1. “Yes!! Together we can..”
PROJECT STATUS: FINAL SUBMISSION
TEAM LEADER: FAISAL IMTIAZ & MARYAM IMDAD
TARGET YOUTH: COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
TEAM MEMBERS: INITIALLY 11 in 2 UNIVERSITIES/COLLEGES
VOLUNTEERING HOURS SPEND: NOT DEFINED
NUMBER OF YOUTH IMPACTED: MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS IN 10 DAYS
PERIOD OF PROJECT : PERMANENT AND FULLY SUSTAINABLE
2. Peers Group at University of Veterinary & Animal
Sciences Lahore (UVAS) & Kinnaird College For
Women, Lahore.
4. Target Group
Those students who did hard work through out
their academic career but could not bear the
burden of university fees and expenses.
Those young people who don’t have any financial
issue as such but due to discrimination by society
based on Race, colour etc or any other reason,
developed negative point of views and didn’t find
anyone who would listen to them and give
answers to their unanswered questions.
Those students who belong to rural &
underdeveloped areas by providing them career
counselling and connecting them to the
professionals.
5. Project plan
We aim to :
Arrange & Provide scholarships to deserving
students.
Find youth icons and connecting youth with them.
Promote culture of non violence and peace
through peer education and awareness.
Bring positivity in youth to help them bring a
positive change in their society.
Provide physcological support by connecting the
students to the volunteers of medical profession.
Provide career counseling through experts of
their fields.
6. How ?
We will make our team consisting of young people from different
professions and institutes.
We will organize behavioural change workshops in universities
and colleges to eliminate negative attitudes from youth and
promote a culture of non violence and peace among young
generation.
We will organize working groups in universities under the
supervision of mentors or teachers. Each group will then find
students, who’d like to volunteer, by advertising through notice
boards, pasting posters in universities and utilizing social media
such as university journals etc
We will find donors and also contact with different NGO’s
working for same cause by using different means of
communications like social media, news papers, university
journals etc
We will organize open meetings between donors and beneficiary
students and also invite young icons to share their inspirational
stories to motivate young people.
The methodology is effective and by working on it we can easily
reach the vulnerable groups (according to our project) of the
7. What we want ?
We want:
To take steps for eradication of illiteracy from the
society.
To eliminate negative attitudes from the youth.
To eradicate depression and frustration from youth.
To promote the culture of non violence and peace
among youth and society.
To help youth in selection of right profession by
providing career counselling through trained and
professional volunteers.
To eliminate the sense of discrimination from the
society.
To empower youth through education.
It will open new dimensions in the social sector and
will set examples for those who wants to work for the
society.
8. Outcomes
Development of healthy educated society.
Youth empowerment through education.
Promotion of culture of non violence and peace.
Elimination of criminal and negative attitudes from youth and
also from society.
FEEDBACK:
Influenced more than 100 students within a week and they
appreciated our efforts.
At present we are financially supporting 2 students due to lack of
financial resources.
We organized a workshop last week to create awareness among
youth about the power of positive attitudes and behaviors and
got an amazing response to it.
The project is innovative and in the long run it will become self
sustainable as the beneficiaries of today will be the donor of
tomorrow and will provide their support to the deserving students
of their time. As we are emphasizing on Peer to Peer
relationship not Donor -Recipient relationship, it means the
donor who is donating through us, is adopting that individual and
9. Potential actors & Youth
involvement
Underprivileged youth mainly of universities and colleges.
Mentors and teachers.
Donor agencies and civil society NGOs.
Youth icons.
Peer educators and volunteers.
YOUTH INVOLVEMENT:
This project is made by the youth, for the young
generation and it will also be implemented by the youth.
This will set the best example of youth empowerment.
The whole project will be managed, implemented and
evaluated by the youth.
The target group is university or college students
underprivileged in any sense whether financial,
discriminatory, racial or behavioural etc.
10. TEAM MEMBERS:
University of Veterinary & Kinnaird College for
Women,
Animal Sciences Lahore Lahore
Faisal Imtiaz (team leader) Maryam Imdad(
team leader)
Salman Akram Asna Ijaz Khan
Adeel Zain Khadija Faisal
Tajammul Kabir Momina Nadeem
Asad Khan Lodhi Kristiana D’silva
Komal Farooq
All the members are from LAHORE PAKISTAN.