1. Title: Anti Youth Unemployment Organization
Team Name: Anti Youth Unemployment (AYU)
Country: Cambodia
School: Royal University of Phnom Penh

2. 1. Experience & Discover
A. Identities of Unemployed Youth
• Age: 14 – 29
• Gender: Male & Female
• Education background: School-dropper, finished
either 6th & 9th grade, high school and university
graduate.
• Family information: Low and middle class.
• Philosophy: Education is not a good investment.
• Beliefs & Traditions: Strongly obedient

3. B. Effect of Unemployment on Youth in Cambodia:
• People live under the poverty line.
• The number of worker immigration has increased.
• Youth are forced to do the job which neither is in
their expertise nor in their dream.
• Unemployment forces youth to commit crime and
other wrong doings.
• Depression and stress have been an issue among
unemployed youth.

4. C. Causes of Youth Unemployment in Cambodia:
• Lack of functional and practical skills provided in the
education system.
• White-collar positions are preferably offered to expiate
candidates.
• Poverty offers youth no choice, but dropping out of school.
• The urbanization process runs in a slow pace at the rural
areas, providing less job opportunities for youth.
• There is a lack of social and networking skills among those
coming from countryside.
• The practice of Nepotism still exists in Cambodian job market.

5. 2. The Finding of Solution
A. Solutions:
• We believe in “butterfly effect”. In order to
make big changes, we shall start from
something small. Something within the
community.
• We are planning to create an
organization under the title “Anti Youth
Unemployment organization”, as a
contributor to solve youth
unemployment in Cambodia.

6. B. What is Anti Youth
Unemployment organization?
• An independent and non-governmental youth
organization. Working to solve youth unemployment issue
in Cambodia by providing two assisting services to youth:
a. Student Loans b. Recruitment Service

7. a. Student Loans
 It is found that because
Cambodian youth is lack of
practical skills and equal
education that they failed to
find a job for themselves.
 AYU encourages youth to enroll in vocational training or even
higher education by providing loans from 50% to 70% within a
period of 2 years after graduation.

8. b. Recruitment Service
• After students have come to AYU for the loans, after
their graduation, AYU will help them finding a suitable
jobs through our networks:
 NGOs
 Governmental agencies
 Private companies
NOTICE: To promote the work of AYU, a
radio program will be created to reach our
target listener --- youth. Therefore, they will
there is a hope!

9. 3. Planned Results & Outcomes
A. Indicating the effects:
• Radio program can reach more than 13 million
people in Cambodia.
• AYU expect to engage youth up to 9.8 million
nationally equal to 70% of the total population14
million (the Human Rights Center at the University of
California at Berkeley.)
• The target group is from 18 – 29, both from rural
area and the city, because radio is the most
accessible information transmitter.

10. B. The desired outcomes:
• People/Parents realize the essence of the
education and the relation with prospective job.
• The number of school enrollment increases by
borrowing from our loans.
• Young people with practical skills and fresh
graduates can find a job through our recruitment
service.
• The rate of unemployment decreases
• No more people living under the poverty line.