The Commonwealth Students' Welfare Group of India

Based in New Delhi, India, The Commonwealth Students' Welfare Group of India also known as CSWGI is an India based not-for profit NGO/Society of youth engaged in educational welfare and charity activities. This association is by and for the youth. It was established in 2005 and is affiliated to the Royal Commonwealth Society in London. Its mission is to support and promote the modern Commonwealth, its cultures and its core values, through offering a forum for the debate, research and development of Commonwealth Thinking on key International Issues; through providing a centre for celebration of Commonwealth art and culture; through its educational, youth and outreach programmes; through its commitment to the continued growth and resilience of Commonwealth Civil Society.

Its vision is “Education needs to be extended beyond classroom walls and the youth need to be capable of having an Independent Opinion over the Issues that concern the Global Society today”

Promoting the modern Commonwealth and upholding its peoples, cultures and values – celebrating diversity – inspiring young people – and serving as a practical expression of living multiculturalism.

Activities in India

Its basic activities in India are towards youth empowerment and encouraging youth to be ideal agents of change in Society. It has undertaken and successfully carried out over 30 youth and social awareness Projects and Camps since 2006 over range of issues which include – Women Empowerment, Human Rights Initiatives, Quit Alcoholism, Girl Child Education, Child Rights, Stop Child Labor, Female Health and Hygiene, Youth as agents of social change, Youth encouragement in electoral process (Vote), drives against Child Marriage, Female evening Literacy Camps to name a few.

International Activities

International Activities include (in past) several visits to London for The RCS International Meetings, Commonwealth Meetings with diplomats, the Royal Commonwealth Society's Commonwealth Conversation which was carried out at the maximum outreach to youth throughout the other Commonwealth Countries, meetings at Commonwealth Secretariat, Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London, Annual General Meetings of RCS and also Visit to RCS Canada for Commonwealth Meetings & Commonwealth Youth in Society – Project to name a few. Recently, One of its members became the first person to sign the specially designed 33Fifty Baton Book for the upcoming 2014 Commonwealth Games at a function at the British High Commission, New Delhi. The ’33Fifty Baton Book’ will accompany the Baton as it travels around the world on its journey to each of the 70 nations and territories that make up the Commonwealth covering 190,000 km over 288 days, before making its way to Glasgow for the Games in May 2014.

External links

• Affiliation 1
• The Commonwealth Conversation – A global public consultation on the future of the Commonwealth, managed by The Royal Commonwealth Society.
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• 3 Royal Commonwealth Society Press Release - citing the CSWGI member becomes first person to sign the special book.