The International Award for Young People, India–The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Vernacular (Tamil) language workshop organised by IAYP India & Youth Engaging Society Centre Audacious Dreams Foundation and Audacious Academy for Sports and Social Development (AASSD). It was a full day session held at St. John’s Matriculation School, Gudiyattam. It was a One day one workshop attended by more than 20 participants who were teachers of the institute and students from various colleges. The morning session of the workshop leaded with the mentoring of Mr.dinesh gajendran on Lifeskills.the activity based workshop was conducted. Then the session carriers the information about the Duke of Edinburgh award. The flexibility, terms and conditions of the awrd were clearly portrayed to the participants.

Guest of Honour:

 Mr.Kapil Bhalla

National Director, IAYP India

Mr.Bivujit Mukhoty

Programme Manager, IAYP India

Training team :

 Mr.Dinesh Gajendran

Gold Award Holder, National Training Panel,IAYP India

 Mr.Malhardeen Mohamed

 Award Leader, National Youth Achievement Award, Srilanka

 International Award for Young People:

 The Award’s concept is one of individual challenge, giving young people a balanced, non-competitive programme of voluntary activities which encourage personal discovery and growth, self-reliance, perseverance, responsibility to themselves and service to their community. Those who participate in the Award are expected to follow its requirements in a non-competitive manner with a determination to succeed, either individually or as part of a team. The Award therefore is challenging, and can be undertaken at your own space.

The Participation Age is between 14 and 25 years. The basic structure of the Award consists of 4 mandatory sections Service, Adventurous Journey, Skills and Physical Recreation. There are 3 levels of the Award – Bronze, Silver & Gold. Participants must complete the four mandatory sections of Service, Adventurous Journey, Skill & Physical Recreation.Participants can undertake all three categories of the Award programme or enter directly at any of the three levels in the following age group; Bronze Award (for those over 14), Silver Award (for those over 15) and Gold Award (for those over 16 years).

The minimum period of participation is 6 months for Bronze, 12 months for Silver and 18 months for Gold. For each of these levels a participant is required to undertake activities under each of the four sections. At Gold level, participants undertake a Residential Project in addition.

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