| Global Youth Meet on Tobacco Control (Pre-conference Workshop) |
To complement the 14th World Conference
on Tobacco OR Health, a two day Youth workshop: Global Youth Meet on
Tobacco Control (GYM, 2009) will be held on March 6 and 7, 2009 in
Mumbai, India. HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination
Amongst Youth) is collaborating with Salaam Bombay Foundation, one of
the hosts of the 14th WCTOH to organize this Youth Conference in Mumbai.
The intent of this youth conference will be:
- To encourage young people from around the world to get actively
involved in Tobacco Control awareness and advocacy.
- To empower youth delegates with key leadership and advocacy
skills.
- To provide them with networking opportunities to become agents of
social change.
- To provide youth with a platform to discuss and debate these
issues.
About 160 delegates (youth and adult chaperones) from 28 countries
and 7 states of India will be participating in this workshop.
Together with adult facilitators, young people will meet as a group
and deliberate on issues related to tobacco control that will
directly affect their present and future health. The sessions during
this youth conference will focus on empowering youth delegates with
key leadership and advocacy skills. Participants will utilize and
practice these skills during the main WCTOH conference as speakers
in appropriate sessions that will focus on presenting a youth
perspective on tobacco control issues. The advocacy events planned
during the conference will help to sensitize the general population,
policy-makers and opinion-makers on tobacco control. Two days of
deliberations will result in recommendations and action plans to be
followed by these youth leaders as advocacy activities to be pursued
at each country level on return to their countries.
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