Youth from Europe Visit Cebu

Twenty youth delegates from the Netherlands and Belgium arrived in  Cebu last July 10 to participate in the second run of the Multi-City Youth Xchange (MYX)  program, and to explore and immerse with Cebu’s locals and different institutions.

MYX, a three-week youth exchange and immersion program, is being  participated by twelve Dutch and eight Belgian delegates, accompanied by 6 adult leaders.

The program is being organized by the Young Heroes for Cebu (YHC), in  cooperation with the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI), the Vriendschapsband  Haarlemmermeer Cebu, (VHC), the City of Kortrijk, and the Cebu City Government.

YHC is an organization formed by Cebuano youth delegates of the Young  Minds on Xplore (YMX) 3, the counterpart youth exchange and immersion program in  Haarlemmermeer, the Netherlands and Kortrijk, Belgium anchored by RAFI last year.

The three-week stay of the delegates will require them to be exposed  to several institutions in Cebu and their work, such as the Barrio Luz Livelihood Program, Don  Bosco in Liloan, Missionaries of the Poor, SOS Village, Cebu Technological  University-Barili Campus, Archival Ecohouse, Badjau Integrated Development Project of RAFI, FORGE Teenage  Dreamers Home, and Seven Spirit. They will also take part in the building of three  houses that VHC is donating to Gawad Kalinga, and participate in a medical mission in Barangay Guba  and Barangay Adlawon, Cebu City.

Trips to Oslob for the whale-watching, Badian for Kawasan Falls, and  Moalboal for the white beaches will complete their Cebu experience.

MYX, which started in 2006 under the name ‘Pinoy-Dutch eXplore’ and is  currently in its second season under its current name, is a program within the  sister-city relationship between Cebu City, Haarlemmermeer, and Kortrijk.

The program, previously handled by RAFI, is now being run by YHC under  the supervision and guidance of the former.

For more information about MYX, please contact Argelyn Adlawon at 0922  815 9728 or email youngheroesofcebu@yahoo.com