[1]Part of a youth leadership movement, Uma P is a college student-cum-professional. A student of Delhi University’s Miranda House, she also wears the hat of being the national vice president of Leaders For Tomo-rrow (LFT), an organisation aimed at igniting social consciousness in the youth, while providing them with opportunities to enhance their leadership skills.
“We realise that today’s youth need a flexible platform to participate in nation building by contributing to causes and sectors of their interest. LFT is one such platform. Whatever programmes we have today or will have in future come from the ideas and issues the youth want to associate themselves with,” she says.
Boasting of 10,000 student volunteers from DU, GGSIPU, Ambedkar University, DTU, and a bunch of private universities, the four-year-old body plans to organise monthly conclaves, innovation forums, and dedicated events like ‘Reporters for Tomorrow’, and workshops on design, photography and web development.
“We have a variety of tasks for one to choose from — planting trees to teaching the underprivileged. Students only need to take time off for one to two hours a day,” says Sajal Bhateja of Deshbandhu College.
For Sathia Chak-eapani, LFT is not like any other NGO. “We are a youth leadership mo-vement that empowers the youth to bring about a change,” says this student of Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College.
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