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Dear Friends
YAP-Report 2009 / 2010
We can notice a rising interest in the YAP among the young people of our clubfamilies.
Due to the enthusiastic reports on their tours in “The Hinge” and the national journals a lot of
young people like to join the YAP.
Because I stayed in Australia up to January I could not issue the tour-agendas before end of
February. But within four weeks nearly all tours going from Europe to India and South Africa
were fully booked. This year we will have 52 participants, and there are still a lot waiting on the reserve-list.
We could easily rise the number of participants if we could find enough hosting clubs. This is the
limiting factor. Unfortunately there are nearly always the same clubs which are open to host the
young people and which are willing to do this service for our Youth.
Our YAP-Convenors are doing a hard job in finding new hosts and preparing the tours across
their countries. I will use the opportunty to say a big “Thank you” to all my convenors. Without
the help of the Convenors YAP would not work.
The program would be even more attractive if further National Associations could join YAP as
hosting associations. Today there are India, South Africa, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France and
Germany. Unfortunately Switzerland left the programm last year and New Zealand aswell as Indian
Ocean kept byside as they have not too much Clubs to guarantee a private accommodation.
In 2011 we will try to start an exchange programm with the young people of Apex in Australia.
When I had been in ”Down Under” some month ago I made arrangements with the Apex foundation
which like to sponser their part. I will keep you informed on this developemt.
Some countries which like to send their young people to Europe have problems with their weak
currency. We will check whether we can sponser a part of the so called “Tour fee” for those countries.
I like to mention that the national board of Belgium and Germany have already sponsered a
fixed sum in their budget for this purpose.
There are some rumors about the “big” risc of hosting YAP in case of misfortune or mishap, above
all the fear to be personally liable . We have an eye on that circumstances and we take care that
every participant (and their partents) has to sign a “Renuntiation form” in which he declares no
claims against the sponsoring Associations for misrepresentation and for damages of any nature.
In addition to that each participant has to send a copy of his personal insurance in case of illness
and personal liability.
Some National Association have already took out a policy to protect all national arrangements
as AGMs, HYM, tours, and activities including YAP.
Last not least we have founded the “YAP/Famex – International Exchange Association”, which is
responsible for the organisation of all YAP Tours. This Association takes responsibility for the planing,
coordination and relalization of all tours. 41 international is not to blame in any case if some
misfortune may happen.
With this package of measures we have createted the basic to strengthen the YAP in the following
years. I hope we can convince those national Associations which kept back to join the YAP. With
this we could extend our offer of tours and make it more extensive.
For our young people it is an unique chance getting to know other cultures in a way a normal
touristic enterprise will never achieve.
Your
Ulver Oswald
AGM Toulouse, France 4th June 2011
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