The American Center's team visited YPSA
Honorable Cultural Affairs Officer, Mr. Garrett E. Wilkerson, of The American Center, which is a part of the Embassy of the United States of America, visited YPSA head office today, 26th July 2010. Mr. Garrett was along with Ms. Sabreen S. Rahman, Program Development Advisor of the American Center. They had a sharing meeting with YPSA senior management. The acting Chief Executive of YPSA Mr. Mahabubur Rahman and the Director (Finance) Mr. Palash Chowdhury joined the meeting where Mr. Muhammed Ali Shahin, Policy Research and Advocacy Officer, has moderated the meeting. Mr. Garrett expressed his gratitude for telling them about YPSA and also aprreciated YPSA's diverse activities on the different issues. Ms. Sabreen also thanked YPSA for welcoming them and greeted YPSA for contributing to development of the country. Later YPSA took Mr. Garrett and Ms. Sabreen to a rehabilitation center of YPSA for the street based Sex workers which is called Modhumita.
District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar welcomed the YPSA Consortium for achieving 80% of total target in first cycle. YPSA organized second semesteral meeting of PLCEHD-2 project (Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development) at DC office in Cox's Bazar on 22 July. Md. Guesh Uddin Ahammed, District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar was present as Chief Guest in the meeting presided over by Md. Humayon Kabir Kondaker, ADC, Education & Development. Special guests were Md. Nurul Alam Nezami (ADC, general), & Md. Jashim Uddin (ADM). All UNO, and Upazilla Chairman, dist. several govt. officer, participants from civil society group, non formal education, AD dist. Bureau and NGOs attended the meeting. 
District Information Office, Cox's Bazar organized Rally and discussion meeting on "World population day 2010" with the support of YPSA. Mr. Md. Giash Uddin Ahmed, D.C. of Cox's Bazar, Mr. Md. Humayan Kabir Khondaker, ADC (Education), Dr. Kazal Kanti Barua, Civil surgeon, Mr. Giash Uddin Zilla Information Officer participated in the rally and discussion meeting.
Sitakund Upazilla Health & Family Planning Department organized Rally and discussion meeting at Sitakund to mark the “World Population Day 2010” on 11 July with the support of YPSA, Samanninata Unnayan Sangstha (SUS) and Meri Stops Clinic. This year’s World Population Day theme is "Everyone counts". It seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, particularly in the context of poverty reduction and development strategies and plans. Abdullah Al Baker Bhuyan, Upazilla Chairman, Sitakund presided the discussion meeting. Dr. Abu Taher, Upazilla Health & Family Planning Officer, Dr. Eklas Uddin, Physician & Political leader, Dr. Abdul Momen, Upazilla Health & Family Planning Officer were present as special guest in the meeting. 
A Nepalese delegation team consisting of 10 members visited different work place of YPSA-GFATM # 912 package activities at Chittagong on 11 July. They also visited Life Skill Education (LSE) session in ‘Univogoue Garments Company Ltd’ which was organized by Strategic Partner ‘AWAC’. Mr. Sujit Kumar, Representative of ‘Univogoue Garments Company Ltd’ was present with the delegates. There they discussed with a peer educator & garments worker during the session. Later on, they visited ‘JMS Garments’ under Strategic Partner ‘NOWZUWAN’. The delegates attend a meeting there with ‘JMS Garments’ authority. 
YPSA, Community Radio Academy and BNNRC jointly organized a view exchanging meeting on “Role of Community Radio in development of Sitakund” at Sitakund Upazilla Parishad Auditorium on 3 July. Md Abul Kashem, Member of Parliament was present as chief guest and Abdullah Al Baker Bhuyan, Upazilla Chairman was present as special guest in the meeting. Md. Arifur Rahman, CE of YPSA and Md. Bazlur Rahman, CEO of BNNRC presented notes regarding the issue in the session. Ministry of Information, Government of Bangladesh recently approved 14 Community Radio Initiators for installation and operation of community radio in Bangladesh. YPSA has been selected as the initiator of Community Radio installation. The main objective of community radio is to provide livelihood related information to the rural communities in an understandable way. Agriculture, education, health, disaster, women and child issues, market price, services, etc. will be cover in the community radio for the community people. 
YPSABi-Annual General Meeting B7-AGM 2010 held on 25th June 2010 at HRDC Sitakund Campus Training center . Bi-AGM was inaugurated by National anthem and it was presided over by Mr.Shamsuddin Bhuyan (Tutul), President of the Executive Committee. Mr.Arifur Rahman , General Secretary presented organizational Program report (09-10) and Yearly program plan (10-11) . Ms.Yasmin Akter Jugnu , Finance Secretary presented organizational finance report (09-10) and Yearly budget (10-11) . Reports, plan and budget was analyzed and discussed by general members and it was approved. 
