State youth to participate in 2016 Asia Pacific event, G7 Youth Foreign Ministers' meeting
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, March 13 2016: Four Manipuri youths of the Global Shapers Community: Imphal Hub will be participating at the 2016 Asia Pacific "SHAPE HIROSHIMA" event and G7 Youth Foreign Ministers' meeting at Hiroshima, Japan from March 18 to March 21 .

Elizabeth Okram, Ningthoujam Dineshkumar Singh, Chunthuingam Dangmei and Oinam Adeep Meitei are the only participants from the North-East States.

The event which is structured with three key components "Feel, Think, Act" with a series of field work, panel discussion, seminars and conferences is organised under the theme "Shape Sustainable Peace" by the Global Shapers Community: Tokyo Hub II and others hubs in Japan in collaboration with Hiroshima Prefecture in its capital Hiroshima city.

(L to R) Elizabeth Okram; N Dineshkumar; Chunthuingam; Oinam Adeep

The participants will also get the opportunity to interact with the youth Foreign Ministers of G7 countries at the "G7 Youth Foreign Minister's meeting" .

Global Shapers from all around the world will be participating in the three-day long conference which will be followed by a two-day post event tour where the team from Imphal will be engaged in studying the model of the "Zero-waste town" in Kamikatsu, Tokushima.

Imphal hub is the 450th hub and one of the newest hubs in the world.

With Armstrong Pame, IAS, as its founding curator, Global Shapers Community: Imphal Hub came into existence in August, 2015 .

Some of their notable works are "Meet Your Idol" that encourages youth to excel in their potential through inspirational talks, "My Story For You", a column published in one of the local dailies which shares inspirational stories, "#MobViolenceSucks", an awareness campaign to discourage mob violence in the State; "BloodDonor.me", a mobile app which was designed by the Chandigarh Hub to easily connect a blood donor and a recipient.

Presently, they are working on rehabilitating one of the villages which has been affected by the recent earthquake.

Global Shapers Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is spread out in a network of hubs in 453 cities in 160 countries.