Yuvsatta

What we do!

MAJOR PROJECTS OF YUVSATTA

International Youth Peace Fest: Peace Festival is a time when people come together and have a party to celebrate peace!  Anything fun that holds up the worth of persons, friendship, and harmony is appropriate at a Youth Peace Festival. Every year with an objective to promote peace, equality and living in harmony with nature Yuvsatta organizes this international event in the city from September 27 to October 2, 2010. In year 2010 more than 15,000 youngsters from around 15 different nationalities are expected to participate in the endeavour

Campaign for Peace-cities: Under this programme more than 100 “Peace Clubs’ in major educational institutions of Chandigarh and another 30 in adjoining cities of Panchkula & SAS Nagar (Mohali) are formed, where many teachers and Principals in charge of respective schools and colleges are dedicating their time and resources to the task of making these clubs vibrant and result oriented.; beneficiaries are 40-50 direct peace club members at each place and their entire School-roughly covering about 1,00,000 young students.

 Greentire Project: Promoting the concept of more & more people riding on bicycles more often in the city, benefiting all the residents alike.

Project HERITAGE TREE’s: Initiated with a mission to preserve, manage, enhance, and expand a vital collection of trees in the city with documenting (where ever available) the historic, scientific, aesthetic, environmental, economic, conservation, and educational value of these plants as part of larger biodiversity of this region.

PEACE EXAMS IN JAIL: Mahatma Gandhi once said, ‘Hate the evil, not the doer’. It was with this noble thought that YUVSATTA, Prisons Department, Chandigarh and Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, Mumbai had launched a very innovative ‘Gandhi Peace Programme’ in Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. This involves distribution of autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi amongst the inmates; orientation lectures on gandhian thoughts by Yuvsatta volunteers, film shows of internationally acclaimed films and holding of an objective type Gandhi Peace Exam in the end with questions from autobiography of Gandhiji & awards to best students.

Campaign for Women/Girls friendly Chandigarh; This involves motivating local administration to open All Women’s Police Station, Women desk’s in all other police stations, activate the present Crime Against Women Cell, open a  ‘Shelter home’ for women in distress and improve general environment in the city for the women & girls to feel safe.

Solid Waste Management: One other major area, in which Yuvsatta is involved in since 1996, is promotion waste management and taking Chandigarh towards zero percent waste in near future.

KASTURBA GANDHI KENDRA: With active assistance and support of Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New Delhi Yuvsatta volunteers had setup this small Centre for socio-economic uplift of poor women of slum areas of Chandigarh. This helps poor women to produce different types of handmade items and assists in their marketing too. Now, they are also producing special ‘Wisdom Greeting Cards’ with famous quotes of Gandhiji.

ACTIVITIES OF YUVSATTA FOR THE MARGINALIZED

SAKHI Project: 150 out-of school adolescent girls; Project staff & volunteers promote programmes increasing confidence, communication skills, awareness & vocational skills amongst the targeted girls.

All Girls Cricket Team of Bapu Dham Colony; 40 Girls; Volunteers improve their playing skills, work with them to help them with their studies and see that they remain healthy & take enough nutritious food.

Kitab Ghar (Book House): Library for 500 marginalized children; With more than 3500 books volunteer promote reading campaigns, organize story telling sessions, bring out a wall newspaper, organize their ‘Bal Panchayat’ sessions and birthday parties for the targeted kids.

HIV/AIDS Intervention Project: 1000 Female sex workers (FSW’s); Project staff promotes healthy life-style, condoms, regular health check-ups, blood testing for HIV & savings amongst the FSW’s.

Self Help Groups (SHG’s): In slum areas volunteers of Yuvsatta had started around ten SHG’s involving 120 poor women with an aim to promote their inclusion with banks and promote savings amongst them.

JUGNU: One major achievement of this NGO is publication of JUGNU, a monthly wall newspaper, published regularly by children of Bapu Dham Colony. For all the children involved, this is first lesson in participation, self-expression and grassroots democracy.

PROMOTING THE GIRL CHILD: With help of Indian Oil Corporation, from last two years, volunteers of YUVSATTA are honouring 31 outstanding Girls from economically weaker sections of the society, with brand new bicycles and other gifts. And to ensure that the message of girl’s education and well-being reaches masses at large, parents of these girls were motivated to give an undertaking on plain paper that they’ll not marry them early, will ensure that they get higher education and support of their families to pursue their dreams.

FREE EDUCATION FOR 860 KIDS: Volunteers of YUVSATTA motivated management of KB DAV Sr. Sec. Public School to adopt 350 children of Bapu Dham Colony for free education. Further 60 more students from this slum settlement are adopted by St. John Public School of the city. And another 450 under SSA by The Gurukul Global School of the city.

FREE DISPENSARY; A free Allopathic and Homeopathic clinic along with monthly Medical Camps is bring run at Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, Chandigarh directly benefiting around more than 1000 poor patients every month.

“Truth is God!” – MK Gandhi