This year’s Joy Bangla Youth Award program will be held on October 27-28 to facilitate, showcase and give recognition to the Bangladeshi young change-makers and promising innovators.
Young Bangla, a youth platform of non-profit Centre for Research and Information (CRI), will select top 50 youth-led organizations and platforms under 10 categories for the third edition of the award.
“The main goal of the annual program is to inspire local youths to come up with innovative ideas, entrepreneurship or activities that can help change society,” CRI Executive Director Sabbir Bin Shams told the media in Dhaka on Thursday.
The two-day event will be held at Savar’s Sheikh Hasina National Youth Development Institute.
The event will introduce the winners to the national level.
On the opening day, a discussion – Career Talk – will take place where 200 youths, including previous 60 awardees, will participate, followed by another discussion styled “Let’s Talk on Joy Bangla of Youth.”
Mountaineer Nishat Majumder, award-winning swimmer Mahfuza Khatun Shila, entrepreneur Vashani Akter will join the segment as panelists when topics, including mental and physical health, education, skill and employment, civic responsibility, politics and future Bangladesh, will be discussed.
Certificates will be handed over to the 50 winners in the last session of the day.
The second day will begin with a session on women’s rights and safety. The two-hour session dubbed ‘#BeBrave’ will be presided over by Dhaka University gender studies Associate Professor Sheikh Imtiaz.
Later in the day, the name of the top 30 organizations will be announced. Sajeeb Wajed Joy, the ICT adviser to the prime minister, will hand over the awards to the top 10 winners.
Throughout the three-month long process of the award, Young Bangla received 2,500 applications submitted by different youth-led organizations from across the country. During the selection process, the organizations’ contributions, social acceptability and scope of work have been taken into account.
The Dhaka Tribune is one of the media partners of this year’s Joy Bangla Award. The two previous editions were held in 2017 and 2015.
