Sara Pivac Alexander

Asia-Pacific Deaf Youth Camp, 2002

2002
The 2nd Asia Pacific Deaf Youth camp (APDYC) held at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Turangi is featured on ‘Inside Out’. Altogether, there were 43 Deaf youths from 12 countries, 15 youth leaders, 10 interpreters and a couple of guest speakers.
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The 2nd Asia Pacific Deaf Youth camp (APDYC) was held from 12-19 January 2002 at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Turangi. Altogether, there were 43 Deaf youths from 12 countries, 15 youth leaders, 10 interpreters and a couple of guest speakers present.

New Zealand won the bid to host the 2nd APDYC in November 2000 and an intense period of fundraising started with the creation of the DEAFinitely Youth Group. One of the biggest achievements of the 2nd APDYC was bringing 9 deaf youth from Fiji, Samoa and French Polynesia due to receiving a $16,000 grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Staff from Air New Zealand Tahiti assisted with communication between the DEAFinitely Youth Group and a Tahitian association of the Deaf to pick two suitable Deaf youth from Tahiti to attend the camp.

The 3rd APDYC was held in Miyazaki, Japan from 31st October – 5 November 2006.

  1. Akiko Murozono

  2. Amanda Angely

  3. Amanda Everitt

  4. Ben Clifford

  5. Bennie Agnew

  6. Brett Harborne

  7. Chris Blum

  8. Daniel Greenwood

  9. Daniel Harborne

  10. Darryl Alexander

  11. Edan Chapman

  12. Hayley Jackson

  13. Hinal Keshav

  14. Ida Rogers

  15. Ina Kandaleki

  16. Jarrod Burrell

  17. John Bennett

  18. Karla Smith

  19. Krista Clifford

  20. Kristofer Jonsson

  21. Lauren Christensen

  22. Nirvana Graham

  23. Patrick Stokell

  24. Phillip King

  25. Pollyanna Ferguson

  26. Rachel Walker

  27. Rocky Hohepha

  28. Sara Pivac Alexander

  29. Sonia Pivac

  30. Tauri Lyndon

  31. Ursula Thynne Becroft

  32. Victoria Lessing

Donated by Sara Pivac Alexander
Produced by Inside Out
Original format VHS
Reference number SFP01-01-DY02