Everyone has different talents

October 2006

Highlights:

New Generation Chekalovsk:
Youth Life held an outreach in the City of Chekalovsk, this was the first big event Youth Life had held since the summer. The focus of this outreach was to encourage young people to see the importance of Education and how it opens doors for their future. The programme consisted of dance, break dance, drama, a small montage about education, businesses, and of course lots of fun and games.

Youth Life hired a public building in Chekalovsk, they set up everything themselves, decorations, prepared the presenters, there were young people who were ushers and helpers, businesses were set up and lots of planning and organizing was done, the Director of the building that was being hired commented on how well the young leaders had organized and planned the whole event and welcomed them back again at any time.

Tajik Dance group performing at the concert in Chekalovsk

Clubs started
After 6 weeks of planning and asking for permission from different places Youth Life launched its 29 clubs for the academic year 2006 -2007. Children and young people from 4 different cities started to pour back into the youth clubs for another year of activities and fun.

One of the clubs having a good time

Angela Young visits again:
Angela is an English lady who visits the work in Tajikistan regularly she has worked with youth organizations most of her life and she comes to encourage and challenge the work to grow stronger. This visit astonished Angela as it was the first time she had seen the young leaders leading the work totally. She commented on how well the team was working and how the work was growing. She plans to visit the work again this year to encourage more and maybe bring some containers too.

Angela with Eldar at a Concert

Multimedia takes off:
Vitea who is a great youth leader found an article in the newspaper advertising a media competition in Dushanbe the Capital of Tajikistan. To qualify for the competition you needed to send a TV clip to the organization in Dushanbe within a certain time. He managed to get everything together and won a place on the seminar. In Dushanbe he found out that more than 40 people applied mostly from TV stations and only 8 were selected, he was one of the 8. His vision now for Multi media has really taken off and a business is growing to help Youth Life and the young people it is envisioning.

Vitea is responsible for Youth Life Multi Media