NE youth and student leaders get ready for 4th edition of North East Youth Fest Chandigarh
Dimapur, August 27 (MExN): An orientation cum meeting of North East youth and student organization leaders were held at Don Bosco Navjeevan Society, Chandigarh on August 26. A total of twenty youth leaders representing six North Eastern states of Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim participated in the meeting.
Kabit Pertin, Organizing Secretary, NEYF 2018 in a press release stated that the orientation cum meeting, an initiative of Don Bosco Youth Centre (DBYC), Itanagar in collaboration with Don Bosco Navjeevan Society, Chandigarh, was held in view of the 4th edition of North East Youth Fest Chandigarh.
While briefing the participants about the origin and aims of organizing North East Youth Fest at Chandigarh, Fr Cyriac, Director, DBYC observed that some unfortunate incidents that took place in the lives of North East youth like Nido Tania and Richard Loitam inspired DBYC to rise to the occasion.
“North East Youth Fest Chandigarh should not be just yet another ‘festival’, but it should be educative, entertaining and morally good and make a sea change in the lives of North East youth residing here at Chandigarh,” said Director, DBYC.
He also spoke about how the NE Youth Fest have grown year-by-year and how generous organizations and people like Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Kare Partners, Chandigarh and Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh has supported the initiative. He exhorted the leaders to make a paradigm shift in leadership style and go the Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela way.
Fr Regi, Director, Don Bosco Navjeevan Society, spoke of the necessity of coming up with a help desk for North East youth at Chandigarh and volunteered to provide free space for an office. He also suggested having state-wise orientation programmes for North East youth at least once a year.
In the open discussion that followed, the young leaders worked out the modalities of organizing North East Youth Fest 2018 with the theme ‘Learning to live and work together.’ The dates for the fest were fixed for November 9 and 10 and the venue, St. Stephen’s School, Sector 45.
