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Pham Thi Thanh Nhung was a founding director of Green Ocean (GO), a volunteer-based, non-profit Youth-driven Environmental Initiative from 2002 - 2005.
Green Ocean promotes youth leadership and environment friendly behaviour among youth and community. Those activities include raising public awareness on environmental issues by organizing city and beach clean-up campaigns, educational training courses, art and song competitions, eco-tours, forums, workshops, and conferences. Green Ocean's main environmental focus is on ocean conservation, waste management and sanitation.
From 2004 - 2006, Green Ocean received awards from UNDP and SIDA respectively as one of the best Youth-driven Environmental Initiatives contributing to the youth leadership and environment friendly efforts in Vietnam.
Thanh Nhung's initiative has developed into one of the most successful youth-driven environmental conservation approaches in Vietnam acknowledged by UN Vietnam. While studying at Danang Foreign Languages University, she bicycled in a 33-day trip to remote, poor communes all over Vietnam with a team of 8 university students giving classes to promote environmentally friendly practices on a volunteer basis.
For her successful implementation of Green Ocean, Peace Boat (affiliated with the UN) has invited her twice as a guest speaker to travel internationally to speak to other youth and spread the message of youth activism on a boat tour from October to November 2004 and in February 2005.
Along with United Nations in Vietnam and internationally, she has actively involved in the promotion of Millennium Development Goals activities from 2002 until now.
From 2005 May - 2007 May, Nhung worked as a community development specialist at Nam Dinh Urban Development Project aiming to improve the livehoods of poor people in Nam Dinh city. Their activities promotes community empowerment in resolving poverty, environmental sanitation, HIV/AIDs, gender equality and good governance.
In 2006, Pham Thi Thanh Nhung founded a Youth Leadership Initiative called Vietnam 2015. This is an initiative including of series of sports, cultural and social activities to mobilize youth efforts achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in response to an international calls for actions achieving MDGs from World Summit in 2000. The initiative has been strongly supported by government bodies, United Nations and private sectors in Vietnam
In addition to this project, since 2006, she has involved in as one of the five regional member of UNESCO Power of Peace Network. The initiative's vision is to harness the power of communication and information for mutual understanding and peace. It is designed to support cultural self-expression through local content development; to ensure distribution, exposure and interaction; to give voice to the voiceless; and to share our diverse lives through the power of media and information tools (ICTs).
Because of her active contribution to MDGs activities in Vietnam giving her leadership and advocacy skills, she was nominated by United Nations to be a UN Youth Spokesperson for MDGs in Vietnam. Her nomination was made at the first UN Global Youth Leadership Summit organized in October 2006 at UN Headquarter, under the presence of Former Secretary General Kofi Annan. Her mission is to mobilize youth, call upon the government, civil society and private sector to actively contribute to MDGs progress in Vietnam.
She has a BA in foreign languages, and is now a full-scholarship Chevening Scholar to study her MA in Development Studies at Leeds University for 2007 -2008. After she earns her Master Degree abroad, her ambition is to focus on developing an organization in which youth leadership and development issues surrounding 8 Millennium Development Goals are well addressed, resolved and bring about a positive impact in the long run, all over Vietnam.
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