Madrid, Spain, Aug 15, 2010 / 16:15 pm
World Youth Day (WYD) Madrid has opened four more language-specific pages on Facebook, bringing its total Facebook pages to 18. The pages were created thanks to young volunteers who see the importance of having WYD information available in their own language.
Japanese, Vietnamese, Maltese and Croatian are the latest languages to have WYD outposts on Facebook. World Youth Day Madrid organizers credited the pages to “the determination and the excitement of the youth.”
Tran The Vinh, one of the administrators of the Vietnamese-language Facebook page, first suggested the creation of a page in her language. She said she believes the page is important because it overcomes “the obstacle of speaking in a language other than your own.”
Vinh, a 23-year-old architecture student, spends three to five hours daily administrating WYD’s profile, with the help of other administrators. She answers questions form page subscribers, translates information coming from Spain and promotes WYD.