News & Events

Sharing Workshop with BGMEA on disaster risk reduction for the Garment Factories
YPSA arranged a sharing workshop with BGMEA on Disaster Risk Reduction for the garments factories at Meridian hotel, Chittagong on August 31. Md. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Director, BGMEA- Chottagong was…

Government officials visited YPSA GFATM 912 Consortium Program
Preventing HIV/AIDS among the garments workers in Chittagong through Life Skill Education is the key component of YPSA GFATM 912 Consortium. A policy level team of government officials from Ministry…

Government officials visited YPSA GFATM 902 Program
A policy level team of government officials from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate General of Health Services, National AIDS/STD Program and representatives of Save the Children USA visited…

YPSA join DAISY for all conference in Tokyo, Japan
DAISY for all conference in Tokyo Japan Mr. Vashkar bhattacharjee programme officer of YPSA and Focal person DAISY for all in Bangladesh have attendant in the Conference. The Conference was…

The youth leadership training workshop successfully ended
The youth leadership training workshop, Building Bridges Through Leadership Training, organized in partnership with Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center and Young Power in Social Action has successfully ended on the 14th…

Daughter of Mahathir Mahmud received publication of YPSA
Datin Paduka daughter of Mahathir Mahmud, former prime minister of Malaysia received a publication on HIV/AIDS activities of YPSA from Shusmita Chowdhury when she was present in a seminar at…

International Youth Day 2008 Observed in Bangladesh
The Government of Bangladesh, different national and international organizations and youth clubs in different places observed the International Youth Day 2008 with solemnity. To observe the International Youth Day 2007,…

YPSA CE at the International AIDS Conference 08 in Mexico
The XVII International AIDS Conference ended in the Mexican capital after five days of spirited participation involving an estimated 22,000 people engaged in the global response to AIDS. Leaders, policymakers,…

Life Skill Education can reduce risk on HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infection among the Garments workers
YPSA arranged a National Level Workshop on Life Skill Education (LSE) Strategy Formulation for Reducing Risk on HIV, AIDS & STI among the Garments workers with the Garments owners, officials,…

Workshop on” Capacity Building for Ensuring Safe Labour Migration” for the local leaders and Journalist
YPSA organized a workshop on Capacity Building for Ensuring Safe Labour Migration at Sitakund with the support of REFUGE AND MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS RESEARCH UNIT and MANUSHER JONNO FOUNDATION. Local leaders,…

Training for peer educators on life skill education
YPSA consortium organized 5 batches of ToT on Life Skill Education (LSE) for Peer Educator. Peer Educators are selected from the garments factories, where LSE will be implemented. Master Trainers…

Orientation for capacity building to protect woman from domestic violence
Master trainers of GFATM Project received orientation for capacity building to protect woman from domestic violence at YPSA’s HRDC on 27 July. The goal of this orientation was to raise voice…

Building bridge through Leadership Training started
Building bridge through Leadership Training is a program of BYLC (Bangladesh Youth Leadership Centre) Organized in partnership with YPSA. The opening ceremony was held at Chittagong Jila Parishad on 18…
Training workshop on Life Skill Education (LSE) ended
A 5 day long training program on Life Skill Education (ISE) to resist HIV/ AIDS and to aware garments workers against the deadly disease was concluded yesterday at YPSA office…
YPSA Bi-Annual General Meeting’08 held
YPSA Bi-Annual General Meeting held at HRDC Sitakund Campus Conference room on 27 June 2008 . Program and finance report for 2007-2008 and Planning for 2008-2009 was presented by General…

Launching Ceremony of Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH)
Launching Ceremony of Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) Project was held at Chittagong on 18 April. The occasion was organized by Plan Bangladesh and supported by Canadian International Development (CIDA). The…

YPSA distributes Poster on preparedness and precautions for the earthquake
YPSA’s Disaster and Emergency Management Unit distributes Poster to the garments factories at Chittagong to raise awareness about disaster among the workers as well as owners. The poster indicates preparedness…

YPSA observed World Environment day ’08
YPSA observed World Environment day. A rally of at least 1700 people was organized on the environment day where people from all sphere of life are joined demanding for a…

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial held
HIV/AIDS Coordination Committee in Chittagong observed the 25th Anniversary of the historic International AIDS Candlelight Memorial-one of the world’s first public events against HIV/AIDS. Alhaj M. Manjur Alam, Honorable Mayor…

Volunteers received training on Disaster preparedness, Rescue and Primary treatment
There are 10 Community Volunteer Groups were formed in the Chittagong City Corporation under the project ‘Mobilizing Communities for Disaster Risk Reduction’. Young volunteers received training on Disaster preparedness, Rescue…