Games and sports is a priority on the agenda of activities of YMCA. It has recently joined WE CAN-Campaign to End Violence Against Women (CEVAW) – a campaign launched by OXFAM, GB in South-Asian countries with youth as its prime focus. In collaboration with other organizations and groups, YMCA, Cuttack involves itself in issue-based campaign and advocacy with specific objectives addressing specific groups. YMCA Cuttack identifies itself and work with the people to form a community based on the spirit of self-help and local autonomy. Laying emphasis on educating and empowering people and focusing on youth, YMCA aims at creating a society based on the community. It has always promptly responded to people’s needs with appropriate interventions, more so, when the needs are acute like after natural disasters. Through its various projects and programs, YMCA Cuttack caters to the specific needs of the youth and vulnerable groups. Over the ages YMCA Cuttack has grown manifold both in terms of area of coverage and fields of intervention. It was established in 1893 by “Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Das” (Utkal Gourav meaning pride of Orissa). YMCA Cuttack is one of the oldest YMCAs in India and is part of International YMCA Movement. YMCA Cuttack has spread its activities at many places in Orissa. Remnants of the ancient “Barabati Fort” near YMCA, stands as a symbol of social and cultural heritage of Cuttack- the “Millennium City” or “Silver City”. Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is situated in the heart of the city of Cuttack, on the bank of river Mahanadi, in the state of Orissa, India.
Local YMCAs deliver projects and services focused on youth development through a wide variety of youth activities, including providing athletic facilities, holding classes for a wide variety of skills and humanitarian work.
Outside the shop things were bad - open sewers, pickpockets, thugs, beggars, drunks, lovers for hire and abandoned children running wild by the thousands.įrom its inception, it grew rapidly and ultimately became a worldwide movement founded on the principles of muscular Christianity. They slept crowded into rooms over the company’s shop, a location thought to be safer than London’s tenements and streets. Far from home and family, these young men often lived at the workplace. They worked 12 to 16 hours a day, six days a week.
Growth of the railroads and centralization of commerce and industry brought many rural young men who needed jobs into cities like London. The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in response to unhealthy social conditions arising in the big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by Sir George Williams in London, originally as the Young Men's Christian Association and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy "body, mind, and spirit". The YMCA, sometimes called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries from 120 national associations.
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