The program proved to be a common platform to bring more than 40 youths from 14 different youth clubs of Lamjung together with local government, District Youth Committee and NGOs of the place in a forum to clear the doubts regarding government, know their plans for future as well as their expectations from youths. The enthusiasm, frustration and hopes of young minds were clearly seen during the Q&A session with the panellist. Youths were also made engaged in a group discussion forming 7 different groups of 6 people where they were asked to discuss on the strength they have as a residence of Lamjung, problems they have been facing and goals they would like to achieve. They also enlisted the solutions of problems that they had themselves put forward previously. This made the participants realize the fact that we must move forward and try to solve our problems in the first place and create space ourselves rather than hoping everything to happen from government.
The discussions were more focused on youth entrepreneurship, education and self-reliance. Through the discussion it was found that 36% of 14-40 aged group people are unemployed in Nepal. No doubt, Lamjung had been also the victim of this tragic fate. So it was vital to find out the causes of such a heart rending scenario of youths in Lamjung, which was thereby successfully done through the heap of curious questions of the youth to the panellist .The panel discussion was then immediately entangled towards the effective solutions to create a space for proper mobilization of youth’s power and knowledge in every sectors of development works in Lamjung.
The solutions were revealed through the group discussion individually by seven groups working out on SWOT analysis for youth empowerment and employment in Lamjung. In this way, 4 hour long program proved to be a time worth spending to know about plans of local government, status and problems of youths along with their solutions.
