Young Warrior Movement: CBSE Urges Youths To Join the Movement To Spread Awareness on COVID-19
CBSE has invited youths from the age group between 18 and 30 years to join a Young Warrior movement. They can safeguard themselves against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Young Warrior Movement: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is inviting youths to participate in the Young Warrior movement. Those who are between the age group of 18 and 30 years can join the movement. This will help them in safeguarding themselves against the ongoing COVID-19, their families, communities, and the country. The initiative is in collaboration with the ministry of youth affairs and sports and the ministry of health and family welfare, YuWaah-UNICEF and a multi-stakeholder consortium of over 950 partners.
Young Warrior Movement
The movement tries to engage youths in a series of easy and real-life tasks including promoting access to verified health and essential services, vaccine registration, COVID-19 appropriate behaviours and myth-busting. CBSE said that the movement will help young people “instill strong leadership skills, empathy as well as social consciousness amongst youth.
Young Warrior is a nationwide movement to engage five million young people to lead action against COVID-19 and impact 50 million people. CBSE further said that these tasks will be hosted in 10 regional languages to protect students, their families and neighbourhoods against COVID-19. Students will be eligible for a UNICEF certificate on the completion of the given tasks.
How To Join Young Warrior Movement?
Interested candidates can join the Young Warrior movement by registering through UReport, a chat-bot platform, by sending YWA on WhatsApp to +91 9650414141. They can also register by giving a missed call to 08066019225. Those who do not have smartphones can register through community radio.
Once the participants join Young Warrior Movement, they can motivate 10 or more young people to join the movement. School leaders have been requested to encourage students or teachers between the ages of 10 to 30 years to join the movement. The CBSE will utilise the knowledge hub prachicp.com to educate young people on COVID-19.
How Young Warrior Movement Works?
Soon after joining they will have to pledge to take action against COVID-19 by posting a message with the phrase 'I am a #youngwarrior' on social media, tagging 5 friends. This engagement will comprise a series of easy and real-life tasks with the #YoungWarrior earning a certificate for their actions. These actions include promoting access to verified health and essential services, vaccine registration, COVID Appropriate Behaviours, myth-busting etc. These tasks will be hosted in 10 regional languages to protect themselves, their families, and their neighbourhood against COVID-19.
