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| Youth Group photo |
On the special occasion of
International Youths Day (IYD) 12th august, 2013, Paschim Paaila
organized a Talk program on Scope and Role of youth in the sector of
Environment and Health with Mr. Bhusan Tuladhar, Environmentalist as resource
person for the program.
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| Token Of love to Bhushan Sir |
Mr.Buddha Bajracharya, Network Coordinator of Paschim Paaila welcomed all the 48 energetic youth from various backgrounds
with brief objective of talk program as to get motivated and inspired by Bhushan
sir regarding role and scope of youth in sector of environment and health with
Grand celebration of IYD with Paschim Paaila.
Mr. Tuladhar started his session
focusing on the role of youth rather than scope with fact that, “Youths are not
future but present among them top 5% are in this room.” Youths are for today i.e.
youth’s empowerment should be utilized for today. He further focused on how one
can utilize the resources that they have. He raised three questions in that
case, Where are we? Where do we want to go? And how can we reach there? He mentioned
that most of people get confused on where they are? So one should first know
that where they are in the present situation.
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| During the program |
He also talked about SWOT/C
(Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat/Challenges) in which SW is the internal
factor whereas OT is the external factor. He listed as a youth of Nepal, strength
of youth from among the youth present in the program which were Unity, Hard
working, Energetic, Enthusiastic, Volunteering, Patriotism, Skill and
Knowledge, Decision making power, Hopefulness and Patience, Honesty, Self
confidence, Cooperative and Optimistic. Among all these points, he focused in
the point Optimistic the most.
Similarly, the weakness of youth
were listed as Negative Attitude, Confusion, Hopelessness, Lack of patience, Blaming
other, Aggressiveness, Jealousy, Low self esteem, Selfishness, Afraid of
initiation, Stubborn, Bounding in making decision, Selfish politics,
Communication problem and so on. The youths should always focus on positive
attitude rather than negative attitude so that they can understand themselves
that where they are right now Mr. Tuladhar suggested. He mentioned Success is
90% attitude and 10 % work. Success can start with own strength. He further
talked about the entrepreneurship.
He inspired the youth to be
proactive along with volunteer spirit. "Don’t depend on other to tell you that
what you should do this or that." One should think in a broad way that how
he/she can do something different than other.
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| Participant Interacting |
The program moved towards
discussion where participants raised lots of queries "what may be the
possible threats in the sector of environment and public health? Are they
vulnerable?" and the solution were also given to those queries as we must
remember “Russian Rule” that “I must do it in order to get rid of it”, must
have willingness to learn, courage to make mistake and confidence or pair of
support may be missing. Also asked by participant as she wants to do something
innovative but have no confidence and what she can do in that case? One of the participants
gave suggestion that stand in front of mirror and say that "I am the one I
can do, today is my day and start it today." In between of smile and non
smile, there is a gap and that gap is the great thing that motivates yourself
and other.
At the end of the program Mr.
Tuladhar was appreciated with Token of love. Likewise Mr. Bajracharya Thanked
all the participants and resource person for making the program a grand success
and also collected feedback to make to program more effective in the future
with sharing about Emergency Relief Fund (ERF). Some of the youth donated some
amount for ERF. Finally a group photo was taken and the floor was closed.
Two
days Youth WASH Concern workshop (WCW) was successfully conducted on 21st
and 22nd December 2013 organized by Paschim Paaila and ENPHO at
Thames College. There were 22 youth participants from different college of
Kathmandu valley. The overall objective of the WCW is to enhance the knowledge
of WASH and disaster, to empower the capacities, motivate among youth and to
boost the leadership capacities among the youth.
Two days workshop highlighted many aspects of WASH such as participants were able to know detail knowledge about food hygiene and menstrual hygiene as well. The session were conducted through various tools and techniques such as PowerPoint presentations, audio visuals, different group works, sharing of the cases, games, demonstration etc. during the sessions all the participants had active and energetic participation. At the end of the all session there were group work to collect the feedback and to develop WASH action project which participants committed to complete in near future with the technical support of Paschim Paaila.
