Naifaru Juvenile participates in open forum on improving the educational system at Madhrasathul Ifthitaah, public school from August 8th to August 10th. The forum was organized by Naifaru Atoll Office with participants from the entire community. Naifaru Juvenile participated in the activities and gave valuable input as to which changes should be introduced and how they could best be implemented. The Juvenile attendees also put forward ideas to how

In order to encourage female participation in sports, Naifaru Juvenile hosts a women’s football tournament. A total of five teams participated. The tournament took place after a one-week coaching camp.

The Maldivian independence Day is celebrated by bringing in famous bands from Male’ to join the local celebrations at Naifaru. Naifaru Juvenile assisted in setting up a stage at the Nooraanee Preschool open area for the bands. The celebrations continued for three nights.

We have concluded a one-month course in cake decoration. The goal of the course was to give local women skills in cake decoration to help them set up small home-based businesses and generate extra income for their households. In total 30 local women finished the course.

A three day first aid course held in collaboration with the Lhaviyani Health Centre. Naifaru Juvenile organize a first aid course in collaboration with the Lhaviyani Health Centre. The course was aimed to better both male and female members of tour community in first aid basics. We consider this an important step in improving the community’s general health awareness. 16 members of Naifaru Juvenile participated in the course (which was open to the

Naifaru Juvenile leads a public event focused on planting trees all over Naifaru Island. During the day the volunteers from the community came together to plant more than 200 trees. The trees were brought in from nearby uninhabited islands. The trees brought in were small trees to minimize erosion on the uninhabited islands. The organizing of the event was assisted by the Naifaru Council and the community school Madhrasathul Ifthitaah. The event

As part of our ongoing environmental campaigning efforts, Naifaru Juvenile puts up two large billboards in the harbour area with environmental messages. The specific message relates to beach and harbour cleaning.

Naifaru Juvenile members conduct a health survey in Naifaru. The target of the survey was the whole community. The goal was to establish an overview of the health status of our community. The survey was conducted in collaboration with the Naifaru Health Centre.

Naifaru Juvenile participates in the Eid celebrations of March 2001. The celebrations included live music and several sports activities. Naifaru Juvenile was active in arranging several sports events in particular women’s football and volleyball tournaments.

Training of Trainers programme launched to begin counselling services for drug users in Naifaru. Two members of Naifaru Juvenile attended a Training of Trainers course in Male’, organised by the National Narcotics Control Bureau. The course was held during several days and there were members from a range of Male’-based NGOs. The two Naifaru participants will be running drug awareness programmes in Naifaru in the future to battle the use of drugs