“Building Cultural Bridges” byMajid Mushtaq

(Pakistan)

Youth ActivistCultural Ambassador of PakistanCountry Representative of ‘Roobaroo – Beyond

Borders’Global Youth Ambassador at ‘A World at

School’Only Pakistani to win Korean Cultural Award

by Ministry of Foreign Affairs KoreaReceived Presidential Award i.e “Izaz-e-

Sabqat” Doing a project YES (Youth Empowerment

through Skills) being sponsored by U.S Dept. of State

About Me:

And above all, I love taking selfies with kids

Making friends from all over the world

Doing community service projects

Playing with cute angels

And being a youth activist!

Why UNAOC-EF Summer School?

Working with brilliant young minds from different parts of the world to build bridges across nations,

create inter-cultural harmony and solve global issues by mutual

cooperation.

HOW?? Let me tell you my story!!

For the last 67 years there have hardly been any mainstream

conversations between the youth in India and Pakistan and there never existed a platform which

could bring them together.

Problem:

Discussed the idea with Indian friends and decided to build a mainstream

human to human conversation between the youth in both countries and came

up with “Roobaroo – Beyond Borders”,

a socio – cultural exchange platform where youth from Pakistan and India

share their ideas with each other.

We live in a Global Village BUTStudents in my university have never had a chance to talk and share ideas with students from Combo, Australia, Somalia, Hungary, Brazil and so on

And same goes to the other side!!

But Problem still exists at Global Level

Imagine How nice it’d be if people from different countries are having “google hangouts” with each other,

participating on social media campaigns and sharing their ideas on

unique platform??

Idea:“Building Cultural Bridges”

I have an idea of creating a network of UNAOC-EF Summer School Alumni

where they take part in ‘building cultural bridges across

nations’ through such kind of different activities

and actively participate for community development after going back to their

countries!

I believe Alumni would become more active if UNAOC launches a "Small Grant Awards Program" for the Alumni to execute some

brilliant ideas after going back to their countries.

UNAOC should welcome different ideas and then choose the best ones

A Suggestion:

Thank You and Greetings from Pakistan!