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YOUTH 4 THE WORLDRed Cross Youth Volunteers’ Initiative

INDEX
1.Why this newsletter?………………..……………………02
2.All eyes on the stage ……..……………………………….03
Japanese Red Cross
3.To your rescue!……………………………………………..05
Bangladesh Red Crescent
4.What(er) matters…………………………………………..07
Indian Red Cross01

Why this newsletter
Each one of us, owing to our different upbringing andassociation, emerges out as a unique person with adistinctive personality. But even amidst all these differences,what connects us is our willingness to do good to the people
around us and our society. Even then, several deeds that we
do often go unheard of and fail to create the impact thatthey deserve.
The aim of this newsletter is to provide a platform for youth
volunteers from across Asia to let others across the continent
know about such community building activities being
conducted by them in their homeland. Not only will this help
create a sense of belonging among the volunteers but also
perhaps assist them in carrying out similar activities in theirhome branches.

02All Eyes On The StageKon’nichiwa! My name is
Jasmine and I’m a high school
student living in Japan. Since avery young age I have beeninterested in assisting the ones
wanting help which in turn led
me to take up the nursing
course that my high school
offers. Each week, we visit a local hospital and learn the basics of nursing andmedical aid.

But I thought to myself that I shouldn’t limit myself
just to nursing. So I decided to enroll as a volunteer
for the Youth Red Cross Club at my school. As a partof the club I learned a new language. But it wasn’t aspoken language as such; in fact, it was the sign
language. Equipped with this new skill, we as youth
volunteers were able to put up performances for thepeople having hearing impairments.

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Not only have I beenable to learn a newlanguage, but also
been able to connect
with people whom I,
up until then could justsympathize with. Often
after the performance,a few audience
members approach us
saying that they wereemotionally touchedby our show. Moments
like these make metake pride in my work as a volunteer and motivate me to continue doing
community service!

ありがとうございました
Arigatōgozaimashita04

To your rescue!
My name is Binti and I'm a high-school
sophomore living in Bangladesh. I've
always been passionate about helping
people and leaving even the slightest
positive impact in anyone's life. To be
helpful is a great feeling and when you
learn from those experiences it's evenbetter. So that's why I decided to join asa member of the Red Crescent Youth Organization of our school.
After becoming a member one of
my first experiences as a volunteer
was volunteering for our school's
annual sports event. Not only did I
get to help so many people byproviding first aid to those who got
hurt while doing sports and those
who got injured or fainted during
parade marching, I learned how tointeract with all kinds of people andhow to deal with them, even theones who refused helped from us.

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The appreciation and the feeling of pride or the warmth that we feel from thepeople we help are feelings that make all the voluntary work worthwhile. No matter
how hard it might get sometimes it's opportunities like this that make meappreciate my work as a Red Crescent volunteer and I wanna continue doing thisand learning even more along the way.

আপনােক অেনক ধন)বাদ
Āpanākē anēka dhan’yabāda06

What(er) matters
Namaste! My name is Vipanpreet Malhiand I am a high school student living inIndia. Since many years I have beenworking for humanity and havecontributed in some of the welfare
projects such as global cancer, welfare ofpoor people, etc. When I got to know thatRed Cross is an organization that works forhumanity, I thought that it would give mea great opportunity to do something forhumanity. I also wanted to learn about firstaid and disaster management. In 2016, I
asked my teacher to enroll me as a RedCross volunteer.
Since then I am a part of Red Cross. Recently we worked on “Save Water” project .
For example, we organized an essay writing competition on save water forparticipants of Red Cross camps in order to know what they think about it. We got
wonderful essays and the one with most impressive essay got cash prize. Wastageof water and contamination of it is leading to shortage of consumable water.

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Before it becomes too hard to solve this problem we are trying our best to makepeople aware of it and take preventive measures to settle down this problem. And
only with the global cooperation of youth will we be able to achieve this feat!

धन्यवाद!
Dhanyavaad08