Liberal Youth Forum

by Soubhik Chakrabarti

Liberal Youth Forum is a movement consisting of individuals from all walks of society who collaborate together to bring about a positive change in the cultural, economic, political and environment spheres with an intent to have a freer India. The LYF team of India consists of distinguished individuals from the fields of law to media.

The Liberal Youth Forum in India believes that the youth of the country are the harbingers of justice in the society. The youth are the ones who can initiate reforms and bring about a change in the society. The Liberal Youth forum through its workshops and activities wishes to make the youth of the country more aware of their rights and duties and also bring a more liberal approach to their thinking, by which they are able to tolerate and appreciate other’s views and opinions which might run contrary to their beliefs.  

Liberal Youth Forum helps the youth to speak up against injustice, right from the college level and even finding solutions to the many problems of political, social, economic and cultural rigidities that plague the society. LYF even hires interns and conducts seminars so if you are interested, you might even join as an intern in the various positions available.

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Three Dot Dash (3DD)

with Inputs: Bindu N. D.

Three Dot Dash (3DD) is a year-round teen leadership and mentoring program that recognizes and supports young changemakers by teaching them how to “tell their stories” powerfully and effectively.

Its mission is to find the worlds next peacemakers and game changers and give them the tools to put peace in to action.

Three Dot Dash is a Global Initiative created by the We Are Family Foundation (yes, like the song)! The Three Dot Dash "Just Peace Summit" is a week long workshop held in New York City for a select group of nominated Global Teen Leaders, who work day in and day out on pressing humanitarian issues. The workshop gives them the tools they need to spread their message and communicate on a global scale to better our world.

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Pankhudi Foundation

Pankhudi Foundation is a Social Development Organization (a registered Charitable Trust in India) with a few likeminded people from different parts of world who share among them a drive to do their bit towards the making of a cognitive society. With an intention to put collective efforts, they are here to work together and gather people who find themselves inspired to uplift the lives of those children who grow with inadequate education, resources and psychological supports - several calls them as "Underprivileged" and "Orphans". 

Pankhudi was formed with an inclusive goal in mind to uplift under-privileged children of the society. The birth of Pankhudi (April 18th, 2005 IIT Bombay) was around the idea of connecting minds with similar vision, passion, ideas, action plans and commitment, and this was achieved through a seed community of Pankhudi on Orkut.

Milestones have been set in its progress so far by their small but persistent efforts. Shahzad Wakeel, Founder of Pankhudi, is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and a young professional with diverse experience in various domains and has keen interest in architecting ‘communities of practice’.

Pankhudi strongly introduces the concept of mass-volunteering and communicates that every individual can pitch in some of their time, energy and effort in imparting adequate & value education and necessary healthcare to the needy children of our society - to ensure empowered, healthy and responsible future generations.

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Commutiny – The Youth Collective

 

Commutiny – The Youth Collective (CYC) is a group that promotes youth development in India.  They understand that to bring the youth in the centre of development processes, they need to build an enabling environment, a positive image of young people and their contribution, and facilitate a big leap in mainstreaming youth centric processes in the country. 

Commutiny is a collective of like-minded professionals from diverse organizations who believe passionately in the power of young people to envision the future and to act in the present. 

While working directly with youth and youth organizations CVC also work actively with the media which needs to resurrect itself as a genuine dipstick of the youth pulse and become a responsible platform for getting authentic youth voices into the mainstream. CVC overall goal is to promote youth leadership for greater participation in decision making.

 

CYC’s Creative Media & Policy Group equips youth at the grassroots with media tools and resources to enhance the positive social impact in Commutiny. 

The Commutiny Learning and Leadership Journeys (LLJ) is a yearlong programme for Young Change Leaders from across India; the Programme offers support for a Journey of intensive personal learning and reflection, combined with an opportunity to lead an independent social change experiment.

It was all started back in 2006, when Pravah and the Youth & Civil Society Initiative of Sir Ratan Tata Trust (YACS-SRTT) worked together to develop strategies for strengthening youth development in India.

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Youth United

Youth United is a social reform and youth revolution, being carried out by the young generation of the nation for the betterment of society and the nation as a whole by launching various projects aimed at different social and national issues. Youth United creates opportunities and forums for individuals and conglomerates to mobilize their skills and resources for various social issues through its various undertakings, which sincerely attempts to work for Universal Primary Education, Gender Equity, Child Health, Maternal Health, Environmental Sustainability, and to fight against Poverty and Hunger.  

Jyotindra Nath, Harshit Bahl, Sahil Rihani, Rohan Aneja, Kunal Gulati, Saurabh Verma, Ritoban Chakrabarti, Saloni Bajaj, Neelima Walia, Sabiha Basur, Aurobind Vidyarthi and Sukhmani Khanna vision led to the foundation of Youth United in February, 2007.

Youth United is an assortment of various projects, being run in different locations across India, contemplating on a specific issue or cause. Youth United project may include conducting surveys, organizing campaigns and events, publishing periodicals, launching various drives, establishing welfare centres like hospitals & schools, using legal avenues like PILs and RTI Act, making use of media like internet, radio and television etc. 

The objective of YOUTH UNITED is to encourage and foster the development of the youth of India and hence the development of society as a whole through its activities like periodicals, events, community Services and online portals.

The vision of the Organization is to empower the population of India to utilize their skills, knowledge, resources and capabilities to work for the overall betterment of society, to help underprivileged and backward sections of the population and to promote National harmony, integrity and fraternity.

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Su Swapn -A golden dream

Su Swapn, named after late Suvarna Mishra, came into existence on 18^thJune, 2011. Suvarna Mishra was a young energetic girl who was brutally murdered by her cousin. Her humble and generous nature was the motivation which drove her parents and friends to open a NGO dedicated in fulfilling Suvarna’s dream of a society free from evils like female foeticide, girl backwardness, corruptionand pollution. Su Swapn strives to help physically challenged and homeless people.

 

Their first project, conducted under the guidance of Maa Sarojini Agarwal, provided trunks, books and school bags to the orphan girls. The members of Su Swapn donated blood at civil hospital and distributed clothes to the destitute in the Lucknow city. They also donated baby kits and diapers to Vardan Shishu Grih in the city.

In future Su Swapn looks forward to conduct and organize various blood donation & medical camps, sponsoring education of poor girl child and organizing city cleansing drives. 

Su Swapn is the youngest NGO to feature in News Not Making News.  

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Tata Jagriti Yatra

Tata Jagriti Yatra is an annual train journey that that takes hundreds of India's highly motivated youth (with some participation of international students) between the ages of 20-25 and experienced professionals with age above 25, on a eighteen day national odyssey, introducing them to unsung heroes of India.

The aim is to awaken the spirit of entrepreneurship - both social and economic - within India's youth by exposing them to individuals and institutions that are developing unique solutions to India's challenges. The vision of Tata Jagriti Yatra is to inspire young Indians living in the middle of the Indian demographic diamond (Rs 40-Rs 120 per day) to lead development by taking to enterprise. By doing so, they can turn from being job seekers to job creators. 

The message of the Yatra is expressed through Jagriti Geet – 'Yaaron Chalo, Badalne Ki Rut hai' a message is of a positive change through enterprise. Instead of bemoaning what is wrong with the country, our participants and the Jagriti fraternity takes action by enterprise led development to make India better.

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Leaders For Tomorrow

Leaders for Tomorrow Foundation is a NOT FOR PROFIT youth based NGO aimed at awakening the social consciousness of youth by encouraging them in volunteerism and personality development. It’s a platform for youths to exchange ideas for social change and an opportunity for putting these ideas into action. They aim at sensitizing the youth with many relevant programmes and empower the millions of youth to be the AGENTS OF CHANGE. 

Leaders for Tomorrow is a youth movement that started from a small initiative by the founder, Mr. Binoy Job, Director for Media and Communications to the Prime Minister of India. 

Their soul motto is to develop change makers and channelize the great potential of the youth towards Nation Building. They provide opportunistic platform where youths can express their views, generate ideas, interact with senior leaders and achievers, educate themselves on issues of public importance, learn new skills, enhance personality and in the process ignite the LEADER IN YOU. They aim at grooming college students in leadership and social development. Thus, to make YOUTH the most important factor in nation building.

The base unit of ‘Leaders for Tomorrow’ is its branch in a college or an educational institution. This smallest unit is called the 'Leaders for Tomorrow Club.' The unit for every state or central university is called a 'Leaders for Tomorrow Chapter.' Their Annual programmes comprises of a Youth Leadership Summit, a Youth Festival for Social Development and a Youth Awakening Rally.

Leaders for Tomorrow has become a turning point for many young aspiring students, who have achieved laurels in Development Sector, Public Policy, Journalism, Management and Leadership. Today, Leaders for Tomorrow with more than 32,000 student members from universities and colleges in Delhi, has become the largest youth movement in Delhi/NCR. 

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