Nauman Ali Chadury has been voluntarily associated with BARGAD since 2005. He was a student having hidden and unsharpened potential. BARGAD provided him the opportunity to be trained in stimulating the issues of youth development, Peace, Gender and Democracy. He remained an active member of core group of volunteers in BARGAD from August 2004 to 2011. He have attended and learnt a lot from various workshops and trainings organized by BARGAD on the issues of its thematic areas.
During the initial four months internship his major achievements were conducting the 3rd Regional dialogue on youth and pace cooperation; Organizing Youth Day Celebration; arranged a book launching ceremony; Conducted Study Circles, FGDs, Film Screening Shows and Skill Development Workshops. These activities helped him in getting a chance to work as Project Coordinator in BARGAD eventually he carried out various research assignments and project activities through formulating a core group of the university students and coordinated with the faculty members of public universities of Pakistan for the implementation of project activities.
To sharpen his research abilities BARGAD assign him the duty to assist in research for NATIONAL SURVEY ON STUDENT POLITICS conducted and published by BARGAD; “Major Problem of youth in Pakistan” conducted and published in BARGAD Magazine.
To improve his management skills, he was given the responsibilities to organize: a three-day National Youth Conference on Democracy, Islam and Terrorism - Challenges and Solutions; a conference coordinator for first ever “All Pakistan Student leader’s conference”; “Gujranwala Job Festival; 3rd Regional Dialogue on Peace and Youth Cooperation Among Pakistani, Afghan & Indian Students; Consultancy Meeting with FEDERAL YOUTH MINISTER GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, “Mr. Muhammad Ali Durrani” on Youth Policy; a Seminar under a title of “Engaging Youth with Millennium Development Goals” conducted by BARGAD on October 22 2004; 12 Study Circles, 5 FGDs, 4 Film Screening Shows and in different educational institute of Lahore i.e. Nation Collage Of Arts (NCA), Beacon house National University (BNU), University of Punjab on February 2004.
He himself acknowledges that it is BARGAD’s platform from where he has been skilled to carry out various research assignments. BARGAD has helped him to be an effective communicator with excellent planning, organizational, and negotiation strengths as well as the ability to lead, reach consensus, establish goals, and attain results. He is sensitized on gender issues, demonstrated experience in conducting survey data collections, data analysis, research designs, data collection techniques, qualitative and quantitative modeling. ”BARGAD is the organization where I entered raw handed and it groomed me well enough to step into my professional life with a difference”, he says. Nauman earned his M. Phil in sociology and B.S (Hons) in social sciences from Institute of Social & Cultural Studies, University of the Punjab.

    Usman Rasheed is doing graduation in English Literature and Social Work from University of the Punjab, Lahore. When he joined BARGAD in 2004, he was just a shy child of eleven and was a student of 5th class. Initially he was given the responsibility to assist different staff members in the office. With the passage of time BARGAD imparted in him the spirit to participate in study circles, community meetings and conducting surveys. These exercises have made him so confident that now he is the Focal Person of Y-Peer and Alumni of Young Leader Conference (YLC) organized by School of Leadership.
He has attended six regional dialogues with the objective to promote peace and youth cooperation among youth in Pakistan. Four of those were attended as participant whereas the rest of two were participated as organizer. In addition, he has participated in study circles on the issues like: Harassments, Violence on youth, cleanliness and to make youth as responsible citizens. Those were organized in AKATH Resource Centre. He attended 7th Training of Trainers (ToT) on Peer Education 2011, with the objective of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights. The other considerable training was on Volunteer Management System, organized by Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO). It was all about volunteer management System in which it was learnt that how to involve volunteers in organization and how to engage them systematically.
Moreover, from Barad’s platform, he has participated in a numbers of conferences on peace building and Youth Bulge and Risks. He has also participated as an organizer in the conference titled: Student Union Young Leaders Conference. Besides it, he was sponsored by UNFPA and Bargad for Young Leader conference 2011 (YLC).
In addition, he participated in different campaigns: Voice of Youth, with the objective to aware the youth about the defect of taking drugs; Electoral Engagement of Youth, with the objective to make maximum and meaningful participation of youth in Election.
He worked as enumerator for Youth Directory, the first initiative in Pakistan which collected data of all organizations working on youth in Pakistan. In all Youth Days, organized by Bargad, he had been the member of organizing team. He had also been the member of Bargad’s theater team. The worth remembering performance was on election 2008. It was the performance to aware and mobilizes the community to cast their vote sensibly.
According to him, BARGAD gave him confidence and provide him the opportunity for self improvement. BARGAD also offer him the chance to interact with the students and faculty members of almost all the universities and many colleges. He has attended lots of study circles, group discussions, seminars and workshops on different issues related to youth. His management and communication skills have been enhanced to a greater extent. Now he is able enough to organize team and events independently; mobilize volunteers (1200 throughout the country) and making different strategies to engage/value members from planning to the execution of the programs, projects and events of BARGAD