What is change to you?

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Listen to our mp3 podcast. Is it a million dollar question? Is easy or difficult to answer? Has ‘change’ been relegated into a theoretical form in many countries? Some people are very afraid of change, but many want change to really exist rather than just in words or theory.

Today we’ve talked to young people randomly selected from different regions to tell us what change means to them. Our team found out that there are some common answers to the question of “What is change to you?” We all want improvement to our present situation or problems, and as one Egyptian youth delegate puts it, “Change is the sustainability of life.” Let’s hear other young people say what they think.

Do you believe that these women are real agents of change in their country? I do. (Left to Right: Indian, Kenyan, Nigerian, Cambodian & Egyptian)

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I honestly appreciate anybody who makes a difference wherever he or she goes. For the whole time I’ve been here, I’ve met the young people who have made small changes with global impact. Today is also the third day of the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum which saw many debates and discussions among the young delegates. A Cambodian delegate I talked to told me that she was surprised how our voice was cheerfully accepted and that made her proud. I’ve made a mental count of Asian delegates I’ve talked to. More than 10. Ehhh, I suddenly felt like I was so biased here because there are hundreds of delegates from other countries and regions from around the world to talk to as well.

Oops, but for a good reason actually, that’s because Asian delegates are pretty shy in nature, and I need to make them speak. (I’m shy myself, ain’t I? :”>). Two days ago, Aya Imai from Japan, was selected as a representative of all the youth delegates from Asia for this year, and she amazed me and other Asians for how well she spoke just within 30 seconds to convince the whole room packed of more than 200 people to vote for her. She did it, yay!

To make a change is to take risk-UNESCO Youth Forum 2011

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Before I interviewed Edwin Haluoleo Agus, a 24-year-old Indonesian and one of the 2010 youth delegates from Indonesia to the UNESCO Youth Forum, I apologized to him saying that I had no idea of what he had done and had done no single research about him. But there’s something about him that made me wanna interview him.

He talked without anxiety and so much at ease on the stage at the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum. Then, he spoke cheerfully to everyone he met. Later, I found out that he is an Indonesian pro singer, a former assistant lecturer at one university in Indonesia and now a coordinator of UNESCO Youth Desk in his country. Finally, I asked him whether he had to give up so much of everyday life to become one of the change makers: he simply and wisely said that to make a change is to take a rest. :-)

Because his voice is vocal, I think I can do him justice by putting up the audio interview here.