Workshop on Global Financial Crisis: Chances and Challenges for Liberalism and Annual General Meeting 2009

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LYSA Workshop at Colombo. Riaz Bhutto & Ms.Anita Thapa

LYSA conducted its first workshop for the year 2009 with the theme of Global Financial Crisis: Chances and Challenges for Liberalism followed by its Annual General Meeting.

The workshop was hosted by Liberal Youth Guild, Srilanka where participants from all the member organizations with prospective members joined the workshop in Colombo, Srilanka from 25-27 March, 2009.

The three-day workshop was moderated by Ms. Arpita Nepal, which started with introductions, sharing the expectations of participants followed by presentations on global financial crisis by Professor Dipankar SenGupta from University of Jammu, India and Dr. Harsha D’silva, Economist from Srilanka. After the presentations, the workshop took lively discussions on the causes and impact of Global Financial Crisis in South Asia and the short term and long term remedies to overcome it.
On a conclusion, participants came up with the advocacy plan that their organizations would like to carry out on the theme of global financial crisis in their respective countries.
The 4th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of LYSA was held on 27th March 2009.The proceedings began with the presentation of Annual report and financial report of the previous year which was approved by the house. Four organizations were invited to this liberal family as an observer member. The observer members who were interested in joining LYSA were Samadhi foundation, Srilanka, Samriddhi Corps,Nepal, Beyond Borders, Srilanka and Jeivi Foundation Srilanka. The AGM also elected a new executive body for LYSA.

New Executive Committee 2009-2010

President-Mr. Manusha Nayakkara:LYG ,Srilanka
General Secretary-Mr. Riaz Hussain Bhutto:FYG ,Pakistan
Vice President (Programs)-Mr. Shan Yahampath:LYG,Srilanka
Vice President (External affairs)-Ms. Anita Thapa:YI,Nepal
The event was honored with the presence of Mr. Jan-Argy Tolentino, President of YLDA, Ms. Katrin Bannach Program Manager, FNF and Ms. Nupur Hasija, Executive Coordination, FNF,Ms.Sagarica Delgoda,Country Representative,FNF and Shyamila Parera,Project Director,IDL

Future Youth Group gears up for 2009 action plan

After a detailed planning session at FNF office Pakistan, Future Youth Group (FYG) gets a tail wind for its activities in 2009. Mr. Olaf Kellerhoff, the FNF Resident Representative together with his team helped the youngsters to formulate achievable yearly objectives and explained the prerequisites of effective program planning.

The workshop held at FNF office on March 30, 2009 included intensive sessions on program planning in line with FNF themes aiming to introduce the younger generation with the basics of liberalism. During the brain storming session, the young board members expressed their concerns on the exploitation of youth by the political and religious forces especially in the educational institutions. It was agreed that it was high time to develop a strategy to aware the students of the real function of student unions urging them to safeguard their rights. For this it was decided to create FYG connection groups in the identified universities who would organize “Roundtables” on various liberal topics in concurrence with the socio-economic issues of the country on a regular basis. Liberal thinkers from the pool of FREEDOMGATE PAKISTAN would be invited to give the talk on these occasions.

In this FYG 2009 planning workshop Mr. Mohammed Zubair Janjua, President FYG, Riaz Hussain Bhutto Secretary General FYG, Mr. Hashim Kakar Info Secretary FYG, Ms. Asiya Arif Khan, Mr. Almas Malik, Mr. Naeem Toor, Mr. Wajid Nawaz, Mr. Afzal Sadiq, Board Members & Mr. Suleman Muzaffar Khan LFP participated over there.