SWY 18

http://www.osanbashi.com/arrival/index.html

This is a snapshot of Nippon Maru from the Network camera on January 22nd, 2008 (Japan local time). The ship will be leaving around 16:00 on January 24th for the mission of the 20th Ship for World Youth Program 2008. Participating youth from 14 countries will participate in this year program. (Bahrain, Brazil, Costa Rica, Finland, India, Japan, New Zealand, Oman, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, USA and Vanuatu)

The itinerary of the 20th Ship for World Youth program 2008 is as follows:
* Departure from Yokohama Port (Japan): January 24
* Singapore (refule, food and water supply): February 1
* Port of call activities in Muscat (Oman): February 11－13
* Port of call activities in Chennai (India): February 19－22
* Singapore (refule, food and water supply): February 26
* Return back to Tokyo (Japan) March 5

You can watch Nippon Maru live online at the Yogohama port via the Network camera this link:
http://222.230.46.134/CgiStart?page=Single&page=Single&language=1
The screen of the network camera changes every 5 seconds!


The schedule of Nippon Maru berthing at the Yogohama Port 2008 is as follows:
22-24 January 2008
6 March 2008 (16:00 -19:00 pm)
11 March 2008 (10:00-12:00 am)
25-26 March 2008
27-28 March 2008
30 March 2008 (10:00-16:30)
5-7 April 2008
16 July 2008 (10:00-12:00)
19-20 July 2008
26 July 2008 (15:00-)
1 August 2008(16:00-22:00)
2 August 2008 (10:00-17:00)
7-8 August 2008
9 August 2008 (10:00-19:00)
16-17 August 2008
21-22 August 2008
24-25 August 2008
17 September 2008 (10:00-19:00)
21 September 2008 (15:00-)

More information available at:
http://www.osanbashi.com/arrival/index.html

Totally, there are 59 countries all over the world have participated in the Ship for World Youth Program as follows:

Algeria, Argentina , Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia,
Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India,
Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Russia,
Western Samoa, Senegal, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania,
Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, United States of America,
Venezuela, Yemen

In SWY20, Vanautu island will participate in the program and will add up the number of participated countries to 60!

Source: http://www.swyaustralia.org/swy_faq.htm

It is my great honor to inform you all that the new SWY website for all ex-PYs has just been launched to the cyber space! You are all invited to visit this website at

http://swypeople.blogspot.com

In this website, you can post your own messages/ photos, chat with your friends, watch video clips, listen to musics, SWY related news, Add your own links, and many more to come.

We are looking forward to seeing you all visit our site.

SWYPEOPLE, the meeting place online for all ex-PYs