Sikander Sabeer: World Memon Organization International Youth Conference Launched.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

World Memon Organization International Youth Conference Launched.

"It was a great pleasure to represent the Far east memon youth chapter at this inaugural conference, personally to me this was great opportunity to network with like minded memon young people from all around the world who work for a common objective"

At the 10th AGM of the WMO held in June’12 at London, it was decided for all Chapters to activate the Youth Wing in the respective Chapters and once these YW are active to hold an International Youth Conference and activate the International Youth Wing (IYW).
However subsequent to the AGM, the Vice Presidents of all the Chapters at a meeting of the VP’s decided to conduct a T20 Cricket Tournament among the Chapters in the style of India Premier League (IPL) and the idea of the MPL was born (Memon Premier League).
At the same meeting it was also decided to launch the International Memon Youth Wing since there will be large no of youths from all Chapters participating at the MPL and it would be an opportune time to get Memon Youth from all over the World to band together under the auspicious of the WMO to serve the community and humanity at large.

Far East Chapter which came forward to Host the 1st Edition of MPL and International Memon Youth Conference in Colombo Sri Lanka.

The WMO (World Memon Organization) organized the first ever International Youth Conference (IYC) at Galadari Colombo, Sri Lanka on 21st of February, 2013. Memon Youth from all over the world attended the conference and benefited from cultural diversity. The conference aimed to bring together students, young professionals, community volunteers and leaders that will provide excellent opportunities for networking, sharing and learning. A multifaceted one day conference encouraged participants to envision their future and will help set the stage for the International Memon Youth Wing to take the form. Kumar Sangakara, Former captain of Sri Lanka Cricket team highlighted the importance of volunteerism in community building refernce to his life at the memon youth conference.

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About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-