BSLY conference minutes

Minutes [21/04/2018]

Opening:

The meeting was called upon by MR. Deepen Raj Ghalley, at 3pm on 21/04/2018 in Department of Youth and Sports (DYS), conference hall.

Members present:

1.  Deepen Raj Ghalley
2. Denjay Dukpa
3.  Karma Wangda
4. Sirijana Rai
5. Bedika Ghalley
6. NidupTshering Dorji
7. Raymon Rai
8. Sonam Yangki
9. Amrith Nesor
10. Chenga Lhamo
11. Robin Gurung
12. Amrita Gurung
13. KB Yogi
14. Pradeep Pradhan
15. Shancha Tamang
16. Bikram
17. Punkageupriti
18. AmrithSubba
19. Duptho Wangdi
20. Tika Ram Basnet
21. Karma Wangda
22. Karma

Meeting Agenda

Ø  Introduction

Ø   BSLY ( Mission, vision, slogan, logo & objectivities) 

Ø  Over all progress of BSLY

Ø  Membership Registration

Ø  Acknowledging Sponsor’s & BSLY T-shirt

Ø  Question & Answer session

Ø  Futsal competition

The conference begin with the welcome speech by Miss Sirijana Rai and introduction of the member’s present, followed by Mr. Karma Wangd, coordinator, shared about the DAISAN group history and its objectives and also Mr.NidupTshering Dorji,coordinator of Y-VIA RTC,  shared about the Y-VIA core mission and its start up. Then the floor was taken by Mr. Deepen Raj Ghalley.

BSLY (Mission, vision, slogan, logo & objectivities) Progress so far.

The seminar was held for the first time to make familiarize to our members what the group is all about (logo, mission, vision, objectives, focus etc.) which was not done so far.

Logo:

The three constituent colors of the logo are yellow, orange and white, which signifies selflessness, service and purity. Inspired by the constituent colors of the national flag.

• Yellow: The human form in yellow color signifies the strong voluntary power among the youth of Bhutan.
• The raised hand of the human form signifies READINESS AND WILLINGNESS to help others who are in need of help.
• The orange lettering BSLY signifies, STRONG, VIBRANT, AND SOCIAL INCLUSIVE to society where the spirit of voluntarism and social capital are high, enabling conditions conducive to optimize the ideals and values of GNH.
• The white background on which the logo is set signifies the primary feature of BSLY- PURITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, APOLITICAL, and DEDICATION to serve of the King,Country and People’s.

Vision:A loving and caring society of Gross National Happiness

Mission: To promote and develop the spirit of volunteerism

Slogan: Make the world a better place

Goals:

Ø  To support important programs and events of social NGOs by providing human capital.

Ø  To maintain a vital society backed by voluntary activities of different scopes and causes for sustainable social development.

Ø  Educate the society on the strength of volunteerism.

Ø  To engage the youths in productive activities.

Ø  To fulfill the noble vision of GNH

Ø  To provide needy social humanitarian services to the people who are in need of such assistance as care and moral support.

Our focus:

Ø  Voluntary services during events organized by NGOs and Non-profit organizations to meet the current shortage of human force and to provide mental and physical support to the needy, especially physically challenged.

Ø  To promote and develop spirit of volunteerism among youth

Activities:

Ø  Volunteer for National Drug Awareness Campaign 2017, conducted by Chithen Phenday Association.

Ø  Attended to a senior citizens (provided for by Royal Society for Senior Citizen) who had no relatives  at JDWNR Hospital

Ø  Fund Raising programs for Needy & Paralyzed

Ø  Sharing time with, and assisting,  the physically challenged individuals

Ø  Participated in Royal Society for Senior Citizen Day[2/10/2017]

Ø  Organized BSLY orientation program 20/01/2018

Ø  Participated in orientation program organized by DYS, Young Bhutan Network(YBN) 09/02/2018

Ø  Participated in community Bhutanese Blogger 10/02/2018

Ø  Launched of BSLY official Blog https://bslyvolunteer.blogspot.com 21/02/2018

Ø  BSLY organized cleaning campaign to support YBN(Young Bhutan network) 25/02/2018

Ø  YBN was invited at the UNICEF Bhutan Gathering 18/04/2018

Ø  International: Participated in project planning initiated by JCI APDC[14/10/2017]

Note: The above points was presented through photo slights presentation.

Challenges and future ruff plans was also briefed.

Membership Registration

The membership to BSLY is open to all youth both in-school-youth and out-of-school-youth irrespective of their ages who have faith and commitment to the vision and objective of BSLY.

Every details of the members who are supposed to get registered has to be maintained then and there. Therefore, once the membership registered is done the next meeting will be held on 25/04/2018 to discuss on the work plans for 2018 tentatively with small ceremony.

Note: our valued members and the sponsor can get themselves registered online

https://bslyvolunteer.blogspot.com

Bottom line: We will have the exact figure of the members where by the members performance appraisal based on their activeness to any event held will be awarded a small token of appreciation at the end of the year

Acknowledging Sponsor’s & BSLY T-shirt

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in giving”

Whatsoever the event hosted by BSLY, it is impossible without our valued sponsor. The seminar was held to acknowledge our sponsor with believe, member have little knowledge who sponsored for the event. In short, the seminar focused on get to know with the sponsors and acknowledge them individually, but as said and done some of our sponsor couldn’t made themselves for the seminar due to busyness of life.

Mr. Deepen Raj Ghalley also focused more on the T-SHIRT selling.

Short report on T-SHIRT

Actual price	Market price
Nu.350	Nu.500

The actual cost for both T-shirt as well the print was nu.350. The overall cost for the T-shirt was decided to keep it as Nu.500 because the profit, Nu 150, will be solely used on the office expenditures (picture frames).

Note: The T-shirt was printed at Amen Arts and Prints.

Futsal competition

The futsal completion was organized by the Chanjiji youth center in collaboration with Department of Youth and Sport to promote Young Bhutan Network (YBN).

The futsal event will be held on 28 and 29 of April, 2018.

BSLY will be soon registered under YBN.

YBN: It’s funded and supported by UNICEF, initiated by Department of Youth and Sports (MOE).

YBN focus more to streamline the functions of youth-led groups in Bhutan and to facilitate improved coordination among them, a guideline for youth-led groups.

At present there are 12 youth-led groups.

The seminar was concluded with some suggestion and question answer.

Minutes prepared by Deepen Raj Ghalley