What is HANDs Program?
Hope
and Dreams (HANDs) Project is bi-annual youth exchange project, aiming to
nurture a
sense of common feeling and coexistence as a community shared by the
people of Asia, initiated by The Japan Foundation Asia Center. As
a program, HANDs promotes dialogue and exchange among youth in Japan and Asian
countries in order to deepen mutual understanding. HANDs also promotes the
formation of a network among young leaders, as well as promotes collaborative
efforts among them, in the field of intellectual dialogue on disaster education
issues.
The
intellectual exchange through knowledge and experience sharing between Japan
and Asian countries within HANDs Program will use a “two-way exchange” method,
in which 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 be created, and then by sharing, a sense of common feeling and
coexistence will be fostered among the people of Asia especially among youths.
The
HANDs program will connect youths, from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines,
Thailand, Malaysia and India. These youths, will be given a trip opportunity to
learn about disaster education in Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and
Thailand also a chance to have collaboration to create a project for the
community in the second year.
Why
HANDs Program now?
The
youths are the agents of 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 as one of the major
issues faced in this region. 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 from each other, to inspire one
another and to seek for seeds for collaboration through HANDs Program.
Therefore,
within HANDs, the youth are not only expected to improve their personal
development but also to take action, as symbolized in HANDs’ logo, small and
colourful hands forming a bigger hand. The logo shows how youths from different
economic development and socio cultural countries and with different background
study and experience
able to work together hand-in-hand, take action in tackling common issues.
In
the first year (2014), the selected participants will have an opportunity to do
a study trip for 20 days to Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Japan to learn
about disaster education in each country.
The
first trip, is scheduled to visit Indonesia and Philippines from September 25 –
October 5 2014 (for 10 days), while the second trip is scheduled to visit
Thailand and Japan in January/February 2015 (date TBC, for 10 days).
For
the second year (2015), the selected participants are expected to initiate a
network of youths, university students and young professionals, focusing on
disaster education related issues. Participants are encouraged to propose a new
project on disaster education regarding topic of the year to the Japan
Foundation Asia Center.
In
short, we are looking for participants who can 1) join the two trips a) from
September 25 to October 5, 2014 and b) January to February, 2015 , and learn as
much as you can and develop your idea, and 2) actually implement the best
project ideas in the year of 2015 in your local communities.
Please
be reminded that this is not a mere study trip program, but more of an
action-oriented program, in which you will be required to take action in the
second year (2015).
Who
can Apply?
Applicants
have to be either of the following:
1)
an active university or graduate student (who presents student ID) OR
2)
a young professional (creative worker, social worker, journalist, and others)
with at least one year of working experience.
Applicants
must have records of activities in the field of community building, including
disaster and education in their home country, in helping disaster preparedness
or post-disaster reconstruction including charitable fund-raising, or engaged
in children, handicapped & elderly care, in deal with LGBT issues, women’s
empowerment, and others.
Applicants
are eager to learn from other countries’ experiences of disaster preparedness
and post-disaster recovery.
- Applicants must understand and agree to the aims of HANDs.
- Applicants must be bona fide citizens of Indonesia.
- Applicants have to be equal or under 30 years old, as of the date of application (August 13, 2014).
- Applicants must possess the ability to conduct formal conversation in English and a good communication skill. The whole program will be conducted in English language and participants must be able to fully participate with no translator.
- Applicants must be able to participate in the whole program :
September
25th to October 5th, 2014: First trip in Indonesia and to the Philippines
January
to February 2015 (precise date to be decided) : Second trip, total of 10 days
trip to Thailand and Japan
Applicants
must be in good physical and mental conditions.
What
should I Prepare and Submit?
a.
For university student applicants:*
-
HANDs Application Form for University Students (can be downloaded below)
-
Photocopy of student ID Card
-
Curriculum Vitae in English (must not exceed 5 pages in length)
-
Any additional material (in English or Bahasa Indonesia) about your disaster
related activities
b.
For young professional applicants:*
-
HANDs Application Form for University Students (can be downloaded below)
-
Curriculum Vitae in English (must not exceed 5 pages in length)
-
Two samples of recent works (in English or Bahasa Indonesia), for example
poster designs, comics, product designs, photography, web design, short essays,
newspaper articles, journals, video, etc.
*The
whole documents should not exceed 10MB, we will not accept documents larger
than 10MB. For video files (if any), please upload to Youtube and send us the
link.
Where
and when should I Send the Documents?
Please submit by
attaching all the documents to an E-mail and send it to HANDs Program Committee
at hand(at)jpf.or.id, under E-mail
subject “HANDs/University Student or Young Professional/Applicant’s Name”,
before Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 12:00 noon (WIB)For more information and for Application details, Click Here to Visit the Japan Foundation Website
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