Adam MacIsaac
With great excitement I will be joining the Canadian Delegation on the Ship for World Youth 21 Program, which will include traveling to Japan and sailing to Vanuatu, Tonga, and New Zealand from January - March 2009.
The Ship for World Youth program started almot fifty years ago in 1959 when the international youth exchange program of the Cabinet Office launched the "Japanese Youth Gooodwill Mission Program" with the purpose of broadening the global view of Japanese youth and to promote mutual understanding between Japanese and foreign youth as well as to cultivate the spirit of international cooperation and the competence to pratice it and to allow the participating youth with capability of showing leadership in various areas of international society.
The itinerary of the 21st Ship for World Youth program 2009 is as follows:
January 14th, 2009 - Arrival of the participants from overseas
January 15th − 22nd - Program for overseas participants in Japan
January 23rd - Departure from Yokohama Port (Japan)
February 2nd - Refuel, food and water supply in Vanuatu
February 5th − 7th - Port of call activities in Tonga (Nuku'alofa)
February 11th − 14th - Port of call activities in New Zealand (Auckland)
February 19th - 20th - Refuel, food and water supply in Vanuatu
March 5 - Return back to Tokyo (Japan)
