Blitz Bureau
CHANDIGRAH: Yuvsatta NGO, in collaboration with Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh and Blitz India Media Group, organised a ‘Nurturers of Peace Awards’ ceremony on the International Women’s Day, on March 8 Twenty-four Principals and teachers from the tri-city of Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar (Mohali) were facilitated at the ceremony.
Prominent among those who were present on the occasion were Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, Caroline Rowett, British Deputy High Commissioner Chandigarh, Reeta Kohli, Member, Judge, NCLT-Jaipur, Deepak Dwivedi, Chairman & Editor-In-Chief of Blitz India Media Group, Sandeep Passey, Managing Director, Intersoft Data Labs, and Pramod Sharma, Founder & Chief Coordinator, Yuvsatta (Youth for Peace).
Chandigarh 2030
In his welcome address, Sharma said since its inception in 1990, Yuvsatta has been promoting a SDG5- compatible Chandigarh 2030 Campaign and has formed peace clubs and girls parliament for the purpose in over 150 schools and colleges of the tri-city.
Appreciating the initiative, Reeta Kohli said the most important thing for the women of the 21st century is to understand that they are born empowered. To realise their true potential, she said, they have to believe their inner strength and power within.
In her address, Caroline Rowett said the United Kingdom is committed to putting women and girls at the heart of everything they do. Collectively, she said, we can accelerate action for gender equality. “We need more women power to tackle pressing global issues of climate change, poverty, violent extremism and diseases,” she added.
Chief Guest Sindhwan emphasised that preparing a new generation of young people with caring hearts and creative minds is the need of the hour. He appreciated the work of Yuvsatta volunteers in this direction by way of opening peace clubs in schools and their Chandigarh 2030-campaign.
Leave No One Behind
In his concluding remarks, Dwivedi said that we all should support the national and international projects of Yuvsatta, which are strengthening our age-old ethos of ‘Vasudhev Kutumbkam’ (the whole world is one family). He also advocated that each one of us should adopt at least one marginalised girl or woman for support, as the United Nations SDGs state ‘Leave No One Behind’.
