Chinese Government sends the 8th batch of Chinese youth volunteers to Seychelles

Project narrative

In 2018, the Chinese Government dispatched a batch of Chinese youth volunteers from Guangzhou Province to Seychelles to conduct service work. This is the eighth batch of volunteers sent to Seychelles since 2007. The program is funded by China's Ministry of Commerce and is implemented by the Guangzhou Volunteers Center and Seychelles' Department of Foreign Affairs. The eighth batch of volunteers included 12 total people, composed of five men and seven women. The volunteers underwent six days of training for the program beginning on November 25, 2017, in China. The volunteers arrived in Seychelles on January 8, 2018, for a one-year service tour. The youths worked in the fields of health, information technology (IT), electrical engineering, architecture and construction, and music and gymnastic instruction. Specific institutions the volunteers worked at included the Seychelles' Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Family, National Sports Council, and Public Utilities Corporation (PUC), including as a community doctor at the English River health center, a physician at the medicine department of Seychelles Hospital, and a system support technician in PUC. The volunteers returned to China on January 8, 2019.