COMMUNITY CONNECT

by Akash upase from india

Community Connect is a leadership program that will build active citizenship in youth by solving local civic issues. The program intends to engage with different stakeholders such as citizens, elected representatives, and the municipal corporation to build better infrastructure for the city.

Through the project, youth leaders want to strengthen the citizen participation mechanisms in urban spaces through youth-led local actions and the recognition of an efficient complaint filing system in Mumbai by May 2022.

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

Akash Upase is a 26 year youth worker leading Community Connect at the Blue Ribbon Movement. Akash has been part of various projects and organizations that focuses on creating conscious future leaders and building urban safe spaces.

He is part of other communities like South Asian Youth Conference, Human Library, and Global Youth Alliance on Kindness. He currently serves as the Vice Curator of the Global Shapers Thane hub.

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COMMUNITY CONNECT CHALLENGE

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. Participants agreed to volunteer for the challenge where they will lead and support civic engagement programs.

organization behind the action

The Blue Ribbon Movement (BRM) is a Mumbai based youth-led movement nurturing youth leaders on a long-term social change journey with a 100% consent based model. It engages them through building an understanding of the interconnected systemic issues, solving local civic problems, connecting communities and standing in solidarity. BRM will lead the Community Connect vertical.