Youth Voices

Mission:   To foster a network of community based initiatives, striving to develop empowered leadership & healthy choices amongst marginalized & vulnerable populations especially adolescents, women & senior citizens. Fund Statement:  Children Please visit Join us https://icfn.in/ADHM/NadaIndiaFoundation

Adolescents account for one fifth of the world population and have been an increasing trend. According to the planning commission Population Projection, as n 1st March 2000, in Indian they account 22.8% of the population. This implies that abut 230 million Indians are adolescents in the age group of 10 to 19 years. Largely, the young people are the effected as well as affected by alcohol use. The drink and tobacco industries are also primarily focuses and to target the young. Nada India has been an institutional member of IOGT International now Movendi International since 2005. Nada has been promoting involvement of young people in promotion of NCD Free healthy life. Nada India has been a founding member of ITYF Indian Temperance Youth Federation and was elected as being ITYF board during General Assembly held on 7th February 2009 at Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. Later, Nada India Nada India believes that meaningful youth participation involves recognizing and nurturing the strengths...

Heena Young health advocate & a peer leader from Nada India advocating for people to patients engagement at workshop organised by Nada India and Dakshama members of Healthy India Alliance.

To mark the 200 th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, World Health Organization has designated the year 2020 as “International Year for Nurse and Midwife” and is calling for us “to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind the world leaders of the critical role they play in keeping the world healthy, on World Health Day, this April 7 th. “Globally, 70% of the health and social workforce are women. Nurses and midwives represent a large portion of this.”  In India, the number of health workers reported in 2001 were 20,69,540 out of which 6,30,406 are nurses and midwives. “Nurses and midwives play a key role in caring for people everywhere, including in times of outbreaks and settings that are fragile or in conflict.”  “Achieving health for all will depend on there being sufficient numbers of well-trained and educated, regulated and adequately supported nurses and midwives, who receive pay and recognition commensurate with the service...

"Vikul felt that this had given him an added opportunity to connect with his family back home, Abhey felt that his movement had been restricted causing a decrease in his physical activity #COVID19   Nada India Foundation organised a webinar on “Digital Advocacy” for the students of Kirori Mal College on march 27th, 2020 at 3 p.m with Mr. Suneel Vatsyayan as the speaker and Ms. Riya Thapliyal as the moderator. Ms. Thapliyal began the session by introducing herself and sharing how the lockdown initiated as a meassure to stop coronavirus from spreading is causing emotional and mental distress to her personally and how Nada India wants to use this time to create healthy headspace by providing a platform for people to connect and learn/hone a skill at the same time. With this she invited the participants to share how corona has affected their life.  While Vikul felt that this had given him an added opportunity to connect with his family back home, Abhey felt that his...

Nada India Foundation organised a training on emotional CPR that was conducted by  Lauren Spiro at the Shantiratan Foundation, Chhatarpur  on 14th & 16th March'20. The training was attended by 12 participants from various walks of life (Circle of Hope) while Ayaz is the Program Coordinator at Ashra Adhikar Abhiyan , Kushangi has a master's in Clinical Psychology and Pooja is a student of Geriatric Care and Nada Health Advocate. Upon being asked what he was expecting from the training, Amar, also a student of Geriatric Care at American India Foundation (Nada Circle of Hope), said, " CPR toh maine kiya tha, yeh eCPR kya hai yeh janne aaye hain" (I have practiced CPR , I'm here to learn what eCPR is all about).  eCPR is a public health education program designed to teach people to assist others through emotional crisis through three steps: C = connecting, P = emPowering, and R = revitalizing. eCPR recognizes that the experiences of trauma, emotional ...