Application for Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero - India 2020 is now open !

Kathmandu, February 18, 2020: Glocal Pvt. Ltd. in collaboration with Embassy of India launched the second edition of Glocal Teen Hero India 2020.

Glocal Pvt. Ltd and CYDA (the India Partner) are pleased to announce the opening of Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India, 2020 to search the fantastic teen form India.

Glocal Teen Hero is an initiation of Glocal Khabar (a concern of Glocal Pvt. Ltd.) to bring out the teenagers who are doing something beyond their academics and are active to create a positive effect in their society. It is a platform for teenagers to share their initiation, creativity, and enthusiasm which will then motivate them and more of the other teenagers in the nation to develop entrepreneurial thinking.

Glocal Teen Hero is the first-ever program that is designed to recognize dedicated, passionate, and innovative teenagers.  It also aims to take GTH to all the South Asian Countries by 2020. Likewise; India is the first country to host the Glocal Teen Hero franchise.

In 2019, Glocal Teen Hero – India was successful to recognize fantastic teenagers from India. The teenagers are Monishwaran Maheswaran (The first winner of GTH Hero from India) - a young innovator and a high school student who is interested in mathematics and computer science. Rupam Ghosh -a young entrepreneur and founder of GHOSH INVENTIVES. Lakshya Chhabra - Co-founder of “Jhutpat Logistics” which is a student-led start-up that provides logistics solutions to people and their business, Kunal Chandiramani - a young innovator, TEDx Speaker and the CEO of “Kstar” and “COMPACADEMY”. Kaushal Gohil – social activist and Garvita Gulhati - young Environmentalist and founder of “Why waste?”

Glocal Teen Hero India is a fully-funded program exclusively for Indian Teenagers which supports the teenager’s initiation and help in developing motivational factors to initiate more. The overall purpose of this program is to motivate and encourage teenagers to step out of their comfort zone, be creative and nurture entrepreneurial thinking. It also acts as a great platform for teenagers to network with delegates from various industries in India. It is an opportunity of a lifetime, not only to the winner, but all the applicants, finalists and other teenagers to develop themselves through networking, collaboration and pooling of opportunities.

In order to bring fantastic teenagers together; Glocal Pvt. Ltd  has partnered with Wai Wai as a title sponsor and CYDA as an Indian Partner and  Nepal Tourism Board as a promotional partner.

The Ambassador of Qatar, His Excellency was the part of the event. Other guests were Mr. GP Sah, Vice-Chairman of Chaudhary Group, Mr. Upaul Majumdar, General Manager of Soaltee Crown Plaza, Ms.Sinjini Mookherjee, Head-Youth Resource Centre, CYDA, Mr, K.P Singh.

The 2^nd Secretary, Commerce, and Commercial Representative; Embassy of India, Mr. K.P Singh expressed his happiness upon initiation of such event for launching India as a franchise for the event with the vision to connect youngsters which has a great objective.

“We have come across to South Asia to find the exceptional teenagers and provide them a platform to showcase their initiation, so that they can be empowered and motivated to be the change-maker” said Mr. Asish Thakur (Executive Director of Glocal Pvt. Ltd.)

At first, Glocal’s 20 under 20 shall be announced from total applications through interview and document review. After that, the top 6 finalists will be shortlisted for the final round of the Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero - India based on initiation and the impact of their work, and then the finalist will be interviewed individually to measure their personality, domain knowledge, and vision.

Award ceremony of the Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India will be held on June 4 at Pune in the presence of 250+ personalities of India from different walks of life, such as diplomats, politicians, film stars, entrepreneurs, youth leaders and many more.

Applications for Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India has already opened from January 07, 2020. The participants will be judged by a 3-members jury team comprising of Adv. Vandana Hemant Chavan, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Mathew Matham, Secretary, CYDA, Pune and Prof. Ujjwal K. Chowdhary, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Adamas University.

The application is free and can be filled online at https://india.glocalteenhero.com/. The deadline for the application is March 31^st, 2020.  

My Experience as a Lekhaun Facilitator- Sampada Uprety

Sampada Uprety facilitating in her class

To build a successful lever for myself, I have searched for experiences and opportunities all my life. During this search, I involved myself in the Junior Red Cross Circle of my school.  There I got several opportunities to visit various schools around Kathmandu Valley and conduct various activities with the children. While conducting the programs I started to develop my love for working with children. It made me realize that helping children by any means was what made my soul happy and that I can make a difference.

Right after I started pursuing my Bachelor’s degree, I came to know about Canopy Nepal through my classmate and I applied to volunteer as a facilitator. Soon I was called for an interview and a few weeks later I was getting trained to facilitate one of their programs ‘Lekhaun’.  Facilitating the students was a huge responsibility and as it was my first time working as a facilitator, it was quite challenging. Despite all the challenges, I enjoyed all aspects of the sessions. Working with the children and seeing them learn and grow was such a rewarding experience. The progress that the children made during the session brought a huge smile on the faces of our team members. The bond and the memories created during the 4 days long session will be something that I will always value.

Sampada Uprety  facilitating her classroom

I remember one particular incident where one student, Ipsha Baskota, cried during the last day of the session. This made me very emotional.  It caused me to acknowledge how innocent and pure these children are and the impact we can make on a child’s mind. Additionally, one of my students, Davis Maharjan posted my picture along with his own sisters on his social media expressing that I had guided and motivated him a great deal. I was so overwhelmed with all the love that I received from the students and I will cherish these moments for the rest of my life.

Our facilitator s after the session

While facilitating the Lekhaun session, I got a huge chance to grow as an individual and enhance my communication and leadership skills. I am very honored and grateful to have gotten such a great chance to work with children and help them achieve their full potential through the wonderfully designed programs. I look forward to exploring and learning new things with Canopy Nepal and help make a difference in children’s life through every endeavor possible.

Written By: Sampada Uprety (Canopy Nepal Facilitator)

Yellow Journalism and Media Ethics - YUWA Nepal

Yellow journalism is a term used for the use of inadvertent and glamorous newspaper reporting without regard to facts. Its history and development, its purpose in the media and its impact are discussed. This is the kind of journalism wherein the news is published without any proof. Yellow journalism is known as the ‘fake’ and ‘money making’ journalism. The main aim of Yellow Journalism is to gather  attention of people in the society. It is difficult to get the attention of the viewers without sentimentalization of news and so, yellow journalism is the impact of the attempt of the media to get popular among the mass audience.

Yellow Journalism is a way of publishing news in such a format that it attracts a good number of readers with an aim to increase the circulation of the newspaper. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers. The history of this type of journalism was started in the USA and is also related to Joseph Pulitzer who published a paper called the ‘New York Sunday World’, which is also called the  ‘New York World’ and was very famous. The other major paper at the time was William Hearest’s ‘New York Journal’. They both published a colour cartoon called Yellow Kid at the time. Both newspapers began the practice of sensationalizing news for attention and profit inorder to compete with each other and as a result, the term ‘yellow journalism’ was coined to refer to such practices.

Yellow journalism itself attempts to warm up the audiences to a specific issue. The code of conduct and the ethics of professional journalism which asserts that the audience has the right to get objective and accurate information from mass media is not aligned with the motives of yellow journalism. It is present in all parts of the world and is being used more and more liberally by the media. This is causing a lot of problems as in the age of social media and instant communication, sensationalized news travel fast and actual news are not within reach of most people. The right to get information and the right to freedom in a regular and positive way must be respected by the media.

Accuracy, balance, credibility, effectiveness, fairness, truth, objectivity, honesty, independence, respect for the rights of others etc. must be followed by the media to conduct professional journalism. To avoid being sucked into yellow journalism, the Nepalese journalists and media houses should follow the code of conduct which was formulated by the Press Council of Nepal and the Federation of Nepalese Journalists Association of Nepal. Nepal must follow the social responsibility theory of the press for its further development. Media ethics is the way to uplift the social, economic, philosophical/moral and professionalism in the sector of journalism.

Ethics are important in Journalism because they create guidelines for journalists to help people be informed as also from feeling unequal or outcast. It also helps the journalists to maintain a sense of equality. Rules of conduct or principles of morality that point us towards the right or best way to act in a situation. Similarly, many international organizations; International Federation of Journalists, International Organization of Journalists, European Federation of Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists etc. are also working in the field of journalism to keep healthy and professional environment in the field of journalism.