A Non-Government Organization (NGO) Bargad held an interactive session with the elected deputy mayors of Lahore on Tuesday under the Punjab Youth Peace Core Project.
Deputy Mayors Nazir Khan Sawati, Mohammad Bilal Chaudhry, Rao Shahab, Mian Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Khalid Butt and Ijaz Ahmed Hafeez participated in the interactive session. The meeting was organized to take these local government representatives onboard for the Punjab Youth Peace Core which is an initiative of the Department of Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism of the Punjab government.
The Deputy Mayors were given a briefing about the Punjab Youth Peace Core Project and were requested to support the activities of this project in selected Union Councils. All of them agreed and expressed great willingness to support the activities and provide the assistance required of them to make Punjab Youth Peace Core a success.
Ijaz Ahmed Hafeez said on the occasion that the youth in Pakistan is not provided with training by the Youth training department.
The Youth Affairs Department of the Punjab government had started the Punjab Youth Peace Core in 2016. It has made youth that is a part of the project, an active part of the peace-building process in the country and has prepared them as ambassadors of peace between different segments of the society. These youngsters have already organised 60 Social Action Projects in their respective communities. They have also spread message of peace at the community level by carrying out peace walks.
Elected chairmen and councilors, educational institutions and academies and other local dignitaries of the UCs were also involved in this process. Bargad assisted the department in implementing these activities.
Now, the initiative is being extended and will reach out to a planned number of 600 more participants including 15 new UCs from the Lahore district.
