Young Environmentalists Programme Trust
Young Environmentalists Programme trust is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive environment change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and sustainable planet. Its goal is to place the community and youth agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by expert members and driven by a large number of committed partners from around the world.
How It Began?
The Young Environmentalists Programme builds on the main legacy of environmental reach out for natural disasters. biodiversity zones, tribal empowerment, community campaigns and education. The NGO started with research, reach out and social impact action for upliftment of the underprivileged during the 2004 international calamity of mega Mumbai city floods.
In particular, the strategic campaigns come as a direct response to the need for partnerships between governments and civil society organizations, local authorities, the private sector, the research community, schools, colleges, parliamentarians, professional organizations, youth and women groups, in order to achieve sustainable urban/rural development. Campaigns to mobilize networks of partners to implement shared vision of sustainable planet. a a Empowering the youth and communities to plan for and effectively manage adversity and change.