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Bridge of Smile , is an organization for students and is conducted also by students. Bridge of Smile creates an opportunity for the young people to look at the situations in developing countries and become interested in them. Making use of that opportunity, we focus on increasing the number of young people, including ourselves, who can actively think and take action for themselves. Currently, there are many Japanese young people who obtain information about developing counties through the media. However, it is likely that those people have a hard time knowing how the people in developing countries are living, what kind of thoughts they have, what kind of problems there are, and how Japanese people are working at the grass roots level in those countries. This lack of understanding could lead to a difficulty to raise the young people’s motivation to learn more about the current situations in developing countries. In such a status quo, we create an opportunity especially for the st...

Now Adolescent Policy The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development initiated the dialogue for separate “adolescent policy”.  According to them, India has a sizable adolescent population and there is no adolescent policy. On initiative of Institute, the meeting of experts of the field was held in institute’s campus on 5 th  October 2011. Dr. S. N. Subba Rao, Chairman, Indian Committee of Youth Organization (ICYO) attended the meeting

Rising consumerism poses challenges Category:   Development ,  Family ,  Freedom ,  Marketing ,  Poverty ,  Prevention ,  Social costs Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook “I deserve to be different from others . I belong to the new consuming class  because I worked for it. I earned it .  This is a better way to prove my social mobility by having a right (still limited right as per income ) to consume,” says Anil, 30 year old from  Delhi NCR Gurgoan  who working in a Multi National Company. The new class, consuming class, is found among the traditional middle class in India, especially in metropolitan cities.  This is really a market driven new identity  which is built on a happy or unhappy past. People would like to keep this consuming class identity as a sign of success. In a recent  Hindustan Times news paper  article with the headline “The many classes  in the middle” the  writer Rama Bijapur...