ABOUT US

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Introduction
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The Main Goals
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Other activities
 

Introduction ::

Youth Awareness Environmental Forum (YAEF) is a community based non-profit (Media) mem-bership organization established in 1994 A.D. This YAEF is concerned with Environment aware-ness in the masses & performs social work. YAEF organizes various programs for & with local communities with objective of improving live hood & security of local people, empowering them & enhancing conservation efforts. It works on the different parts of the rural areas, mainly in envi-ronment sector. One of the key focus areas of the forum is to create public awareness on the environmental issues. This will be done through the conduction of seminars & workshop, through articles by our own press on the result of the programs. One area for awareness creation will as such be how to reduce the air pollution origination from petrol, diesel & LPG Vehicles in the valley. This will be done by dissemination of information on the environmental & economical problems caused by the adulteration by the fuel.

Beside this, the forum has been launching different programs. Like safe & pure drinking water, also Nature Conservation as well as protection of Bio-diversity in Nepal. The forum was the first to raise the voice regarding pollution induced by tempos, run under diesel in Kathmandu valley. We actively participated against it & worked for the total banning of tempos run under diesel.

The forum actively involved against the use of plastic. We plead His majesty’s Government to use less than 20 microns. Our forum urges people to use cotton mask as protection form air & dust pollution. Likewise further programs on health, sanitation & other environment-related fields publish magazines, pamphlets & parches to aware people on environment.


The Main Goals ::

Although the goals are unlimited, our forum focus on three primary objectives:

  1. Improving livelihood & security of local people.
  2. Enhancing Environment Conservation &.
  3. Empowering local people.

Other activities ::

Scholarship

The organization is regularly providing academic scholarships for the poor and needy, disabled, deprived and low cast students. The organization is providing scholarships for 101 students in many schools of the country annually.


Sanitation and drinking water
The organization is committed to provide sanitation and drinking water facilities in the rural area of the country. The organization has built many public toilets and distributed hand pumps and tube-wells for drinking water purpose. In the same run this year organization has built public toi-lets in the rural area Katahari VDC of Morang district, and distributed tube-wells at Kachandaha VDC of Saptari district.

Mask Distribution
The organization is first to introduce cotton mask in Nepal. The organization regularly distributes cotton masks and urges to use them as protection from air and dust pollution