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Helpline Service for Youth - Bhutan

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1.0 Project Justifications

1.1 Background

Bhutan is a very small Himalayan country located in South-East Asia. Currently Bhutan’s population is

740,943; male 53%, female 47% and 56% of it are Youths1. Bhutan has now entered into the world of

globalization, where it progresses rapidly and the people are experiencing tremendous growth in

different sectors; Agriculture, Education, Health, Construction, Businesses and living standard of the

people are improved.

Forty years back the social structure, value system and life style of the Bhutanese did not differ very

much from that of their ancestors. Country was divided into different regions and communications

were difficult. The vast majority of the population spent their lives as subsistence farmers, almost

totally dependent on the yield of some acres of agricultural land and the adjoining forests.

During that time people were following a system of family and community value where they gather

around a fire and tell stories; share their beliefs, values and societal norms. Until early 1980s, Bhutan

was largely a traditional society untouched by rest of the world. People were well aware about the

roles and responsibilities. The Family and Community had a more dominant role as gatekeepers of

our value system, but these oral traditions are disappearing. The traditional role of families and

community elders sharing values and societal norms through direct communications with younger

generation is weakening2. People have less time to spend with their children.

Now with the new modern media technologies evolving in the country, people are experiencing

different forms of it; Television, Radio, Fixed line, Internet and Mobile. These media technologies

have brought our country into the world of modernization and facilitated to develop in faster and

different ways.

As in 1999 internet and television were introduced in Bhutan, people are now entertained by

watching televisions and they even prefer having two television sets as the family members have

different favorite programmes. Below 22 years of age in our country spend 200 minutes a day

watching Television3. The quality time that family spends are now replaced with “Entertainment”.

‘Trowa’ has become the new popular Dzongkha term for entertainment4.

Communications professor, George Gerbner (1995) notes:

“A child today is born into a home in which television is on an average of more than seven hours a

day. For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life and values are told not

by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a

group of distant conglomerates who have something to sell”.

Today, we can almost count those people without mobile phones. As per Annual Info-Comm.and

Transport Statistical Bulletin (4th Edition-March, 2013) published by Ministry of Information and

Communication (MOIC) there are 560,890 mobile subscribers (Bhutan Telecom 75.2% and Tashi Cell

24.8%), internet subscribers 133289 (Lease line-317 households/organizations, Fixed line

broadband-16766, Mobile broadband-18686 and Mobile internet 97520) and 27,005 fixed line

connections in the country.

In 2011, at least 2.3 billion people, the equivalent of more than one third of the world’s total

population, had access to the internet. Over 60 percent of all internet users are in developing

countries, with 45 per cent of all internet users below the age of 25 years5.

1.2 Problem to be addressed

1. Electronic aggressions and cyber crimes

With use of these modern media technologies different forms of electronic aggressions and cyber

crimes are intensifying. The electronic aggression and cyber crimes; teen dating violence, cyber

harassment, cyber bullying and pornography are increasing around the world. In 19th

march 2012

Bhutan Broadcasting Services has reported a woman in Monggar (Eastern Bhutan) being blackmailed

on internet by her chat friend said to be from India.

According to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) project “Electronic Media and Youth Violence” 2009

most of the youth are falling as a victim to electronic technologies, in fact the girls perpetrated

electronic aggression more frequently than boys since it allows adolescents to hide their identity,

between 13% to 46% of young people who were victims of electronic aggression reported not

knowing their harasser’s identity.

2. Communication gap between parents and youths

Today Bhutanese youth face new challenges, social problems such as prostitution, drug and alcohol

abuse and juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancies and suicide cases. These issues and problems

are stirring because of communication gap between parents and youths.

The suicide cases recorded with Royal Bhutan Police were 34 cases in the year 2010, 42 cases in

2011 and 76 cases in 2012 and most of them are youths. 17 rape cases of a child above twelve years

of age6 were recorded with Royal Bhutan Police. Teenage pregnancies, the National Commission for

Women and Children (NCWC) sources reveal that 11 percent of all births were among 15-19 years

old. The record of Royal Bhutan Police notes an increase number of petty crimes committed by

adolescents under influence of alcohol, especially in urban areas.

At a workshop conducted by the Ministry of Education in 2004, the police reported 356 drug arrests

made in Thimphu city between 1998 and 2004. The offenders were almost entirely male and 61

percent were under 20 years and as young as 8 years. Limited qualitative studies initiated by the

STD/AIDS program in urban centers reveal that most of the sex workers (prostitutions) were young

girls, mostly in their teens, some as young as 14 years of age.

Government, international and non-government organizations

Royal government of Bhutan, international organizations and CSOs/NGOs work together as partner

to support and facilitate for development of youth and to eradicate the youth related issues and

problems. Royal government of Bhutan implemented number of programs which directly or

indirectly addresses the adolescents. The programs implemented by the RGOB are;

1. Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan 2012 by National Statistics Bureau Royal Government of

Bhutan

1. School-based Parents’ Education and Awareness (SPEA)

2. Bhutan Scouts Association

3. School-based Career Education and Counseling (CEC)

4. Youth Information Centre (YIC)

5. The Department of Youth and Sports (DYS)

6. National Employment Board (NEB)

7. Non-formal education (NFE)

8. Youth development and rehabilitation centre (YDRC or juvenile centre)

9. Students employment scheme

10. Merit scholarship programmes

11. Counseling

12. Adolescent health education

The Civil Society Organizations Authorities/NGOs are also equal stakeholders who tackle the youth

related problems and issues. There are many CSOs/NGOs in Bhutan that are not directly involved in

youth activities but indirectly supports in protection, development and nurturing youths in the

country. For instance, National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC) was launched in 2004

to build the status of women in the society as well as to protect the women and children and provide

them the rights of being human being.

Bhutan Youth Development Fund was established to facilitate youth in developing their skills and

talents and also sustained funding mechanism within Bhutan for youth programmes and raising

awareness among youth about the importance of their role as future Bhutanese citizens.

RENEW (Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women) was founded by Her Majesty the Queen

Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, in 2004, to cater their services to the relief and

empowerment of disadvantaged women and adolescent girls. Likewise, Tarayana Foundation was

established in 2003 by Her Majesty the Queen, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck and is working

wholeheartedly to uplift and enhance the lives of the people including the youths in the rural

communities.

National Women’s Associations of Bhutan strives mainly to support women’s development in the

country. Within its scope of work special attention is being given to women, adolescent girls and the

young children.

An international organization such as South Asia Initiative for Ending Violence against Children

(SAIEVAC) commits to ensure heightened attention to ending the violence against children ensuring

adequate focus and promotion of the well-being of women, children and youth in the South Asian

Region.

Save the Children (USA) initiated key program activities include the provision of comprehensive

access to information on relevant youth-related topics and emerging issues in order to facilitate

increased awareness, education and communication about these subjects; the provision of physical

space for youth and adolescents to interact amongst themselves and their peers; the provision of

counseling for adolescents and youth in need through face-to-face counseling and through tele-

counseling; and the provision of life skills education through the scouts program.

World Health Organization (WHO) supports the Royal Government through its programmes on child

and adolescent health, mental health and substance abuse, reproductive health and safe

motherhood, etc. In the recent years, WHO has been providing key technical support for the

comprehensive school health programme by introducing the concept of life-skills approach for

teachers through providing guideline and trainings.

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) its main programme areas are universal primary education

and reduction of maternal mortality; improvement in rural water supply and sanitation; and health

and nutrition by formulating appropriate knowledge and information to stimulate improvement in

child protection. UNICEF has assisted the Royal Government of Bhutan in controlling the iron

deficiency anemia (IDA) in women and children and adolescents.

United National Population Fund supports the Royal Government in taking adolescent related issues

as part of a wider, holistic approach to reach young people in diverse situations and equip them to

shape their own future. This is done in strengthening the Ministry of Education, in particular in skills

training of adolescents and youth run by the Department of Youth and Sports.

Royal Government of Bhutan, CSOAs/NGOs and International organizations make an effort to

eliminate the youth related issues and problems. Despite the useful activities and programs

established and implemented but still youth related issues and problems are one of the greatest

challenges for the country.

The project implementation is also supported by the youth need assessment as indicated in the

result interpretation of the rapid need assessment survey (Box-1 Annexure).

The need assessment survey was conducted to uncover the causes for increase in the youth related

issues or problems in the country. The need assessment implies that youths of Bhutan are

consuming media technologies (television, internet, print media, mobile phone, etc) as indicated by

97% of the respondents and 77% of them are connected with internet to their computer or mobile

phones. It is apparent that the cyber crime and electronic aggression issues are prevailing in Bhutan.

Moreover 70% of the respondents are aware of the cyber crime or electronic aggressions, 17% of

the respondents have experienced it and 67% of the respondents has seen or heard their friends

being victimized by the cyber crimes and electronic aggressions. The need assessment survey also

craft it clear that the youths of Bhutan consider family gathering (having quality times) as an

important aspect as 100% of the respondents agrees on it, but only 33% of them says that their

family gathers every day, 23% gather regularly (1 or 2 days a week), 37% gather sometimes (1or 2

days a month) and 7% never gather, which figures it out that parents are having tough time to spend

quality time with their children’s.

Family gathering are avowed as important to youths and majority of them put it into practice

however 57% of the respondent responses that they have personal issues or problems but they

doesn’t share or express with their parents. There were different reasons why youth are unwilling to

share their personal issues or problems with parents; 27% of them say that they feel uncomfortable,

20% says it’s their personal problem and 10% says parents don’t understand. Moreover most of the

youths feel comfortable to share their grievances, issues or problems with their friends as 67% of

respondents responded, 23% with brother/sister, 7% with their parents and 3% of them says with

their web friends.

This indicates that young people are not so close with their parents. There is a communication gap

between a parent and a child. The gaps are created either by a parent or a child and ultimately youth

related issues and problems are increasing in the country.

Young people with developing nature they prevail with different grievances, issues, problems and

ideas which they wish to share or express with parents but most of them prefer to share with their

friends because they feel more comfortable. Montemayor (1983) points out that following puberty’s

onset, adolescents spend less time, but experience more conflict, with parents. At this juncture

parents as well as youths of the country need a platform which will bridge the distance between

them.

“Youth Help Line Service” will be the platform where young people can express and share their

grievances without any formalities. It will listen to youths; give support and guidance and

accordingly solve their issues and problems. Now, “Youth Help Line Service” will take a place of a

friend and will remove the gap by constructing a bridge between them. It will listen to any of their

grievances, issues, problems and ideas and solve accordingly by maintaining confidentiality. Youth

helpline will be a toll free number where youth can share at any time and from anywhere within

Bhutan without costing any amount.

In Bhutan there are about 24 toll free numbers registered with ThimphuTech Park; emergencies and

corporations. Department of Youth and Sports facilitates the helpline services for youth, it is mainly

for those youths who are outside the residence of Thimphu and who need to avail any type of

counseling and informative services.

Royal Bhutan Police does have Hotline services (Toll Free line) where people can complain and

inquire the issues and problems but they have different formalities (rules and regulations), which

makes most people uncomfortable to use their services. Moreover they don’t have the facilities of

listening to the ideas and personal problems of the people.

Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women (RENEW) also have the facilities of helpline

services for the people. They entertain domestic violence cases especially with the issues of gender

violence. Likewise National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC) also have helpline services

where they receive complains against the women and children violence especially the women

violence. The services provided by RENEW as well as NCWC have some formalities and they deal only

the cases regarding the domestic violence especially gender violence and according to them the

cases are reported only when there is serious injuries involved.

There are many helpline and toll free numbers in the country. The helpline or hotline services

provided by different organizations, authorities or agencies entertain only the specific issues or

problems which are related to their work but they ignore other issues or problems and also they lack

facilities of listening to innovative and creative ideas of youths.

Therefore, the project “Youth Help Line Service” will provide a facility of listening to any nature of

concerns or troubles existing with the youths and also listen to their innovative and creative ideas.

The certified counselors will be recruited to provide counseling services and also additional superior

counseling will be provided by the experienced professional counselors.

1.3 Objectives

The objectives of “Youth Help Line Service” are to support young people through telephone contact:

i. To listen to youths

ii. To offer help in an easy and convenient way

iii. To facilitated them to solve their own problems

iv. To provide counseling service which can help them ease their distress

1.4 Description of target area and beneficiaries

56% of our country’s populations are youths and the project will target all the youths in the country

as they being the most important resource for the country. The youth age groups are 13-24 years of

age as per National Youth Policy of Bhutan.

Firstly, the project will directly benefit the youths of the nation. Youth’s will be free from the

violence. Young people will be nurtured with good ethical values and norms. Secondly, the parents,

schools and government will be benefited indirectly. And lastly, CSO’s, NGO’s, RBP and Society will

also be benefited as they being the stakeholder in improvement of the youths. The data’s assembled

while intermingling with the youths can help in framing other related projects in the future.

1.5 Gender Mainstreaming:

According to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) project “Electronic Media and Youth Violence” 2009,

most of the cases the victims of any electronic aggressions around the world are mostly the females.

The females are believed to be soft hearted and shy in nature so, they never express their issues or

problems and even according to Labour force survey 2012 female participations are significantly low

at all levels. To bring about the changes in gender imbalances, the project will adopt the following

strategies;

i. Encourage female participations through advertisement on TV, Radio’s and news papers as

more of the victims being females.

ii. Preferences will be given for recruiting female counselors.

iii. Gender mainstreaming will be integrated wherever pertinent.

1.6 Descriptions of project deliverable

The project “Youth Help Line Service” will provide the following out comes:

i. Empowerment of youth in preparing themselves for the future

ii. Making the country as a violence free specially from electronic aggressions or cyber crimes

iii. Making the youth as productive and caliber citizens of the country

1.7 Cost Benefit Analysis

Bhutan has 736,599 current population and 56% of it are youths. Youths of Bhutan are the future

leaders of the country and they form a very important ingredient for the development and success

of the country. They need to be nurtured and developed at an initial stage to become high caliber

citizen of the country. There are many youth related issues and problems;

Youth Unemployment is one of the major youth related issue or problem occurring in the country. In

the year 2011, 4800 youths were unemployed and in 2012, 3,476 youths were unemployed

according to labour survey report 2012, by Ministry of Labour & Human Resources.

Youth related crimes/offences are another issues prevailing in the country. The records with Royal

Bhutan Police show that a total of 1,341 crimes were registered in the year 2012 and 1,752 in the

year 2011 in Thimphu Dzongkhag. The most common crimes reported are malicious mischief,

burglary, larceny, robbery, auto stripping, arson and homicide. The narcotics drugs division saw 161

cases, and arrested 263 people in 2012 and saw 180 cases and 328 arrests in 2011 in the capital.

Suicide cases are also one of the major issues prevailing with the youths of the nation. 42 suicide

cases were recorded in the year 2011 and 76 cases in 2012 with Royal Bhutan Police. In 2011, 4

overdose cases were recorded and 8 overdose case in 2012 in the country under Royal Bhutan

Police.

Every year, government, international organizations, CSO’s/NGO’s and Private Organizations are

directly or indirectly involved in development and nurturing of youths and they spend huge amount

of money on it but still youth related issues and problems are increasing year after year in the

country.

The project “Youth Help Line Service”, its primary objective is to construct youths into responsible

and productive citizens. Therefore, the project will reduce the amount of cost spend by the

government, international and domestic organizations for development and nurturing of youths.

2.0 Logical Framework

Table-1

Objectively verifiable

indicator

Means of verification Assumptions and

Risks

Program Development/Overall

Objective (Only ): To built

responsible and productive Youth

Reduce in youth related

issues and problems Record their reports

Youth dedication to

express their issues

and grievances

Immediate Objectives

Listening to Youths issues,

grievances and ideas

Number of ideas and

issues reported

List the ideas and

issues

Youth interest to

report their issues

and grievances

Output 1

Caliber citizens of the county

Increase youth

participations in decision

making

Observation

Achieving 100 % of

caliber youths

Activity 1: Advertising about the

Youth Help Line services in

medias

Through television and

print media giving

emphasis

Media observation &

office documentation

Youths are watching

TV and print media

advertisements

Activity 2: hiring of certified

councilors

No of certified councilors

hired (female) Agreement letter

Activity 3: listening to youths

issues and grievances

Recording their issues

and grievances

List down their issues

and grievances Youth participation

Activity 4: Conducting counseling

sections and seminars

Counseling and seminar

schedules

Counseling and

seminar reports

Activity 5: Conducting family

gathering program

Program schedules and

reports Program reports

Activity 6: Submission of report Report submitted to

donors

Report received by

donors

Completion of

counseling sections

and programs

Output 2

Setting up of the Youth Help Line

Service

Platform for the youth

Report and

verification through

use of it

Activity 1: Procurement of

equipments and materials

No of equipment and

material procurement

Procurement invoice

and bills

Activity 2: Rental house for

setting up of youth help line

services

Place for setup Agreement letter

3.0 Implementation Arrangements

The project will be implemented in a phased manner where activities are divided into various time

lines and deliverables.

PHASE-I

This is a preparatory phase for the project implementation. The activities included under the phase

are:

1. Staffing

Existing Staffs

The YMC is currently staffed with five permanent employees. The qualification and task

responsibilities of the employees are as indicated in Table-2.

Table-2

Sl.No Staff Designation Name Qualification

1 Executive Director Media Specialist

2 Program Officer B.Com

3 Communications & Media

Coordinator

B Tech (Communication and

media)

4 Finance Officer BBA

5 Office Assistant Class-12

Recruiting Project coordinator and Counselors

Table-3

Sl.No Staff Designation Qualification

1. Project Coordinator B.Com (Finance)

2. Councilor (three) Specialized in counseling (Certified)

1. Project Coordinator

The project coordinator will be responsible for day to day management of the project and

coordinating all the counselors. Project Coordinator will receive the calls and divert the call

to the related counselors. Maintaining of day to day records of the councilors report on the

issues and ideas provided by the youths.

2. Councilors

The councilors preferably females with good communication skills, can deal with youths and are

certified from the renowned institute. They will answer the calls which were diverted to them by

the project coordinator and accordingly provide counseling services. Councilors will keep records

of all the ideas, issues and grievances reported by youths by maintaining confidentiality.

Hiring professional Counselors

Professional counselors (National/Expatriate) preferably females with good credentials will be

hired as part time counselor for conducting counseling sections, seminar programs as well as to

have family gathering programs.

Procurement

To implement the project “Youth Help Line Service”, YMC will require the purchase of the following

equipment and materials (Table-4)

Table-4

Other expenses

Table -5

Sl. No Item Quantity Total Price

(pound) Remarks

1 Desktop computers 4 2420 For counselors and project

coordinator

2 Telephones (Intercom) 1 260

To receive the calls and divert

to the counselors

3 Telephones (Normal) 3 200 Counsel accordingly

4 Desks 4 205 For office use

5 Chairs 4 755 For office use

6 Clocks 1 97 For office use

7 Stationeries 6 1512 For office use

8 Printer 1 604 For office use

Sl.No. Direct Items No of

months

Total Price

(pound) Remarks

1. Basic Telephone Services 12 144 Telephone connection

2.

Monthly Service Charge

for Internet (lease Line

7Mbps) 12 6500

High speed and 24/7

connection of internet

3. Office expenses (Copying,

Printing, Paper, etc) 12 132

Office use

4. Food and Beverages 1410

Provide lunch for seminars and

programs with youths and their

parents

5. Miscellaneous Expenses

7610

PHASE-2

This is the implementation phase where counselors will receive calls and emails from the youths

with different issues, grievances and ideas. By listening to their grievances and issues the counselors

will counsel according to it and those which require special counseling will be counseled by the

professional counselor hired.

Programs for family gathering as well as to conduct seminars with parents and their children will be

implemented accordingly. The family gathering programs will be recorded live at YMC and will

broadcast at BBS channel. The programs will be for an hour or half according to time required and

also the best topics will be selected to make the program more interactive and meaningful.

4.0 Monitoring and Evaluation

The objective of the project is to listen to youth’s ideas, grievances and issues and provide help in an

easy and convenient way to solve their problems or issues. Therefore, it is very important to have

trained and well understanding counselors. The standardized monitoring and evolution tools will be

developed that will keep continue check on the project’s progress. The project will focus on giving

qualitative services to the audience. Its quality of services and the impact of Youth help Line services

will be measured on daily bases. The counselors will record all the questions, suggestions and

complaints made by the caller through the electronic device.

Different framework for monitoring quality and usage of service will be evaluated;

i. Supervising the counselor’s response to calls

Project coordinator will supervise the counselor’s in their responses to the calls and will

evaluate the counselor’s knowledge and counseling skills.

ii. Measuring the usage of the Youth Help Line service

Evaluating the Youth helpline services through the call usage and caller data, comparing the

data’s of previous and the present calls. It can also show the nature of calls, characteristics

of callers, callers concerns and nature of referrals made.

iii. Progress Reports

To have further improvement the progress reports will be maintained like call rates and

demographics of callers, whether the calls have increased or decreased and there reasons.

The progress reports will be maintained every one month and this can also facilitate in

annual reports as the information are easily available.

6.0 Work Plan and Financial Requirement

Implementation planned Budget for activity (in

pound)

Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2

Immediate Objective:

Listening to Youths issues, grievances and ideas

Output 1: Caliber citizens of the county

Activity 1: Advertising about the youth

help line services in medias Nov-Dec Nov-Dec 310 310

Activity 2: Hiring of certified councilors Jan-Dec Jan-Dec 5045 5045

Activity 3: Listening to youths issues and

grievances

Dec-Jan Dec-Jan - -

Activity 4: Conducting counseling

sections and seminars

April-May April-May 5000 5500

Activity 5: Conducting family gathering

program May-July May-July 1500 2000

Activity 6: Submission of report June June - -

Out Put 2: Setting up of the Youth Help Line Service

Activity 1: Procurement of equipments

and materials Dec-Jan Dec-Jan 22872 17398

Activity 2: Rental house for setting up of

youth help line services Nov-Dec Nov-Dec 2215 2215

Total Budget 36942

ANNUAL WORK PLAN

Name of CSO: Youth Media Centre

Year – 2013-2014

Project Title: Youth Help Line Service

Quarter ---------->> 1 (Nov-Jan) 2 (Feb-April) 3 (May-July) 4 (Aug-Oct)

Month ----------->> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Output 1: Empowerment of youth, making violence free country

from cyber crime or electronic aggressions and to built as

caliber citizens

Activity 1: Advertising about the youth help line service in medias

Activity 2: hiring of certified councilors

Activity 3: listening to youths issues and grievances

Activity 4: Conducting counseling sections and seminars

Activity 5:conducting family gathering program

Activity 6: Submission of report

Out Put 2: Setting up of the Youth Help Line Service

Activity 1: Procurement of equipments and materials

Activity 2: Rental house for setting up of youth help line service

Annexure:

BOX-1 Result of Need Assessment of Youth Help Line Service

4. Are you a consumer of media technologies? (Mobile, television, internet, print media, etc.)

Yes No

29 1

5. Do you have a personal computer?

Yes No

18 12

6. Do you have mobile phones?

Yes No

28 2

7. Is your computer or mobile phones connected with internet?

Yes No

23 7

8. For how long do you use internet?

Never Sometimes ( 1 or 2 times a

month)

Regularly (1 or 2 times a

week)

Everyday

0 10 9 11

9. Do you know about electronic aggressions/cyber crimes (cyber bullying, harassment,

pornography and teen dating violence)?

Yes No

21 9

10. If yes, have you experienced any forms of cyber crimes/electronic aggressions?

Yes No

5 25

11. If so, how did you handle the situation? By;

Yourself Discussing

with

parents/peers

Informing

Authorities

Blogging site or contact

number

Ignoring Others

2 7 2 0 6 0

12. If no, have you at least heard/seen any of your friends/others being victimized by the

electronic aggressions or cyber crimes?

Yes No

20 10

13. Does your parents guide or advice you in consuming media technology?

Yes No

17 13

14. Do you think Family gatherings are important?

Yes No

30 0

15. How often does your family gather?

Never Sometimes (1 or 2 days a

month)

Regularly (1 or 2 days a month) Everyday

2 11 7 10

16. Have you ever tried to share your personal issues with your parents but you could not?

Yes No

17 13

17. If yes, what were the reasons?

Because it’s my personal problem Not comfortable Parents don’t understand Others

6 8 3 0

18. You find it more comfortable to share your grievances, thoughts or sensations with your?

Parents Friends Brother/Sisters Web Friends Others

2 20 7 1 0

*Total youths interviewed=30

List of Respondents (Need Assessment Survey)

Sl.No Name Age Sex

1 Gyem Thinley 14 Male

2 Gigme Tshomo 15 Female

3 Ugyen Tshering 16 Male

4 Yeshi Denkar 16 Female

5 Sonam Tshering 17 Male

6 Yeshi Tshomo 18 Female

7 Tanka Nath Timsina 18 Male

8 Sonam Dralecha 18 Male

9 Harka Bdr. Darnal 19 Male

10 Jigdrel Wangchuk 20 Male

11 Pema Wangmo 20 Female

12 Zangla Drukpa 20 Male

13 Sanjit Gurung 20 Male

14 Priya Rai 20 Female

15 Anupa Chhetri 20 Female

16 Kinley Dorji 21 Male

17 Pema Dorji 22 Male

18 Kinley Tenzin 22 Male

19 Tshering Tenzin 23 Male

20 Jimie Choden Dorji 23 Female

21 Sangay Zangmo 23 Female

22 Thinley Wangmo 23 Female

23 Nim Daw 23 Male

24 Sonam Choki 24 Female

25 Sangay wangzom 24 Female

26 Jigme Nidup 24 Male

27 Barun Gurung 23 Male

28 Namgay Tshering 24 Male

29 Sonam Nedup 24 Male

30 Pema 25 Male