<div>How much do GPI Youth know about this sustainability conference? What are they being told about the Bhutan government, who are co-hosts of this conference? Please let us know how they might be getting informed. The only info on the GPI site is shown below. It says absolutely nothing about it. Why is GPI and others not informing, and misinforming, our youth in this way? We know there is no bottom to gullibility. Do they understand that certain Bhutanese youth (depending on their ethnicity) are not allowed education in their own country and that additional thousands of children are living in refugee camps? Why does it seem that GPI and others holding the conference hold a conspiracy of silence?
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– </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The vision of Gross National Happiness was born in Bhutan and the government, researchers and civil society representatives are all committed since the very beginning to the implementation of policies and actions coherent with the idea. The Centre for Bhutan Studies has been a pioneer in researching and promoting awareness of GNH at every level of the Bhutanese society, and its focus on the young population of the country is growing every day, with activities and lectures in all the schools and colleges and a theoretic and practical support to spontaneous youth GNH initiatives at the local level.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In this sense, several youth clubs and volunteers' associations are currently work to give form through concrete actions – from a national Clean Up campaign to tree plantation, blood donation campaigns and a radio network to support to poor population, especially in rural areas – to the GNH priorities in the 9 domains identified by the Centre for Bhutan Studies:
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hosted the 1<sup>st</sup> International Conference on Gross National Happiness and the Centre for Bhutan Studies is the co-organizer of this event. Young Bhutanese delegates took part in all the preparatory meetings in order to present the concept of Gross National Happiness and better coordinate the activities and ideas coming from the Mekong Youth with the efforts done by the government and civil society in Bhutan and elsewhere in the world.
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