Peace, Progress & Prosperity

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

Pixy Journalist — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:09:26 +0000

Group Photo With New Ex.Com

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

Pixy Journalist — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:05:43 +0000

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.

LYSA Workshop on Global Recession: Challenges and Chances for Liberalism

Pixy Journalist — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:40:09 +0000

| 24 – 28 March 2009 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |

Liberal Youth South Asia (LYSA) organized workshop on “Global Financial Crisis: Chances & Challenges for Liberalism” which is scheduled to be held at Colombo, Sri Lanka from 24th -28th March, 2009. Supported by Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF)

Riaz Hussain Bhutto Secretary General Future Youth Group Pakistan is attending the workshop.

Riaz Bhutto

Orientation/registration session at Ghotki.

Pixy Journalist — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:34:14 +0000

The Future Youth Group is the voice of those young people of Pakistan who want to contribute their services to the betterment of the whole community. Basically, it’s the youth wing of the Liberal Forum Pakistan for youth between the ages of 18 and 35.

Future Youth Group Chapter Ghotki organizing an orientation/registration session at Ghotki.
Session would be presided by Mr. Riaz Hussain Bhutto Secretary General FYG Pakistan, more than 25 youth from Ghotki & journalist will participate in the event.

Venue: Meeting Hall of Office of the SEWAI Foundation near Station Ghotki
Date: January 12, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm

Dear Liberal Friends

Greetings!

Activity has been conducted on own resources of FYG Ghotki members also I would like to inform you that session has been organize on the request of local youth,members of civil society and Journalists belongs Ghotki.
Before this activity informal orentiation was given to few of them, after thier intrest formal session.

With Best Regards

Mr. Ghulam Murtaza
Mr. Khalid Hussain
03443193500
Focal Person

Selection of Volunteers – Global Xchange Programme

Pixy Journalist — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:14:46 +0000

Selection of Volunteers – Global Xchange Programme

Pattan Development Organisation in collaboration with British Council Pakistan and Voluntary Services Overseas is initiating the third Global Xchange Programme (GXP).

GXP builds active global citizens, committed to working for positive change. This programme works with 18-25 year olds from the UK and Pakistan giving young people the opportunity to live and work together in communities as volunteer on a six-month exchange, with 3 months in each country.

Each cross-culture team will be consisted upon nine volunteers (6 females and 3 males) and will be supported by two Programme Supervisors, one from Pakistan and one from the UK. The Pakistan group of volunteers along with their Programme Supervisors is responsible for developing the programme in the Pakistani host communities in Muzafargarh and Multan with their UK group of volunteers, for facilitating the implementation of the six-month programme in both phases.

The Volunteers will ideally be:
· A literate who can understand, speak and write English.
· He/she should have good communication skills of Urdu.
· He/she should be between the ages of 18 – 25 years.
· He/she should provide a written agreement for the parents to stay away from home for six months.
· He/she is willing to live within the communities (host homes) with very little civic amenities.

Interested candidates can apply in confidence along with copies of Computerised National Identity Card with two references, not related to them and one recent photograph. They can attach any academic qualifications records, if they would like to do so. The last date for receiving the application is Tuesday, 20 January 2009. The tests/interviews will be held in the week commencing 09 February, 2009, in Multan.

Please send your duly completed applications form through email to gxp@pattan.org or at House No. 5; St No. 58; F-10/3, Islamabad, Pakistan 44000 latest by Tuesday, 20 January 2009. Any attempts by the applicants to influence the process of selection will lead to their disqualification.

For any further information please visit the website: www.globalexchange.org.uk

To download the application form please visit the website: www.britishcouncil.org/pakistan-jobs-gxp-volunteer-application-form.pdf