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🇨🇦 Canada - Shawn, Mariana & Jihad

🇮🇳 India - Mineh & Sumita

🇽🇰 Kosova - Teuta & Hande

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Almost after a struggle of 200 years, India got its independence on 15th August 1947 from British rule. Though we are independent of foreign rule still, some major social issues continue their pace in India.

A social issue generally refers to the issues of a country that basically harms its social and cultural aspects.
Some of the vital social issues that people are facing in India right now are are poverty, child labour, corruption, unemployment, drug addiction, overpopulation, pollution, offences against the women such as rape, acid attack, juvenile delinquency, caste-based discrimination, crimes, and many more.
I staunchly agree with the fact that these social issues prevent the path of India towards development. However, with the changing time, there is an increase in the awareness among the common people, which will solely curb these ailments of social issues from the country.

Both the government and the commoner should walk hand in hand to tackle the current social issues in India.

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https://parivaar.org/

I am the Servant of that God whom the Ignorant call Man.

- Swami Vivekananda

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Parivaar is a humanitarian organization inspired by the spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, with its chief institutions and projects based in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. For last 17 years, Parivaar has worked towards the total care and overall development of children who are highly vulnerable to exploitation, victimization and trafficking, including orphans, street children, abandoned children, and extremely impoverished children from tribal areas. It also conducts many more humanitarian activities for the destitute and uncared, including the elderly and shelterless.

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The mission of the program is education and long-term overall development of young children from destitute and vulnerable backgrounds.

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For last 18 years, Parivaar has worked towards the total care and overall development of children who are highly vulnerable to exploitation, victimization and trafficking, including orphans, street children, abandoned children, and extremely impoverished children from tribal areas.

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The Parivaar program provides holistic care. They address every aspect of a child’s life: their lodging, food, clothing, education, medical care, physical fitness, sports and recreation, civic virtues, and character-building.

Outside of the classroom, Parivaar hosts various cultural events for all members of the organization. There are songs and dance numbers, plays, speeches, readings and more.

Extracurricular activities are offered for both staff and students alike. Some examples include sports matches, track and field competitions, and so on.

Further, older students have the opportunity to participate in Skill and Employability Programs. Skill Programs offer training in areas like Aviation, Hospitality, Nursing, IT and BPO, Paramedical, Beauty & Wellness, Electronics a& Home Appliances, Computer Hardware & Networking, and so on. More than 250 boys and girls have been employed through these skill programs.

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Vinayak Lohani, the Founder of Parivaar, did B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2000) and MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (2003). Immediately after his MBA, Lohani founded Parivaar. The normal career-path of a mainstream corporate career following degrees from two of the most prestigious institutes in India ensures a highly lucrative future, but Vinayak Lohani sacrificed this to pursue a life of humanitarian service.

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Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, after years of strained relations between its Serb and mainly Albanian inhabitants.

It has been recognised by the United States and major European Union countries, but Serbia, backed by its powerful ally Russia, refuses to do so, as do most ethnic Serbs inside Kosovo. After the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbia responded to separatist pressure from Kosovo by launching a brutal crackdown on the territory's Albanian population, which was only brought to an end by Nato military intervention in 1999.

After international efforts fail to stop the Kosovo conflict, Nato begins aerial bombardment of Serb targets. Yugoslav and Serbian forces respond with a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Kosovar Albanians, prompting an exodus. Following a peace agreement, Yugoslav and Serbian forces withdraw from Kosovo and a UN sponsored administration takes over.

Until 2008 the province was administered by the UN. Reconciliation between the majority Albanians, most of whom support independence, and the Serb minority remains elusive.

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From 1989-2000, the youth and culture in Kosovo suffered a great loss which left obvious consequences in the following years, known as the transition or post-war phase. The recovery of culture and civic activism, especially of young people, remained a constant challenge to society.

Seeing the need for cultural development and activation of young people, on May 2, 2006, with the initiative of local artists, the cultural organization “7Arte” was founded.

In the same year, this organization becomes a member of the New European Cinema Network, which offers young artists more opportunities for cooperation and cultural promotion.

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7Arte's main mission is to support youth and Kosovar artists; to develop and promote a common European culture.

The organization empowers arts, culture and creative industry as a driving force towards inclusion and the creation of a region as peaceful and stable as possible.

7Arte plays the role of a cultural alternative center by organizing multidisciplinary cultural activities such as: visual workshops, music festivals, outdoor screening, street art, poetry nights, crafts fair, exchange programs and education programs, peace building and environmental actions.

They involve and encourage women to be active in many initiatives and programs; an organization that includes environmental component, strive revitalization of abandoned buildings and change the local cultural politics.

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Youth

Kosovar Artists

Local Community

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7Arte is a cultural organization which is focused on three key strategic programs and goals:

developing cultural and artistic life,

empowering youth,

promoting sustainable development.

They  are implementing various projects during 2022, such as:

Cultural Space of Kosovo, which aims to strengthen the role of the local CSOs and cultural actors in managing public infrastructure and cooperating with local governments for inclusive and sustainable use of public infrastructure, policies and finance.

Mitrovica Green Festival is another annual project. It is  multidisciplinary festival that consists of art installation, concerts, exhibitions, visual arts, film screenings, lectures, education program, green actions, and also combines all activities toward environmental causes and sustainability in Kosovo.

The program of Creative Corner a meeting place with a stage where the organization provide technical support and promote young artists. Among other activities in Creative Corner are: weekly game nights, film screenings, gigs, and poetry nights.

Besides, the organization has to implement several activities per month, such as public debates. This project is supported by the EU office in Pristina, Kosovo and 7Arte is partner organization with Anibar, Lumbardhi and Pogon from Croatia.

7Arte is also organizing regularly “BarCamps” an informal forum/speech from key people who would exchange their experiences and successful stories from different fields of the life. This activity is organized monthly and targets local community in Mitrovica.

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Keeping in mind that Mitrovica does not provide any active cinema since the end of the year 1999. 7Arte organization is playing a role of alternative cultural center and also community/youth cinema. Especially during the summer time, 7Arte organizes open air cinema while includes and promotes young filmmakers in order to communicate with the community.

7Arte also provides the space for rent to many youth organizations. This kind of service is indirectly generating incomes  and also helps on networking with organizations, community, youth and also as a promotion of the space.

Furthermore, 7Arte is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

Social obstacles

Geographical obstacles

For this purpose, 7Arte provides the volunteers with a language course. There is  a cultural evening in the organization space each Friday evening, where it is possible to meet people from the city as well as international people and practice different languages including Albanian or Serbo-Croatian language.  Learning another language is a process, but learning Albanian as a unique language within Indo-European languages is cool! :)

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Canada is the largest country in the western hemisphere and one of the largest in the world. Located in the northern part of North America, Canada extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean.
Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest country by total area.
Canada is a country filled with famous landmarks, historical wonders, delicious food, incredible culture, and all the outdoor exploration you could want. From city adventures in Quebec and Vancouver to the well-known Rocky Mountains, Canada has so many amazing destinations that it'll be hard to choose.

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ISNA Canada’s Vision is to be an exemplary and unifying Islamic organization in North America that contributes to the betterment of the Muslim community and society at large.

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ISNA Canada’s To foster the development of the Muslim community, interfaith relations, civic engagement, and better understanding of Islam.
Our Mission is to:

Convey the message of Islam effectively, compassionately and intelligently

Provide healthy and beneficial activities to Muslim Youth

Build a strong and healthy Muslim Community

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The target group focuses on youth however, ISNA Canada truly focuses on everyone. The main question we as board members ask is How can we build a better future for our youth and through that we at ISNA Canada are rising to the challenge of building a community powered by youth.

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ISNA offers a multitude of community programs for youth, families, and adults. Our services range from fulfilling critical community needs, to learning opportunities, sharing the message of Islam in the Greater Toronto Area, and more. We have engaged over 200 youth in our programs and services.

Some of the services ISNA Canada offers are:

Ramadan Programs (Care boxes for people in need distributed all over the GTA and outside the GTA

Eid Programs (Community gatherings, Carnivals for Kids)

Summer Camps for Youth

Drop-In Speaker Series (Jagmeet Singh - NDP)

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- ISNA was founded in 1982 through a joint effort of four organizations: The Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada (The MSA), Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), and the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE), to create a community.
- Some of the other services that ISNA Canada provides to support Muslims include marriage services, funeral services, Islamically-integrated psychotherapy and mental health counselling, Halal certification and Islamic bookstore.
- ISNA has elementary school and High School too. ISNA high school has become one of the leading Islamic secondary schools in Canada.
- The school prepares students for completion of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) and admission to colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and beyond.