The People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) was established in 1971 which is the largest youth organization of Singapore. PAYM carters youths between ages of 12 and 35, without partiality regarding race, language or religion and it has 168,000 youth members and 100 youth groups.

The logo of PAYM is a diamond within which the letters ‘PAYM’ are set against depicts the shape of the island of Singapore. Color blue in the diamond represent harmonious nature of the country. The ‘Y’ figure with its outstretched arms show a confident youth embracing the future with hope and its yellow color shows vigor and energy and the red color within show warmth, passion and beliefs. The Spirit of youth sculpture is the PAYM’s gift to Singapore for 25th anniversary of Independence.

The vision of PAYM is to build PAYM a premiere youth organization and through that touch the lives of youth in their growing-up process. The mission is to always reaching out and always relevant. The motto is youth embracing the world.

The PAYM conducts meaningful programs and new initiatives that reflect youth’s voices like:

PAYM policy forum series: It is an initiative to engage working adults providing platforms to gain a better insight into current issues and national policies, give feedback while networking with other youths.
PAYM Lunch Time series: It brings life skills and lifestyle courses to workplaces during lunch or staff sessions to working youths.

Friends of PAYM: It engages youths from the institutes of Higher Learning, to identify with the community as an integral part of their lives and create opportunities for them.
PAYM has international alliances like Asian Youth Leaders Forum, International Exchange program, Youth caucus to provide the good exposure of the world to the youth.

PAYM Service-Learning club: It aims to provide holistic development in youths and also gain resilience, discipline and a spirit of service to others.

There are also many Youth clubs and events organized by PAYM like City Alive 2009, Chingay Float, Baybeats 2008 and PAYM 37th Anniversary for exposing the youth talents.

The PAYM aims to integrate fresh and new initiatives for meeting the needs of the youth.
   
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