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The Asian Youth Forum Council
in cooperation with the
2011 Pan Asian Conference (PAC)

invite you to join

The 9th Asian Youth Forum
“Embracing One Humanity”
8-15 November, 2011
ChienTan Youth Activity Center
Taipei City, Taiwan

The Asian Youth Forum (AYF) is a college-aged students and young people’s
network organization founded in 1999 by Professor Kip Cates of Tottori
University (Japan) together with the help of language educators and academic
professionals who have been actively part of the Pan Asian Conference (PAC) and
are members of international language (English) associations in the Asian
region.

The idea of the AYF is to bring together college and university students and
young people from all over the Asian region to an international convention to
meet with other youth and educators and Ouprovide them a venue where they could
share their ideas, views and knowledge on culture, language, leadership and
social and global issues and also learn from others.

Since its inception, AYF has been focused to the following objectives:
Allow the participants to learn and understand each other’s basic language and
to put emphasis on the use of the English language as an important
(international) language and tool for communication in order to properly convey
one’s ideas to another.
Bring together the youth of Asia to an exchange opportunity to learn about each
other’s culture, values, perceptions and history in order to bridge cultural
gap and foster an environment of awareness, understanding and tolerance amidst
differences.
Provide a venue for the participants to freely discuss specific social and
global issues that concern the youth in Asia today and understand how it affects
them
Provide the participants the opportunity and venue to plan for a solution which
can be applied in their communities upon return home to resolve their chosen
concern issue.
Provide the participants training on business-life skills and help them prepare
to become responsible global citizens and international leaders.

Since then, the AYF has been organizing international summits for college-aged
students and young people, which are held simultaneously with the PAC. AYF and
PAC is organized and supported by the Language Teaching Associations in the
Asian Region such as the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), Thai
TESOL, Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association (FEELTA) and
Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association (BELTA) to name a few.

Past AYF Summits have been held in South Korea (AYF1), Japan (AYF2), Taiwan
(AYF3), Russia (AYF4), Thailand (AYF5), Japan (AYF6), Philippines (AYF7), and
South Korea (AYF8).

IF you are:
-Youth from Asia;
-Aged between 18-25;
-Proficient in the use of the English language; and
-Ready to take on the challenges of this generation…

Then you are more than qualified to join! Simply log on to
www.ayf9taipei.weebly.com for more details. Deadline for applications is on 15
March, 2011.

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Searching for scholarships Tips

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School Resources – Use Them!

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Open Up Your Choices

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It All Pays in the End

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