We, at YUVA, feel blessed and privileged to have celebrated our second anniversary, Christmas and end-of-year this afternoon with grandpas residing at Hospice home.
Here are some photos clicked during the event:
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA celebrates Christmas with Hospice St-Jean de Dieu residents
YUVA wishes to inform the members of the public that in the last 2 months, we have distributed 8,000youngtrees, 12,682 cloth materials and 3,000 school supplies to families and children in need.
YUVA is guided by Strategy 2025 – our collective plan of action to tackle the major humanitarian and development challenges present in Mauritius. We will continue‘empowering and changing minds’ by focusing our work in the 12 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that we have adopted. YUVA directly mobilizes more than 10,000 YUVANs nationally. They help to organise and run local and regional events and support a large number of projects.
YUVA thanks everyone who has donated the materials. The #iPlantATree, #NoPoverty and #EducationForAll projects are ongoing until March 2017.
Today morning, YUVANs distributed clothes to 75 needy families of Cité E.D.C., Pamplemousses.
3 weeks left in 2016. Get out of the house. Check on people. Lot of people are going through silent pains.
YUVA has launched its anti-poverty mission by collecting new and used clothes from individuals, civic and corporate organisations, then distributing those clothes to poor and disadvantaged people.
We’re happy to announce that today’s event was also successful, as earlier. Thanks to all for their support and dedication to conduct this program, even in their busy schedule.
Volunteers are most welcome; contact us on 57086868.
This year, YUVA is celebrating its second anniversary with retired, old people of the Hospice Home (Pamplemousses) on 25 December 2016 at 13:00hr.
Why retired, old people?
It is the experience of retired persons that they dedicated their lives to the well-being of society and of the nation. All their lives, whatever their profession, they worked every day and all the time to do some service to society through their field of activity and also in their personal lives. They dedicated their energy, thought, and creativity to support and nourish society and to improve the quality of life in their nation. Then, after so many years of hard work and dedication, society rewards and respects them with retirement. Society says ‘Now you should rest, society will take care of you.’ The rest is well deserved. After a lifetime’s work the body now needs to rest.
But because the whole focus of life and activity was in terms of service to society, it is natural for a retired person to think ‘What can I do now, to be useful to society?’ Society does not expect activity from a retired person, but he still feels that he should do something to make a contribution to society’s welfare. All his life, he worked so many hours a day; now what should he do?
Retired people are concerned about everything that happens in society, on the individual level and on the collective level. They are concerned about all aspects of their nation. If society is not ideal they sit brooding over society’s failure. What else can they do because their bodies are tired and now society wants them to rest and to enjoy their retirement.
Society respects retired people, but when they see things going wrong in the lives of people around them, they feel sad within themselves.
Hospice Saint Jean De Dieu at Pamplemousses
Hospice Saint Jean De Dieu at Pamplemousses on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is a retirement home for people above 60 years of age. It was started by St. John of God Brothers of the French Province in 1976.
There are 75 beds and all the beds are occupied. Residents are men over 60 years (with a few exceptions).
Among the 75 residents 62 are social security (having as a unique resource the old-age pension of Rs. 3,048 per month) & and 13 are private. In the year 2010 there were 21 new admissions, 16 residents died and 4 residents returned back to their families.
Main diseases of Mauritius are diabetes and hypertension and the residents wear traces: hemiplegic etc.
The sources of revenue for the running of the Hospice are the social security contributions, a few private residents and donations from Mauritian benefactors.
The social security Department of Mauritius Government provides the services of a doctor once in a week for 3 hours, one nurse for two days in a week for 16 hours, one occupational therapist for six hours a week and a physiotherapist for three hours a week.
We, at YUVA, feel blessed and privileged to be celebrating our 2nd anniversary, Xmas 2016 and the end-of-year with these grandpas.
YUVA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria’s Dopachris Trust Foundation (DTF) with the aim to endorse poverty alleviation in the continent of Africa.
Mr Krishna Athal, National President of YUVA and Mr Okereafor Emmanuel, chief executive officer of DTF have signed the MoU today.
About Dopachris Trust Foundation
DTF organisation is a foundation for Development of orphanage youths and poverty alleviation designed for skill training and secondary education of an orphanage youths. DTF helps in organising free Adult youths secondary education, empowerment to entrepreneur scheme, assisting the Development of Rural communities on the same empowerments and promoting youth’s sensitisation. Many orphanage homes only exist in rendering a Business forum with a personal interest on profit making through child labour.
DTF assists only Helpless and Hopeless youths, dropped from schools, orphanage homes, and Helpless youths become useful tools to the society. The organisation trains them in different profession like sewing, shoe making, carpentry, Driving, making Blocks and Building design, computer Repairs, photography and secondary education.
This foundation was designed to meet up the urgent needs in the life of our young leaders of today, and tomorrow.
Aim and Objectives
Provision of assistance to children in need /drop out of school in orphanage home
It seeks participation and help from like-minded people/ other related organisations in creating greater base for the foundation to give a true shape and substances to the objectives envisage.
Management and support for orphanages/schools or other education institutions for young people.
Helping other orphanage/Destitute Homes.
To enable them acquire proper social services and make them completely free from any abuse and be equal to the privilege peer groups in the physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual dimensions, so as to attain full development.
Vision
The vision of the orphanage project is to have a self-sustaining Community Consisting of Youths, Orphanages, Training Centre, and other facilities that helps a community to succeed.
Mission
To provide secondary education, Vocational training, and assistance to those who become orphans, to enable them give all rounded supportive services, so as to be effective and useful citizens of the country.
Thank you for your interest in making a school or office supply donation. YUVA welcomes your desire to help us make a difference.
Many children in Mauritius are in dire need of school supplies. The parents are unfortunately not in a position to provide the quality and quantity of supplies needed. The lack of school supplies negatively affects the quality of the education that the children receive.
YUVA has responded to this need and is facilitating the donation of school supplies to needy and deserving [targeted] children.
Please note that we particularly welcome your donations of school, office and related supplies.
Donate: If you already have school and office supplies that you do not need (regardless of the quantity), please send them to us. We welcome new and gently used materials of all types.
Recommended Items:
Netbooks / Laptops / Kindles / iPads / eReaders
Spiral bound, composition and other notebooks
Uniforms
Shoes
Backpack and other book bags
Calculators
Filler paper
Coloured pencils, crayons and markers
Ruler with English and metric measurements
Coloured pens
Erasers
Pencil boxes / cases
Glue sticks
Graph paper
Pens and pencils
Pencil sharpeners (individual and classroom)
Pocket dictionaries
Reams or boxes of paper
If you wish to send materials by post, forward them to:
YUVA Head Office
C/o Krishna Athal, National President
Royal Road, Petit Raffray, Mauritius
YUVA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Malaysia’s World Youth Foundation (WYF) with the aim to promote research, development and documentation of youth programmes beneficial to youths worldwide.
Mr Krishna Athal, National President of YUVA and Hon Senator Tan Sri (Dr.) Mohd Ali Rustam (former Chief Minister of Melaka), chairman of WYF have signed the MoU today morning.
Areas of collaboration:
To raise and administer funds to further the educational, cultural and socio-economic development of youths at national and international level;
To identify, encourage, promote and facilitate the expansion of educational, social, cultural, environmental and humanitarian work conducted by youth groups and movements globally;
To liaise with local and international governments and non-government agencies, and financing institutions which are actively involved in the field of Youth and human development;
To provide finance and support facilities for research and documentation in the area of youth development and related challenges; and
To promote and strengthen peace, progress and prosperity among young people throughout the world.
About World Youth Foundation
The World Youth Foundation (WYF) “an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations” is an international non-governmental organization which was launched in 1994 with the aim to promote research, development and documentation of youth programmes beneficial to youths worldwide.
Our headquarters is located in our own complex, the World Youth Foundation Complex, in the city of Malacca, Malaysia.
Through a variety of our programmes we seek to engage and empower young people on range of issues, as well as give them the opportunity to share best practices, networking and learning through people-to-people exchange.
The Foundation seeks to support the work of the UN and the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, the Millennium Development Goals and the newly endorsed Sustainable Development Global Goals . The Foundation has organized various seminars/meetings, conferences/dialogues for youth in areas such as population,
HIV/AIDS, human rights, education, environment, sustainable development, terrorism, racism, entrepreneurship, globalization, culture, drug and substance abuse, climate change, violence against women, trafficking of women, green growth, youth empowerment and leadership, among others. On February 2007, the Foundation received Civil Society Status from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as recognition for raising awareness among young people on the issues affecting our environment. In 2014 the Foundation received Full membership with the Commonwealth Youth Council.
Today, Sunday 4 December 2016, YUVA has distributed clothes to 65 needy families of Impasse Rouillard, Baie Du Tombeau.
What a nice feeling to contribute a little time for the distribution of clothes to needy families this morning.
YUVA has launched its anti-poverty mission by collecting new and used clothes from individuals, civic and corporate organisations, then distributing those clothes to poor and disadvantaged people.
We’re happy to announce that today’s event was also successful, as earlier. Thanks to all for their support and dedication to conduct this program, even in their busy schedule.
Volunteers are most welcome; contact us on 57086868.
Today, the world population is over 7 billion people. More than one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. 80 per cent live in developing countries.
What disability means
A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual of their group. The term is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic disease. This usage has been described by some disabled people as being associated with a medical model of disability.
Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them (like information and communications technology (ICT), justice or transportation) and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. These obstacles can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical environment, or those resulting from legislation or policy, or from societal attitudes or discrimination.
People with disabilities are at much higher risk of violence:
Children with disabilities are almost four times more likely to experience violence than non-disabled children.
Adults with some form or disability are 1.5 tim es more likely to be a victim of violence than those without a disability.
Adults with mental health conditions are at nearly four times the risk of experiencing violence.
Factors which place people with disabilities at higher risk of violence include stigma, discrimination, and ignorance about disability, as well as a lack of social support for those who care for them.
Inclusive society and development
Evidence and experience shows that when barriers to their inclusion are removed and persons with disabilities are empowered to participate fully in societal life, their entire community benefits. Barriers faced by persons with disabilities are, therefore, a detriment to society as a whole, and accessibility is necessary to achieve progress and development for all.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) recognizes that the existence of barriers constitutes a central component of disability. Under the Convention, disability is an evolving concept that “results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.”
Accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities are fundamental rights recognized by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and are not only objectives, but also pre-requisites for the enjoyment of other rights. The Convention (Article 9, accessibility) seeks to enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life and development. It calls upon States Parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to all aspects of society, on an equal basis with others, as well as to identify and eliminate obstacles and barriers to accessibility.
Theme for 2016: Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want
Since 1992, the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been celebrated annually on 3 December around the world.
The theme for this year’s International Day is “Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want”. This theme notes the recent adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role of these goals in building a more inclusive and equitable world for persons with disabilities.
This year’s objectives include assessing the current status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and SDGs and laying the foundation for a future of greater inclusion for persons with disabilities.
The observance of the 2016 IDPD coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of the CRPD – one of the most quickly and widely ratified international treaties put forth by the United Nations to date.
World AIDS Day is celebrated around the world on December 1st each year. It has become one of the most recognized international health days and a key opportunity to raise awareness, commemorate those who have passed on, and celebrate victories, such as increased access to treatment and prevention services.
UNAIDS took the lead on campaigning for World AIDS Day from its creation until 2004. From 2004 onwards the World AIDS Campaign’s Global Steering Committee began selecting a theme for World AIDS Day in consultation with civil society, organisations and government agencies involved in the AIDS response.
Themes run for one or two years and are not just specific to World AIDS Day. Campaigning slogans such as ‘Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise’ have been used year-round to hold governments accountable for their HIV and AIDS related commitments.
2016 Theme: HANDS UP FOR #HIVPREVENTION
In the lead-up to World AIDS Day 2016, the hands up for #HIVprevention campaign will explore different aspects of HIV prevention and how they relate to specific groups of people, such as adolescent girls and young women, key populations and people living with HIV.
A new report by UNAIDS Get on the Fast-Track: the life-cycle approach to HIV shows that countries are getting on the Fast-Track, with an additional one million people accessing treatment in just six months (January to June 2016). By June 2016, around 18.2 million [16.1 million–19.0 million] people had access to the life-saving medicines, including 910 000 children, double the number five years earlier. If these efforts are sustained and increased, the world will be on track to achieve the target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020.
The report was launched on 21 November 2016 in Windhoek, Namibia, by the President of Namibia, Hage Geingob and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé.
GLOBAL HIV STATISTICS
18.2 million [16.1 million–19.0 million] people were accessing antiretroviral therapy (June 2016)
36.7 million [34.0 million–39.8 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2015)
2.1 million [1.8 million–2.4 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2015)
1.1 million [940 000–1.3 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses (end 2015)
78 million [69.5 million–87.6 million] people have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic (end 2015)
35 million [29.6 million–40.8 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2015)
People living with HIV
In 2015, there were 36.7 million [34.0 million–39.8 million] people living with HIV.
UNAIDS World AIDS Day event – Moving forward together: leaving no one behind
UNAIDS will host a special event on 30 November 2016 to commemorate World AIDS Day and the commitment to move forward together to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Today, Sunday 27 November 2016, YUVA has distributed clothes to 75 needy families of Longere Tole, Baie Du Tombeau.
YUVA has launched its anti-poverty mission by collecting new and used clothes from individuals, civic and corporate organisations, then distributing those clothes to poor and disadvantaged people.
Several collecting points were established to receive clothes, including at Bagatelle Mall, La Croisette and Baie Du Tombeau’s Simla Way.
YUVA has a bold commitment to finish what it started, and end poverty in all forms and dimensions. This involves targeting the most vulnerable, increasing access to basic resources and services, and supporting affected communities.
Lots of people are going through pains. Silent struggles. Check on people once in a while. Ask if they’re okay. Help them. You might save some lives.
If you have clothes taking up space in your closet, why not donate them to YUVA? No matter which charity you choose, your unused clothes will do more good in a donation bin than sitting in your closet. Call on 57086868.
Today, Sunday 20 November 2016, YUVANs have distributed and planted 200 young trees in the village of Lallmatie.
Caring for trees and the environment is the social responsibility of every individual. The iPlant-A-Tree Programme is a platform for every Mauritian to actively participate in greening his/her yard by planting trees.
Why Plant Trees?
Why plant more trees in Mauritius? Aren’t there enough trees already? Well, definitely not.
Trees are like any other living organism, which will grow old and become weak. Hence, in order to sustain our lush greenery, we need to constantly plant new trees.
It’s a special kind of connection with Nature when you plant a tree yourself.
Globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980.
The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980, rising from 4.7% to 8.5% in the adult population. This reflects an increase in associated risk factors such as being overweight or obese. Over the past decade, diabetes prevalence has risen faster in low and middle-income countries than in high-income countries.
In 2007 General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/61/225 designating 14 November as World Diabetes Day. The document recognised “the urgent need to pursue multilateral efforts to promote and improve human health, and provide access to treatment and health-care education.”
The resolution also encouraged Member States to develop national policies for the prevention, treatment and care of diabetes in line with the sustainable development of their health-care systems.
Background
Diabetes is a chronic disease, which occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. This leads to an increased concentration of glucose in the blood (hyperglycaemia).
Type 1 diabetes (previously known as insulin-dependent or childhood-onset diabetes) is characterised by a lack of insulin production.
Type 2 diabetes (formerly called non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset diabetes) is caused by the body’s ineffective use of insulin. It often results from excess body weight and physical inactivity.
Gestational diabetes is hyperglycaemia that is first recognised during pregnancy.
2016 Theme: Democracy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
In September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — a plan for achieving a better future for all, laying out a path over 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet. At the heart of the Agenda are the Sustainable Development Goals, which call for mobilizing efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
The new goals result from a process that has been more inclusive than ever, with Governments involving business, civil society and citizens from the outset. Now, the task of implementing and monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals requires States to work in close partnership with civil society. Parliaments in particular have a critical role in translating the new sustainable development agenda into concrete action through passing legislation, making budget allocations and holding governments accountable.
Speaking at the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended the parliamentarians of the world for the valuable role they played in shaping the new framework. He also underscored that their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda will be equally critical: “People will look to you to hold your governments accountable for achieving the goals, and to write the laws and invest in the programmes that will make them a reality,” he said, noting that democratic principles also run through the entire document “like a silver thread.”
Sustainable Development Goal 16 addresses democracy by calling for inclusive and participatory societies and institutions. It aims to “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.”
The Goal is both an end in itself and a crucial part of delivering sustainable development in all countries. It has been seen by many commentators as the transformational goal and key to ensuring that the Agenda can be accomplished.
Background
The International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of and support by the international community, national governing bodies, civil society and individuals, can the ideal of democracy be made into a reality to be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere.
The values of freedom, respect for human rights and the principle of holding periodic and genuine elections by universal suffrage are essential elements of democracy. In turn, democracy provides the natural environment for the protection and effective realization of human rights. These values are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further developed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which enshrines a host of political rights and civil liberties underpinning meaningful democracies.
The link between democracy and human rights is captured in article 21(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:
“The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.”
Creative Development Center in cooperation with CRISP e.V and with financial support of Black Sea trust and Erasmus+ is recruiting representatives from Public, NGO and (Social) Business sectors, coming from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey to participate in the Social Leader Forum 2016. The forum aims to foster discussion and exchange on the issue of social entrepreneurship and its role in integration of vulnerable groups into society, especially when it comes to the labor market. As experience shows, there is an urgent need for all sectors to combine their strength and experiences in order to tackle the issue.
Program Activities:
In order to reach program goals the project foresees the following activities:
Kick off meeting – September 29-October 5, Georgia.
The participants meet to exchange on their expertise in order to develop networks for future cooperation. The participants will get input on building cross-sector/cross-border cooperation and plan the next steps, which is the implementation of local initiatives in the region. The meeting is visited by representatives of public as well as business sector.
Local activities – October-November
The participants develop and conduct project ideas that are either cross border or cross sector. The project ideas should include further plan for sustainable development of cooperation. They get seed funding from the program in order to implement the projects before the Forum.
Forum – December 4-11, Istanbul, Turkey
During the Forum the participants present their projects, evaluate their local activities and meet representatives of other sectors. This meeting is mainly focused on presenting local actions, for their further development and building partnerships. We plan to invite important actors from business, CSO and public sectors, who are potential supporters of such initiatives. Besides that, the final meeting will include an Alumni forum, in order to connect new fellows with alumni of previous years!
Benefits:
All expenses are covered including travel and accommodation.
There is NO participation Fee.
Eligibility:
Open to participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey.
Applicants can be working in public administration, (social) business, NGOs, universities, think tanks and other spheres of professional engagement concerning the issue of youth unemployment, labor migration, creating income opportunities for disadvantage groups (rural youth, IDPs, women, minorities), career development for young people, social entrepreneurship and are interested in cross-sector cooperation and social innovation.
Applicants should have a strong interest in exchanging on best practice and the developing and learning of new ways of working on the issue and to think “out-of-the-box”.
There is no age limit, but a minimum age of 18.
Working language is English.
The participants will be selected by a joint jury from all partner organizations. Partners from Germany as well as from other countries will provide expert workshops for all participants.
Application Process:
If you are interested to become part of the project, please fill in the application form online till September 10.
All questions shall be addressed to: teonadalak@gmail.com/+995593197219
