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Intent - March 06, 2007

Nandita Kathpalia Baig writes about Youthreach, a Delhi based NGO

Youthreach

The vision of Youthreach is to inspire individual and collective transformation to create positive social change. Youthreach, founded in 1997 is a non profit organisation based in New Delhi, India. We create a space that engenders a deeper inquiry into the nature of social and ecological injustices and work towards building a culture that is routed in the humane and equitable. We aim at creating awareness on critical issues to sensitise people and institutions and provide opportunities for significant participation in response to community and ecological needs.

Youthreach endeavours to create this connection between worlds, through direct participation and change. Today, Youthreach partners with 80 non-profit organisations in India. Through our programmes, we offer exposure to social issues on the ground, where social and ecological inequities exists, in order to inspire individuals to make the choice – to make a difference.

Youthreach programmes

Awareness Creation Programme

The focus is on building awareness on issues related to disadvantaged children, the environment and humanism. It provides the essential backdrop of all that needs to be known and felt - so information, sensitization and reflection are its basis

Partnerships for Change Programme

Youthreach builds partnerships for two key purposes. One, to analyse critical needs of NGOs that work in the field of disadvantaged children. Secondly, to provide training, capacity building and develop community-based projects and to develop other resources and initiatives to help meet these needs with a diversity of people, volunteers, institutions, businesses and private sector stakeholders

Corporate Programme

Promotes philanthropy among large companies and corporations. Interested companies could be involved in a variety of projects ranging from implementing community based projects to the donation of surplus of products to helping NGOs with training and capacity building. They could also participate in creating awareness on a large spectrum of social issues and involve their staff in volunteering skills.

University Programme

In partnership with Pravah, the programme helps support social sensitisation initiatives in colleges through self-development and skill-issue workshops.

Grants Programme

Offers financial support of children's organisations through its own corpus and through funds given by corporations and individual donors. The grants are provided for the living and educational expenses of street and slum children and the environment, as well as, for projects involving Youthreach volunteers.

For more information on Youthreach, visit www.youthreachindia.org. If you want to write to Nandita, mail at nandita@youthreachindia.org

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Posted by Intent at March 6, 2007 10:22 PM

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Well how about making bringing the awareness of the folly of paying 1.00 for 2 cents worth of carbonated sugar water I am talking Coke and Pespi which can produce choronic health problems due to the leaching of magnesium. I don't know the equivalent in Indian currency. I am not saying Coke and Pepsi are evil or should be banned but an awareness should be created. If you drank one or two a week I doubt there would be any issue. But when they are consumed on a regular basis there is an issue.

The other thing is that children should get vitamin supplements not drugs. C, E, A, the B vitmins will be a good start.

The disadvantaged youth are so because of the profit centered corporations and the profit influenced politics.

The very systems created by the large companies and corporations are the problem especially members of the fear industries.

If they really want to help the youth then rather than providing bandaids they should stop inflicting the cuts.

1. Posted by Richard Thomas [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 6, 2007 10:55 PM

Dear Nandita,

You are doing real good work.

Thanks Nandita for giving us opportunity to participate in Awareness Creation Programme.

Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma

2. Posted by Rajesh Sharma [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 6, 2007 11:06 PM

Rajesh: I don't know what was my suggestion to you in the other post. You're not taking it seriously maybe. I just read a recent article that consuming these vitamin supplements can reduce the lifespan, and hypervitaminosis is already an established entity in medicine. In our language we say(Gudda balchindi viladi, inka em ledu) which means the good medicines over a period of time will stay, the rest will vanish. Your feedback on this will be appreciated. I'm adopting the Renee attitude now because you're silent on that issue. God is there to punish if you're doing something like that. You still have my love though.

Love,
I.V

3. Posted by Innocentvictim [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 6, 2007 11:37 PM

Yo finally some food for peace.
Thank you Nandita Kathpalia for your work. Bringing awareness through the youth, genious.

My wife and I have been working with the youth for over 25 years, I can not even express how rewarding it has been. I tend to see things differently than most of the IB participants because of all the children I've worked with. Many who are now adults with children.

Wanna see the future? Look through the eyes of an enlightened child. I'm seeing more of these children than ever before, somethings happenning......................

peace comes from peace

derek

4. Posted by doodleman [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 7, 2007 08:08 AM

I didn't want to skew things to much with the above comment. Profit is a good thing, the idea is to have a balanced energy exchange on a fair playing field.

The common people can be at fault as well since no one forces them to pay x for sugar water.

Ignorance is really our target, and the remedy to ignorance is communication to create awareness.

The dissemination of intelligence, through education but not indoctrination.

5. Posted by Richard Thomas [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 7, 2007 11:17 AM

Hello Nandita,

Thank you so much for bringing YouthReach
to Intentblog.

I will send you an email and would like to find
out more about the project.

I am currently working with India a project
called YES Plus with youth in Vancouver

Thanks for sharing would like to find out more.

love
Ashie

6. Posted by Ashie [TypeKey Profile Page] on March 9, 2007 08:26 PM

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