Youth Development
Equipping youth with skills and opportunities to shape a brighter future.
Brief
Hindustan Power places a strong emphasis on the holistic development of youth across all its interventions.
Project yUDAI (Youth Development and Action Initiative) focuses on empowering adolescents and young people to become progressive, productive and proactive citizens.
The project equips adolescents with essential life skills through a year-long nurturing and development process, enabling them to effectively navigate behavioural challenges and the stresses associated with growing up. It also seeks to identify, train and mentor young individuals, developing them into Peer Leaders and ultimately empowering them to become proactive Change Leaders within their communities.
Impact Story
Cartoon and Comic training
- In yUDAI program (Under Youth development initiative) rolled out by Hindustan Power CSR
As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This sentiment applies equally well to cartoons and comics. Cartoons are an important feature of newspapers and serve as a powerful medium of communication. They can convey complex messages and information with few or no words. However, creating meaningful cartoons and comics requires creativity, artistic skill and effective storytelling. The messages conveyed through cartoons and comics are carefully crafted by their creators to engage and inform audiences.
Under Project yUDAI (Youth Development and Action Initiative), implemented by Hindustan Power CSR in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, adolescents are trained in a range of life skills and encouraged to become agents of positive change within their communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CSR team provided an opportunity for 20 adolescents from five villages to learn cartooning and comic creation as innovative tools for communicating social issues and raising awareness.
The participants underwent six hours of online training spread over three days, conducted by Ms. Reena, an external resource person from New Delhi. The CSR team divided the 20 participants into four groups based on their villages and provided the necessary support to facilitate the training. The initiative yielded encouraging results, with participants creating engaging stories and using them as awareness tools within their communities.
