BDRCS attends SEA Youth Director Meeting

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, September 21 - Two officers of the Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) will be representing Brunei Darussalam at the 8th Southeast Asia Youth Director Meeting and 1st Youth Leaders Forum scheduled to take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from September 21 to 23, 2010.

The two officers representing BDRCS are Awang Haji Muhammad Suhaimi bin Haji Ibrahim and Awang Mohammad Rosdi bin Haji Ruslan who are respectively Commander and Assistant Commander in BDRCS. Awang Haji Muhammad Suhaimi will be attending the Youth Director Meeting while Awang Muhammad Rosdi will be attending the Youth Leaders Forum.

Present to bid farewell at the Brunei International Airport is a member of BDRCS National Council, Haji Julaini bin Haji Abd Latip (Director of Development and Training).

The meeting and forum will provide another opportunity to all youth leaders and practitioners from South East Asia National Societies to review the achievement in 2009, the challenges, lesson learned and the new thought that need to be contributed in the future.

It is undoubtedly beneficial for BDRCS as it provides a platform to share and learn new and valuable approaches to youth movements with other participants.

The meeting and forum is jointly organised by IFRC Cambodia Country Office and the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC). It is an annual event and each SEA Red Cross/Crescent Societies will be given the opportunity to be the host country.

This year’s meeting will focus on several key themes, namely Youth Empowerment; Youth & Governance; Youth & Leadership; Youth & Fundraising; Youth Forum/Club/Network. These themes are aligned with the Federation Strategic 2020 themes which is ‘doing more, doing better, and reaching further’.

- Brunei Darussalam Newsletter online, 22 September 2010)