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YUVA EKTA: YOUTH UNITE – Summer Programme
(14th May – 14th June 2007)
 

The Yuva Ekta Summer Program, 2007 provides a platform to young people from diverse backgrounds to interact with each other and to ideate on a number of socially relevant issues ranging from corruption and vigilant citizenship to education and environment.

A group of 15 students from various schools, colleges and non-profit organizations have come together for a period of 1 month to work with and learn from each other. The program commenced with a 3-day 'Self Empowerment' workshop, wherein the participants undertook activities that enabled them to get to know each other as well as to get in touch with their 'inner selves'.

This was followed by a 'City Walk' organized by Salaam Baalak Trust (an NGO that works with destitute children), where students from the Trust guided the volunteers through the New Delhi Railway Station and recalled their harrowing experiences of living there. The objective was to give the volunteers a glimpse of the way in which millions of children live in this country.

Twice a week the volunteers spend time at various children's shelter homes across Delhi and engage them in fun learning, arts and craft, games, music and so on. The students gather on the other days to work on a street play, which will be presented on the 14th of June in Central Park, Conaught Place, New Delhi.

The play presents the volunteers' insights into some of the major problems facing our society today and focuses on the importance of education, civic sense and awareness in dealing with these problems.

For a peak into our Yuva Ekta team click here ..
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