Young India Network for Good Health

Expressing solidarity with people of Vietnam and supporting comprehensive alcohol policy solutions in open letter to Prime Minister, Health Minister, and National Assembly Chair To: H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam H.E. Vu Duc Dam, Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam H.E. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Minister of Health H.E. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Chairwoman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam H.E. Nguyen Thuy Anh, Chairwoman, National Assembly Social Affairs Committee Your Excellency, It is our distinct honor and privilege to address You by way of this letter. We are the assembled delegates of the 69th Session of the IOGT International World Congress. Founded in 1851, IOGT International is today the largest global network for evidence- based policy solutions and community-based interventions to prevent and reduce alcohol harm. We, the delegates from more than 40 countries, are wri...

Vindhya during Pre-conference Youth Workshop with a smile...    Nada India youth health advocate at the Second Global NCD Alliance Forum (7-11 December 2017) On December 7-11, Nada India’s youth advocate Vindhya was at the pre forum youth workshop and the second Global NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates! The second Global NCD Alliance Forum was organized by the NCD Alliance (NCDA) in partnership with local host organization, Friends of Cancer Patients (FoCP). 350 members of the NCD movement from 68 countries attended the Forum from 9 – 11 December in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. This year, an increased number of youth delegates and people living with NCDs participated in this unique event, which reflected the Forum’s objective to promote the engagement of the next generation and people living with NCDs as central parts of the NCD movement. Vindhya was among the 22 youth delegates who called on their peers, CSO and government to step up the p...

Youth 4 well being group demands for strict action against a liquor licensee (restaurant/bar owner/seller) for supplying alcohol to underage people... the group further added that y oung people are victims of marketing strategies of alcohol industry and should be protected... The next time you offer an underage friend or relative a drink at a restro-bar, be prepared to face a pep talk from excise department officials. The Delhi government’s excise department has decided to counsel and take written undertakings from customers in pubs and restro-bars who are caught sharing or ordering liquor for friends/relatives under 25 years in age. Sources in the department said teams would conduct surprise checks at restro-bars across the city. “People often come in to lounge bars, order drinks and pass it on to their underage friends or relatives. We have decided to go have a chat with anyone doing so and ask them to give a written undertaking that they won’t offer liquor to an underage pe...

Healing process starts once you take away the alcohol & bring people together: Suneel Vatsyayan , Founder NADA India Foundation # UdtaBihar  #NCDs @ncdalliance  #ncdalliance  Udta Bihar: Huge spike in substance abuse, alcohol bootlegging year after ban The India Today investigation discovered Bihar might just be going the Udta Punjab way, with alcohol prohibition opening new floodgates to addiction. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-exclusive-investigation-udta-bihar-black-marketing-alcohol-drugs-ban/1/968459.html

Let Us Talk: Developing Connections And Empowering Communities For Well-Being by   Suneel Vatsyayan Posted on Mar 23 '17,  Community roots, community reach Chanda (name changed), along with eight other peer educators with a similar background, regularly visits families in an urban slum of New Delhi to talk with them about diabetes, hypertension, cancer and alcohol and tobacco. These peer educators are 15- to 18-year old students and are living in the same community where they conduct their interventions. That makes it easier for them to understand and to make a connection with the families they meet. Five out of nine peer educators share how their fathers were addicted to alcohol and despite being girls how they managed to make their fathers understand and help them overcome addiction. Building on their own stories and being able to rely on their intimate understanding of the community, the peer educators, like Chanda, are able to rela...

The countdown is on. We're gearing up for the Global Drink Revolution Day, October 3rd. That is 8 months from now. We will fill the time with epic content and inspiring stuff because let's be real, we have no time to waste on our mission to shatter a harmful alcohol norm and to celebrate the alcohol-free lifestyle. Cheers Up Gear up! Fact number 1. There is stigma around alcohol problems. Fact number 2. The stigma is very dangerous. Fact number 3. The stigma is maintained by many nice people without any bad intentions but lacking knowledge about alcohol problems. Fact number 4. The stigma is fuelled by an industry that would crash on the stock market if fact number 1 would be false. Let us take it step by step The stigma around alcohol means that people with alcohol problems are often categorised as losers lacking morality or having a flawed character. Another part of the stigma is the belief that the people with alcohol problems are o...

Wonderful Youth Initiative on Women's Day Celebration - This is the way to go Young India. International Women's Day 2015 smile emoticon . We have celebrated at the most prime spot of our Nation ' THE INDIA Gate' , New Delhi with the inspiration from IOGT International ( www.iogt.org ) President Kristina Sperkova, supported by Amardeep India and ITYF. This is the most memorable occasion in the demonstration of silent heart driven support to women. Amardeep along with . Nada India  joined  Indian Temperance Youth Federation - ITYF  initiative a at India Gate on 8th March..

Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook In India, alcohol is not as common as in the Western world (remember: Europe is the region in the world that consumes alcohol most heavily.). Alcohol in India is a controlled and luxury item unlike packaged water or juice. But also India is burdened by alcohol harm and therefore we advocate for better regulations on local and state level as well as for a national alcohol policy. Some regulations are in place already. For instance regulations concerning labelling and packaging. The bottle and package design gives the alcohol product a deceptive identity instead of introducing the customer to the ingredients honestly. Alcoholic beverages are not classified as single ingredient foods and so the manufacturer in foreign countries needs to follow the labelling requirement as per “The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India” (  http://www.fssai.gov.in/ ) (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011. Recently this measure has...