 by Live Mafi, TYEE GO GREEN! Program Coordinator Saturday, 6th June 2020, Nuku'alofa: Empowering the youth to take responsibility for their future was how we ended our GO GREEN! Youth Market, Saturday, 6th June. We left the spectators with an event to remember and our youth feeling motivated and eager to make a change. With over 100 participants altogether excluding the spectators on the venue and our existing sponsors from some of the biggest corporations both locally, such as Digicel Group, Bank of the South Pacific, Solutions Consulting House Ltd, TOP Restaurant and Lounge whom kindly sponsored our additional prizes, and internationally such as, Rise & Shine Australia as Gold Sponsor whom for the first time sponsored an Event outside of Australia through Cash and Food Prizes. The South Pacific Mozuku Tonga Ltd, an internationally well-known branded company, who continued to support the initiative by entrusting TYEE GO GREEN! to promote and sell 50 of their seaweed packs and generously donating 30% of each sale to the GO GREEN! initiative. I am proud to say, the GO GREEN! Volunteers managed to sell the 50 packs on the event day. A big Malo ‘Aupito for the continued support from these Sponsors that enabled our youth to make the best of the 3 hours on the venue and gain the necessary practical work experience that will better them in their search for work and creating their own work being youth entrepreneurs. We started this GO GREEN! cycle with 30 Youth Volunteers which is double the number of Volunteers from our previous Event. Altogether, our registrations include SWAP with 25 participants which is also twice the number of our previous SWAP participants, 16 participants for our Market Stalls (with 10 of them for the Cuisine & Food Category Competition) which is triple the number of our previous participants, and 12 Teams to compete for our Zumba Competition, which was astonishing given that this is the first time a Zumba Competition has ever been done in such a manner. The response we got for this event was impressive. To think our people, the youth especially will hesitate to spend money due to COVID-19 but something about our Events keep them coming back for more. For the first time in GO GREEN! history we hosted and catered for more than 100 people on the day of the event and created probably one of the biggest networking platforms for our Youths in Tonga. With over a thousand pa’anga raised from this event alone, and the increasing desire and interest shown towards the initiative, it is safe to say - we are heading in the right direction and growing. As an outcome of this event, one of the biggest health organisations in Tonga, Tonga Health Promotion Foundation, is now on board as not only a Partner but also as Sponsor of our youth-led community initiative. Tonga Health Promotion Foundation is appointed by the Government of Tonga and supported by Australian Aid. In a time span of just 6 months, we have collaborated and partnered up with some of the biggest corporations in Tonga, hosted one of the most youth-driven and youth-inspiring Events and created an army of one simultaneously. We ended our event successfully, with all targets met from all sides, and set the bar high for our youth-led and youth-driven initiatives. The beauty of working with youth, once you inspire them from within, the sky is not the limit yet. We thank everyone who came to support our event and we look forward to seeing you again at the next one. TYEE GO GREEN! our home, our future, our responsibility. Acknowledging the assistance and supports received from the following organisations:
 TYEE GO GREEN! Volunteers Recognition PrizesCongratulations to all our GO GREEN! Volunteers for work well done, and to our Top Performers for each of the 3 Initiative.
Zumba Competition ResultsJudging Criteria for the Zumba Competitions
Congratulations to all Winners! Judging Panel
WINNER, 1st PRIZE: KAPALA GIRLS Prizes Sponsored by Rise & Shine Australia 1x Puaka Tunu (Roast pig) 1x Kato ‘ufi (Basket of Yam) 1x Puha moa (Box of Chicken) Pa’anga $300.00 WINNER, 2nd PRIZE: A.P.L PIONEERS Prizes Sponsored by Rise & Shine Australia 1x Kato ‘ufi (Basket of Yam) 1x Puha moa (Box of Chicken) 1x 3lb Kapapulu (Corned Beef) Pa’anga $150.00 Cuisine & Food Competition ResultsJudging Criteria for the Cuisine & Food Competitions
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