The Universal Peace Federation (UPF)-Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace organised a workshop on youth leadership training “Let us join hands to build a bright future” at PAU wherein more than 300 student volunteers of National Service Scheme (NSS) from College of Agriculture, College of Home Science and College of Agricultural Engineering participated.

The chief guest on the occasion was the PAU Vice-Chancellor, Dr Manjit Singh Kang. The workshop had five sessions on diverse subjects including ‘Motivation and life skills’, ‘New vision for youth in the 21st century’, ‘Discovering my identity’, ‘Principles of love and peace’ and ‘The responsibility of youth’.

Each session had video and power point presentations on the subject. David McLackland, Education Director, India of UPF, Ursula McLackland, Regional Secretary General, UPF-Asia, Sandeep Verma, Joint Secretary, UPF and Dr Jyoti Ganesh, Medical Officer, UPF, conducted the proceedings of the workshop. David enthralled the audience with his guitar.

Ursula said that Indians were front-runners in understanding and propagating the philosophy of “universal brotherhood”’ as ordained in Vedas. She said that UPF also promoted the global family concept.

Later, the volunteers had group discussions in three groups and the group leaders shared their reflections about the workshop. The group discussion was moderated by Dr TK Gill and Dr Harmeet Singh Sarlarch for volunteers of College of Agriculture; Sarita Saini for College of Home Science; and Dr JP Singh for College of Agricultural Engineering.

The workshop had a screening of video on “Youth Federation for World Peace” wherein emphasis on addressing the social problems through joint efforts was laid. The clippings segments depicting cleaning operation of Nairobi river by involving the masses were shown.