Training workshop
Youth Summer Camp for Local Democracy Development

Activity during the workshop by Lecturer Taweep Mahasigha, School of Social and Political Science, University of Phayao

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The Training workshop on “Youth Summer Camp for Local Democracy Development” was held from 6 until 10 April 2016 by the School of Social and Political Science, University of Phayao, and Hanns Seidel Foundation.

The aims for this workshop are as follows: to train the youth leaders to increase their capabilities in various aspects, in terms of knowledge, for example, on definitions of democracy, and the knowledge about Thai democracy, Thai local democracy, how to develop personality for youth leaders, the qualification of strong citizenship, how to conduct a project proposal in order to solve their own problems in the community, how to build teamwork as well as how to communicate. Moreover, they exchanged their interests and opinions as well as were informed about the theory by playing different activities. The participants visited a successful community “Baan Dok Bua” in terms of its self-sufficiency economy.

Group photo

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The 32 participants consisted of high school students from different schools, different student councils and different provinces from Nan, Chiang Mai and Phayao, as well as university students. They said that they had learnt and obtained new useful knowledge on democracy, which they had not known before. Apart from knowledge, the participants gained experience. They were eager to get to know the other students, and exchanged their points of view on different topics concerning democracy. The students expressed their impressions and were glad to have the opportunity to attend this training workshop. They intend to explain and discuss what they have learnt with other students in school, in their villages as well as in their provinces. They like to expand knowledge to others to let them correctly understand the concept of democracy. Some participants even got the inspiration to develop their local community in the future. Some participants promised to bring their knowledge from the workshop to develop their local community. They found that it was interesting to learn more about various topics related to the local democracy development and further trainings in the future. At the end of the workshop, they thanked Hanns Seidel Foundation for this support.