Three-day youth convention concludes
CHITRAL: The Ispru Youth Forum’s three-day second convention concluded in Booni some 75 KM from here.
Students from Govt Degree College for Boys and Girls, Pamir Public School and College, Orien School of Learning, PCCM, Oriental College Booni, Space Era, AKHSS Chitral and Kuragh, New Oxford College, Stars Land School and College and Glorious Institute of Mastuj participated in the convention.
The first day of the forum covered topics of career guidance and counseling, gender equality and empowerment of women.
Dialogue and discussion on gender-based violence was also held and experts talked on the concept of gender. Video clips were shown and opportunity was given to the participants for role playing with a purpose of educating the youth about the gender-related challenges in Chitral.
The second day session covered the topics of mental and physical health and hygiene, environmental challenges and youth’s role in countering climate change. IYFC members made presentation on the topic and health experts also talked in detail while specifying the health and hygiene related issues in Chitral. After showing documentaries, a package was made on challenges.
After showing videos and documentaries on creativity and innovation, a group discussion was also facilitated by IYFC focal persons on entrepreneurship, thinking out of the box aimed at enhancing creativity for grasping self-employment opportunities while organizing group works and presentation, for exploring creative works in the context of Chitral.
The third-day of the forum was primarily reserved for participants to discuss all the five convention themes in group. The very purpose of this discussion was to develop an insight in youth into the challenges and opportunities in Chitral. IYFC members facilitated participants to replicate parliamentary debate of youth assembly by giving the concept of brain storming for demonstration of this concept and practical demonstration of parliamentary debate.
Ispru Forum managed to render the services of experts and professionals from diverse fields and eminent personnel’s from the community. The facilitators and focal persons of this forum hailed from ICAP, SZABIST, LUMS, AKU, UoP, AKU-IED,IMS, P, NUCES-FAST NU, FJWU,NUML, Karachi and Punjab University.
Speakers on the concluding day of the convention appreciated the services of this forum for the youth of Chitral. They reiterated the services of this forum and the awareness program particularly with regard to the career counseling and opportunities, Gender issues, climate change and environmental challenges, happening in the valley of Chitral. Credit of providing an opportunity for the coming generation to share their experiences and knowledge with each other to plan better for the future certainly goes to this forum, they also said.
Source: chitraltoday.com