Youth Leaders bring the creativity and leadership of the youth population to the forefront while stimulating a sense of social responsibility in more than 15,000 students nationwide each year.
The Hunger Project-Bangladesh was initially established in 1990 by students at the University of Dhaka as a chapter of The Hunger Project’s international Youth Ending Hunger initiative.
Youth Leaders bring the creativity and leadership of the youth population to the forefront while stimulating a sense of social responsibility in more than 15,000 students nationwide each year. Together, they meet monthly in chapters across the country – planning activities to improve their communities with an emphasis on literacy and education. In 2013, 1,290 new Youth Leaders were trained. Youth leaders organise campaigns on issues such as nutrition, education, family planning, tree planting and environmental education. They also arrange debates, math Olympiads, writing competitions, roundtables and blood donation camps.
Among the activities that youth leaders organise are community action campaigns to address very concrete problems within their neighbourhoods, wards and unions. The youth, usually ages 12 to 18, make plans and timelines for carrying out their priority campaigns and involving the rest of their community.
In the recent times, for example, youth leaders carried out several programs which include: 807 Tree Plantation Campaigns and 282 Tree Plantation Courtyard Meetings, reaching a combined total of 79,076 Women and Men. In order to involve more people into the program, more than 1,290 youth volunteers were trained to be Youth Leaders for their communities in 34 four-day Youth Leadership Trainings.
Since their inception in Bangladesh, “THE HUNGER PROJECT” has played an important role in encouraging youngsters to involve themselves more into the social issues of Bangladesh ,and to continue this, the project has already taken up many plans for the future.
-Aditi Karmaker, Editor, Youth Leadership
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