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Project Description

The National LaSallian Youth Conventions

The National Lasallian Youth Convention (NYLC) is a 6-day leadership-training programme for a hundred student leaders (16-19 year olds) from about 18 Lasallian schools from across Malaysia and Singapore.

These student leaders come from multi-ethnic and multi-faith backgrounds and the NYLC seeks to foster better relations among them. But more importantly, it encourages these students to become agents of change in their respective schools and in society.

The NYLC programme caters to and focuses on the 3 main levels of a person - the cognitive, the psychomotor and the affective, making it a holistic approach to education.

It allows for a critical evaluation of youth culture today and brings into consideration the many forces that govern the way young people think and behave. A special focus is also given to understanding society with a critical analysis of how basic human rights are upheld or violated especially in dealing with the marginalized and poor in the country. This is done through, first, an "exposure-immersion" programme that invites students participating (as a pre-requisite to the convention) to stay for one night with a marginalized community (indigenous communities, squatter communities, etc.) to gain a better understanding of their lifestyles and concerns. It also helps students dispel some of the social prejudices about the poor, hence creating a better understanding of the variety of cultures, practices and social concerns that exist in Malaysia.

Project Objectives

The Convention objectives are:

To understand, appreciate and sensitise persons to the diversity of cultures, religion, belief systems and socio-economic realities of Malaysia.

To appreciate inter-cultural differences and experiences to foster a common understanding among Malaysians.

To deepen spirituality and realise its importance in empowering persons to effectively bring about personal and societal change through the promotion of global ethics and values.

To experience Lasallian solidarity as a lived reality.

To affirm the power of choice and to take responsibility for its consequences on self, others, society, environment.

To creatively initiate, as a Lasallian family, changes towards building a more harmonious, just, equal, free... environment.