Inauguration of Vimukti youth clubs & youth leadership training workshop:
“Youth is the foundation stone of tomorrows building”. We all well acquainted with this popular saying. Youth constitute a significant group in the society in terms of power and energy. They constitute an invaluable human resource of a society. They have emerged as a most important segment of our population. They are physically strong and mentally agile and look for change and dynamism in their own life and in the life of community, they live. Wherever their energy has been channelized, it has resulted in prosperity and development. They are idealistic and so accept new ideas and views without much hesitation. They are also impulsive and in this way generate necessary power to carry out what they consider as important to themselves and to the society.

The youth are not only powerful but also vulnerable. The development of youth must be holistic in nature. It must cater to their overall development in the spheres of physical, mental emotional, moral, social, economic and political. Keeping in this mind, Vimukti has reached another milestone it its achievement, A significant effort. It is the need of the time. There are youth who are really in need of such a clubs. VCT has made a survey of youth in Pothnal and surrounding villages, and found most of the youths were wasting their time redundant. Vimukti realized the need to identify, gather, motivate, empower, create interest, know their hidden potentialities, and bring out the best out of the youth that is what the motive behind starting this clubs. Let the result be that, these youth may fly higher and higher, and achieve perfection in their lives and reach their goal, which they have set in their lives. May they not only reach the stars but also become like one among them. As result vimukti is taking the great step to form the youth clubs in our working area, in order to strengthen, to make know their rights and to stand on their feet.

The vision of youth:
I shell change myself; set an example and the world will change. I step forward with the courage to take-up the responsibility. No more excuse, now I shall work for the results and shall join hands in creating peace, and harmony.

The Mission of Youth:
To inspire, to empower, to realize to rededicate, to meet, to share, to break all bondages like addictions, bad habits and bad habits and blind faith, to spread the message of brotherhood by developing other consciousness.

Our Aim and Objectives:

• To provide greater equality of opportunity among the youth.

• Physical, intellectual and aesthetic development of personality

• Development of self-confidence to face innovate and unfamiliar situation.

• Creation of an awareness to the physical, social, technological, economic and cultural environment • To mobilize the talents which now lost to the society.

• To create new skills among rural youth through which villages can became self reliant.

• To inspire and equip the youth with all necessary skills and encourage them to set up their own micro enterprises in rural areas.

• To prevent migration of rural youth to cities by enabling them to realize that agriculture and other agro servicing sectors are as
  rewarding occupations as these in the urban areas.

• To provide opportunity to the youth for participation in rural community development works through developmental schemes

PROCESS /METHODOLOGY

• Role-plays – issues based role-plays helped in bringing out the perspectives and Stereo-types of the participants and build up lighter atmosphere for discussions.

• Group exercises – on different issues were handy in discussion and debate.

• Group discussions – group discussions brought forth the perspectives of participants and in debating with each other.

PARTICIPANTS VIEWS…..

During the discussion on youth employment, many young participants shared common key employment concerns. Young people questioned the quality of education they and their peers receive: whether or not it is relevant to available jobs, how their knowledge and skills will serve them in the long-term, and the extent to which decision-makers are committed to needed investment in the potential of young people. They are significantly frustrated by high rates of unemployment. Young women in particular are confronting barriers to employment, including job segregation and salary discrimination. When young people do obtain jobs, they often involve poor wages as well as working conditions, including long hours, insecurity and a lack of health and other benefits, which do not allow them to be independent and provide for family. Moreover, although some young people shared positive views of accessing job opportunities through migration, many reported growing concern that in order to secure even low-level jobs, they would have to leave their homes and families. Participants expressed hopelessness regarding what they perceive as their governments’ lack of prioritization of their concerns as well as institutional capacity to address them. Youth shared the sense that they have been left to fend for themselves.
Profile of participants –

 

105 participants benefited from this training.


ACTION PLAN –
An action plan was decided where participants would participate in more workshops at Vimukti center on the issue of gender, sexuality HIV/AIDS and on other Government schemes. It was planned that at least one session would be conducted once in four months. The staff of vimukti would monitor these workshops. It was also felt need that some participants can be trained as a trainer so that in return they can go back in the respective area and train the community and youth. Within the two training workshops conducted by vimukti we have already planned the strategies that vimukti will form more youth clubs in the respective villages.