June 10, 2015

Recap: White House #YSEALI Event

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Two years ago, we launched the Young
Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
 
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to help empower young people like you to
give you
 
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more of the skills and resources and
networks that  you need to turn your ideas
 
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into action.
 
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Leaders are not born. They are made. And YSEALI
 
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is the right platform where a leader is born
 
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shaped, and molded into a great leader.
 
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You're entrepreneurs who are turning ideas
 
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into new businesses,
 
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activists fighting for the environment
and against
 
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climate change and that's the power that
young people have.
 
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The U.S. does have answers to many problems but
 
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sometimes the greatest answers can be found
 
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in our own home country and in ourselves.
 
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So, Southeast Asia stepping up its on the
move and today, America's relationship
 
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with the region is stronger than ever.
 
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I had a chance to talk with American people
 
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I learned about the their culture and we get along and they've become apart of my family.
 
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Building these stronger ties is not just
the work of government.
 
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They have to be rooted in partnerships between
our people
 
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and especially young people like you.
 
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Being in the same room as Obama. I felt really in awe by
 
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how he sees our potential and we would
like to take his
 
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you know his hand in partnership
together with it and we could
 
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collaborate to
 
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you know to become a better world.
 
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We're going to welcome
 
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500 fellows like you every single year
so this may be the end of your visit to
 
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America but you'd
 
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really begun this process building
partnerships that will last a lifetime
 
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And  how we're going to connect with the
rest of the YSEALI members?
 
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We already have an existing online platform which is very good. And also a
 
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alumni group, exchange group by the U.S.
Department [of State]. So I think those two platforms will
 
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be good enough for us to work on different projects in the future.