Staff Reporter,
North Lakhimpur, July 30: People’s Action for Development (PAD), an NGO, conducted Youth Training-cum-Career Counseling programme supported by Terre des Hommes at Jagriti Sanmilit Unnayan Kendra, Bangalmora, North Lakhimpur today. Around 60 youths from the project villages under PAD were present in the training programme. The resource persons of the programme were Kamal Mili, a professor in Philosophy department of Pub-Dikrong College, Bihpuria and Jyotimoni Saikia, Librarian of the same college.The Deputy Director of People’s Action for Development (PAD) Philipson Sona elucidated the purpose of the training programme which was to empower the Youth through Career Guidance. The Livelihood Coordinator John Tirkey gave a brief presentation of the organization PAD to highlight the activities engaged currently. The Documentation and Advocacy Manager Nomita Bilung said, “Let’s learn and grow together by exchanging ideas through active interaction during the whole session”. Kamal Mili shared his life journey and his service to the community since the time of his pursuit of a Bachelor Degree. He was grateful to the PAD Organization as the Organization focuses on Equality and Justice. "We are fortunate enough to know such an organization who is helping by reaching out to the people to help the helpless in sustainable development," Kamal Mili commented when he delivered a speech on Career and skill development. He said,"We have two systems within us. One is hardware and the other is software. The outward appearance of us is hardware and what we think and implement is software. We need to manage, on our daily basis,these systems within us to identify ourselves. During graduation or after graduation try to prepare for civil service exams.' He explained about life in a simple way by citing examples. "One day we have to die. Therefore, we need to beautifully write our own chapters of life and proceed ahead through all ups and downs by tackling all the consequences vividly and to enjoy life without any regret till our last breath," he further said. He also highlighted on some of the causes of present day youth's dishonest activities and mental health such as getting addicted in drugs, less perseverance on career, patientless, focus on quantity rather than quality to get easy money, getting involved in immoral games and destroying themselves, misuse of social media platform that affects a person’s personality and growth. The programme concluded with a resolution to find out some skill developments in online platform and get enrolled on it.
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