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Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development

· Pierre Johannessen swapping a comfortable desk job in Canberra to raise funds for rebuilding homes destroyed by cyclones in poverty-stricken Bangladesh.

Pierre Johannessen

Pierre's involvement with charitable causes started after an Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development internship in Bangladesh.

Ray Hall

Hall has since gone on to spend 12 months as an Australian Government sponsored volunteer in Papua New Guinea, on the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) program, assisting in sports development in PNG.

Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association

In 1999 Norvan Vogt a Rover Scout from Queanbeyan Rovers, who was deployed with the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development, was able to register the organisation, to establish a national HQ and to run a series of training activities This proved to be the catalyst for a sustained period of growth of Scouting in Vanuatu.

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