HANDs! Project 2017 – 2018
For Disaster and Environmental Education + Creativity
Hosted by The Japan Foundation Asia Center

Application Deadline: July 18, 2017
If you are young professionals, concerned about disaster and environmental education,please read this page and apply!!

What is HANDs! Project?
Hope and Dreams (HANDs!) Project is an annual youth exchange program, aiming tonurture a sense of common feeling and coexistence as a community shared by thepeople of Asia, initiated by The Japan Foundation Asia Center.

HANDs! promotes dialogue and exchange among youth in Japan and Asian countries inorder to deepen mutual understanding. HANDs! also promotes the formation of anetwork among young leaders, as well as promotes collaborative efforts among them, inthe field of intellectual dialogue on disaster and environmental education issues.

The intellectual exchange through knowledge and experience sharing between Japanand Asian countries within HANDs! Project will use a “two-way exchange” method, inwhich both sides seek to introduce and learn one another’s knowledge and experience.
By using this method, we believe a new creativity of knowledge and values will becreated, and then by sharing, a sense of common feeling and coexistence will befostered among the people of Asia especially among youths.

The HANDs! Project will connect youths, from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines,

Thailand, Malaysia, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Cambodia. These youths will be given atrip opportunity to learn about disaster and environmental education in Japan, Indonesia,
the Philippines, and also a chance to have collaboration to create projects for thecommunity in the second year.

Why HANDs! Project now?
The youths are the agents for change that determine what the future will be. In Asia,
the wave of young people’s participation in giving social contribution is growing fast in
various issue-areas, including disaster and environment as major issues faced in thisregion. With dreaming on a strong bond of friendships between Japan and Asian
countries and hoping on the fast-growing youth participation, the Japan Foundation Asia
Center provides opportunities for youths in Japan and Asian countries to learn fromeach other, to inspire one another and to seek for seeds for collaboration throughHANDs! Project.

Therefore, within HANDs! the youth are not only expected to improve their personaldevelopment but also to take action, as symbolized in HANDs!’ logo, small and colourfulhands forming a bigger hand. The logo shows how youths from different economic
development with different background can learn to work together hand-in-hand, andtake action in tackling common issues.

What am I going to do within HANDs! Project?
In the first year (2017), the selected fellows will have an opportunity to go on two study
trips for 15 days to Philippines, Japan and Indonesia to learn about disaster education ineach country. The first trip, is scheduled to visit Philippines and Japan from October 8th
to October 19th, 2017 (dates are subject to change), while the second trip is scheduled
to visit Indonesia in February 2018 (date TBC).

For the second year (2018), the selected fellows are expected to propose a new project
as their follow-up project, on disaster and environmental education to the JapanFoundation Asia Center, to be implemented. There will be seed funding provided toimplement the follow up projects, under condition the project have to be approved by theJapan Foundation, Asia Center.

What will be covered?
Hands! Project will cover the whole trip, with details as follow:-International airfare-International travel insurance-

Domestic transportation-

Hotel Accommodation-Visa-Meals

Who can Apply? (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)
a. Applicants have to be:
A young professional who have great creative skills and/or organizing skills (creativeworker, social worker or journalist) with at least one year of working experienceb. Applicants must have records of activities in the field of community building, desirably
disaster and environmental education in their home country, such as conducting
educational events for school children, helping post-disaster reconstruction, conducting
social enterprise, etc. Applicants who worked on other social issues such as supportingchildren, handicapped & elderly, in deal with LGBT issues, women’s empowerment, andothers are also encouraged to apply.
c. Applicants who are eager to learn from other countries’ experience of post-disasterrecovery and disaster preparedness.
d. Applicants who are open to new ideas and methodologies.
e. Applicants who are willing to challenge oneself and willing to try out new settings forcreativity.
f.

Applicants who are passionate for creating his/her own follow-up project (individually orin a team), in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Asia Center.

g. Applicants must understand and agree to the aims of HANDs! Project.
h. Applicants must be bona fide citizens of Cambodia.
i.

Applicants have to be equal or under 35 years old, as of the date of application (July 18,2017).

j.

Applicants must possess the ability to conduct formal conversation in English and agood communication skill.

k. Applicants must be in good physical and mental conditions.

*Please note that this call for application is for Cambodian nationality ONLY. Please contact The
Japan Foundation Asia Center, Phnom Penh Liaison Office.

HANDs! Project 2017 – 2018 seeks skilled YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

What should I Prepare and Submit?
1. HANDs! Application Form for Young Professionals (can be downloaded below)
2. Photocopy of ID Card
3. Curriculum Vitae in English (must not exceed 5 pages in length)
4. Two samples of recent works (in English or Khmer), for example poster designs,comics, product designs, photography, web design, short essays, newspaper
articles, journals, video, etc.

Application Form – Young Professionals:
http://jfphn.org/hands-project/

Where and when should I send the Documents?
Please submit by attaching all the documents into an E-mail and send it to HANDs!
Project The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Phnom Penh Liaison Office at
info@jfphn.org , under E-mail subject “HANDs – Young Professional - Applicant’sName”, by July 18, 2017.

*The whole documents should not exceed 5MB, we will not accept documents larger than 5MB.
For video files (if any), please upload to Youtube and send us the link**For CV, please only submit attachments as Microsoft Word files or Adobe PDF. Photo ID should
be a JPEG or Adobe PDF.

Selection Schedule:
June 15 – July 18, 2017

Call for Application

July 19 – Aug. 3, 2017

Selection Process

Aug. 4, 2017

Announcement

NOTE:
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Strict rule applied: failure in submitting your application by the deadline will beautomatically disqualified.

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Strict rule applied: failure to complete the required documents for application will beautomatically disqualified.

-Learning from our past experiences, please DO NOT wait until the last day of submission tosubmit your application. Usually, most applicants wait until the last day so that our E-mailsystem crashed because of receiving a lot of documents at the same time. IF we’re NOT
receiving your E-mails then we WILL NOT screen your application. Please, the earlier thebetter.

To learn more about HANDs! Project:-HANDs! Project website: http://handsproject.asia/en.html-Action Plan Stories from Indonesia in HANDs! Magazine:
https://medium.com/hands-magazine/disaster-education-through-storytelling-and-movie-making-8b36ee92fcbe#.jg1pv0wc5 andhttps://medium.com/hands-magazine/kidstar-2c755eec5647#.fs1z34fzc-Update on HANDs! Project:https://www.facebook.com/HANDsProjectforDisasterEducation/

If you have any questions or concerns about the application process or the HANDs!
Project, please contact HANDs! Project The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Phnom
Penh Liaison Office in Cambodia (contact below) or e-mail to, Ms.Bornnoem Milya,
info@jfphn.org

The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Phnom Penh Liaison Office#22, Ground Floor of Hotel Cambodiana, 313 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh
Cambodia.
Tel 023-214-581
info@jfphn.org