Youth world camp set in Davao in 2017

THE International Youth Fellowship (IYF) World Camp will be held at the University Of Southeastern Philippines (Usep), Davao City for the first time early next year.

IYF Public Communications Relations Officer Cho Sung Hyuk said in Kapehan sa Dabaw presscon Monday that on February 9 to 12, 2017 IYF World Camp will be held in Davao City for the first time.

The said camp was first held in South Korea 15 years ago.

The objective of the IYF World Camp is to globalize students and to bring them closer to their own culture and other nationalities' culture since participants would be meeting students from different countries as well.

The camp consists of different kinds of activities, each of which are focusing on the academic, sporty (mini-Olympics) and cultural needs of each student.

But the main highlight of the camp is the Mind Lecture, which is formulated primarily to mold the minds of the participants through a classroom-type discussion.

"We would like to raise leaders for our next generation through World Camp," Cho said.

IYF World Camp in Davao City will be a joint effort of Usep, Davao City Government and IYF.

This camp was first-handedly witnessed by Usep President Dr. Lourdes Generalao when she was in South Korea and was impressed with how the camp was helping the youth participants.

Since then, negotiations to bring IYF World Camp to the Davao commenced.

Some 4,000 delegates from Usep are expected to join the camp while 500 additional students will be endorsed by the Davao City Government.

Some 140 foreign delegates from different countries have already registered.

An estimate of 5,000 youth participants are joining the World Camp.