Article from a Youth Worker from Bhutan
Door: jongerenwerkbhutan
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15 Maart 2012 | Bhutan, Thimphu
This article is written by some Bhutanese Youth Workers.
Some information maybe not correct but the way it is written i like very much:
As bhutanese wrote it and it gives a vieuw about what is going in Bhutan acording Youth Workers
This Article is for youth workers, students and teachers of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
What is written will not reflect over all parts of Bhutan our specific region/city area.
Some good programs are going on so change is coming. Sport programs Funded by Dutch ngo Bhutan and Partners from the Netherlands for example.
For information visit
http://www.bhutanandsports.org/
Youth concerns and social problems in Bhutan:
Disintegration of traditional family values: Bhutanese youth have conventionally been relying on the protection of their parents and their extended families (cousins or relatives). Most children preserve close ties and try to support each other, both emotionally and financially. Even outside the family, other community members have traditional ways of offering support and a form of social safety net. However, modernization, urbanization and exposure to other western countries have exposed youth citizens to new risks and hazards. Increased in education and knowledge are disrupting the relationships between parents and children. This led to family fragmentations and social hazards.
Today, most people are living stressful daily life that they ultimately ignore their children and have no time for the maintenance of the youth. We see the youth are neglected. Some are on their own and lost in the streets. In the Thimphu Streets, we see scores of unemployed and deserted youth. Some are begging but many resorted to drugs, gangs and burglary cases. This also exposed young girls to sexual abuses.
Youth problems in Changjiji: The Changjiji Youth Center was established in 2007 under the Department of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education to curb some emerging youth problems in Changjiji by provisioning safe environment and youth-related services and facilities and need-based programmes. The Youth Center, housed in one of the flats in the Changjiji Housing Colony, has a small library, photocopying machine, television viewing, coffee corner, indoor games and half basketball court.
Changjiji Housing Colony was built in 2003 with 676 units (NHDC) to provide cheap housing options to low income groups. Today there over 35,000 people living in the colony. However, this community was no exception to social problems, especially youth challenges. Due to a rapid economic growth, urbanization and rural-urban migration in the country, the Changjiji community has also been started experiencing the side effects of the modernization (school drop-outs, youth unemployment, generation gap, negative impact of social media on youth, westernization and materialism, increased secularity, disintegration of traditional family values and divorce). All this led youth doing drugs, consuming alcohols and forming of gangs.
At night, bands of nocturnal youth, high on the influence of drugs and alcohol roamed the streets of Changjiji. They harassed, bullied, beat up, eve teased girls and even stole money of the residents. Frequently, they were involved in gang violence, burglary, auto-stripping cases and other crimes. Again, due to increasing number of late night entertainments (drayangs, discotheques and karaoke) in Thimphu in recent years, youth of the community were involved in unprotected sex which led them to infection of HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortions across the border towns of India, depression and anxiety and school drop-outs.
Background of Harmony: The Centenary Youth Village: The Harmony: The Centenary Youth Village currently located above the Swimming Pool Sports Complex, Doebum Lam, was first established at Motithang Hotel in 1997 as Youth Centre. With its main objectives to address the emerging issues of youths in transition from traditional society to the fast changing modern Bhutan, the Centre was created under the umbrella of the then YGCCS (Youth Guidance and Career Counseling Section) of Education Division.
Following the decision of the Royal Government, the Centre was shifted to the Swimming Pool area in October 2004 where youth could easily avail the services. It was then shifted to the present location in August 2008. In 2009, it was upgraded to Division under the Dept. of Youth and Sports, MoE. Today, the Centre serves a considerable size of youth population throughout the year. With monthly basic computer course, library services, retreat room, printing and photocopying facilities, a few indoor and outdoor games, a helpline, a television set, a swimming pool and an internet cafe, the Centre is now increasingly becoming an important source of recreation, information and education for the visiting youth. Apart from the regular services, the Centre also conducts need-based youth programmes from time to time such as workshops and forums on current youth concerns.
Not being able to cater to the needs of the youths residing in the far-flung areas of Thimphu municipality, Changjiji and Dechencholing Youth Centre were simultaneously set up in 2007 prioritizing the concentration of youth population in the areas. With library facilities, a few indoor games, a television set and a DVD player for the productive engagement of the visiting youths, the two local youth centres function in a similar way under the direct supervision of the Dept. of Youth and Sports, which continues to provide them with administrative and technical support. However, Dechencholing YC was closed in 2008 due to less number of users.
In order to reach out for youths residing outside the capital city, Dept. of Youth and Sports has also contributed to the establishment of Phuntsholing Youth Centre, Gelephu Youth Centre, Trashigang YC and Paro YC to engage the youths of the regions in a more productive way. Furnished with similar facilities, these regional YCs are currently managed by Managers and Adm. Assistant under the supervision of the respective dzongkhag education officer.
In general, one of the main common objectives of the establishment of such Centres in the country is however to save Bhutanese youths from unhealthy practices by engaging them more productively through recreational and educational programmes. Therefore, these Centres are expected to play a dynamic role in shaping the lives of Bhutanese youths living in the highly vulnerable society as the nation takes up developmental pace with rest of the world at breakneck speed.
Some information maybe not correct but the way it is written i like very much:
As bhutanese wrote it and it gives a vieuw about what is going in Bhutan acording Youth Workers
This Article is for youth workers, students and teachers of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
What is written will not reflect over all parts of Bhutan our specific region/city area.
Some good programs are going on so change is coming. Sport programs Funded by Dutch ngo Bhutan and Partners from the Netherlands for example.
For information visit
http://www.bhutanandsports.org/
Youth concerns and social problems in Bhutan:
Disintegration of traditional family values: Bhutanese youth have conventionally been relying on the protection of their parents and their extended families (cousins or relatives). Most children preserve close ties and try to support each other, both emotionally and financially. Even outside the family, other community members have traditional ways of offering support and a form of social safety net. However, modernization, urbanization and exposure to other western countries have exposed youth citizens to new risks and hazards. Increased in education and knowledge are disrupting the relationships between parents and children. This led to family fragmentations and social hazards.
Today, most people are living stressful daily life that they ultimately ignore their children and have no time for the maintenance of the youth. We see the youth are neglected. Some are on their own and lost in the streets. In the Thimphu Streets, we see scores of unemployed and deserted youth. Some are begging but many resorted to drugs, gangs and burglary cases. This also exposed young girls to sexual abuses.
Youth problems in Changjiji: The Changjiji Youth Center was established in 2007 under the Department of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education to curb some emerging youth problems in Changjiji by provisioning safe environment and youth-related services and facilities and need-based programmes. The Youth Center, housed in one of the flats in the Changjiji Housing Colony, has a small library, photocopying machine, television viewing, coffee corner, indoor games and half basketball court.
Changjiji Housing Colony was built in 2003 with 676 units (NHDC) to provide cheap housing options to low income groups. Today there over 35,000 people living in the colony. However, this community was no exception to social problems, especially youth challenges. Due to a rapid economic growth, urbanization and rural-urban migration in the country, the Changjiji community has also been started experiencing the side effects of the modernization (school drop-outs, youth unemployment, generation gap, negative impact of social media on youth, westernization and materialism, increased secularity, disintegration of traditional family values and divorce). All this led youth doing drugs, consuming alcohols and forming of gangs.
At night, bands of nocturnal youth, high on the influence of drugs and alcohol roamed the streets of Changjiji. They harassed, bullied, beat up, eve teased girls and even stole money of the residents. Frequently, they were involved in gang violence, burglary, auto-stripping cases and other crimes. Again, due to increasing number of late night entertainments (drayangs, discotheques and karaoke) in Thimphu in recent years, youth of the community were involved in unprotected sex which led them to infection of HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortions across the border towns of India, depression and anxiety and school drop-outs.
Background of Harmony: The Centenary Youth Village: The Harmony: The Centenary Youth Village currently located above the Swimming Pool Sports Complex, Doebum Lam, was first established at Motithang Hotel in 1997 as Youth Centre. With its main objectives to address the emerging issues of youths in transition from traditional society to the fast changing modern Bhutan, the Centre was created under the umbrella of the then YGCCS (Youth Guidance and Career Counseling Section) of Education Division.
Following the decision of the Royal Government, the Centre was shifted to the Swimming Pool area in October 2004 where youth could easily avail the services. It was then shifted to the present location in August 2008. In 2009, it was upgraded to Division under the Dept. of Youth and Sports, MoE. Today, the Centre serves a considerable size of youth population throughout the year. With monthly basic computer course, library services, retreat room, printing and photocopying facilities, a few indoor and outdoor games, a helpline, a television set, a swimming pool and an internet cafe, the Centre is now increasingly becoming an important source of recreation, information and education for the visiting youth. Apart from the regular services, the Centre also conducts need-based youth programmes from time to time such as workshops and forums on current youth concerns.
Not being able to cater to the needs of the youths residing in the far-flung areas of Thimphu municipality, Changjiji and Dechencholing Youth Centre were simultaneously set up in 2007 prioritizing the concentration of youth population in the areas. With library facilities, a few indoor games, a television set and a DVD player for the productive engagement of the visiting youths, the two local youth centres function in a similar way under the direct supervision of the Dept. of Youth and Sports, which continues to provide them with administrative and technical support. However, Dechencholing YC was closed in 2008 due to less number of users.
In order to reach out for youths residing outside the capital city, Dept. of Youth and Sports has also contributed to the establishment of Phuntsholing Youth Centre, Gelephu Youth Centre, Trashigang YC and Paro YC to engage the youths of the regions in a more productive way. Furnished with similar facilities, these regional YCs are currently managed by Managers and Adm. Assistant under the supervision of the respective dzongkhag education officer.
In general, one of the main common objectives of the establishment of such Centres in the country is however to save Bhutanese youths from unhealthy practices by engaging them more productively through recreational and educational programmes. Therefore, these Centres are expected to play a dynamic role in shaping the lives of Bhutanese youths living in the highly vulnerable society as the nation takes up developmental pace with rest of the world at breakneck speed.
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