Youth festival is an excellent event to bring the younger generation of your area or city together to provide
an opportunity to enjoy, have fun, share experience with each other and
exchange views on topics of common interest. For this purpose a non-government
organization or group of such organizations join hands with each other and
organize such type of event to give teens a chance to participate in social
activities. This event can be exploited to raise environmental awareness in
people.
Main objectives of a youth festival
The key objectives of holding a
youth festival are:
- To bring young generation towards positive activities
- To make them become active member of the social fabric of society
- To motivate them play their role in collective social life
- To give them chance to get direct look at various social issues
- To prompt them share their views on various social problems
In above objectives the main
objective is to involve younger generation in the process of solution of
various social problems. Though environmental problems are very grave by their
nature but usually are considered one of the social problems. Therefore, we can
say solution of pollution problems can also be an objective of youth festival.
Main activities of a youth festival
Usually following activities are
carried out in a youth festival:
- Musical show
- Dance party
- Tea or high tea or dinner party
- Quiz show
- Song competition
- Indoor games
- Comedy show
- Debate competition
- Poster competition
How to organize a green youth festival?
To make your festival green you
need to pick the activities that are green in nature or that help participants
to express their views on various green issues. In this way all the
participants not only think about various environmental issues present around
them but also seriously plan to play their role for their solution. Or at least
whenever they advertently or inadvertently about to add in pollution by their
careless attitude they recall the lesson they learnt in such festivals.
Here are a few tips to make your
youth festival green.
- If there is quiz competition give a sapling for free to every participant
- Organize a poster competition on hot environment issue of your area
- Arrange a debate competition on any huge pollution problem
- Invite green activists in your festival
- Install banners or signboards with messages on environmental care
- Make a lucky draw and give to winner a dustbin or sapling
- Invite green product manufacturers to put up a stall to promote their products
- Distribute a handbill with message of environmental care
- Install a huge board with pledge to control pollution and ask all to sign it
How to plan a green youth festival?
To plan a youth festival to raise
environmental awareness you need to decide final things and then implement the
plan.
- Where from you get budget either through donations, participation fee, entry ticket or funding from any donor or retained earnings of your previous project.
- The place where you have to arrange this event
- Date and timing of the event
- Development of list of invitees and invitation to them through e-card or paper card
- Hiring of musicians, confirmation of quizzers and artists etc
- Seek participation from schools and colleges to take part in various scheduled competitions
- Announcement on social media to let youth know about the event
- Press announcement of the event
- Finally holding of the event
- Development of event report to mail it to green organizations
- Extensive media and social media coverage of the event
- Final report to describe how much you succeeded to raise environmental awareness through youth festival
So these are the important tips
to organize a youth festival in your area to raise environmental awareness. You
can do this if you are a community group, non-governmental green organization
or governmental organization. Just will is required to do such public awareness
activities to bring all people on same page for the protection and conservation
of our ever-degrading environment.
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