AZME NAUJAWAN (AeN)

Women Development Foundation Pakistan is running Azme Naujawan Project since 2017 in district west; Maripur and Saeedabad areas. Azme Naujawan is a youth development program that aims to train and mentor youth to become active contributors to social change. The Program’s curriculum incorporates five key aspects: Social action, personality development, leadership skills, professionals and entrepreneurial skills, artistic and cultural expression. In addition, the youth are mentored on an ongoing basis to identify problems in the community and design and implement Social Action Projects and campaigns.

Azme Naujawan (AeN) program focuses on youth from two age groups: 14-17 and 18-25. Participants signed up for 5 months of training and plan and implement social action project and campaigns.

Women Development Foundation Pakistan (WDFP) stared Azme Naujawan Program’s third Phase from June 2019. Under Azme Naujawan project 84 training sessions have been conducted in Cycle I and trained 150 Youth in Maripur and Saeedabad and 150 youth will be trained in Cycle II.

Training Theme:

Azme Naujawan curriculum focuses on Personality Development, Leadership Skills, Social Action, Entrepreneurship and Arts and Culture. Community Engagement and Networking Events were organized to engage community and build resilience community and create bring positive impact tin community. Four community enjoyment events were organized one of them is “Cultural Dholki” a Community

Engagement Event

This event brought different cultural and religious communities together successfully. Participants were from; Christian, Hindu and Muslim religious communities and different background communities were involved included; Sindhi, Pathan, Punjabi and Baloch. Each community represented their culture and shared their cultures and wedding praxis and traditions in the event. In the Cultural Dholki Event Dolls marriage was arranged to showcase praxis and traditions of different communities. Bride and Groom were dressed in different cultural dresses and prettied up to represent each culture.

Women Development Foundation Pakistan conducted 6 Center Youth Events on Peace and Harmony to create peace and harmony in community.

Azme Naujawan Participants implemented 24 Social Action Projects in district west successfully and engaged community

Success Story of Abdul Ghafar AeN:

Abdul Ghafar, 16 young talented Singer and Peace change maker in Maripur. In the early childhood of his life he started seeking platform where he can show his talent to change the community perspective regarding peace. Azme Naujawan became the life changing platform for Abdul Ghafar when he participated the AeN trainings and did Social Action Project in the community through Art .The idea of “Hamara Maripur” to remove the hate speeches and hate graffiti on the wall of Maripur, he worked with his team to remove such speeches and beautify the wall of community through peace massages and cultures of Marpur. It was quite challenging for him to work for countering the violent extremism in community and creating peace through Art. He mobilized the community and sanitized community members to participate with him because Maripur is the deprived area of Kemari Town and has lack of facilities of education and peace. In this regard after the SAP they pushed their ideas into action and createed their own welfare organization known as Silsila Foundation.

Likewise, they started to work in the community voluntarily from the Silsila Foundation Platform and started campaigning to highlight the issues of Maripur through Social Media and documentaries.

During social activities he got the opportunity to participate the IAMKHI Music Mentorship Program.

Abdul Ghafar also demonstrated his singing skills at different platforms, celebrating Daniel Pearl World Music Day with the support of US Consulate General Karachi at Arts Council of Pakistan. He also showed his talent in Pakistan Star biggest Reality show in BOL News. After the establishment of Silsila Foundation as per the need of community they introduced language classes, Taleem-e-Balghan, art classes and storytelling at Center. The mission of spreading peace in communities will always remain alive by such talented stars of Azme Naujawan and WDFP.