Young India Network for Good Health

ILO launches global photo contest "WORK4YOUTH" The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. Zoom in for the top prize! The ILO Youth Employment Programme is launching a photo contest focusing on young people at work. The photo contest has been organized in partnership with the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest , and financed by The MasterCard Foundation . The objective of the contest is to highlight the challenges young people face in the workplace, as well as innovative ideas to address them. Photos submitted by participants should capture youth at work (in different places and under various conditions) in a creative and original manner. Photographers are invited to focus specifically on working conditions, gender barriers, disc...

29th Nov,201 2,Mehrauli New Delhi     On an invitation from Nehru Yuvak Kendra (South District Delhi), Suneel Vatsyayan ,Chairman, Nada India conducted  an interactive session with adolescents yo ung leaders (boys & girls) from Gitorni,Rajpur, Mandi, Mehrauli, Chattarpur villages of South Delhi. session was chaired and facilitated by Mr. Virender Singh District coordinator of Nehr u Yuvak Kendra ( South district) .Mr.Vatsyayan a long w ith  Ms. Pallavi discussed in detail issues re lated to correction fluid, tobacco ,alcohol and drug abuse prevention,treatment and rehabilitation. Young leaders raised many questions and shared their experiences on issues r elated to drug abuse in their respective villages and schools. According to the children, t here is general increase in the use of tobacco and correction fluid among school going and out of the school population in the slums and urbanized villages in so uth Delhi. Children also shared their commit...

Sunday, Dec 16, 2012 The parent trap Manisha Pande / New Delhi Dec 15, 2012, 00:46 IST .....“Parents give out conflicting signals to their children because they want to be ‘friends’ with them while being figures of authority, and that is where the problem begins,” says Suneel Vatsyayan , relationship counsellor at New Delhi’s Nada India Foundation . Vatsyayan says that while it’s important to have a “friendly” atmosphere at home and leave all channels of communication open, parents cannot and should not aspire to be friends. “You can create a democratic and participatory environment at home for your children without giving in to their every whim and fancy,” he adds. The most important step is for parents to first figure out their own value system and how it has changed with times, and then verbalise it for their children..... Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-parent-trap/495592/

Raised in the true Indian wrestling tradition of milk-and-ghee, alcohol was never his thing. So, when a leading liquor brand offered Sushil Kumar Rs. 50 lakh to appear in a surrogate ad, the London Olympics silver medallist said a firm no. “I didn’t want to be associated with a liquor brand in any form as it would send a wrong signal to the youth,” said Kumar, the only Indian to win two back-to-back individual Olympic medals. Surrogate ads involve promoting banned products such as cigarettes and alcohol in the guise of another product. “The sporting tradition that I have been raised in values discipline way above money,” he said. Kumar’s bronze medal triumph in Beijing four summers ago earned him celebrity status and after the 29-year-old changed “the colour of his medal” in London, his place in Indian sporting history was sealed. Starved of youth icons —other than cricketers — advertisers found a star in Kumar, who endorses Mountain Dew, Eicher tractors a...

Ban alcohol, demand Maharashtra's Chandrapur tribals Newstrack India Chandrapur (Maharashtra), Oct 7 (IANS) Tribal women from Maharashtra's Chandrapur have sent 80,000 postcards to Chief Miniter Prithviraj Chavan asking to make the district liquor-free, a social activist said Sunday. "This is a last-ditch effort by the ... < http://www.newstrackindia.com /newsdetails/2012/10/07/213-- Ban-alcohol-demand-Maharashtra -s-Chandrapur-tribals-.html >

Teenagers and young adults are particularly vulnerable to using licit or illicit drugs. The prevalence of drug use among young people is more than twice as high as that among the general population. At this age, peer pressure to experiment with illicit drugs can be strong and self-esteem is often low. Also, those who take drugs tend to be either misinformed or insufficiently aware of the health risks involved. Focus Studies have proved that people who start smoking cigarettes and/or drink alcohol at a young age are much more likely to experiment with legal and illegal drugs tha n people who do not smoke or drink. This is the reason why Nada India has been reaching out to the young people by organizing a series of artistic events like painting competition and theater by Deep group with slogan The slogan was "Think of Health not the drugs" Aim Nada India aims to raise awareness of the major problem that legal and illegal   drugs represent to society. No individual, family or c...

State seeks ban on alcohol, smoking scenes in films Indian Express The state government said on Monday it wanted a ban on alcohol and smoking scenes in movies and would request the Centre to amend laws. Minister of state for social justice and de-addiction activities Sachin Ahir told reporters the government had taken ... < http://www.indianexpress.com/ news/state-seeks-ban-on-alcoho l-smoking-scenes-in-films/ 1010635/ >