British Council organises training course for youngsters

Abrarul Haq, Chairman Youth Parliament of Pakistan said that the youth are 61% of the total population of Pakistan and can work as a catalyst to bring positive change in their communities by initiating small scale youth driven community focused social welfare projects from the platform of Youth Parliament of Pakistan. Since the launch of the project we got tremendous support from the youth of Sindh and we hope that with our partner organisation like British Council we will be able to positively channalise their energies and passion to work for the betterment of the country, he added.

The Project Co-ordinator of Youth Parliament of Pakistan, Bilal Ahmed Rana, briefed the audience about the objectives and working of YPP. He shared the fact that YPP will be convening the National Youth Assembly later this year in Islamabad and 10 districts will be identified to start Districts Youth Assemblies and by 2012 YPP aims to establish Provincial Youth Assemblies in all four provinces and District Youth Assemblies in 139 districts of the country.  

Syed Mashhood Rizvi and Abrarul Haq distributed the certificates to the participants.

Over the next two years, Active Citizens, a British Council programme, aims to empower young people help build more peaceful and cohesive societies.