Youth-Link goes to rural Madang

THE Madang-based non-governmental organisation, Youth-Link, has been drawing large crowds to its community awareness events in rural Madang.
Hundreds of people would gather and watch in amazement as the massive outdoor inflatable screen 10m-high and 15m-wide towers above them and their small village hamlets.
Youth-Link uses this giant outdoor screen to make power-point presentations on pressing development issues such as law and order, family planning, literacy, teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy living, cancer, TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS.
“We stage our awareness programmes in conjunction with these outdoor movie nights.
“The movies range from documentaries with important social message to the latest blockbuster films and Friday night football. 
The movie nights are part of the organisation’s community engagement activities,” the NGO said in a statement.
“Youth-Link’s community programmes are based on the organisation’s mission to help fight crime in Madang by connecting all members of the community, especially the youth to work in partnership with community leaders and police in addressing the numerous social problems,” Youth-Link programme director Bryan Kramer said.
“We hope to achieve this by engaging the wider community through social activities that promote social networking.
“We utilise these social networks to integrate community support back into our programmes.
“A community that plays and works together stays together.”