Wardell speaks of Drug Free Youth 2.0

The Report of JTRT

Our last journey, visiting the wonderful NGO JTRT really
taught me something, made me kind of someone else.
  It is probably a program having little relation to Drug Free
Youth, but really changed me.We received special train about
spiritual lifting.Some small games filled those three
days.Cooperation and communication were required a lot and
we also learned about concentration and attitude.However, the
most meaningful thing is that I was reminded of my living
situation, I began to think I have to look for my purpose.
  Really nice accommodation helped me feel energetic to
participate in games and summarize better than normal.
  After the last NGO study, our travel has come to end.The
whole journey gave me a lot.




The Report of Healthy Lanka

  Work at our second NGO, Healthy Lanka is also pleasant.
Learned a lot from this organization about advanced experiences
of alcohol and tobacco prevention.
  First of all, in mainland China, alcohol is an important part of
conventional culture, it’s not limited to adults and even youngsters
begin to drink at age of around 14.Tobacco business is controlled
by government in China which means parts of financial income
depends on what Tobacco Bureau does, so the strength of
prohibition of tobacco cannot be strong enough.After all, drinking
alcohol is not a behavior beneficial to health, as well as smoking,
so Ceylon’s advanced experiences and great achievement taught
me a lot.Decreasing amount of drinking or smoking population
shows us the streaming of cultural idea can be an essential
solution to this serious problem in humanity society.
  Because of the special differences between these two cultures,
what I concentrated on also changed.Paying attention to how
Healthy Lanka deals with fundamental social problems and how
the whole country tries its best to change conventional thoughts
instead of what I can do in China to prevention alcohol and
tobacco using.
  At Mirigama, a small town where we follow our friends from
Healthy Lanka and local volunteers visiting almost all shops to
promote the prevention of tobacco.Sunny day burns everyone but
nobody feel bored.I saw many local undergraduates participating
in actively and behaved skillfully.The high participants ratio in
population also shows the country’s leader status in drug
prevention.
   Taught a lot, I enjoyed my day during my second NGO learning.