Well begun is half done - First meeting for the Youth Convention

Participants of the First meeting for the Youth Convention

The first meeting to decide on the State Level Youth Convention was held on 22 January 2012 at Don Bosco Provincial House, Bangalore at 9.30 am. All the Zonal Coordinators and the youth representatives and a few past youth directors were invited for the meeting. The meeting was held at the council hall at 10 am. The meeting began with a prayer led by Rev Fr Jude Anand sdb. Fr Anil welcomed all the participants and introduced the agenda for the discussion. Fr CP Varghese and Fr Jude shared their past experience of conducting youth Conventions. So far there have been six state level Youth Convention in Karnataka and the participants unanimously voted to have 7^th Don Bosco Youth Convention this year.

It was decided to have a full three day Youth Convention in last week of April 2012 and the venue suggested was Kristu Jyoti College, Bangalore. After a long discussion the theme for the Convention emerged as “Youth for a Better World”. In the three day convention it was suggested to dedicate each day to particular theme.

Thus first day could be dedicated to ‘Knowing Don Bosco as the friend of youth’

Second Day “Know yourself” and the

Third day “Make a difference in the World”.

Various topics which could be dealt as an input session were discussed