Despite the increasing proportional population of youth in the Pacific island nations―in most countries currently around half the total population―every year vocational training and employment prospects for young people dwindle while the problem of juvenile delinquency worsens. This project is aimed at nurturing the true human resource potential of the Pacific island nations through the creation of a region-wide youth organization and the promotion of cooperative activities between it and counterpart youth organizations in other parts of the world, particularly Asia. Substantial progress was made toward those goals in this, the project's first year. A meeting was held in April (1995) as a lead-up to the establishment of the proposed Pacific Youth Council, and from May through June four members of the project's executive committee visited Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Malaysia to liaise with youth affairs organizers in those countries and to attend the annual general meeting of the Asia Youth Council, held this year in the Republic of Korea in July.