IYC and Project Green Channel

"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." - Robert Kennedy

Youth’s are always keen to learn something new from environment. In today’s society, youths are facing some severe problem which is related to environment. They should be concerned about the initiatives that take part in creating a whole new world with a gentle environment. By stepping forward some youths among us take an initiative for educating Bangladeshi youth to be Eco Friendly. So here’s the story of Project Green Channel begins.

As Project Green Channel is an educating program to change the views of youth what they usually avoid so it need much more contribution and support to run smoothly. So some renowned youth organization showed their interest to run the project jointly. IYC-International Youth Council-Bangladesh Chapter is one of them.

Youth’s are always expecting the best result of their contribution. They work hard to do their best and in return they want no personal feedback but to make changes in the society. Following this strategy IYC   started their journey with participation in the Project Green Channel.

IYC labeled them as one of the coordinator so they took the responsibility to organize and created a list of participants who were interested to be a volunteer. Duties were provided to IYC and the organizers from IYC turned those tasks as challenges as it was their first project they gained. IYC organizers called several meetings to create a balance for co-operating the organizers; here we learned how to make a decision within a short time with prioritize everyone’s thought. We the organizers from IYC did the name tags and took the in charge of distributing those to the participants of Green Channel.

Project Green Channel was divided into three categories;

1.      Workshop

2.      Marathon Cleaning Program

3.      Envi-outcomes

Workshop program was set for two days 4^th and 5^th July. IYC divided their 70 participants into two schedules. Each schedule contains 35 participants. In our first day on workshop IYC members were participated happily though the whole program was not perfectly organized yet what we expect. But we considered this and hope for next day program will be organized. In our first day workshop IYC participants learned how to make papers by using waste papers and Kachuripanas. In lunch time break participants were provided by food where IYC organizers were took the in charge of doing this. And in the last session of workshop participants were encouraged to a competition of food-composting. And we are glad to mention that our IYC participants took the 1^st and 3^rd place in the competition. So that proves much for IYC how to compete!!

In our second day on workshop everything was same as before but it was perfectly organized than the first workshop. And vigorously our IYC participants showed their best in the last session competition. So definitely we can say IYC rules!!

Well continuing here something is hidden which seems as dirty truth. But ultimately there’s no chance to hide it and focus something else. All that glitters is not gold! May be it would be a happy ending for IYC organizers and participants in Project Green Channel. But following some reasons IYC quite from the project. We never say it was because we are unfortunate rather we say that we are luckily fortunate that we can save our beloved organization from any kind of bad effects which can destroyed our reputation. After all Charity begins at home!

A little learning is a dangerous thing! It happened because of some so called youth those who took initiative for educating Bangladeshi youth have some problems as they are not highly organized and lack of access knowledge about running a big program. They are not highly mannered. Even they are desperate to behave arrogantly with the other organizers. It seems Empty vessel sounds much!  It is always a true fact that if a school of people were not organized and committed and never shows little respect to others  it will definitely broken by any times. Because there is no strings attached.

Here came the turning point. Every program has some positive and negative effect. With out these two aspects a program can not be judged in a right way. Project Green Channel surely has some great influence to the youth but its negative aspects can not make us satisfied. That’s why IYC is no longer attached with them. And we the IYC members think that it is the best decision ever we made as we started our journey in the society as an infant. But do not forget that infants are learning by stumbling. So we wish that Project Green Channel members will be able to learn from their program by recovering their faults. And for IYC we must pretend like Good wines needs no bush!