ASEAN Youth Social Journalism Contest (AYSJ) 2021
We are excited to launch the 2nd ASEAN Youth Social Journalism Contest (AYSJ) 2021 with ASEAN Secretariat, Irish Embassy, and ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT, a joint project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.S. State Department!
Do you enjoy writing and want to share your idea with the world? Are you looking for an opportunity to boost your writing skills? Join #AYSJ2021 and share with us your essay and campaign idea with the theme “#ASEANYouth and COVID-19: Response, Recovery, and Resilience”.
Top 20 selected teams will participate in a virtual social journalism workshop to finetune their strategy plan and receive a USD 200 stipend to support the implementation of their campaign. The best performers will be awarded USD 1,000 for the first winner, USD 750 for the second winner, and USD 500 for the third winner to maximize the reach of their campaign!
This contest is open to ASEAN youths. Make a team of 2 and submit your idea before 14 February 2021 by clicking the link below. We look forward to receiving your work!
Our once peaceful world has changed. In just a few months, COVID -19 has spread rapidly at an alarming rate across all countries and continents. Although the young generation is not necessarily the main target of the pandemic, young people carry the responsibility of being a good, model and exceptional citizen of “response, resilience and resilience”. Year with the theme #ASEANYouth and COVID-19 is bringing lots of positive feedback and action. When the COVID -19 epidemic broke out, Professor Carl Thayer said that Vietnam must take on “heavy responsibility” because as the president of asean with the theme “asean cohesion and proactively”, With the lead of Chairman, ASEAN has shown its ability to respond quickly and promptly to pandemics as well as its capacity to co-ordinate policy and action among its members.
I am a citizen of Vietnam, a young asean, I feel very secure about the epidemic in my country because they have implemented covid epidemic policies and predictions completely and correctly. very good practice and disease control. But the most important thing is still awareness, action and solidarity of the whole nation in the community. That is why my idea campaign here is to be public and I hope to help a small part of the countries that are fighting against the epidemic, and furthermore, to quell this epidemic of covid -19.
The campaign concept for the “Covid” Contest is definitely gone by the year 2022. With this name, we like to give an affirmation as well as determination to carry out the competition to gradually eliminate the epidemic and the year 2022 will be the year of the end of covid – 19. The target audience of the contest is the youth class of all countries in the ASEAN region, namely students from elementary to high school – they are an important class of knowledge in the assessment. To control epidemics at present and in the future, they also have the responsibility to correct mistakes in the anti-epidemic policy in the past and provide reasonable, economical and useful community-based measures. And I wish that they all participate (required),. The contest organizers will offer quick multiple-choice tests related to the covid epidemic – 19 (context and generation of the virus, characteristics, response and control. Prevention and treatment, influence, Consequently, …), the contest will be divided into two different amounts of knowledge at primary and secondary levels. The first is the test for everyone in 3 weeks (after week 1 there will be suggestions in the next 2 weeks), after 3 weeks find the 10 people with the highest scores in all countries in the community. Asean copper. In the next round, those 10 excellent people will go through an online answering contest with 5 questions from experts on everything related to Covid-19. All answers will be sent to the contest organizers and will select 2 best members representing their country to participate in the final round of the competition.