RAJSHAHI, Jan 11, 2021 (BSS)- Effective and responsible role of the youths has become
crucial to forge social resistance against all sorts of abuses of drugs along with its
illicit trades and trafficking.
Besides, integrated efforts of all government and non-government organizations concerned
can be the vital means of freeing the society from the detrimental impacts of drug abuses.
There is no way but to make all the existing movements related to prevent drug abuse
fruitful to protect the young generation from further degradation.
The observations came at a daylong training workshop on peer education for the youth
members at Hotel Warisan in Rajshahi city today.
Four development organizations — Light House Consortium, Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM),
Ashakta Punarbashan Sangstha (APOSH) and Nari O Shishu Kalyan Society — jointly organized
the workshop under Drug Abuse Resistance and Understanding- DARAU project aimed at
sensitizing the young generation towards forging social resistance against drug abuses.
Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR) Project has been implementing the DARAO Project in
eight wards of Rajshahi City Corporation and all nine upazilas in Rajshahi district and
all six upazilas and four municipalities in Natore district.
Counterpart International is extending technical support with financial support from USAID
and UKAID for implementation of the project successfully.
Light House Chief Executive Harun-Or-Rashid, APOSH Executive Director Abul Bashar, Ward
Councilor of Rajshahi City Corporation Ayesha Khatun and Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning Coordinator of Light House Consortium Subrata Kumar Paul conducted the training
session as resource persons.
Harun-Or-Rashid told the attending youths that more than one lakh people both male and
female are coming forward and working together to fight against drug abuse to protect the
young generation from its devastating effects in Rajshahi and Natore districts.
Various motivational and awareness programmes are being conducted for their capacity
building besides boosting their level of confidence with intervention of the DARAU
project.
He said the present government is zero tolerance against drug-addiction and urged the
youths to come forward to protect the young generation from the grip of social crime.
“We have to build a healthy society to achieve sustainable development goals,” he said,
adding the movement against drug abuse should be turned into a social movement.
He added that cross-sections of people including women, parents, school and out-of-school
children, adolescents, youth, transgender, public representatives and members of the civil
society are being engaged in the anti-drug abuse campaign.
The project is intended to benefit around four lakh people either directly or indirectly.