "Ship for World Youth," which is the epitome of international society with
wide variety of cultures and ideas, to make an visible international
contribution from the perspective of human resource development.
In this program, approximately 140 youth from Japan and 140 youth from various
areas of the world live together on board the ship and engage in various
multilateral exchange activities such as studying and discussing common issues
from a global viewpoint on board and in the countries visited.
