YAD General Meeting Provides Direction for 2009

On 7th March, BLIA South Island Young Adults Division held their first General Meeting for year 2009. The meeting agenda included the coming Buddha’s Birthday Celebration as well as YAD’s annual activities schedule.

The meeting was chaired by YAD President Andy Hsu, and in attendance were YAD 1 President Jason Liu, YAD 2 President Danny Chen, Jay Chen, Hao-Wen Lin and other committee members, totaling ten youths.

During the meeting, the youth discussed about the draft YAD activities schedule, and brainstormed activities and events for each month. In addition, jobs for the Buddha’s Birthday Celebration were allocated to the YAD members.

YAD is responsible for: the sound system for the entire event; being MCs; the publicity for the baby blessing ceremony during the Celebration; the YAD Stall, where the youth will be selling candy and ice red tea as fundraising for YAD. YAD members will also be performing five songs with hand gestures, namely “Transform and Contribute”, “Harmonise”, “Star and Cloud”, “Home Of Light” and “Droplets of Gratitude”.

The brave YAD members have also resolved to accept the responsibility of finding more volunteers to help out with the Buddha’s Birthday Celebration. The YAD President also encouraged YAD members to be more involved with the activities organised by BLIA South Island, and gain some valuable life experiences which will inevitably enrich their lives.