By Aanvi Chauhan | Community Action Team, Nada India Foundation | July 2025 Today’s ActOn Youth Forum wasn’t just another event on the calendar — it was a spark. A lived experience. A safe space where young voices were not just heard, but valued. As an intern at Nada India Foundation, I had the opportunity to co-create and witness this platform, where learning merged with lived realities, and conversations turned into calls for action. Our focus was bold and clear: Good Health and Well-being — not as a distant SDG, but as a shared responsibility . And at the center of this vision stood the youth. Youth as Communicators: Making Health Human Again One of the biggest barriers in community health is complexity — of language, of systems, of stigma. What if young people could simplify it? We believe they can. Youth can be trained to demystify health issues like mental health, menstruation, or vaccinations using local languages, relatable stories, and creative formats — think street ...
Young India Network is a youth (14-30 years) driven network for the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and its risk factors, formed with a vision of having a meaningful involvement of youth and People Living With NCDs in the advocacy of health agenda in India with a primary focus on alcohol and drug use as major risk factors for both communicable and NCDs. It aims to contribute in achieving the Goal 3 of Sustainable Development Goals,ensuring healthy lives .