Himalayan Yuva Prerna Yatra (HYPY) (www.yuvaprernayatra.org), a biannual event, is being organized in Uttarakhand under the kind aegis of Society For Inclusive Development (SFID), a not-for profit organization, between May 25 to 29, 2013.

In sync with the famous quote by Swami Vivekananda “Arise, Awake and stop not till your goal is reached”, about 100 highly motivated youth from urban and rural India would undertake a bus journey of 1000 KM to the Himalayas to experience, explore and enable change for the better.

HYPY follows certain procedures to select passionate and experienced participants with strong entrepreneurs’ zeal. The first list of selected participants will be announced by March 20, 2013.

The “Himalayan Yuva Prerna Yatra” will commence from base camp from Dehradun on 25th May 2013 and after 4-5 days of travelling, trekking, camping which would included open and interactive learning sessions with field champions, developing case studies, presentation, and off course activities with some fun. The team will conclude the Yatra on May 29 at Dehradun.

During the journey, these partakers would have opportunity to meet and interact with some of the exceptional “Champions of Change” and “the Unsung Heroes”, who not only dared to dream but have transformed their dreams into real enterprises by leveraging the local resources thus bringing prosperity to the region.

This will help inspire the visiting team members to introspect and correlate their learning to their own areas and spur them to create such enterprises and stories of their own.

Anil Jaggi, Founder President- Society For Inclusive Development (SFID) said, “There will be a network of mentors consisting of highly competent people from industry, academia, management, financial institutions, professionals and dreamers who will provide the support to these young people to translate their dreams in to tangible realities.”

“On conclusion of the Yatra, best business ideas in the field of Agriculture, Energy, Tourism, Skill Development & Education and Healthcare will be selected for further mentoring, support and promotion under Yuva Prerna Tantra. Later we will provide the boot camp for them and support them to start their successful enterprises”, he added.

Ritesh Garg, Organizing Team Member said, “Himalayan Yuva Prerna Yatra (HYPY) is first its kind and we have specifically selected the region of Central Himalayas with clear mission that Himalayas had always been the source of positive energy, knowledge, spirituality, with rich natural biodiversity and it is the origin of sacred Ganga and Yamuna, the lifeline of Northern India.

We would like to take this holistic mission a bit ahead from Ganga and Yamuna to other parts of the country and empower our youths with knowledge of community centric entrepreneurship, who are socially responsible, ethical and environmentally conscious.”

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