An eight-member team from the country will participate in the Indo-German Humanist Youth Exchange Programme to be held at Berlin and Brandenburg in Germany from August 13 to 29. The team members, with the help of the German-based Humanist Free Thinkers Association, will participate in various youth awareness programmes. The team members — Yanimi, Pragna, Niranjana, Mounika, Narayana, Jagadeep and Satyanarayana, headed by Dr. Olas Gora of Atheist Centre — will participate in the four-day international workshop on ‘Education-Vocation-Employment’ there, said Atheist Centre director Dr. Niyanta.
Speaking to The Hindu on Monday, Dr. Olas Gora said the team would visit schools, colleges, University of Podsdam, Parliament, museum of Second World War, youth clubs, concentration camps, social forestry in villages and site-seeing. The youth will interact with Mayor, public representatives and heads of the villages during their visit, he said.
“This sojourn will help the members exchange culture, technology, lifestyle, education system, employment and food habits as the team will stay with locals in different places. Last year a team from Germany visited India on the same programme,” said Dr. Maru of Atheist Centre.
“This is the 19 Indo-German youth exchange programme and the members were selected from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana States. They will take up service activities in hospitals, homes and other needy persons during their stay at Germany,” said Dr. Nau Gora, who visited Germany on the same programme earlier.
