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Timeline of YPSA

Year Milestone
1985 Young Power Established on 20thMay'85(UN Int'l Youth Year)
1986 Youth and Cultural Programs
1987 Youth and Sports Programs
1988 Tree Plantation Programs
1989 Registered with Bangladesh Government
1990 Start short-term welfare activities
1991 Relief and Rehabilitation work in cyclone affected coastal areas
1992 Young Power transformed into Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)
1993

Transition to long-term grassroots development Programs

Start sustainable group formation of target peoples

Participatory Savings & Credit Program started

1994

ADAB Membership

Non-Formal Primary Education Project Start

1995

Maternal, Child Health Care & Family Planning Project (MCH & FP)

Registered with NGO Affairs Bureau
1996 STD/AIDS Prevention Project Start
1997 Emergency Relief operation in Cyclone affected Coastal area.
1998 YPSA represented in UN World Youth Forum & Festival in Portugal
1999

Start Strengthen Health and Population for Less Advantaged Program (SHAPLA)

Start Community Based Rehabilitation for Person with Disabilities (CBR for PWDs)

Urban Development Program (UDP) start in Ctg. City area

2000

YPSA awarded International Youth Peace Prize IYPP 1999

Office set up in Chittagong (Head Office) and Geneva (International Liaison Office)

Char Development and Settlement Project (CDSP) started

Selected as long-term development partner of Action Aid Bangladesh (DA 12).

2001

Finalization of YPSA strategic planning for next eight years (2002-2009)

Inauguration of YPSA-CYD by global president of IAVE Dr. Kenn Allen

Full Membership of INFOYOUTH Network (UNESCO - INJEP) France.

2002

Partnership with ILO Bangladesh Office (WEDE Project)

Working relationship with UNESCO

Started STD/AIDS Prevention Program with floating and street-based sex workers of Chittagong City Corporation area.

2003

YPRDO Project, Advocacy for Public Policy for Ensuring Human Rights, RHIYA and Micro Health Insurance for Rural Poor Women in Bangladesh (MHIB) Project started, Partnership with Manusher Jonno Foundation, UNFPA and Save the Children UK

Disaster Preparedness against the risk of Earthquake (PPDP), Gender Awareness and action for Grassroots Enterprises (GAAGE), HIV/AIDS Prevention Project: DUI,

2004

Establishing Partnership for Disaster Preparedness (PPDP)

Gender Awareness and Action for Grassroots Entrepreneurs of Chittagong (GAAGE)

HIV/AIDS Prevention Program among drug users in Chittagong City Corporation

Broad Based Coalition and Advocacy for Human Rights (BCAHR)

2005

DAISY for ALL (DFA)

Liaison Office set up at Dhaka

Started activities in the field of food sovereignty as a partner organization of FSN Bangladesh

ICT and resource centre for disabled (IRCD)

Child hood cataract campaign in Chittagong division

HIV AIDS prevention program among young people- GFATM Project

REFLECT and ICT project

Scholarship for Continuing Education Project

Working area extended to CHT, Feni and Cox'sbazar

2006

Case finding Project for Bangladesh Childhood Cataract Campaign in Chittagong

Division (BCCC)

Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY)

International Program for the Development of Communication Project (IPDC)

Micro Enterprise Development Program (MEDP)

Micro Health Insurance Program (MHIP)

Reducing Risk of the Vulnerable Communities for Flood and Earthquake

Program for Hidrometrological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia (PROMISE)-

Bangladesh

Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) project

Celebrating over 20 years of improving lives.

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