Few days back when I was celebrating New Year night with my friends I was thinking that we always welcome new-year with some promises and commitments but can young people meet these promises and commitments alone I personally think never. I agree that young people are more optimistic but to achieve goals and desired results we must collaborate with adults especially with government’s functionaries. I hope that all the young people who are active to make a positive social change in their communities will think on this and I wish them all the best for 2003 and hope that their dreams for this year come true.

I always think that every human come in the world to perform some specific job and my recent meeting with Rick Little (President, International Youth Foundation) in Bangkok give more support to my belief. Rick’s childhood was full of pain and he brought up in a disturb family and then gradually he started to empower himself. Initially he failed but as he was committed to the cause and persistent he achieved what he desire. Although it was my first meeting with him but I wonder why I feel that I know him for a long time and we have much unanimity of views. I’m extremely inspired by him and it my hearty desire after meeting him to work on his pattern.

Hey folks!! today I am leaving for bankok to attend the first youth action net workshop.Let me give you some information about Youth Action Net.YAN is a program of International Youth Foubdation in partnership with Nokia foundation and aimed to give some mini grants (awards) to the youth leaders of the communities to sustain their projects that are serving their communities and also to train them for the better administration of their projects.