The unpredicted declaration of nationwide lock-down due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), just two days before 24th March, the 38th Foundation Day of CYSD, faded away the happiness of all its family members. The Foundation Day Celebration is one of the significant events for all CYSDians where each and every staff members including its Governing Body members and dignitaries from different walks of life join together to celebrate the day, exchange greetings and share lot of ideas and thoughts towards sharpening the organization’s vision along with adopting new strategies to move forward with renewed enthusiasm and commitments.

This year, we celebrate the event through a virtual (video conferencing) mode by avoiding physical gathering. The virtual celebration began at 11.00 a.m. with a welcome message by Shri P. K. Sahoo, the Chairman. In the message, he extended his good wishes to one and all and said, it is unfortunate that we could not make the event a grand celebration due to sudden outbreak of the novel virus ‘COVID-19’. We need to take care of ourselves, our families and our communities for whom we are working by maintaining social distance and using virtual medium. I am sure, we will have an opportunity to celebrate our 40th Foundation Day in 2022 in a grand way. With all your sincere efforts and contributions in this long journey, CYSD have been well recognized in the development sector both in State level as well as in National level. I wish all the best in your future endeavors for the cause of the poor, the deprived and the marginalized communities. I hope and trust, your collective efforts will certainly help each other in achieving the objectives of the organization.

Shri Jagadananda Ji, the Member-Secretary extended his best wishes and appreciation to all CYSDians and their families. He said, in spite of the lock-down, we are reconnected on this auspicious day. During this 38 years of extensive journey, we have created lot of impacts on the lives of the disadvantaged communities which is greatly appreciated. However, we need to reflect our past interventions and recognize our failures and take oath to improve our quality of engagements and ensure not to replicate such mistakes time and again. We have undertaken various internal processes which need to be completed soon. Similarly, the monitoring standards must be strengthened. The Corona Viruses have created biological disaster across the globe and we must face the challenges collectively. As we are navigating through Covid-19 pandemic and followed by countrywide lock-down situation, this is the golden opportunity to ensure our self capacity improvement by undertaking quality online development courses, practicing Yoga and Pranayam for improved healthy lifestyle as well as to enhance our level of self-confidence. I am sure, our collective efforts will help us to overcome the present crisis. Once again my good wishes to all.

Besides, the good-wishes messages sent by a few well-wishers and partners were shared and following which everybody participated in the virtual celebration extended their best wishes and thanks to each other. The celebration was culminated at 1.00 pm.