Youth Voice in Myanmar – how best to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Perspectives after the AMI conference in Myanmar
Australia Myanmar Institute (AMI) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Youth Voice in Myanmar – how best to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Perspectives after the AMI conference in Myanmar
Date: Mar 30, 2020 (Monday)
Time: 06:00 PM Australia/Melbourne Time
01:30 PM Myanmar/Yangon Time
Duration : 40 minutes
As background, please click the link to see the Youth closing speeches delivered in Mandalay on 28 January at the close of the AMI conference (in Burmese and in English).
Join Zoom Meeting : please click here: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/439124985
Meeting ID: 439 124 985
Emily May-Thitsar Tip is a final year Bachelor of Health Sciences student at Monash University, aiming to pursue a career in public health. She most recently spent the university summer break in Myanmar where she acted as the youth volunteer coordinator at the 2020 AMI Conference in Yangon and Mandalay, using her bilingual ability to help coordinate and work alongside local and international volunteers from Australia and Myanmar. She spent her remaining time in Myanmar undertaking an internship at the Burnet Institute Myanmar learning about and observing an adolescent health project in the Magway region.
Kyi Min Tun is a third year Bachelor of Design student at Melbourne University who is aspiring to complete the double major in architecture and landscape architecture. He was part of Unimelb Myanmar Student Association (UMSA) to organise Myanmar events for all students. Currently, he is a committee member of Myanmar Research Network at the University of Melbourne as an undergraduate representative. During 2020 AMI Conference, as a youth who grew up in Myanmar while attending international University, he bridged the gap between volunteers and participants of both locals and internationals and also facilitate the event to run smoothly.
Kyi Phyu Moe Htet (Jayde) is a second-year student in the University of Melbourne majoring in urban planning and specialising in environmental design. She studies impacts of infrastructure planning in an urban context and policy designs that facilitate socio-economical development in communities. For her, volunteering at AMI 2020 conference is translated into learning about pressing political and social issues during the transition period in Myanmar. Currently, she is an executive member in Unimelb Myanmar Student Association UMSA and other political and environmental advocacy groups – PIS and ECP. At conferences in Yangon and Mandalay, she mainly helped and communicated to key speakers and volunteers in seminar rooms.
A short question and answer session will be conducted after the talk.
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