Annual General Meeting and Membership Registration


Date:27/05/2018
Time:11am-1pm
Venue: DYS conferecce Hall

The Annual General Meeting and membership Registration for BSLY was held successfully. The meeting agenda was focused more on BSLY Operational Guideline and Membership Registration. The participants were also explained; why be a member of BSLY and Benefits of being BSLY members.
Furthermore, the work plan of the group for the year 2018 was also discussed.
1.Feeding Club at Memorial chorten 
2.P/ling project (initiated by "The Heal" collaboratively with the P/ling Thromde) 
3.BSlY office set up.
4.BSLY Music Band.

BSLY would like to thank our valued sponsors,
Mr.Gunja Raj Ghalley, MHPA Trongsa, for the Fried rice 
Mr.K.B for two cartoon of Mineral Water
Generation Y for one cartoon mineral water and Frooti Juice
Thank you all the participants, DYS and the sponsors for your immense support.





Capacity Development Workshop


Date: 18-19 May, 2018
Venue: DYS Conference Hall, Thimphu


Representatives of Bhutan Sharing and Loving Youths attended the two days (18-19 May, 2018) Capacity Development Workshop for the coordinator and members of youth group organised by the Department of Youth and Sports.
The two days' Workshop focused on: adolescent and youth engagement and participation skills, how communication skills can play vital role in strengthening and expanding networking, child protection, refining skills on writing resume, proposal writing and interview skill.

The sessions were led by officials from UNICEF Bhutan in partnership with the department of youth and Sports, Ministry of Education. BSLY volunteers were among the thirty-three representatives participating from different youth groups.




Service to Circumambulators


Date: 2 May, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: JDW National Memorial Chorten

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contribution to the success of this nation in countless other way, senior citizen deserves the love and time with dignity.

Coinciding with the Birth anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyelpo and the Teachers’ Day, Mrs. Sonam Yanki, the protagonist of the non-fictitious novel “Morning Sun” and also a member of Bhutan Sharing and Loving Youth (BSLY) collaboratively with the BSLY team served tea and snacks to our senior citizen coming to circumambulate Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Memoriaal Chorten.

The event was also to advocate on the novel “Morning sun”. The profit from the sale of the novel is being used to support unfortunate people.















BSLY would like to thank our valued sponsor;

Mr. Bijay Rai (owner of UMS restaurant) for cold drinks,
Mr. Ran Bdr Ghalley for plastic cups,
Mr. Kinley Wangchuk for snakes,
Mr. Dechen Dorji for rice to make Thuep (porridge),


Without the selfless contribution of our compassionate sponsors, the event would not have been successful.

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
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



Young Bhutan Network- Mass Cleaning Awareness Campaign


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead

It was a great privilege for Bhutan Sharing & Loving Youth to lead and organize a Mass Cleaning Awareness Campaign along Memorial Chorten to Changidaphu (Kalabazar) area in Thimphu. This was a first activity initiated after we joined Young Bhutan Network created by Department of Youth and Sports under Ministry of Education. It is a start of a collaborative work among DYS, Y-VIA, Harmony Youth Volunteers, Daisan and Clean Bhutan. We look forward to build strong network in future 
BSLY would like to thank our kind sponsors, 
1. Mr. Bijay Rai (UMS resturant)
2. Mr. Ran Bdr Ghalley (Brother enterprise)
3. Ms. Eliza Rai (Bumpa Arts and Prints)
4. Mr. Tenzin (Phunsum Optical) and all the coordinators and volunteers of BSLY, Y-VIA, Harmony Youth Volunteers, Daisan and Clean Bhutan.




Co-coordinators of different volunteer groups.