In her opening remarks, Vice President ofthe Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) Huynh Thi Xuan Lam highly appreciated theselection of the theme “Resilience Rising: Inspiring Youths’ Leaders inInnovative Disaster Preparedness” for this youth forum, which, she said,affirmed the passion, high determination and efforts of young people incontinuing previous generations’ noble humanitarian missions, as well as their role,task and responsibility of joining hands to solve problems facing humanity.
She expressed her hope that young peoplefrom red cross associations in the Asia-Pacific region, including Vietnam, willpromote their intelligence, youth, creativity, and enthusiasm to participate inand actively contribute to the success of the forum; and affirm theirpioneering role in activities and initiatives of the regional and internationalRed Cross - Red Crescent movement.
Humanitarian crises have imposed disproportionateimpacts on young people, and caused challenges of disruption to education,unemployment, exposure to or risk of being affected by violence (sexual violence,gender-based violence) and health risks, she said, stressing the need to changethe way to think, work, and become more connected to maintain sustainabilityand suitability for the current and next generations.
At the forum, delegates discussed skills and solutions toparticipate in intergenerational dialogue, how to build a foundation for participationin the Youth Engagement Strategy (YES) 2.0, and build up knowledge aboutinnovation and digitalisation, and disaster preparedness./.
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