Connecting Youth for Change (CYC) is a non-profitable and non-political volunteer youth organization which is currently working on youth empowerment and fostering positive social change by means of youth leadership & dedicated volunteerism.

2. The Beginning
 Founded on May 21, 2011
 Non-profit, non-political volunteer youth organization
 With a view to contributing towards sustainable social development
 Advocating youth leadership and volunteerism
 With the motto: ‘Uniting Youth, Serving Humanity’

3. MEET THE FOUNDERS

4. VISION
Bringing positive social change
through youth empowerment and
dedicated voluntary services.

5. mission
 Empowering youth with prominent skills.
 Capacity building for leadership, entrepreneurship and active citizenship.
 Engaging youth in voluntary community services.
 Establishing peace and equality in the society.
 Building a global network of active youth leaders.

6. CYC Projects at a glance
Youth Techno-Computer Camp
Meet the Community & Skill Development Workshop
Winter Smiley, Helping Humanity
Youth Partner at Digital Innovation Fair
Frame: CYC Inter-School Wall Magazine Competition

7. Youth techno-computer camp (ytcc)-2011
 Three-day long program from 21st May to 23rd May, 2011
supported by Relief International, Bangladesh.
 25 students participated through a competitive
selection process.
 Provided basic computer education to the secondary and
the higher secondary students.
 Included training on Computer Hardware, OS, MS Office
and the Internet.
 Built a bridge between the students and the vast arena
of information technology.
 Intention was to promote IT education as a complement
to mainstream education.

9. Meet the Community & Skill
Development Workshop - 2011
 A day long event held on 19th
August, 2011.
 Involved an open discussion with
the guardians and teachers on the
prospect of youth involvement in
community development activities.
 Included a workshop on public
speaking and presentation skills for
the high school students.

10. Winter smiley, helping humanity
SEASON ONE
 Free winter clothing distribution event for the
underprivileged people of Northern Bangladesh.
 Held at the remote village of Noyadiari under Gomostapur
Thana in Chapainababganj on 23rd December, 2011.
 Served approximately 700 ill-fated, winter affected
inhabitants of Noyadiari Union, mostly kids, women and
elderly people.
 Collaborated with Noyadiari Unit of Center for Mass
Education in Science (CMES) and supported by Relief
International, Bangladesh.

12. Voluntary participation at
Digital Innovation Fair 2012
 15 CYC members voluntarily participated in a three-day long
program titled Digital Innovation Fair –2012, held in Gazipur.
 Provided voluntary and technological support at the fair.
 Intended to contribute towards promoting IT literacy among
all possible levels of the society, especially among the young
students and the educators.
 Created volunteer service opportunity for the students.

14. Frame: CYC Inter-School Wall
Magazine Competition
 First ever Inter-School Wall Magazine Competition held in Gazipur, on 5th
July, 2012.
 Approximately 250 students, divided among 50 teams, participated from
different high schools of Gazipur.
 Theme taken up was ‘Social & Environmental Issues’.
 Provided a platform for the school students to explore their creative
potential, to brainstorm and do research about the same and come up with
innovative solutions.
 Intended to spread awareness and promote co-curricular activities.
 Supported by Relief International, Bangladesh and Dekko Computers,
Gazipur.

17. Winter smiley, helping humanity
SEASON TWO
 Second consecutive year of CYC’s
winter clothing distribution
program held on January 14th,
2013, at Baluchakuli, Gazipur.
 Served about 120 orphans and
underprivileged students of
Faizuddin Kosimuddin Kaaumi
Madrasa and Orphanage with
warm clothes.

19. RECOGNITION
CYC received the ‘Best Volunteer
Organization Award’ from the
Public Administration of Gazipur
on behalf of People’s Republic of
Bangladesh at the Digital
Innovation Fair 2012 on 14th
June, 2012.

20. Winter smiley, helping humanity
SEASON THREE
 Third consecutive year of CYC’s winter clothing
distribution program held on January 14th, 2014, at
Kangsha, Singair in Manikganj.
 CYC served approximately 340 people with warm clothes

22. Winter smiley, helping humanity
SEASON FOUR
 Fourth consecutive year of CYC’s winter
clothing distribution program held on January
9th, 2015, at at the campus of Potaabari High
School, Gazipur.
 CYC’s initiative served over one hundred
underprivileged people from nineteen villages
under Prohlladpur Union in Gazipur District
with blankets.

25.  As youth partner 50 CYC volunteers participated in a three-day long
program titled Digital Innovation Fair 2015 organized by the Civil
Administration of Gazipur and supported by the the Access to
Information (a2i) Project, USAID and UNDP in order to
commemorate 36th National Science and Technology Week.
 Volunteers worked relentlessly over the period of three days in
every department of the fair management.
 Created volunteer service opportunity for the students.
Youth PARTNER at Digital
Innovation Fair 2015