Deputy RYC for Solomon Islands

Yvonne Ono, Deputy RYC for the Solomon Islands:

Yvonne Ono, the Deputy RYC member for Solomon Islands, is also the Vice President of young women and leadership group Girls4Change (G4C), volunteers at the Honiara City Council, and is a Board member of YWCA Solomon Islands. She has been an advocate since G4C started last year.

Yvonne has a passion for helping young women. She was a founding member of G4C. She has experienced what young people in the Solomon Islands go through, and how their voices are not heard. She feels that her peers in the South Pacific face a similar thing.

In the future Yvonne dreams that the young people should be well informed of opportunities for services, and happenings in the world. That's what she is working towards as a RYC member, to enable youths to access information and make informed decisions. She would like young women to come out from hiding and to be empowered so that then they will be able to do something for themselves.