Mr.Suneel & Mrs. Pallavi of Nada India Foundation attended the joint workshop of IOGTand IFNGO in Kuching Malaysia from 9th Dec.-13th Dec 2008
Mr.Suneel & Mrs. Pallavi of Nada India Foundation attended the joint workshop of IOGT International and IFNGO in Kuching Malaysia from 9th Dec.-13th Dec 2008 . Nada India Foundation is member of IOGT International and IFNGO ....
....It was an event with highly involved participants and both experienced and prestigious guests. The 430 delegates experienced three days of new information, dedicated people and the diversity and richness of Borneo. The whole conference was opened by a lecture on alcohol presented by Mr David Templeman from ADCA Australia and was followed by the IOGT International President Sven-Olov Carlsson who gave his view on the alcohol situation in Southeast Asia. The topic of gateway drugs has not previously had such a prominent position in an IFNGO workshop although the full name of the organisation is "for the Prevention of Drug and Substance Abuse". During the course of the conference there were many topics and themes presented such as the role of religions, methods, tools and effective approaches and capacity building of NGOs. Parallel to the conference was a youth workshop with altogether 40 participants from IFNGO as well as IOGT member organisations. IFNGO has now declared that there will be a youth conference also at the next regional as well as international workshop. The youth also participated in some of the lectures and in the dinners of the main workshop and they presented the needs the youths to be active in the field of alcohol and drug prevention and how the organisations could work together. The IOGT participants came from the region as well as Europe and made up for about 100 of the conference participants. Both India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iran and Sweden were represented as well as the Board. At the special session for IOGT members the participants agreed that IOGT should start to formulate points that should be included in a global alcohol policy to be used when every organisation goes to lobby their national governments and to work together with GAPA to formulate the common proposal for NGOs. …
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