State Level Youth Workshop – IITD

Youth are the power of energy and also the future of our society. The youth recently met at IITD Thakurpur to organize an workshop. This was attended by active youth members from all 5 districts of West Bengal. Nistha and Samadhan from South 24 Parganas, Lake Gardens Women and Children Development Centre and PATH Welfare Society from Kolkata, Indian Youth Federation from North 24 Parganas, SMOKUS from Dinajpur and Malda Sahojogita Sangha from Malda, participated in this workshop. The workshop was totally planned and facilitated by the youth leaders. This workshop majorly covered the aspects of what is sex, what is gender, concepts of transgender and third gender - their problems and their inclusion. The resource persons from an organization called Varta did a lot of value addition to this workshop. The other issues that came up in this workshop were love and relationship among youth members, ecological conservation, fake news of social media and various other trending highlights in the society around us where youth play a major role. It was learning with a lot of fun for the youth.