PROMOTION OF YOUTH CLUB

Promotion of Youth Club program organized by ACDT in 11 villages which was attended
by Sampangi Venkatanarayana, Kadirappa, ACDT staff and youth between the age 15-
24 years.

The meeting was started by Kadirappa extending his wishes to all and welcoming the
Project Manager on the dais.

Agenda of the meeting:

1. Information about club formation.

2. Information about electing body.
3. Information on employment and job opportunities.
4. Role and responsibilities of youth club members.
5. Discussion with school students on village problems.

1. Information about club formation: Explaining about the youth club Kadirappa
guided the youth by saying that club formation means youth of 15-24 years of age
forming as a group and discussing and solving their problems and village problems,
sharing information on education, health service and employment once in a month or as
and when necessary, sitting together in one place. The decision should be taken with
everybody consent.

2. Information about electing body: Project Manager Sampangi Venkatanarayana

explained about electing body and said that all the people will gather together and elect
the members. These people will get together once in a month. The president will inform
all the members the time, date, venue and who all have to attend the meeting. On the
day of the meeting, the secretary will announce all the previous months’ topics. The
problems which were not solved will be discussed and followed up. The main aim of the
electing body is the implementation of the decision taken.

3. Information on employment and job opportunities: Explaining about the

employment and job opportunities Mr. Kadirappa said that there are many educated
people sitting at home without doing anything. Ex: 10th class, Intermediate, Degree, PG,
ITI, Diploma, Nursing, Bed, etc. Anybody asks them what are they doing now-a-days,
they will reply that they didn’t get a Government job. Instead of wasting time, they can
join in some offices, revenue, post office, small scale industries, bank, educational
center, government schemes, etc. There are many contract job opportunities. By joining
in these jobs one can gain knowledge as well as earn some money. In some systems
they not only provide education but job oriented courses. Suitable job oriented courses
are provided by some NGO’s and government for girls and boys. The following are the
courses provided:
SNO Name of the course Duration

1 Radio & TV Repair 30 days

2 Motor Rewinding 30 days

3 Multipurpose 30 days
Mechanism

4 Watch Repairs 20 days

5 Photography & Video 15 days

graph

6 Gents Tailoring 20 days

7 Small Scale Industry 15 days

8 Screen Printing & 13 days

Book Binding

9 Milk Diary 6 days

10 Two Wheeler Repair 30 days

11 Fridge & Air 30 days

conditioner

12 Computer DTP 45 days

13 Computer Hardware 30 days

14 Computer Tally 30days

15 Color TV Repairs 10 days

4. Role and responsibilities of youth club members: Speaking about the role and
responsibilities of youth, Ramanjineyulu said that the qualification of being a member of
youth club is not only education but also the responsibilities. The youth club members
should be from the same village. The electing body members should know all that goes
on in the village like the map of the village, population, how many children are below 5
years of age, landing, services, health, education, how many youth are educated, how
many disabled people are in the village, which NGO’s are working in their village and for
what purpose and how much importance is given to the development of youth. The
elected body should also know the problems of the youth and village and try to solve the
problems by taking a right decision on the issues. Then the next month, the problems
discussed in the previous month should be verified whether they are solved are not. If it
is still in the process should inform the members of the club.

5. Discussion with school students on village problems: From ACDT, Mr.

Subbanna asked the youth that till now Project Manager, Kadirappa and Ramanjineyulu
explained about youth club. He asked them whether they are having any problem in their
village. The youth replied that they are having some problems and explained like this

Youth: In our village some of the girls have to go to the town for their studies. But they
went for some time and have been stopped. When asked they told that we have to
spend Rs. 12 everyday for auto which is expensive and it is very uncomfortable to sit in
the auto as many of us have to adjust in the auto because it is school time.

ACDT staff: When ACDT staff asked the youth whether they have discussed this with
their parents they replied that they have discussed it with them. The parents have
agreed to send the children to school only by bus as it costs them only Rs. 70 per month
which is affordable for them. When we asked them what the youth club decided. They
replied

Youth Club: We will ask the bus Depo Manger to arrange a morning and evening bus
service in our village.

Feed back: K. Mohan Reddy thanked ACDT for forming youth clubs in there village.
Sreenivasulu(youth club member) also thanked ACDT for helping them form a youth
club. Bhaskar(youth club member) thanked ACDT and said that he likes the idea of
solving problems of our village on our own by forming a youth club.