COVA- ICAN- Youth TRAC
Compassionate Citizenship & Responsible Activism Project
Among Children and Youth
Project Overview
Our education system and society as a whole are oriented and geared to produce efficient professionals and not necessarily socially aware beings that understand and are sensitive to different social issues and subscribe to moral and ethical values required of a human being. Developing adequate social sensitivity and concern are essential conditions for imbibing moral and social values and promoting positive social engagement to address the problems and ills affecting any society to make it humane and just.
Goal:
To sensitise people, especially school, college, university students and young professionals to social issues and concerns to inculcate in them moral and ethical values required of a good human being and enlist their commitment to address social problems to make society humane and just.
Objectives
- Social Sensitisation and Amenability to Moral and Ethical Values
The First Objective of the Compassionate Citizenship & Responsible Activism Project is to provide a systematic and sustained sensitisation to a range of social issues and concerns to school, college and university students, corporate youth and professionals through Extension Lectures and exposure visits to enable them to develop empathy and sensitivity to different social issues necessary to imbibe moral and ethical values required of a good human being and enlist their commitment to address these issues.
- Global Perspective
The Second Objective is to inculcate a global perspective, especially among students and youth by facilitating their interactions with foreign nationals staying in Hyderabad or on a visit through the Global Walk Program.
- Social Activism
The Third Objective of the Project is to orient and equip students and youth for social activism to transform the system and make society more equitable, just and sustainable.
Activities:
- Extension Lectures in Schools and Colleges
- Exposure Visits to Deprived Localities
- Project Work on Social Issues for school and college students
- Interventions and Advocacy by Students and Youth for addressing social issues.
- Global Walks: Online Skype Interactions with Experts on Social Issues from different countries
- Koshish Theatre Group
Institutional Coverage
COVA would work with 100 schools, 20 colleges, 10 universities and 20 professional clubs- 150 institutions in all- for the Responsible Global Citizenship Project. It is proposed to organise 5 programs in a year for each institution comprising of three Extension Lectures, one exposure visit and one Global Walk making a total of 750 programs in a year reaching out to an average of 30,000 people annually.
Impact
The Compassionate Citizenship & Responsible Activism Project is expected to create necessary conditions for inculcation of moral and ethical values and introduce children and youth to different dimensions of responsible citizenship to propel them to undertake social transformation for a just and peaceful society.
