Introduction

International Youth Alliance for Peace has been collaborating with national and nongovernmental organizations for the past 6 years on Youth Matters, which is dedicated to fostering public awareness, engagement, and understanding of community issues and development from the eyes of the youth. We have been having these round table discussions and designed this to bring out voices of young people. This year due to the prevailing global pandemic situation, we decided to conduct the sessions virtually.

 This will have opened the platform for youth in every district in Sri Lanka to join this discussion.

The First session took place on 7th of March. And we had 8 sessions in total

Aim

                                                             This project was aimed to,
1. Bring out ideas of the youth to a recognized platform
2. Discuss matters that severely affect the youth in Sri Lanka
3. Help them to come up with their own solutions.

Who Involved

This Projected was initiated as well as implemented by International Youth Alliance for Peace (IYAP). For the project Youth Matters 2021, on behalf of IYAP, Miss.Ranmalee Nanayakkara handled the project and Upekshi Ranathunga provided a considerable contribution to make this a success. University of Kelaniya Rotaract Club, Humane club of University of Kelaniya and LED of Univesity of Kelaniya partnered with us in this project. Youth from different Universities took part in 2021 Youth Matters project.

For more information and get involved – visit IYAP website