Dear Friends,
Four Young students undertook a jouney in 2002 from their cozy homes and middle class schools to the relief camps of Gujarat. They went with the Anhad team to do relief work and documentation of the 2002 Gujarat carnage. What they saw and witnessed during that period totally shook them and they decided to form Youth for Peace to fight hatred and prejudices amongst youth.
Using creative means Youth for Peace has reached out to thousands of young students across the country during the past 7 years since its inception.
Youth for Peace is dedicated to the values of secularism, equality, peace, justice and communal harmony.
Youth for Peace has organised major youth conventions, seminars, expeditions across India, national level competitions, has responded to Tsunami and to the earthquake in Kashmir.
Youth for Peace team distributed relief material – blankets, warm clothes, tin sheets for relief shelters in Kupwara district of Kashmir immediately after the earthquake in 2005. In 2006, Youth for Peace (Anhad) sent a team of 30 students spent over a month working in villages in Uri and Tangdar.
Youth for Peace(Anhad) is planning to send 10 -15 volunteers for 15 days to do internship in the Youth clubs and Women empowerment centres being run by Anhad in far flung villages of Uri and Tangdhar.
The trip is also meant to help young people understand the life of ordinary Kashmiri people and understand the problems of living in a conflict zone.
Interested volunteers will have to bear their own cost of traveling to Srinagar and back from there and contribute Rs 2000 towards food expenses. The volunteers should be able to rough it out and stay at very ordinary places arranged by organisers.
Dates: June 21-July 5, 2009
Eligibility Criteria: 18-25 yrs. The candidates should write approx 500 words on why they should be considered for this internship programme.
Last date for applying June 15,
Send your applications on plane paper to : Youth for Peace(Anhad), 23, Canning Lane, New Delhi-110001. Phone :23070740/ 22 or mail it to youthfpeace(AT)gmail(DOT)com
With regards
Mansi Sharma
Seema Duhan
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