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Yuvsatta
History
Yuvsatta
(youth-power), an NGO, is involved in various areas of social concern. In the
last fifteen years of its inception Yuvsatta has pioneered door to door
garbage/waste collection, solid waste management, tele-counselling, promotion of
Cycling in Chandigarh, education for slum children, AIDS awareness and Condom
promotion, Drug De-addiction and Counselling, awareness programmes on
environmental and social problems.
On average
volunteers of Yuvsatta organize every month a guest lecture or a Seminar or a
Debate or a Discussion or a Street Play on socially relevant issues and also
Blood Donation Camps.
In January, 2000
in association with Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, Yuvsatta
organized a World Youth Conference on ‘Millennium Without Violence’, at
Panjab University, Chandigarh. Sri R. Venkataraman, former President of India
presided over the same and delegates of fifteen different countries participated
in the endeavour. Again in August, 2000, Yuvsatta organized an International
Conference on ‘Need for Afro-Asian Dialogue’, youth leaders from ten
different Asian and African countries participated in the endeavour.
Volunteers of
Yuvsatta in association with Dev Samaj College of Education, Chandigarh and
Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, launched a first of its kind ‘Campaign
for Peace-city Chandigarh’ in which 50 “Peace Clubs’ are formed in
major educational institutions of Chandigarh and many teachers and NSS incharge
of respective schools and colleges are dedicating their time and resources to
the task of making these clubs vibrant and result oriented.
Under its
greentire
(Bicycle promotion) programme, volunteers of Yuvsatta are promoting a
‘Bicycle Culture in Chandigarh’. And on last
February, 22, 2005, death anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi
volunteers of Yuvsatta opened a small centre in a slum settlement christen as
Kasturba Gandhi Kendra for socio-economic uplift of poor women.
Projects of
Yuvsatta like various peace initiatives, socio-economic uplift of downtrodden
especially rag-pickers and poor women, AIDS/Drug Abuse awareness programmes,
Greentire-promotion of Cycling, solid waste management, campaigns against
pernicious social practices etc. indicate the breadth of vision that guides it.
It also shows that Yuvsatta’s outlook is holistic, recognizing that the
economic, the social, and the personal are inextricably linked and
simultaneously interventions at the individual and mass levels are likely to
bring in far more collective results than either of them alone. As a result, the
intervention strategies adopted have been wide ranging, from debates,
discussions, seminars, camps, street plays etc. to appeals, tele-counselling,
poster and painting competitions, and so on.
Yuvsatta’s
activities have earned the unalloyed support of the community and the media. The
support has a reason. It is Yuvsatta’s commitment and its willingness to share
its expertise with others. It has been our belief that knowledge, if shared,
grows. As more minds get involved, time taken to devise and implement solutions
is shortened. As more creative ideas are available, new strategies can be
devised.
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