Youth Initiative Awards
2005
Profile of Award Winners
- Pushpa Basnet, 22 yrs
- Jiban Baral, 22 yrs
- Subhash Ram Prajapati, 25 yrs
- Surya Prasad Acharya, 27 yrs
- Sonam Tashi Lama, 20 yrs
Pushpa Basnet
 22 year old Pushpa Basnet loves to work with children which
led her to volunteer in Balmandir and Child Protection Home.
She is currently doing her Bachelor’s 2nd year in Social
Work at St.Xavier’s College. With her own effort she
has opened an 'After School Program' “Play Room”
at both these places. She has also volunteered in CONCERN
Nepal and in Women and Children Cell where she has opened
a counseling room. She is also interested in sports and has
participated and won in various sports competition such as
athletics, javelin throw, squash championship etc. Pushpa
strives to become an established social worker and help the
needy people.
Early Childhood Development Centre is her effort to provide
a protective and healthy environment to the children living
with their parents in the prison. She believes that it gives
the children the opportunity to come out and grow in a healthy
environment.
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Jiban Baral
Jiban Baral, 22 years old is currently pursuing his BBS 3rd
year studies in Pokhara. He also conducts his media agency
named I dreamz Ads and Entertainment. He was involved in various
social works and institutions from an early age. He has remained
Youth Member of Family Planning Association of Nepal, President
of Students Welfare Club of Janapriya Campus and also Founding
Coordinator of Public Campus Students Welfare Committee, Kaski.
He strongly believes that people should be socially conscious
and also be involved in various activities for the welfare
of the society. In his school days he was actively involved
in Youth Red cross Circle and other programs organized by
the school. He aims to be a social entrepreneur in his life.
His project Yuwa Forum which is youth led and youth run is
targeted towards youth in and around Pokhara. Yuwa Forum Aims
in raising awareness among youths towards various social and
youth issues. Yuwa Forum also fulfils the need of organizations
that help in creating social awareness among youths.
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Subhash Ram Prajapati
 25
yrs old Subhash Ram Prajapati aims to make this world a better
place to live with the mutual cultural understanding and strong
feeling of cultural co-existence. He has published 2 books
and more than 50 articles in various newspapers, journals
and magazines. He has also worked for various institutions
like Newah Culture and Language Institute, Sikkim. Currently
he is the member of Curriculum Design of Optional Music in
Secondary Level. He is also a Program Designer and presenter
in Times FM. He also writes and develops contents for various
web portals. He has completed his Masters degree in Nepal
Bhasha and is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Nepalese
History, Culture and Archeology. He was also awarded by various
awards like Motilani Award, Shreegopal Award and many other
awards. Including various parts of Nepal, he has also visited
countries like Finland Slovenia, Germany and India. Currently
he is involved in more than 10 organizations.
With the help of his project "Youth for Culture Preservation"
he is planning to initiate and involve youths for the exploration
and preservation of culture. He is trying to start this project
by documenting all talas, preparing all notations and recording
all the talas of musical instrument Dhimay. In the first phase
of his project, he will teach and empower 10 youths in the
same activity. In the next phase they will teach other 10
youths each and thus this initiation will reach to 100 people
in the second phase, 1000 in the third and so on. He thinks
this will be a pioneer work for the cultural preservation
with youth participation with the strong basis of starting
of Nepalese ethno musicological studies and strong probability
of cultural tourism in Nepal.
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Surya Prasad Acharya
Surya Prasad Acharya, 27 years old is permanent resident
of Nadipur-3, Pokhara. He started being involved in social
affairs from Suryodaya Yuwa Club of Pokhara where he was joined
by his friends later on. Currently he is working as an accountant
at Janapriya Multile College, Pokhara and also pursuing his
master’s level studies in Economics. Being active in
social work is one of his hobbies and his aim is to be a good
social worker as well as a good auditor. He wants to make
his career in both auditing and social work. He thinks that
he will be able to build positive attitude and involvement
of youths towards social work. He feels great to have been
able to build leadership skills and personality development
in his friends and himself with various social involvements.
His project is to increase number of books and magazines
in the library and create a platform Bichar Manthan where
people can have discussions on various contemporary issues.
He thinks that the club will be effective in informing and
empowering youths. Easily accessible library will help many
youths to develop their potentiality. This will also help
the club and will be easy to develop leadership skills in
the next generation of the club itself. This will also help
the youths to utilize their leisure time by being involved
in the library and the program Bichar Manthan. This project
aims to bring positive development in the society and help
youths represent at the leading and decision making level.
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Sonam Tashi Lama
 20 years old Sonam Tashi Lama was born in Yamphudin village
of Taplejung District. He was the first person of his village
to pass SLC examination in first division which gave him
more responsibilities towards his village. He used to get
scholarships and other
awards which helped him in his studies. He also used to participate
and win in various activities organized by his school. He
has done I. Sc. in forestry from Institute of Forestry, Hetauda.
He has a hobby of photography and has also attended trainings
regarding it. He has also volunteered in Kanchanjungha Conservation
Area Program. He was also involved in various other works
like conducting eco clubs, surveying community forest etc.
Currently he is doing his Bachelors Degree in Sociology in
Tri-Chandra Campus.
His project “Youth Library and Study Center”
aims to inform rural youths about various issues and to empower
them. The library will be based in his own village. The library
will benefit many youths and other people. This will also
help the people of that place and its periphery to utilize
their leisure time. Good Infrastructure, greater outreach,
easy learning and making it more efficient are some of the
future aims of the project.
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