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Youth from Jammu interact with juvenile home inmates

Staff Reporter

The team, comprising 17 women and 18 men, is on a cultural exchange programme

CULTURAL EXCHANGE: Members of a youth team from Jammu interacting with the inmates of Kollam Juvenile Home on Saturday.

KOLLAM: A team of 35 youths from Jammu arrived to a rousing reception here on Saturday afternoon at the Kollam Railway Station. They came by the Kerala Express and were received with traditional pomp by the members of the Nehu Yuva Kendra Sangathan.

The team, comprising 17 women and 18 men, is here on a cultural exchange programme.

From the railway station, the youth went straight to the Juvenile Home here where they interacted and had lunch with the inmates. Members of the team also performed cultural items for the inmates. In the evening they organised a Kashmiri dance programme at the Sopanam Kala Kendram. They were entertained with Mohiniyattom, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi in return.

On Sunday they will attend a women's empowerment workshop at Kaithakode. They will then visit the house of the jawan Ajesh who was killed in the Kargil war.

In the afternoon, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan national vice-chairman Kodikunnil Suresh will have an interaction with the youth.

On Monday they will be at Anchalumoodu where each one of them will be staying at different houses. The home-stay programme is to enable the Kashmiri youth to understand the typical Kerala way of life. They will also interact with the youth of Anchalumoodu and in the evening host a Kashmiri cultural programme. They will visit coir manufacturing units, a cashew factory and take part in a feast organised by the Panmana Ashram.

On November 8, they will leave for Alapuzha and Eranakulam districts. They will also be taken for backwater cruises. On November 9, they will return home.

The cultural exchange programme is being organised jointly by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Kerala, and the Department of Jammu and Kashmir in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

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