Congratulations to Ms. Kirari Edna Delong for being selected to be our new Dil Belau 2025. We are incredibly grateful to Kirari, Sydney, Auryn, Klei, and Ulang for making this event incredible! They each put in a lot of time, effort, and courage to share so much of themselves with all of us throughout this contest. We hope you are inspired by each young woman and the impact she is making on youth today!  Read the Island Times article here.

As our new Dil Belau intern, Kirari will join our council and spend this next year on youth advocacy, outreach, and projects. To submit a request for Dil Belau to support your project, activity, or event, please complete this form.

We have five (5) contestants for our first Dil Belau Contest! They represent the states of Ngarchelong, Ngatpang, Airai, Koror, and Peleliu:

Dil Rteluul Maikale Ulang Oilouch

Dil Ngerdubech Auryn Uriik Benhart

Dil Belias Kirari Edna Delong

Dil Ernguul Sydney Dirraklai Francisco

Dil Odesangel Klei Nadyn Andreas

Read about them in this Island Times article. 

The Palau National Youth & Cheldebechel Council (NYCC) is proud to host the first Dil Belau Contest on August 21, 2025. Our goal for this event is to select a young Palauan woman to join the NYCC as an advocate and role model, representing Palau’s youth.

We believe this Dil Belau event should be more than a beauty contest, it is an important platform that empowers young Palauan women to be heard, to lead, and to inspire. The contest will feature Palau’s cultural heritage, showcase each contestant’s attributes as a role model, and demonstrate her potential to be an engaged youth leader, advocate, and community activist. 

We want to develop the professional position of Dil Belau, the skills being evaluated in the contest directly reflect the role and responsibilities that Dil Belau will have within the NYCC.  The winner will receive a monthly stipend in addition to mentorship and professional development.

Pre-contest events have started this week and we have five contestants representing Ngarchelong, Ngatpang, Airai, Koror, and Peleliu. Stay tuned for their introductory videos later this week!

Event: Dil Belau Contest

Host: Palau National Youth & Cheldebechel Council (NYCC)

Goals:

1. To host an inclusive and empowering competition that showcases Palau’s cultural heritage and contestants that embody the qualities and characteristics of the Dil Belau title.

2. To inspire Palauan youth to engage in community issues and to participate in solution-building activities and dialogue that value youth perspectives.

3. To select a young Palauan woman to join the Palau NYCC as an advocate and role model, representing Palau’s youth.

4. To develop the professional position of Dil Belau to be a youth ambassador nationally, regionally and internationally.

Date: August 21, 2025

Location: TBD

Contest Director: Ms. Sorella Smau, NYCC Board Member, board@nyccpalau.org, 775-2733

For sponsorship, to volunteer, and to get additional information on the event, please contact:

Mia Kuartei, Executive Director

Palau National Youth & Cheldebechel Council (NYCC)

Email: mkuartei@nyccpalau.org

Office: (680) 488-3493 / Mobile: (680) 775-3449

Contest Overview and Criteria have been published! The Registration form is now available HERE. Interested contestants should review the contest overview and criteria and complete a registration form. You will also need to obtain the additional required documents and submit everything to your state Governor for review. Governors will review all potential contestants interested in representing their state; they may also conduct interviews if needed to make their selection. After a contestant is selected to represent her state, the Governor will endorse her registration form. Contestants may then submit their completed registration form with additional documents to Palau NYCC.  

Please share our FLYER.  If you have any questions, contact us at info@nyccpalau.org 

Mark your calendars for our first Dil Belau Contest, which was previously hosted to select the current Miss Belau. We have changed the name and we are excited to share that we have set our contest date for Thursday, August 21, 2025.  Details will be released on our Facebook page (@nyccpalau) and posted here, so follow us for the latest updates. If you are interested in helping with the event, supporting us with a monetary or in-kind donation, or have any questions, please contact us at info@nyccpalau.org 

We're excited to announce the winner of our Dil Belau logo contest!

Artist: Dandori (Elangel M)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565497673588

Palau NYCC offered a $200 commission for a logo to be used for our upcoming Dil Belau Contest (formerly named Miss Belau).  We were so impressed with the artwork submitted to us and grateful for the artists who took the time to create logo designs.  Follow us on Facebook (@nyccpalau) for all the latest updates on the upcoming Dil Belau Contest and for the announcement and details of our next logo commission, which will be for a new NYCC logo.