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The Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund received more than 100 applications for its first-ever campus ambassador program. A big challenge for the ICDF was whittling down the large candidate pool to just six students that’d be going on a 5-day diplomatic internship trip to either Eswatini or Saint Lucia. Earlier this week, the ICDF selected the six campus ambassadors, who faced stiff competition during a 3-week selection process.

This speaker is standing next to a screen that has PowerPoint slides depicting her diplomatic plan. She’s one of the finalists for the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund’s campus ambassador program, which on August 3 selected its 6 campus ambassadors. With 3 going to diplomatic ally Eswatini, the other 3 will be traveling to Saint Lucia, another ally of Taiwan.

Huang An-yu
ICDF Campus Youth Ambassador
I sought to understand the true nature of the exchanges the ICDF has with local women or the local people who receive aid.

Tsai Wan-yin
ICDF Campus Youth Ambassador
We help by providing them with crops and teach them how to grow crops even better. I think these issues are all a good example of Taiwan showing itself to the world, because it’s an opportunity for others to see us helping foreign countries.

Starting with a preliminary competition, this 3-week selection process ended with oral reports during the final stage. The campus ambassadors who were ultimately selected passed a battery of tests.

Lin I-chun
ICDF Campus Youth Ambassador
I want to take the passion and warmth of the Taiwanese people with me and share this with the local community, because based on my interactions with a lot of friends from abroad, the one thing I’ve heard the most is that they really like Taiwanese people. So I want to take our spirit, as well as what makes Taiwanese people special, and then bring this with me to the local community.

The committee needed to select six students from 100+ candidates, who faced off in a very competitive selection process.

Peifen Hsieh
Taiwan ICDF Deputy Secretary General
Our standards included how much passion they had for the ICDF and this program. We also considered their sense of motivation, planning ability, diplomatic insight, and ability to communicate effectively, which included their speech presentation skills. So, overall, this was actually quite a thorough selection process.

The ICDF hopes that this campus ambassador internship program will help students broaden their horizons, as this opportunity to travel abroad will offer first-hand experiences of international cooperation in addition to potentially leading to future jobs for these youth ambassadors.

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