Every society that thinks about sustainability will agree to the fact that continuity has a lot more to cover than just Eco-culture, recycling, administration etc.
It is in this light that we have dedicated a wing of our administration to actually ‘energize’ a vital factor to the sustenance of our movement ‘The youth’.
More so, to keep the youth abreast of developments geared at them we have decided to bring to light some salient issues we discoursed with Manorama Prabhu in an interview.
We have decided to bring up the interview in bits so as to allow our readers send in their feedbacks on the different categories we talked about.
Thus on this article we have focused on our discussion on the youth’s involvement in the Ministry’s activities.
CDM: What is the level of engagement of youths in the youth Ministry?
Manorama Prabhu: In the ISKCON Alachua community we have about 50% participation from the congregation youth. Those who are spiritually minded and interested, attend weekly Bhagavad-gita study groups, weekly Bhajan / Kirtan gatherings, monthly camping trips, adventure activities, field-trips to other temples, to nearby festivals... We have about 80 youth regularly attend the above programs. Then, twice a year, we have longer youth-run festival tours. The youth learn to plan, organize, carry-out preaching missions to other countries (such as Mexico in the winter time), and all over North America (USA and Canada) in the summer. We try to engage, train, inspire and empower youth in Krishna consciousness to their fullest potential.
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