“A better today, a brighter tomorrow for the youth of Bhutan”
Our Mission
The Bhutan Youth Development Fund is committed to making every youth a leader. An estimated 59 percent of Bhutanese are younger than age 24. As Bhutan’s leading youth organization, we are working to ensure that all youth have equal access to education, meaningful employment and opportunities to develop their potential. Our programs build leadership skills, encourage teamwork and promote the value of service among youth. Through advocacy work and strategic partnerships, we work to encourage youth participation, raise awareness of youth issues and promote youth-oriented policy. We invest in Bhutan’s future, one youth at a time.
Our Objectives
- To establish a sustainable funding mechanism within Bhutan so that youth development and empowerment activities can be undertaken, now and in the future.
- To help sustain various youth programs through the formal school curriculum and extracurricular activities in areas such as environmental conservation, health and hygiene, reproductive health, agriculture, and sports.
- To provide grant management services to national and international donors providing assistance for youth development activities, targeting all segments of the youth population in Bhutan. In particular, this will include disadvantaged youth such as the disabled, early school leavers, juvenile delinquents, unemployed youth and those from low-income families.
- To set up a few flagship projects in areas where there are no interventions either by the government or civil society that would reflect the ethos of YDF.
- To raise awareness among youth about the importance of their role as future adult citizens of the country.
Estimates place 59% of Bhutanese under the age of 24 and 21% between ages 10 and 19. Target groups include the disabled, juvenile delinquents, out of school youth, school leavers and economically disadvantaged youth. Project proponents have to be local organizations or institutions having the mandate to undertake development work.
