NYC welcomes awardees and participants to the Asean Youth Social |Entrepreneurship Awards (AYSEA) and Conference

This is another first for the ASEAN youth!

In celebration of the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the National Youth Commission plays host to the First ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards (AYSEA)that recognizes the accomplishments of young social entrepreneurs from the ASEAN Member States.

The AYSEA awarding ceremony will be held on Monday, August 7, 2017 at Hotel Sofitel Manila which will be preceded by a youth social entrepreneurship conference attended by a hundred local and foreign participants from the ASEAN Member States.

With the theme: Mobilizing Impactful Disruption, the conference will have the ten (10) AYSEA awardees and other experts as resource persons who will share their insights on various aspects of social entrepreneurship.

“For the second time this year, the NYC is hosting a gathering of young people from the ASEAN Member States who have influenced positive changes in their respective communities by turning their non-conventional ideas reality that pushed for self-sufficiency and economic empowerment among the youth. It is our pleasure to welcome this new set of change makers in the ASEAN,” points Usec. Aiza Seguerra, NYC Chairperson.

It will be recalled that in April this year, the NYC facilitated the Preparatory Meeting for the ASEAN Leaders’ Interface with the Youth where Usec. Seguerra read the ASEAN Youth Statement before the ASEAN Heads of State. The ASEAN Youth Statement contained among others, the call for support in pushing for entrepreneurship as a strategy to strengthen youth employment in the region.

“We all look forward to the active participation of the youth in social entrepreneurship activities and to be inspired by the success stories of the AYSEA awardees,” says Asec. Paul Pangilinan, NYC Commissioner in Charge of the Organizing Committee.

Moreover, the ten (10) AYSEA awardees will receive trophies and US$5,000 cash as prizes from the ASEAN Secretariat represented by H.E. Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee, ASEAN Deputy Secretary General for the ASEAN Socio Cultural Community.

The AYSEA awards and conference were made possible by the support and cooperation of the ASEAN Secretariat, the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the ASEAN, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the 2017 ASEAN National Organizing Council and Impact Hub.(posted by Becky D. de Asis-The Redline News)