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/Nepal) is community based non-profit membership organization established in 1994 A.D. This YAEF is registered according to law of press and publication act 2049 B.S. This YAEF is an association concern with motivate environmental awareness in the messes and perform social work. It is not a normal NGO but a medium of communication as well as an organizational forum.

YAEF organizes various programs for and with local communities with objectives of improving livelihood and security of local people. Empowering the and enhancing conservation efforts. It works on the different part of the rural areas, mainly in environmental 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 and 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 originating from petrol, diesel and LPG vehicles in the Katmandu valley. This will be done by dissemination of information on the environmental ecological and economical problems caused by the adulteration by the fuel.

Besides this, the forum has been launching different programs, like safe and pure drinking water, also Nature Conservation as well as protection of Bio-diversity in different places of Nepal The forum as the first to raise the voice regarding pollution induced by tempos run under diesel in Katmandu Valley. We actively participated against it is worked for the total banning of tempos run under diesel.

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


Goal of YAEF ::

  1. To help people to protect and provide clean and healthy environment to spread awareness among the people with the help of local youths.
  2. To create awareness among local people to be friendly with the environment.
  3. To produce and broadcast educational and informational programme on environment, health and education.

To make people aware about social services and create friendly relations among them.


Objective of YAEF ::

  1. To inform Nepalese people about the degrading environment of Nepal as well as the world.
  2. To produce and broadcast information oriented programmed to keep balance between environmental and development.
  3. To inspire people to do some social works for the development of self-help society.
  4. To help for up-liftmen of the life standards of Nepalese people through income generating Programmers’.
  5. To give suggestion to the government on depleting environment condition and how to protect it. To facilitate those who have done outstanding works in the field of environment.
  6. To take necessary steps ahead to make Nepal a country of greenery and free from pollution.
  7. To suggest the government to protect historical heritage site and to enforce environmental laws in Nepal effectively.
  8. To introduce Nepal in the world as a country with the rich bio-diversity.

To conduct nature conservation programmers’ through daily six hours of national geographic programmers’ as well as monthly magazine and radio for increase awareness among local people to be friendly with the environment, health and educational matter.


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 toilets 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.

Environmental Information Center

The forum has been running the environmental library as a center for awareness about environment, health and education at the local level. The forum is also going to run an Environment Information Center with the main objective to aware more and more rural information to various village development committees with 100 sub-stations around the country inter connected with V-SAT Technology.


UN Tree Plantation Campaign in Nepal
The forum also has been running UN Tree Plantation Campaign in Nepal targeting specially Nepal to plant million trees since 2006 onwards. The forum has planted and preserved 5,000 trees on 2006, and 5,000 trees on 2007 and 3,000 trees on 2008 at different places.

Regular Programs organized by YAEF
The forum has organized various campaigns in the remote areas. The programs are related health, sanitation, drinking water and environmental issues like that YAEF has been celebrating world environment day on 5th June every year by organizing different programs to make people aware of pollution. There are lost of workshop and training carried out by YAEF giving students training to impart the skills to ensure for their employment. Facilitating elder citizens giving motivational training to women and many other issues. We celebrate World Environment Day, World Wetland Day, World Heritage Day, World Bio-Diversity Day, World Water Day,UN Day as a national festival every year. We also conducted blood donation program in various occasion etc.

“Increase The Woman Communicator, Increase The Awareness To Balance The Environment And Development.”

To running UN Tree plantation campaign in Nepal


Youth Awareness Environmental Forum YAEF/NEPAL,UN Tree plantation campaign in Nepal is going to be conducted with the aim to eradicate the distorted global environmental problemb which is supposed to bring balance between environment and development.It is enevitable to protect the green forest in Nepal to modify the environmental upheaval of Nepal. It is very high time to sow a seed of green revolution to develop and independent society. A committee of 43 members was formed under the chairmanship of former Member of House of Representative Mr. Baburam Nakarmi to bring it in practice on 7th,Asar 2063(2006) after a long interaction programme held in Nepal Kala Parisad. The committee had got a legal stand with an agreement on 27th, Asar 2063(2006) in the hall of Nepal Bar Association from a long interaction programme. The intoduction programme among the officials of campaign was held on 2nd Shrawan 2063(2006) hosted by the Chief guest of Under Chief Mr. Ram Babu Shah of United Nations Information Center Kathmandu, Nepal. In the programme the Chairman of Mr. Babu Ram Nakarmi had handed over Rudrakshya Tree to the Chief guest Mr Shah. UN tree plantation campaign in Nepal had began after it had planted in the compound of UN office in Nepal with the aim to give the company to the campaign the plantation programme of Chap, Dhupi,Lausi was held in Telkot,Bhaktapur. In the programme, the honorable Vice-Chairman of National Assembly Mr.Ramprit Paswan had attended as Chief guest of the time. The forum will be always initited to fulfill the dream of UN tree plantation campaign in Nepal by planting in the various parts of Nepal in forth coming days