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Savar YMCA Responded Mental Health issues through Badminton Tournament
Last Updated (Friday, 02 April 2021 00:03)
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| Champion and Runners up teams with the Savar YMCA’s board directors |
Savar YMCA works with youth for improves their mental & physical health as well as their potentialities. So every year we arrange a few sports tournaments like Football Tournament, Badminton Tournament, etc. So last 12 February 2021, Savar YMCA organise a Badminton Tournament 2021 at Savar YMCA Multi-Purpose the building Dewgaon our premises. Our Tournaments was open for all, so in this tournament, 16 teams of 32 youth have participated from a different area of Savar, Dhaka. This Tournament was running for one week, and the final Tournament match was held on 19 February 2021. In our final match, Mr. Babu Markus Gomes, President, National Council of YMCAs of Bangladesh, was the Chief guest and Presided by Mr. Tapan Thomas Rozario, President, Savar YMCA. Special guest Mr. Michael Gomes, President, Dharenda Christian Co-operative Credit Union Ltd., Mr. Protap Augustine Gomes, Secretary, Dharenda Mission Parish Council, Board Members of Savar YMCA, and other honourable guests were present at the final match. So many peoples enjoyed the final match directly and online this tournament.
Prepared by- Ronel Francis Costa, General Secretary, Savar YMCA.
YMCA Savar organized regular support for an education program for the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy
Last Updated (Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:40)
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| Savar YMCA’s President Mr. Tapan Thomas Rozario hand over the souvenir to the beneficiaries | |
Rana Plaza Stipend: Savar Young Men’s Christian Association is a universal volunteerism movement organization. So we give particular importance to Man & Woman and ensure to join Youth participants in our Society and try to established humanitarian society according to our Christian ideals with love, justice, and peace.
We know Rana Plaza Tragedy that happened on 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza building's collapse in Savar, Dhaka. This housed five garment factories and killed at least 1,132 people, and injured more than 2500 people.
So we Savar YMCA took the immediate initiative to help some families who lost their parents or earners with Y's Men Club Dhaka Central's support. Then we collect data about ten needy families, and we start to financial support from 4 October 2013 and still now. We support ten Children for their study purpose because, after the tragedy, they couldn't continue their school. So we thought if they continue their study one day, they will overcome their present situations. We decided to give them a minimal 1000 (one thousand) taka per month per children's. Every six months, we arrange a Stipend program to get their money together 6.000 (six thousand) taka because they come from different parts of Bangladesh and remote areas. We place this program after six months for their favorableness. We give them Eid gifts also.
Their families are so happy to get this support, and children’s are continuing their study nicely. Many of them are studying in college now and doing well. We Savar YMCA will always stand beside them.
The name of the beneficiary Children’s are below:
1. Razia Sultana
2. Mehidi Hasan
3. Sabbir Rahman
4. Rimi Salma Akter
5. Badal Hossin Bellal
6. Roni Hossin
7. Riya Akter
8. Sumiya Akter
9. Bristi Akter
10. Md. Tarek
Prepared by- Ronel Francis Costa, General Secretary, Savar YMCA.
NCYB and local YMCA leaders explore peacebuilding and ecumenical coexistence with the newly appointed Archbishop
Last Updated (Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:41)
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| Lay leader and Professional of NCYB congratulating new Archbishop | |
The Vatican appointed new Archbishop Bejoy N D'Cruze for the Catholic Church of Bangladesh on September 27, 2020. The Archbishop is based in Dhaka and will be responsible for leading Catholic Churches' spiritual development and leading the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangladesh. On behalf of NCYB, lay leaders and professionals congratulated the new Archbishop with a flower bouquet and cake on 1st March 2021. The team was led by Mr. Babu Markus Gomes, President NCYB, and Mr. Nipun Sangma, National General Secretary of NCYB.
During the conversation, the Archbishop expressed his interest in working more on peacebuilding and community strengthening by facilitating interfaith dialogue and ecumenical coexistence. The Archbishop has highly appreciated the contribution of NCYB to the community and Bangladesh's Christian society since its establishment.
Archbishop Bishop Bejoy N D'Cruze was born on February 9, 1956, at Tuital in Nawabganj, Bandura, Dhaka and was ordained as a priest on February 20, 1987.
Prepared by- Biplob Rangsa, Executive Secretary, NCYB
Mothers of Fukushima
Last Updated (Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:09)
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Mothers of Fukushima: Eiko & Yoshiko "What can you do but laugh?"
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Mizue Furui
Produced by Motoharu Iida / Akihiro Nonaka Edited by Tokachi Tuchiya
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2016/HD/95min/Japan http://www.iitate-mother.com Sound by Takashi Tokida Translated by Mayu Nakamura /John Junkerman Presented by “Mothers of Fukushima” Production Support Committee
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Synopsis Ms.Eiko Kanno is 79 years-old. Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster completely changes her life. She is supposed to be living surrounded by her grandchildren. But she lives alone in a temporary house because the whole of her home Iitate village was evacuated. Her relatives and her friend Ms.Yoshiko Kanno are very important partners in her life. Unfortunately Ms.Yoshiko Kanno lost her parents during the evacuation, so she moved to a temporary house which was next to Eiko Kanno’s. They cheer themselves up by telling jokes to each other as if they were Grandmother comedians. Thus two women start living at the temporary house. Eiko-san’s motto for living is producing her food many varieties of vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, soy-beans, and Japanese radish. Pickled turnips, sticky rice balls with sweet red bean paste, and carrots with sesame sauce are lined up on the table ,and they say with smiles on their face” How delicious!” In order not to end this Japanese traditional food culture, they go to some other areas to teach traditional food: Miso-soy bean paste, and Shimi mochi-dry rice cake.
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Iitate village is now on the way to being gradually decontaminated. However there is still very high radiation, and utterly changed scenery…. Two women intend to grasp for their lives talking about an unseen future while laughing and crying.
Mizue Furui was born in Shimane in 1948. She belongs to Asia Press, a member of Japan Visual Journalist Association (JVJA). Since 1988 she has been to the Occupied Territories, reported on the Intifada, resistance movement by Palestinians. She has been focusing on and reporting especially about women and children. Afghanistan, Indonesian African children are interviewed and reported on T.V. in newspapers, and magazines. In 2005 she received the “Grand prize of Days Japan International Photo Journalism”, “Special prize of Judge” “Commemorated Ishibashi Tanzan Waseda Jurnalist Grand prize” for the film “ Ghada - Songs of Palestine” “Peace & Cooperative Journalist foundation” “Commemorated Namiko Arai Prize” “Grand prize of Kouenji Documentary festival on the film “What we saw - the children of the family of Samunis’ in Gaza”
Contact Nagako Okado “Mothers of Fukushima” Production Support Committee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 090－5570－5306
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APAY organizes Side Event for UN-ESCAP Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
Last Updated (Wednesday, 03 March 2021 15:19)
The Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs in partnership with the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) will be organizing a side event during the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) that is organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). The forum is the annual and inclusive intergovernmental forum and a regional platform for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while serving as a regional preparatory meeting to the high-level political forum.
The APAY-IMCS side event that is entitled ‘Inter-Faith Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals: Organizing and Mobilization of Youth’ will be held virtually on 24 March 2021 at 4:30-6:00PM (Bangkok Time Zone). The regional conversation will specifically highlight the importance partnership for SDGs among ecumenical and inter-faith youth movements in forging regional solidarity towards reducing inequalities in the areas of learning/education, opportunities for jobs and livelihoods, peace building, access to health care; and the cross cutting dimension of environmental sustainability and gender equality. APAY and IMCAs are keen to work earnestly in making sure that no one is left behind and in particular that ‘no youth is left behind' during this pandemic and in a post-COVID19 society.
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