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| Thursday, 11 December 2003 |
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Peace Camps to educate youth on peace process by Uditha Kumarasinghe The National Youth Services Council (NYSC) together with the Sri Lanka Youth Club Federation has implemented a flagship program to educate youth attached to Youth Clubs on the Government's peace initiative. This programme is implemented with the full sponsorship of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process. Three days peace camps will be conducted at district level to educate youth on the peace initiative and seek their contribution to make the peace process a success, a NYSC spokesman told the Daily News yesterday. He said 100 youth will be selected to each peace camp held at district level representing Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim youth club members. Youth club members at Divisional Secretariat level will be educated on the Government's peace initiative with the assistance of the 100 youth who had participated in the district level peace camp. The three-day peace camp will conduct eight lectures to educate youth on the history of country's ethnic conflict and the process of devolution of power, advantages gained from the peace initiative, socio-economic problems created by the ethnic conflict, LTTE proposals and the role of the Sri Lankan youth towards the peace process, he said. During these three days, attention will be focused on exchanging ideas between youth and settling their problems. Sports and cultural activities will also be conducted, he said. He said the initial peace camp under this program was held at the NYSC Vocational Training Centre, Moneragala from November 11 to 13. Four peace camps have already been conducted at Moneragala, Ampara, Batticaloa and Matara districts. The NYSC will conduct two peace camps in Trincomalee (from December 12 to 14) and Vavuniya (from December 19 to 21) districts. At present, 6743 Youth Clubs operate throughout the country with a total membership of 222,263 youth including North-East areas. Nearly 987 Youth Clubs operate in the North-East including Jaffna (158), Ampara (405), Batticaloa (184), Trincomalee (134), Vavuniya (68), Mullaitivu (25) and Kilinochchi (13). |
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