Imphal, 12 March 2016: Four youths from Manipur, Ms. Elizabeth Okram, Mr. Ningthoujam Dineshkumar Singh, Mr. Chunthuingam Dangmei and Mr. Oinam Adeep Meitei of the Global Shapers Community: Imphal Hub will be participating at the 2016 Asia Pacific “SHAPE HIROSHIMA” event and G7 Youth Foreign Ministers’ Meeting to be held in Hiroshima, Japan from 18 to 21 March. They are the only participants from the North-Eastern states and will be leaving Imphal on Wednesday, 16 March 2016.
The event which is structured with three key components “Feel, Think, Act” with a series of field work, panel discussion, seminars and conferences, is organised under the theme “Shape Sustainable peace”, by the Global Shapers Community: Tokyo Hub II and others hubs in Japan, in collaboration with Hiroshima Prefecture and its capital city (Hiroshima city). The participants will also get the opportunity to interact with the youth foreign ministers of G7 countries at the “G7 Youth Foreign
Minister’s Meeting”.
Global Shapers from all around the world will be participating in the three-day long conference followed by a two-day post event tour, where the team from Imphal will be engaged in studying the model of the “Zero-waste town” in Kamikatsu, Tokushima. The team looks forward to sharing what peace means to the people of Manipur as well as in Northeast and India.
Imphal hub is the 450th hub and one of the newest hubs in the world. This is their first participation in an international event and can be expected to attend more later this year. With Armstrong Pame, IAS, as its Founding Curator, Global Shapers Community: Imphal Hub came into existence on August, 2015. Some of their notable works are – “Meet Your Idol” that encourages youths to excel in their potential through inspirational talks; “My Story For You” a column in one of the local dailies sharing inspirational stories; “#MobViolenceSucks”, an awareness campaign to discourage mob violence in the state; launching the “BloodDonor.me” mobile app, which was designed by the
Chandigarh Hub to easily connect a blood donor and a recipient. Presently they are working on rehabilitating one of the villages which was affected in the recent earthquake.
Global Shapers Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is spread out in a network of hubs in 453 cities in 160 countries. This community led by exceptional and driven young achievers below the age of 30 with a passion to make a contribution to their communities, aims to provide youth with a global platform to shape the future – integrating the personal, community and global dimension.
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