Abbreviation CSWGI Legal status Active | Formation 2005 Headquarters New Delhi, India | |
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Purpose Youth Advocacy and public voice, educator and network. Region served Commonwealth of Nations | ||
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.
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Activities in India
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.