{"id":4631,"date":"2011-06-28T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stirringthefire.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:30:58","slug":"introduction-to-youth-star-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/introduction-to-youth-star-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Youth Star Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Cambodia, Danielle along with Ashlee Larsen, a Brigham Young graduate student, accompanied Stirring the Fire founder,\u00a0Phil Borges<\/a> as he documented the work of Youth Star<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our time with the acid survivors at CASC<\/a> came quickly to an end and before I knew it we were moving on to our next NGO: Youth Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Youth Star was established in 2006 and seeks to be a type of in-country Peace Corps<\/a> that places recent Cambodian university graduates in rural villages in Cambodia for one year. During this year the volunteers focus on the following aspects of work in their respective communities: capacity building; youth development through youth clubs and curriculum geared specifically towards youth; teaching about gender-based violence<\/a> and domestic violence; advocacy and pedagogy.<\/p>\n

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Mao Vutha, Senior Communications Officer for Youth Star, Demonstrating Transporting Rice<\/p><\/div>\n

The volunteers are placed in a host family, live with a widower, or if neither of those two options is available, stay in the local pagoda. They are given intensive 3 week training prior to leaving as well as a small stipend to cover additional costs of living. Every two months the volunteer is visited by a Program Officer to touch base and see how they \u2013 and the community \u2013 are faring. After six months the volunteer returns to Phnom Penh for a follow-up training before returning to carry out their last six months. The goal for the volunteer is to gain work experience and new skills in order to more easily find work at the conclusion of their year. Youth Star assists them with job training and support in finding employment.<\/p>\n

The volunteers we met, however, seemed to take away a lot more than work experience and new skills from their volunteer placements. They clearly had forged deep and meaningful relationships with their host families as well as with many of the community members and youth. When we accompanied them back to their villages the people\u2019s joy at their return was visible and resonated with all of us who witnessed it.<\/p>\n

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Members of Youth Start Sharing Pictures on the Computer<\/p><\/div>\n

Youth Star is on to something good. They take young, educated and willing individuals and challenge them on many fronts: culture shock (it happens in one\u2019s own country too), being an outsider who needs to become a trusted person in a new community, overcoming skepticism by community members as to their true intentions, and isolation, just to name a few. With time and perseverance the volunteers overcome these challenges and experience rewards that are priceless: love and acceptance from a community of people they otherwise never would have known.<\/p>\n

Please join us as we follow two courageous young university graduates as we travel east to visit their placement villages. Their stories, and those of the villagers we met, you won\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n

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Sign in First Khmer Village we Visited<\/p><\/div>\n

Youth Leadership for Violence-Free Communities<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Empowering and engaging youth as actors for change is a fundamental but underemployed approach for ending violence against women and girls. Youth Star Cambodia<\/a> <\/em>is an NGO that provides Cambodian university graduates an opportunity to gain experience and develop their civic leadership skills by working as volunteer interns in underserved rural areas. With support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women<\/a>, Youth Star Cambodia enlisted 20 university graduates for a year-long volunteer service in an education and youth-led mobilization programme to address domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Working with youth and other community members in districts across rural Cambodia, the volunteers created space for dialogue and education on values, sexual rights and gender relationships and sparked community action to prevent gender-based violence. While the youth volunteers themselves gained a range of skills and experience in mobilizing youth for action and change, the youth credited the programme with improved relationships, decreased violence, a sense of value and place in their communities, and increased school attendance.<\/p>\n

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women<\/a>, managed by UN Women<\/a>, is a leading source of support for local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Join the UN Trust Fund in this vital work\u2014for more information on how you can support the UN trust Fund click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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