The Youth Friendly Center (YFC), funded by the UN Refugee Agency and managed by the Caritas Nepal, conducted a weeklong training on journalism and creative writing.
The training that was named ‘Journalism and Creative Writing’ was held from November 3-7, YFC Assistant Program Coordinator Monarath Pokhrel informed.
Inaugurating the program, Field Director of Caritas Nepal, Father Amal Raj, heighted the role of growing number of journalists in the Bhutanese community.
According to him, young minds, if trained in a proper way, would play a pivotal role in telling untold stories of the camp to outsiders.
Altogether 35 participants from six camps and host community attended basic news reporting during the training sessions facilitated jointly by journalists Vidhyapati Mishra and Tilak Niraula.
Prakash Angdambe conducted creative writing classes on the last two days, according to Pokhrel.
Meanwhile, a ‘candlelight recitation’ class was also organised on Monday from 7:30 pm until 10 pm, where participants and guests, including Armed Police Force Inspector Lila Bahadur Bhujel, presented their creations on different themes and topics.
The recitation on candlelight was a symbolic irony to the host community that has denied supply of electricity in the camp, organizer said.
Artists like Angdambe, Nabin Prachin, Season Dahal, Dilan Samal, Phurba Tamang, Balaram Sinchuri, Dinesh Rai, and NB Anjan, among others recited their creations.
On the closing day, the Media Network Bhutan also exhibited photographs collected during a week-long photography training two months ago.
Contributed by Deo Kumar Tamang and Ghanashyam Sanyashi for BNS from Khudunabari
