ICYO- Youth Information

No. 2008/ 67

(E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

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ICYO - Platform of 358 Youth Organizations in India.       

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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Indian President hosts children for lunch

 

The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil hosted a group of more than 100 children all of them from the underprivileged sections of society and some of them orphans for a lunch in the Banquet Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on 24 July 2008. The Children were from Bal Vikas Vidyalaya, Bachchon Ka Ghar, Arya Orphanage, Nehru Bal Samiti and Literacy India.

 

The President wanted these children to have an opportunity to see Rashtrapati Bhavan and have the privilege to be treated to a lunch in the Banquet Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, where banquets are hosted for the Heads of State.

 

Welcoming the children, the President said that they are the future of the nation and urged them to study hard. Smt. Patil said that education is the key to development of societies and when you educate a girl child, you educate a family. The President emphasised on the need for children to imbibe good moral values. The children asked various questions ranging from education of children, sports and recreation, the President's Vision for India, how to balance tradition with modernity, her expectations from children and child nutrition.

 

The President joined the children for lunch for which the menu was tomato soup, butter chicken, Goan fish curry, paneer pasanda, lauki ka kofta, gobhi kajoo, moong dal and peas pulao, naan and parantha. The meal was rounded off with gulab jamun and mango ice cream. The children were also treated to live music with such tunes as 'Nanhe Munne', 'Maana Janab', 'Lambada', and 'Ankhon Mein Teri'.

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India. 

ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of
over 358 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting youthin their programmes and activities.

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
CRIN, South Asia Youth Environment Network (SAYEN),

Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO), Thailand;
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD), Thailand;
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.

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