Anxiety into Action: YUWA’s Fight for the Himalayas

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It's about 78, closer to 80, which again, when you put that in India, that would probably mean quite a chunk amount of people. Like 78 schools, I don't know what is the average, perhaps you have a number on the top of your head, but I would imagine that we are reaching the 100,000 maybe for just like not all the people that actively participate in the activities that you make, but the impact, the secondary impact that you have in the program, just by reaching these institutions. Do you have a number just, so far? - Thank you. - There you go. - So we have engaged so first of all, I've worked, I forgot to mention was that Cuba started in 2023, right? Base four years is working since 2012, but you were started two years past. First year was pilot, we were doing that, we were trying that if it is going to work or not, it works successfully. And then second year was last year, 2024 to 25. And now we are in the third year of this model. Okay, so if I talk about numbers in 2023 and in 2024, we engaged with 70 plus institutions and we engaged with more than 2000 students in colleges and in what I say, in from schools. And if I only talk about clean up drives, which were conducted by the youth, it approximately 80 clean up drives we youth has done. And of this, I think I have to, 80 plus clean up drives we have done so far. With youth and we have diverted 10 metric kind of base from Lancel which has gone to the material recovery facility centers of base four years. And after then from that center, we try to recover the base which can be recovered and we send it to recycling facilities. We have engaged with 70 plus schools and colleges joined who have joined hence proving that learning was beyond classroom and with 80 plus clean up drives and 10 metric plus a base diverted from Lancel which was done awareness into action. Pro-mass mobilizers are efforts have reached to 20,000 people and which have false conversations on climate change over 25,000 climate positive actions were taken from eco-brids to making different sort of activities and we have also collaborated with 55 NGOs which are youth power and amplified building real change through real collaboration. No, congratulations. You have done a lot, especially for you tonight for ways of climate change because you guys have been active for relatively short time. The world three years is not that mode, which talks a lot about your leadership and about the passion that you and your team has about the topic which leads me to the next topic and it's about your team is about the people around you and helping you make this change because the changes that we do social innovation as one of the previous guests in this podcast said it cannot be done alone either just one institution by itself or one person by itself is very, very hard. So I don't know if you want to share a little bit about the team that is with you, that is working with you to make this change. Yeah, I am very happy to share your about my team. So basically we are a team of 7 to 8 people in Yuba, right? There is a one person who is fully dedicated to planning, you know, managing the whole project. Also in ways for years what we have as a consultant that we do not associate ourselves with the position. We, everyone is a warrior. So I'll talk about there is one warrior who is fully dedicated to lead the project to from planning to execution to see sort of things that things are going well or not. There is out there are some person dedicated to out reach only including me. I and there are two three person who are on ground who are doing advocacy efforts, who are making out reach efforts. And there is one person who is dedicated to the motion media also. So yeah, so we have a team of 7 to 8 people and we have different roles. There are, for example, climate chopper is conducted by Oshnika, she takes care of it. We have one segment of green skilling and green job that is taken by another team member of ours. And I actively work with change makers because I myself being the change maker since the project started in 2023. I was the beneficiary. I was the volunteer of you of waste warriors. And then in 2024, I have joined the team because my kind of journey started with the epolumptics, the competition only. So yes, so I closely work with change makers, how to build a relationship with them, how to, how we can support them. And we also have a monthly gathering called change makers meet, which happen every month where we discuss how should the movement go ahead, how is movement going, what are the challenges, what are the barriers. We also try to take some actions in clean up, like we organize, we do identify civic issues, we try to solve them. So that kind of thing we do as change makers communities. Yeah, so as I mentioned that we have full fledged team dedicated to planning, to execution, to do so many things apart from these change makers, maybe even the organization of the whole competition is also very, very big task for us because from doing the communication part, from designing, from graphic designing, everything we do as a team only, we are people of eight members. And the canvassing is handled by someone, then outreach part is handled by someone. That's how we work in team. And yes, leadership role is very important. And our team is kind of very passionate about bringing those change makers on board, working with you, how to each time we have this meeting, where we discuss why of this event, right, if we are organizing climate, if we are organizing change makers, if we are organizing equal umfigs, why we are doing this, every month, this has to go, girls, honest, we are organizing competitions every year. Why, what is, why of this time, right? Last time, why was different? This time, why was different? Activities as our design according to that, why and then we work on what we have to do and then how we are going to achieve it. So that's how the very popular formula of why, what and how is kind of inculcated in our blood now that whatever we are going to do, we are going to apply that. Yes. Well, amazing. Eight people reaching out and glory with 78, I don't know if you're going to collaborate with all of them at the same time, but it's still like 78, and listen to years, three years and a half, use eight full staff people that that speaks a lot about the passion of you and your team. Yeah. So I hope that you are also thinking, I'm curious because I can look as a 34 year old. Yeah, young energy gets you a lot of places, but then you're going to have to be, then you're going to be tired when you get older. So I hope you are, if people are resting enough, that you play hard, but that you work hard, but that also play, play or rest hard, I don't know, that depends on you. But it is very important and so amazing. So even now. I hope one, two mentioned one thing that I've lived for years, our culture is so and such that if we are not ourselves taking care of ourselves, right, then our team member is so and such that they are going to us. So are you doing okay? You need to rest. Are you feeling this? You need to rest. You need to do this. So as a team, we take care of each other. We take care of each other's skills. And among 200 warriors, this spirit is, you know, carry forward that we have to take care of you, Thomas. We have to take care is there is no kind of, you know, but now if we are taking proper health, recently we had a health checkup at waste four years only, supported by waste four years only. of all the warriors. So that kind of activities we try to do, we have super Saturdays doing, to where we can do our learning there, we can play games. We have a self care day even. We had self care day in April even, because after all reporting done, all the planning of the full flush, you know, hustle of the year, what we did, what are at waste warriors decided that, we take a self care day to, you know, reward ourselves for that. So that type of culture is, you know, very encouraged at waste warriors. And I am very proud that this is my first job. And I got to work with waste warriors. And I am seeing this kind of leadership, where leaders are taking care of, very mild new things of you. If you are improving or not, if you are struggling somewhere, let us know they are there for you anytime. They are there for you for course, the things also in waste warriors, the culture is not of, you know, dictatorship leadership. We do not follow that. We follow mentorship kind of leadership. So yes, every senior is your mentor here. That is so good to hear because, yes, as social innovators, people can sometimes forget that, well, you also need to rest. And you can really work on the change that you want to see if you are exhausted and just tired every day. So it is good that you all are taking care of yourself as a community. Before we go through the middle of the interview, I want to ask you, you, you're united against a waste and climate change, climate action, sorry. You're in a very interesting position because although you are independent to a point, you also are part of voice works, right? So when you started, what was some of the challenges that you need to face? Usually a lot of the challenges that people come through is like, yeah, well, we didn't have that much credibility or people outside of the community were like, I trust you because you just came out of nowhere more or less. But you are in a very specific situation where you more or less have the backup of the organization. So I don't know if you can share a little bit on how, what was the difference there? Well, we're the challenges that you guys face starting this movement. - Oh, there's so, as I mentioned, that we have just started in 2020, so there is not such any kind of major challenge we face, but we are continuing engagement with your retention of you. That sort of thing is we face. And as I said that we are very new, so we are trying and we are working on strategies, how we can engage, how we can maintain that long-term relationship. As of now, I will say that challenges are coming and we are trying to solve them. We have strategy to solve them. We look challenges as not problems or not to sit by if we are facing some kind of challenges. We have some plans. We try to figure out if this is a challenge, how we can solve, how to identify challenges. So that's how we are going right now. And so as of journey, if I tell you about, of you, what we have decided we are doing in first year, it was final, we just organized competition and shoppers. And then we were in second year, our strategy was to identify some active youth, some youth who are conscious about environment and climate change. We were proactively finding those youth who want to contribute. And then last year we were successful in finding those youth. And now we have a community of 32 young change makers who are leading their journey. How there is one person, Prajya, who has cleared one ton of ways from an area from a mountain side area. He has cleared one ton of ways by organizing two cleanup drives. He has with the support of his four years. He is a BTEC first year student in the university here in the Haradun. And there is Ratchena, she's a working professional. But she faced the problem of illegal dumping in her neighborhood area. She attended Choppal and then after attending Choppal, she realized that in her community, there is a place which where in people do illegal dumping. So she kind of fixed it with the support of these four years and with the support of municipal corporation, she took the role of advocacy. She kind of become advocate of change that time. And now the illegal dumping has dropped there. There is another girl, Charleen, who was going, who used to go through her 14. She is preparing for defense here in India. So she used to see a lot of ways in when she used to go to the opposing at an area. So she reached out base four years through email proposal. And we kind of very happy about her proposal, how she has curated all this thing. That is why we say that youth has potential. So she has prepared the whole plan, how she want to do it, what she has identified. She kind of coordinated with the community people over there of the area. And then she also contacted ward counselor there. And then with the support of these four years, we supported her with the clubs and years all required in clean up drive. She kind of cleared the ways from there. And she also cleared 500 kg of waste from that area. And that was again sent to the material recovery facility center of waste four years. So that's how our change makers now solving climate change related problems, place related issues. There are some change makers who have, as I mentioned earlier, who have completely changed their life that they carry steel weapons all the time with themselves. Because India is a very populist country that people are very food loving to. There are some stalls at stalls. People have disposable so our change makers with crowds say no to disposable, no to single use items. And they just take that difference and they eat in those different boxes. So that's how these are enabling actions, which are initiated and executed by youth only. And waste four years is providing enough nudges. 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I'm glad to hear that you have a whole ecosystem to make it happen. And even though I'm really, I'm more linked to the idea of the real change that it can happen is by forcing the government and the institutions to be like, "Hey, you producers of plastic one time, this possible material." Don't do it that. It's just bad idea. Don't do it anymore. I also agree that change can come from the bottom up, which would be in this case, what do you guys do? And which is people just just just played up, being like, "I'm not going to use one time this possible item." Like, "I have a year, I'm brave to eat, I'm not going to use this specifically pork or knife, or whatever that is just one time this possible item." Which, again, it takes, it's going to take a long time, but it is a way of doing it. And I wouldn't be surprised that a few years from now, the ways in the region of, "I'm going to say it so bad, but please correct me." - What's the name of that? - What's the name of that? - Yeah. - Yeah. We'll be reduced quite a lot because, well, people will just have their own shit with them, sorry, no shit, you know, they're on gear with them going around. But talking about the challenges, talking about the things that are something to be applauded and to be celebrated, I want to go through the middle part of the interview and ask you two very important questions. The first question is, what is the fuck, what is the mistake or perhaps some action and responsibility that you said in retrospective, of course, I could have done this better. This is a learning experience for me, this is a learning experience for the organization. And it's not to make you feel bad, this is normal to be human. And if it all for a little bit, it is normal to make mistakes. What is important about this question is, how people can also see that, hey, is Rhea, who is coordinating eight people, who by themselves are promoting social change and are promoting something so important that is the conservation of the environment, can make mistakes and learn from them and keep going so can I, who not necessarily has switched this far into the work, into the trail that you need to make. The other question is, why is the moment that you feel that makes you the proudest? What is that achievement? It can be a personal one, it can be an organization, a one that you say, this is why I wake up every day in the morning because I want this to happen again. You decide which question you want to start with. I leave a microphone for you. It is also valid to not answer the first question if you don't feel like it, it's your decision. - Okay, so as a person, I am very kind of optimistic person. If I have done any kind of mistakes in my past, I have taken them very gently, that's, oh, it's a learning, and I actually don't focus on them as, you know, that what type of thing I have submitted. So that is why I don't remember those times, you know, those low moments. Yeah, sometimes it may happen that I may get very much fired, that I may have not taken care of myself. That things may happen and then I realize, okay, I need to take care of myself also because the mission for which I am working on needs a very active, we are needs an energetic, we are, I have some people who look up to me, so I can't be like that. So that's how I can say, as a team too, we can say that for youth, we try to give our best as our team also comprises of youth only. So I don't absolutely remember any kind of such point, such low point where we were like, maybe in future, since we are in the starting phase, we are in the developing phase. Yes, mistakes are part of life, but as I said that I am a person, very optimistic person in nature that I have always considered, all mistakes as learning, and I don't believe in, you know, holding behind those. So I actually get forgot, I have forgotten, then very easily, and I am not very forgiving person, so I forgive myself also. So that is why I don't, you know, we focus on both more, we focus on what we can do more. So yeah, these kind of things, that's why I don't have sorry, and disappointing you, and I think the large audience that how can this possible, but yeah, and talking about the motivation to go at both. So yes, motivation is this only that I am myself a youth. I am 24 years old, and I have a long way to go, right? So, and wastewater has given me that opportunity that I have, I wanted to work in the sector of women's side, but then after doing epholumptics, I realized this is something that I want to do, this is something where I can contribute. I saw the bigger problem, how waste is related to, you know, the other aspects of problem, social problems as well, because in waste we have this menstrual hygiene thing to, to these all other interling, right? If we are not taking care of these menstrual hygiene practices in India, there are still some ladies who do not use chemicals, they use, you know, clothes or these they grass. So, waste in waste, what else we are working on, that sector as well. So, this is how, you know, the problem is very much interling, so we are introducing waste in a rural community, which has this conventional method of practices like using steel but, steel utensils to eat, but now in seeds, now in the cultural community events, they have also used a started using the sposibles. So, this is how the problem has grown. I have seen this as interling problem, like yes, I wanted to work with women and child, I was pursuing masters in social work. So, that's how I had an idea of that there are some social problems, but the growing problem is the problem which people are not talking about as this, people are talking about education, people are talking about poverty, but no one is talking about how waste that is, that gets born in village areas, that is, you know, creating health hazards to people. And then it is the health hazards are not so simple, you know, cold or cough, it is leading to cancer related problems. How the communities do not have funds to, you know, to cure these type of big sickness, big illness. So, that's how I see it. And if we talk, if we talk about achievement at Yuba, so the formation of change makers, that was the biggest highlight, then I joined in, there were some change makers, two, three, four. And then after this equal umpix, the hunt went on and I started talking with people, with youth, what I realized that everyone wants to contribute, but that they need a right guidance, how can they do. So in Yuba, we try to provide that in terms of green-skilling workshops as well, in terms of green jobs, workshops as well as we also wanted to apply mental mentee concept, anytime you fall as we are there for you, because you need that right guidance, right? I also at my coming from a science background, I also feel that if someone has told me in my, you know, very starting age of studies, that there is this development sector also where you can contribute, you do not have to do government job to serve, you can serve. I would have really appreciated that guidance. So we are trying to provide that guidance to you. Achievements are those change makers who are taking community level issues and solving them achievement is one of our change makers, what's selected to icon fellowship. Now she will be working in Bhutan or in Bhutan or in Nepal that are different countries on the project of land restoration. We have a community with support each other. So this community deriving from competition is our, you know, highest level. Achievement and our future goal as well, like how we can spend on it. Well, let's go to the first question first. No, not at all. I, I'm not this point that how could I be? It's that's the way that you see life. And I'm very happy to hear that you are seeing life in a different way, perhaps as I would do, I would be able to see life in a different way. It's the way that we can see life in a different way. I'm not really a more qualified by my mistakes all the day. I'm then be like, okay, I need to, I need to keep working. It's very nice to hear that somebody else is being like, okay, there is the, it's not a mistake. It's a learning opportunity and we keep, we improve from the wiki, we keep going. Maybe in a year, maybe in two years, you probably have a lot of things to do. I'm not sure if I'm going to be going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm Second, second, the answer is the creation of change makers of you change makers. That is again very important and very online with what you are trying with you and your team are trying to create, which is empowering you and make sure that they have a platform to use this empowerment and to create this change that you're trying to make. So what is the icon scholarship for those that are in here, you know, South side of the region where icon works. As far as we understand this is a fellowship program where people get educated to become a social entrepreneur, a social innovator. It's 16 months, which is a year and four months, it's quite a lot. But it looks super interesting, very, very impressive that you have managed to reach that far in so little time. So congratulations for that. Now, thank you very much for sharing these two points of view, sharing these emotions that make you go all through the day and that make you. Keep going, which is super important again, we keep talking about mental health and emotional health that socially innovators need to work with. And it's very important that you yourself can process a. Colleges and setbacks that come towards you. But then moving on to the second to last section of the interview, I wanted to ask what is the future, what is coming for you. The next year, 2026, what is what is the goal, what is the what is the reach to get. So to answer this panel, as I mentioned that we are trying to build a community of change makers, artists and power to take their own actions that is empowered to start their climate journey. They are one of the biggest youth movement in Uttarakhand, something that everyone wants to be part of. We have expanded to one more location in Himalayan today, Shaktas and Dharam Sharlah. Now since equal Olympics is an Uttarakhand level competition with colleges across the state participating, I want that our change makers are solving more and more real on ground problems on the ground. Our change makers are working directly with the authorities to solve these on ground issues. Our Dua movement is recognized on a national level and international platforms as well with our change makers traveling across India to share their experiences and motivating others. So that is how we see it. We are focused on competition that we can channelize these competition in such a way that we find some people conscious youth already and those who are in different ways to turn into some kind of conscious or aware people of India who are taking up jobs in any sector. We don't say that you just join us for your psych-rear-rear-join. You just don't do that. But what you can do is wherever you are going to be, you are being a doctor, you are being a engineer, you are becoming a defense aspirant, you are becoming a different person. Take a stand about your climate, take stand about your environment, you are living in take stand about your country, being that responsible situation. So what we want is a sustainable future and those young people take sharing of the younger ones who are coming up to us. So that means you are going to spread through India basically, you are moving the project outside in the SABIC place with a lot of people and a lot of potential as you were saying at the beginning of the interview in India. Those not only has the biggest population in the world but also the biggest among or the largest among the youth, young people in the world. So the project on studies are perfect fit for what is happening in India. There are many different situations on the many different communities that you can find. You were saying that India is the official language but as far as I understand there is like 40 or something like that, specific languages, all the region. And even the food and the culture changes from the north to south from the west to the east as well as social problems that people are facing. So also it's super nice that the next step for you wise to open it to everybody else in a country as we can reach us in India. So thank you very much for sharing that and now we are going to the last part of the interview. I wanted to ask you this question more or less from the beginning but you being a young woman who is a leader or a part of perhaps a part of a year organization but is still a leader and still has managed to coordinate your team and encourage your team to achieve the things that you already have achieved. What would be your recommendation for female, young social entrepreneurs that might be hearing you. If you could say one thing or two things until them hey this is how I started. You want to take a look at for this. You know from the society where I come from women do not have that you know empowerment to take their own decisions. They don't have that full flesh right. Though society is changing in metrosities but in rural areas it is so that you just complete your studies and get married and then you know look after your family. This is the mindset which from the society I am coming from and our society also follows a traditional way of education that what happens is you do you complete your education from school. You complete your colleges you become a teacher you become an engineer you become doctor right. So when I chose this I had to literally convince my parents that I want to go out to live alone. I want to pursue master's and social work. I want to serve my country. I cannot wait for any exam to get cleared to serve my nation as an India the women through women job. People try to serve you know different aspects which they want to serve. So I also I had this thing that I knew my passion that is kindness I knew my passion that is I want to serve. So one advice what I want to give is that listen to your heart. Listen there is a person who is fitting in you that is your higher sense. So listen to that I had listened to that I brought my master's and physics in between and I opted. Masters and social work so that was a bold step but yes my family supported me with that because I was clear about my expectations of future that what I wanted to. So I want to advise here is that be clear about what you want and and you don't have to you know this. You have you don't have to show it to anybody but work for yourself what you want to do you have taken stand now just prove yourself to your book just try to do what you wanted to do right this person to just take that first step I had taken that first step and now I want that every women should every women who is the one to come in this field should take that first step towards continuing. There journey if I had not taken social work I did not had to match this for years I did not get to match these four years I did not get to participate in equal umfights and then the whole perspective did not get to change I I did not use to see this as a much growing problem but when I participated in equal umfights and I get to know about all my four basis of growing concern growing prices we should do something about it so yeah. So the thing is that every time you have to take first step and every day you are taking a step practice of first step which I believe because if you see that I have taken steps now the news are coming what to do no now for this challenge your next step is going to be your first step so you have to push yourself you have to continue the amazing person you have you have to believe yourself no one going no one is going to believe in you. You have to believe in your dreams and you just have to continue your journey also one thing that I perfectly believe on that there is a well there is a way if you truly want then it is going to be full set so you should definitely take that first step and you should move ahead challenges come everything comes but uh with the the smile and the positive mindset you cannot see anything you want to achieve in your life. And I have since I used to dream about pursuing you know uh masters in social world I had completed that. dream I used to dream about working and serving now I see myself serving society I see myself working with youth I see myself doing what I wanted to do so all these things were dream for me but that dreams have become true now am I dreams have changed and I completely believe that that those are also going to be changed so it's just that you have to believe yourself and you have to read reading is also important reading the right things is also important yeah capital here that your family support you not does not always the case especially when you do a change from a relatively safe a future on physics and engineering to social work and and and developments and yes development studies yeah sometimes people are like okay but what are you going to eat like where are you going to get your money and absolutely that that question those pop out thank you for the advice 80 some important advice after all if you don't follow your dream a lot of people find a card to wake up in the morning and be like yeah this is what I am right now but then again it's hard following your dreams is never going to be easy so if you do the site to do that be ready for some challenges to come to move forward and considering that monetary amount everything you can earn if you are following your passion what I have realized you get to achieve everything you get to get everything be it monetary be it you know your personal achievements you let keep anything if you are following your passion but if you are not if you are into something which you don't want to do then one day what happened that money you are earning now that that will be causing you that will become a curse for you because you are going to pay in your health checkups and all you know what what I have seen in the passionate people they don't get sick by because they for them they have their goal is very important for them they know that how what I am doing how is this providing value to so many how can I get sick so yes this is not any superhuman passing but this is the power of our mind only fair enough um okay then before we finish two more questions how can people support you people are here and how can how can they support you or voice warriors in general if you want to stand it that way you can support ways for years by doing the right things in the right way by not throwing your base here and there by taking the responsibility of your base right in India I want to spread this message to each and every people that we should carry a bath with ourselves and whenever we are traveling we can take that base with us and take that base with us back home then in our home we have this facility from municipal corporation the vehicle that comes to collect waste door to door we can get that base to those workers and I will say that doing this enough is will will be enough for waste for years as we face a lot of problems in sorting we we have turned as beautiful Himalayas into wasted Himalayas Himalayas itself in very young mountains you know they are among all mountains Himalayas are youngest considered to be as youngest mountain and now we are facing the the adverse effects what we have given is getting back to us in terms of disasters the natural disaster we face that yesterday in the Arab in their in history there is there was not an incident where such kind of you know destroyed thing happened so I will say that this manage your base segregate your base at home it purely helps and it is very easy you just have to select your single-use plastic your plastic in a one bag and your dry your wet waste in a separate box or dust bin and you can create a compost of it that compost can be beneficial to plants and all and for UI I will say that since youth is the coming of future is youth is the present and youth is only the person who is going to link the present to future so for a UI wanted to say for the youth of India I wanted to say just follow your passion and just try to be a responsible situation by taking some minor minor action which ultimately integrates into bigger actions all small actions ultimately integrates into bigger actions base for years is taking small small initiatives UI is taking small small initiatives which when we integrate we see that oh my god we have achieved a lot of things by doing those small things so yes for youth I want to say that believe in the power of small actions which ultimately integrates into bigger action you can you are amazing you are awesome because be that and if you want any sort of guidance and if you want to join us we are a way welcoming you to join us movement you are movement you can search about us on instagram more that is you were for a numerical for simalayas you can see what interventions are going on there you can join us by joining our event also you can be part of climate swap out you can join the in-skilling workshops as well if you are a college student then just try to find out if your college has participated in equal umpest for not yes it was good thank you very much for sharing that finally where can they find well do you already say that a little bit about the the instagram on the social network where they can find you but it i don't know if you want to share the website if people want to get in touch with you if you would be okay with that if you yeah how people can reach out to you to you and to waste waste works so you can reach out to us at in our in following our instagram page status you were for him alias based for years as well with instagram page you can uh follow that too and you you will ultimately find you were for him alias you was why you w8 numerical for and him alias so you were for him alias and on uh wasteforriers.org you can see about the work of waste for years and there is sub website of you will also so you can see that also and the you can uh have the contact details from our website only perfect thank you and last question before we leave anything you want to share that we're in cover in the interview any anything that you feel that needs to share yeah i think the thing which i did not cover is this year in part i want to talk about that in green group 44 schools that skirt this year and in ecolumphic 25 colleges that skirt this year so in total total it is like integrating to more than 16 institutions on this time participated only and that was just figures of the efforts we have made in last two years on outreach and advocacy so that i want to mention and kind of activities we are doing those activities are uh made for youth only youth oriented and this time what we had is that nine youth of nine young change makers of uh you were only they did internship with us they kind of designed helped in the designing part of the complications so that is how this competition is you were led youth led uh because youth is participating in decision making they are co-creating events with us so here in uva we are not just saying that that you do this we are not ordering them it is their movement they are leading it and also one more thing we have also believed that if uva youth is given pen so they can write their own story and publish them on newspaper one of our change makers doing that at least trying to make changes to publishing articles on ways related issues on climate change issues and if they have given if we are providing them cleanup gears like gloves and bags so they are actually clearing one son of this at a time if i talk about only yesterday's cleanup iaml-sudison university cleared seven 82 kg of if in one go from a place uh and that is that base has been sent to material recovery facility center so yeah this is currently this time we are and expecting more change. 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