Community connect challenge launched by local actions winner

Local actions winner, Akash Upase, leads a two-week program called the Community Connect Challenge (CCC). The general idea behind the challenge is that a community is built by all stakeholders. The program had a total of fifty participants. 

Through the CCC, the participants agreed to volunteer for the challenge where they will lead and support civic engagement programs in their communities. Currently, the participants of the CCC has logged about 500 hours of volunteering. Because of the pandemic, coordination has been done online but the participants are taking the challenge to their communities through awareness campaigns on the civic complaint filing system and different local civic issues.

To raise awareness on the different issues in the community, the participants created posters and shared them through social media posts to get their networks involved in efforts to improve the community through simple initiatives like group cleanups and policymaker engagement.

The initiatives helped the community learn about the civic complaint filling and what they can do to become more active citizens. Through the project, Akash and his team will start a flagship fellowship program which will be improve and elevate the activities set up under the CCC. With the participants, the challenge plans to address the problems at their core.