The African Union Youth Volunteer Corps is a flagship program of the African Union which recruits and works with young Africans to serve as professional volunteers across all 55 AU Member States. AUYVC promotes volunteering to deepen the status of young people in Africa as key participants in the delivery of Africa's human development targets and goals. It brings people together to share skills, knowledge, creativity and learning to build a more integrated Continent and by implication strengthen Africa's relevance in the globalized world. AUYVC recruits, trains and deploys young African professionals aged 18-35 from across the Continent and the Diaspora, to serve for a period of 12 months in their respective fields of expertise in an AU Member States other than their own. AUYVC was launched on December 5, 2010 as the larges pan African volunteer and exchange program and works towards the realization of the AU Agenda 2063 - a prosperous, peaceful and integrated Africa driven by its citizen.