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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
