NEN has been a part of the Assam Youth Collective initiated by Commutiny – the Youth Collective, a New Delhi based organization working with the objective to nurture a strong collective that will promote the co-creation of adolescent empowering spaces. It also works towards strengthening adolescent participation in Assam to strengthen psychosocial, economic renewal of the country, making a more gender-equitable and inclusive India, which upholds, celebrates and nurtures Constitutional values.
Samvidhan LIVE! Be a Jagrik is a national level movement across the country to create awareness on fundamental rights and duties among youth. The concept of JAGRIK is derived from the word Jagruk (aware) and Nagrik (citizen). Samvidhan Live! Be a jagrik, facilitates the balancing of the rights and duties in the context of citizens and individuals through lived action games and expressions. The tasks are layered to encourage youth to be able to practise their fundamental rights pertinent to educations, equality practices, against discriminatory practices, etc. It will create a platform for adolescent groups to live the ground realities of the constitution, be aware of their fundamental rights and duties by promoting self-realization feelings of ownership, freedom, and social hope.
To this effect, NEN organised a 2 days workshop for 12 Jagrik Facilitators and 11 community mobilisers from Darrang, Dhemaji, Kamrup, Golaghat, Sonitpur and Udalguri district. The workshop aimed to develop the capacities of young facilitators to be a change-makers in their communities. It also introduced the Samvidhan game which is played in pairs, in the hope that this is replicated in by the facilitators. ‘Jagriks’ play this interactive game in pairs over five weeks and undertake tasks which are both self-reflective and social in nature. The game will be facilitated by 12 facilitators who will form collectives in their respective districts.
