Prince Philip presents youth award

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Nov 16: His Royal Highness Prince Philip, in a special ceremony, presented the Duke of Edinburgh Youth Award Scheme to Snehesh Shrestha today.

HRH Prince Philip is the Founder of the Duke of Edinburgh Youth Award Scheme.

Snehesh Shrestha, who is a student of Shuvatara School, has become the first Nepalese to receive this prestigious gold award of the Duke of Edinburgh Youth Award Scheme from the hands of HRH Prince Philip.

The award, which began in 1956, has at any one time, at least 450,000 youth taking part in it all over the world. The programme aims to encourage young people between the age 14 to 25 years to undertake a series of voluntarily selected activities over a specified period of time, to develop their ability to carry out sustained free-time activities, their skills, attitudes, perseverance and community commitments in an atmosphere of enjoyment and support from adults and peers.

The programme started in Shuvatara School about 19 months ago. Presently, there are 39 boys and girls of the school at the bronze level. Snehesh Shrestha is the only one at the Gold level. He completed his gold award requirements of 18 months of voluntary activities covering the skills, service, recreation and expeditions components of the award scheme.

This programme is all set to spread to other schools in and out of the Valley with the cooperation of the British School and other interested benefactors.

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