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Twenty Social Action Projects taken by Youth Leaders for Community’s Sustainable Changes

YPSA is the implementing partner of British Council Active Citizens Bangladesh  Programme. Under this programme YPSA has trained about 300 youth leaders in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar District. The programme enhances the leadership and project-management skills of youth leaders. By this training youths receive specialist guidance in designing and running social action projects, which aims to generate positive change within their community. A social action project is a multi-step process in which youth address an issue they care about,…

YPSA took part in the ‘Person with Disabilities Job Fair-2020’ in Dhaka

State minister for ICT, Zunaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated the ‘Person with Disabilities Job Fair-2020’ held at NGO Affairs Bureau premises in Agargaon, Dhaka on 11th January. Bangladesh Computer Council in association with ICT Division and NGO Affairs Bureau organized the Job Fair for the persons with disabilities (PWD). YPSA was invited to attend this event with a stall.

After the inauguration of the fair, State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak has visited YPSA stall along with ICT Division Senior Secretary NM Zeaul Alam and NGO Affairs Bureau Director General KM Abdus Salam….

YPSA organized NGO Coordination Meeting

YPSA initiated NGO coordination meeting under Proyash Phase II supported by Save the Children on 6^th January, 2020. The program was facilitated by Nasim Banu, Deputy Director of Social Development, YPSA in presence of Mohammad Arifur Rahman, Chief Executive of YPSA. 17 NGO representatives including BRAC, UNICEF, UNDP, CARITAS, Coast Trast, Save the Children, Mamata, Agrajattra, SOS, World Vision, BITA, DSK, BBF, CPP, Nowzuwan, participated in the discussion. The objective of the discussion was to form coordination mechanism among different existing NGOs in Chattogram…

Vashkar Donated his UNESCO Prize Money to YPSA

Last Thursday evening, on an auspicious ceremony, Vashkar Bhattacharjee officially handed over a cheque of 1,500,000 BDT to YPSA chief executive Md. Arifur Rahman. It was the monetary portion of the UNESCO Prize that he received in 2018 for his contribution towards the Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities that took place on 3^rd December 2018 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.

This award money will be used for YPSA-IRCD (ICT and Resource Center for Persons with disabilities) which is a dedicated wing of YPSA for bring about a positive change in the lives of…

Aged people at Sandwip received blankets and “The Best Elderly Award”

YPSA has distributed 180 Blankets, 30 walking sticks among older people of Sandwip Upazila under the project Uplifting the Quality of the Lives of the Elderly People Programme supported by PKSF. Beside this, 10 elderly people have received “The Best Elderly Award” based on who are educating their children and ensuring schooling to make them useful citizens, who are contributing to their community and working for the betterment of quality of lives of older people.  …

Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar inaugurated Community Engagement in Countering Violent Extremism project (2nd Round)

Since 2016, YSPA has been implementing a project “Community Engagement in Countering Violent Extremism in Cox’ Bazar (CEVEC) in six Upazilas of Cox’s Bazar District with the support of GCERF. From November 2019, the second round of the project is being implemented in four Upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district (Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Ramu, Chakria and Maheshkhali) and Sitakund upazila of Chittagong district.

The inaugural ceremony of the second round of the project was held on 30 December …