YSEALI Fall 2017 - Tin Yadanar Tun:

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Participant Name: Tin Yadanar Tun
Project Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Program: Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Fall 2017
Project Title: Point Youth Platform
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

A decade experience journalist, Tin Yadanar Tun founded a digital media platform especially for youths after came back from YSEALI Social Enterprise and Economic Development Fellowship.

 

Five-Year Project Goals:

  • To be a sharing and learning platform for youths
  • To educate via online training around the country

Organization Information: Point Youth Platform

Website: www.point-mm.net   and   www.peakpointacademy.com

They a believe of “A Nation Cannot be Developed without Developing its Youths”. POINT Platform specifically targeted to support Youths from Myanmar. POINT creates various articles in native language that can provide young adults with relevant information to grow in their career as well as for further studies. POINT is opening online training course for career development, entrepreneurship and languages for youths as ‘eduPOINT’ by collaborating with Peak Point Academy, www.peakpointacademy.com

In a short period of time POINT has supported hundred and thousands of youths who are finding career and job opportunities in Myanmar. Also, POINT offer internship programs and through the intern programs we could able to nurture over 50 writers, journalists, media enthusiasts.

POINT will thrive more to extends our helping hands to reach further regions and make tangible supports through SDG goals specifically focusing on  #Education and #EqualOpportunities