Weclome to Nepal Youth Awareness Organisation
Nepal Youth Awareness Organisation (NYAO) is a non-profit, non-government and non-partisan development organization registered under the affiliation of CDO and Social welfare Council in 2008, which is based in Kathmandu. It is active since its initial stage of establishment, carrying out different activities on health and environmental issues like school and community based Anti-smoking awareness and global warming awareness programs.
Objectives and goals:
For some decades back the world community has been facing various problems related to health and environment. The emergence of new diseases and increase in the frequency of deadly natural disasters, increasing number of youths being involved in the unwanted and unhealthy activities like early teen smoking, drug abuse, alcoholism etc. have brought a kind of threat to the society in its every aspect; be it to the individual health, society’s health or the individual economy or society’s economy.
Meanwhile with pace of the development of industrialization and human civilization, the world has already put itself into the threat of degrading environmental status leading the earth to global warming and hence creating a lot of disturbances in the ecological balance.
NYAO, thus aims to create awareness amongst the youths of society regarding the problems stated above; regarding health and environment. The objectives of NYAO thus are as follows:
- To create awareness among the youths about the individual and social harms and hazards that are brought about by adopting unhealthy habit like smoking and consuming other tobacco products
- To encourage the youths to live healthy and tobacco free life.
- To help adolescents quit smoking if they are already into smoking and want to get rid of it.
- To educate the guardians to encourage their child to stay away from tobacco and other unhealthy habits.
- To help the youths understand and realize about the present condition of global environment and encourage them for environmental friendly way of living.
- To encourage the youths for conserving the greenery, to plant trees and save the planet.
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