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Title: World Congress of Youth in India
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Categories: Children’s Rights
Children’s Rights
Educational Technology
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Amongst all this beauty, rich culture and spiritual heritage, India is not without its share of problems. With a lack of means to export its limited natural resources, India is an economically disadvantaged country. A large proportion of the population lives in poverty despite the ingenuity of the Indian people.
How can we help?
As a participant on the WCI program to India we actively helping in different development projects. Past projects have included:
Building a suspension bridge in the village of Barpak.
Working with displaced children, helping them find a place in society through education.
Creating income generation programs for women
Working at the World Youth International school where landscaping, tree planting and playgrounds have been built.
Working in the village of Chaturalle on development projects that have included building school's classrooms, toilets, installing fencing and teaching conversational English and hygiene matters to the children and women.
Objectives:
On our program, we have endeavoured to give you an overall experience of India enabling us to truly experience the life and culture while being of service to the people. To achieve this, we have included:
Community Development projects working with the people in the Udhampur Valley and a village enabling you to experience both city and village life.
Accommodation with a host family in Udhampur and a village enabling you to obtain an insight into life most Westerners never experience.
Villages lessons
Sight seeing
A weekend in a Buddhist monastery
A 15 day trek in the Anapurna region
Five days at Lake Fewa, Pokhara. Trekking gateway to the Himalayas
White water rafting down the Trisuli River
Chitwan National Park or sunrise over the Himalayas at Nargakot
....... plus adventure after adventure.
You are probably waiting with interest as to what stage the
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Needs:
Peoples movements across the world are working to demonstrate that the path to sustainable development and social and economic justice does not lie in neo-liberal globalisation but in alternative models for people-centred and self-reliant progress. Since 2001, the World Youth Forum (India) process is questioning the rules of investment and governance dictated by the World Economic Forum. It proposes a democratic, people-centred alternatives to imperialist globalisation. The WCY(INDIA) is a response of the growing international movement that is challenging capitalist-led globalisation and the neo-liberal economic policies pursued by most countries. Firmly committed to the belief that Another World Is Possible, the WCY(INDIA) is an open space for discussing alternatives to the dominant neo-liberal processes, for exchanging experiences and for strengthening alliances among mass organisations, people
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