Dimapur, Jan 16: Continuing with Samvidhan (constitution) Live The Jagrik (Aware Citizens) project, CAN Youth, in collaboration with the Nagaland State Legal Service Authority (NSLSA) and Dimapur District Legal Service Authority (DDLSA) conducted a legal aid service to women and girl child by giving awareness on women and girl child rights on January 15 at the Thahekhu Village Baptist Church premises.
Jenpu Rongmei, CAN Youth chief functionary, spoke on the role and responsibilities of young people and to have knowledge on the Fundamental Right. He also exhorted the youth to act on fundamental duty and help the marginalised society who are deprived of their rights.
Esther Aye, legal aid counsel cum trainer of Nagaland State Legal Service Authority, and Visheli Yeptho, panel lawyer of Dimapur District Legal Service Authority, spoke on protection of women on Domestic Violence Act, Maintenance, Victim Compensation Act and Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.Esther Aye also encouraged the church youth to play a positive role in bringing about change and justice to women and girl child who have been exploited or a victim of domestic violence.
H Ploto Yeptho of CAN Youth shared his experience on how he, along with his friends, spend one week in hospital helping a mental ill patient, giving free tution to poor students. He expressed the pain when someone is deprived of their rights.
Meanwhile, CAN Youth expressed gratitude to Thahekhu Village Baptist Church (TVBC) and Youth Department of TVBC.
Samvidhan LIVE – The Jagrik Project is an initiative of Community Youth Collective (CYC), – journey to engage young Jagriks (Jagruk Nagrik – Aware Citizens) between the ages of 16 to 30 years in different parts of the country to experience the Constitution.
Samvidhan LIVE – The Jagrik Project, is building young people’s capacities for meeting this challenge as they refl-act (reflect+act) in the real world. Through this public initiative, young people will experience how the rights and duties in our constitution are being lived, and report back their experiences to rest of the world.
In Dimapur, CAN Youth is undertaking the campaign for two months by engaging 24 young people to involve in different activity on fundamental duty and rights besides conducting survey with the community.
CAN Youth also invite youth of Dimapur, social workers, college and higher secondary school students to take part on Common Action Day to be held on January 18 at DBDL Hall, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School campus from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be a panel discussion on ‘Role of youth participation in understanding and making our Constitution come alive.’
