Young disabled people of BD vow to advocate for peace

Tabith Awal, president, Bangladesh Football Federation speaking at the training programme on peacebuilder advocates with disabilities at BPKS on Friday.

43 young Peacebuilder Advocates with Disabilities of Bangladesh ended a week-long training programme on Friday Sept 19 with the adoption of a declaration pledging not be causes of breach of peace and voluntarily play roles as peace advocates at individual, family, social, state and world levels.

The programme held at the Bangladesh Protibandhi Kalyan Somity (BPKS) with a micro support from the Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of religious and traditional peacelovers network. BPKS provided its training infrastructure, residential facilities for trainees and administrative support free of costs.

Tabith Awal, president, Bangladesh Football Federation and a BNP leader attended the concluding function as the chief guest and distributed certificates to the disabled peacebuilder advocates. Abdus Sattar Dulal, executive director of BPKS moderated the session which was also addressed by Mostafa Kamal Majumder, editor, GreenWatch Dhaka.

In an opinion exchange session Tabith Awal said what persons with disabilities utter as demands are actually their constitutional rights that they have remained deprieved of. One party had snatched the rights of the people, BNP will establish people's rights.

He said that the political thinking under the leadership of Tarique Rahman is to improve the quality of everyday life by removing obstacles. 

The young peacebuilder advocates said in their declaration that they will apply the knowledge gained during the 7-day training for the promotion of peace with patience.

They pledged to forge ahead as influencers to make human norms and principles contextual in the society and the state, to resist conflicts and to create awareness in favour of peace.

The young leaders with disabilities will remain active to resist various events that have potentials to disturb peace and the roots of such events.

They pledged to resist murder, sexual harassment, plunder, corruption, deception, lying through adherence to faith and culture

of morality; and to be helpful to honest, unassuming people and those including persons with disability remailing beyond the ambit of power and leadership.

They also pledged to cooperate with organizations of dissabled persons with disability including BPKS, protect property of disabled persons, ensuring nondiscriminatory treatment of disabled persons and help increase theit participation and employment opportunities. 

The peacebuilder advocates with disability of Bangladesh would cooperate with BPKS as the ultimate repositor of their progress report and supply it with data and information and publicise those through Facebook and other social media.