Deputy RYC for Vanuatu

Ladonna Daniel, Deputy RYC for Vanuatu:

Ladonna Daniel is the Deputy RYC member for Vanuatu. She is doing volunteering work with the Department of Youth, Development, Sports and Training and is also working closely with  Vanuatu's National Youth Council Administrator.

Ladonna Daniel is 21 years old. She has been involved with Youth Challenge Vanuatu for two years. Recently she joined their eight months program in the rural around Efate facilitating workshops and awareness on health issues, culture exchange and education. Also she has helped the community building their primary school classroom.

Through Youth Challenge Vanuatu she has started to learn and adopt new ideas and skills. Carrying out awareness and training has sparked her activism and helped her build up her own capacity and knowledge.

Ladonna does a lot of volunteer work trying to help out with the issues that are affecting young people’s lives by giving out awareness and sharing skills, knowledge, and experience.

She is most proud of her position as a Deputy RYC member representing her country and participating in decision making with other member countries. She is also proud of her volunteering work passing information and addressing youth issues as a youth advocate in her country. Her career highlights are to be a peer educator carrying out workshops and awareness with the young people about the main issues effecting young people’s lives.

Her passionate is to let young people take part in decision making and to be recognised by the government. Her future plan is to carry out more workshops and awareness to pass information and skills to the other young people. She is looking forward to working with other member countries to share knowledge, skills and to participate in decision making around  issues affecting young people’s lives to create a solution.