Youth Coordination Center

Welcome to Youth Coordination Center (YCC) !

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Youth Coordination Center (YCC) is one of the multi-service community-based, non-profit, non-political, non-religious, non-governmental organization serving disadvantaged youth and marginalized people

•Youth coordination center will work as a coordination center to increase the contribution of youths in sustainable development by actively moving forward in youth centered initiatives.

•Work for human aid

•To develop a youth unity and network for coordinating works in the field of children, human rights, environment protection, economic justice, peace, public health, education, cleanliness and good governance.

•To increase awareness on population education, STD, HIV and AIDS and drug addiction and to make effort for the social rehabilitation of the infected.

•To cooperate with relevant government agencies and community based organizations while conducting human rights related activities.

•To conduct programs for skill and capability development of youths for entrepreneurship so as to help for poverty reduction.

•To raise youth issues in national and international level and to exchange social and cultural knowledge, skill and experiences among youths.

News: Celebtated World Environment Day, 2010

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:26:16 +0000

A one-day Discussion program on Environment and Climate Change organized in Kathmandu on 5 June to mark Work Environment Day. The theme of the World Environment Day 2010 is “Many Species, One Planet One Future”.
The alliance of 5 organization – JCYC Nepal, Youth Coordination Center, Volunteer Aid Nepal, HRELIC Nepal and Mission Nepal together celebrated world environment day by organizing one day discussion program as one of the functions to mark world environment day 2010.
The glaciers and snowline in the Himalayan system are rapidly melting and retreating. People have already experienced a wide range of difficulties resulted from impacts of global warming.

The alliance of 5 Organization promoted awareness through discussion program among the youths on climate change – a result of global warming, its impacts and their responsibilities to the issues.

The main objective of discussion program was to raise awareness among youth people on climate change and start to talking to address the issues arising from climate change. More over 50 participants representing academic institutions, NGOs, Media, CBO and child clubs, participated the program in Lalitpur.
Science of global warming, climate change and its impacts on biodiversity, water resources, human health, linkages to the increasing disasters as observed and experienced on the livelihoods of the communities were shared. Similarly, adaptations and responses by the communities and government strategies and actions for climate change were discussed and summarized through different presentations and interactions among the participants.
Surya Gaire from Youth Coordination Center and Pradip Batyal from Kantipur National Daily presented paper on the issue of Environment and Climate Change. Similarly, Bhuvan Poudel from Volunteer Aid Nepal readout environmental poem.

Chief Guest of this program, Constitute Assembly member Roshan Gaha Thapa said “all the environmental policy must be implemented to save environment “. Thapa added ahead new Constitution have to give authorities to local bodies to conserve environment. President of Mission Nepal also suggested to all participants to take action to conserve environment through personal effort. All people participated on this program committed to do small things as they can to conserve environment. Some of them committed to plant a flower/ indoor tree in their houses. Commitment from all participants to save environment was really appreciated and made it program meaningful.

Bidhya Sagar Pandey from Youth Coordination Center, Tilottam Paudel from JCYC Nepal and Ramesh Timilsina from HRELIC highlighted the need of field based collaborative actions as well as national and sectoral plans and policies to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change.
The alliance of 5 organization also decided to unite to take action for upcomming days.
June 5 is the World Environment Day celebrated each year to make global communities aware on the pertinent environmental issues. The day reminds global communities to review pregress, attitudes and actions to address the environmental issues.

News: Global Youth Service Day

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:40:57 +0000

Global Youth Service Day (Report) The day started with introduction of participants and of the organizations, Youth Coordination Center (YCC) and Youth Service America (YSA). A member of YCC presented a documentary Title- “nadi sukepachi” which looks at how the climate change consequences affects the water body like- lakes, rivers etc. It also highlighted the challenges of the people living without the sources of water nearby. The main purpose of the program was to discuss and share about the climate change issues, its causes, consequences and mitigation measures. Youth were made urged to make a commitment to do the activities that lowers the carbon dioxide and help to reduce global gas emitting. Break about half an hour was given for rest and refreshment. Finally, the participants were divided into six groups and were allowed to discuss and note the causes, consequences and mitigation measures. After that, the representative from each group was selected for the presentation about the climate change issues. Making commitment to conduct carbon neutral activities individually we dismissed the formal discussion program. At the end of the program, photos were taken and every one was directed to their destination.

Discussion program on the Role of Youth on Natural Disaster Management

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:41:32 +0000

A program was organized by the coordination of JCYCN, SOCH Youth, Volunteer Aid Nepal, Youth Coordination Center, Cwin Youth Forum, Mission Nepal, YEC-Nepal, HRERLIC Nepal. The topic of the program was ‘The Role of Youth on Natural Disaster Management’ on the dated 17th July 2010 in Katmandu. Program was started at 2:15PM. Participated was 27 at the program. Tilottam Paudel from JCYCN welcomed all and define the program. Then Ramesh Timilsina, HRERLIC Nepal talked about the program.

Object of the program:

• To define what is natural disaster.
• To find out the causes and results of natural disaster.
• To find out the solutions of disaster management.
• To discuss the role of youth for disaster management.

Jyoti Sharma, YEC-Nepal says that youth can play a vital role to save the natural resources to decrease the risk of natural disaster like flood, earthquake etc. Due to climate change the height of Sagarmatha is low. Many Nepalese people are depending on agriculture as their occupation. Due to climate change farmers are not getting achievement properly as their hard working. So it is most important to save the natural resource to control the climate change.

Radha Dhakal from JCYCN shares the ideas of natural disaster management. She said that here are two main causes of natural disaster like;

• Green house effect.
• Deforestation.

She said that all disaster is man-made. So, we can manage to control the natural disaster. Poverty and natural disaster are interlinked.

Sanjaya Khdka, SOCH Nepal presented a paper about the natural disaster management. He says in 1982 AD the natural disaster relief act made in Nepal. Before this act we worked as social work. Due to weak implementation victim are not feeling properly relief. In the content of Nepal mainly occurring flooding, land slide, epidemic. Nepal is on the 11th number for earthquake on the comparison of world. Many people affected and many houses damaged due to natural disaster. The city Kathmandu is more dangerous of earthquake. Eleven earthquakes have happened in Nepal. Many small earthquakes are happening everyday but we can’t know/ not feeling. Nepal is in 30th number of flood occurring on the comparison of world. Many people affected of koshi barrage of western region of Nepal by the flood. GULF, fire, land slide are more occurring in Nepal. Fire is one of the common natural disaster. Low people died on the comparison of other types of disaster. Here is interlinking between the disasters such as drought and fire, flood and epidemic, fire and earthquake etc. Eco system also disturbed due to natural disaster. He says that climate change and human rights are interlinked.

He suggested the role of youth on disaster management like this;

• Change the self that talk more than work.
• Make people aware on the cause and result of natural disaster and tips that how can we save our environment from disaster.
• Start campaign from schools and include the school curriculum.
• Control populations that save the natural resources. For this should free education to girls.
• The motto should be ‘cut one tree and plant ten’.
• Re-cycle and re- use of waste for waste management.\
• Rescue training for youth.
• Media program to aware people.
• Youth unity for many programs to disaster management.

Roshan Bahadur Gaha, Member of Assembly said that state should help to disaster management, but due to political competition many plan of the country are not implementing properly. We have good opportunity to make constitution now. And the concept of federalism is good for develop. He said that government only listen when they comment on the topic of human rights and natural disaster, climate change etc and make law but the implementation is weak.

Then a little break for tea with discuss on the topic. Shankar Raj Bhandari, participate share his ideas to manage natural disaster like this;

• Every SLC passed student should plant one tree.
• Youth group should have trained and aware.
• Should be bio-friendly.
• Plastic management should be main plan.
• Should not political bias.

Radha Dhakal from JCYCN shared the solution of disaster management these are like this;

• Should plastic band.
• Use cycle instead car even one day of the week.
• Proper use of natural resources than maximum use.
• Plastic free campaign from home.

At 5:00 PM the program was finished. At the end of program Tolottam Paudel, Biddhya Sagar Pandey from JCYCN thanks to all participated and guests.