Y’s Men International
3rd Regional Convention & Installation of RD 2024-25
30th June 2024
Contour Backwaters Hotel Resort & Convention Centre Changanassery
MESSAGE FROM THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Ym. CA. Francis Abraham
Regional Director
First and foremost, I congratulate our Bulletin Editor Ym.. John Varghese and Secretary Ym. Manoj Abraham Joseph for their hard work and efforts for releasing this publication. Our predecessors have done wonderful team work and the RD Troika always stood for the entire growth of the organisation and the CTR. Our IPRD Ym. Adv. Jacob Varghese always showered positive energy to my entire activities as RD Elect. This is the rare thing that is present in this region from the very beginning.
I have to face a lot of challenges during the coming Ys dom year. All our youths are migrating to other continents and this will starve our membership growth. I have a great wish to touch the magical figure of 1500 members during the year 2024-25. This can only be achieved through internal and external growth. I request all clubs should try their best to increase the growth to 15 percent. Our Regional Project is Renal Care. We can try our best to organise maximum number of community development programmes and to serve our neighbours and downtrodden.
I hope you all will cooperate with me and our LRD’s, DG’s to achieve our organisational goals and Y’s Men motto “To Acknowledge the Duty that Accompanies Every Right”.
Regional Theme: Empower the Self…
Regional Slogan: Strengthen Unity through Harmony…
Major Project: Renal Care
Ym. CA. Francis Abraham
Regional Director
Central Travancore Region
OUR MOTO
To acknowledge the duty that accompanies every right. This motto was adopted by Y’s Men because of the tendency of most people to insist upon full enjoyment of all rights while remaining oblivious to the corresponding duties giving validity to such rights. Just as the green light giving right of way to traffic on one street must have a corresponding red light to warn traffic on the cross-street of its duty to stop, so every right we enjoy is founded upon a corresponding duty.
OUR HISTORY
Founded in Toledo, Ohio, USA in 1922 to support a local YMCA, Y’s Men International is now oriented to serving the worldwide YMCA, the largest non-governmental youth organisation, and through it the communities in which it is present throughout the world. Since the YMCA is usually known as “the Y” in the USA, and as the Y’s Men movement started there as a club of “men of and for the Y”, it was named the “Y’s Men’s Club”.
Central Travancore Regional Cabinet 2024 – 25
Ym. CA. Francis Abraham
Regional Director
Ym. PWAF Adv. Jacob Vargheese
IPRD
Ym.Dr. Rajesh V
RD Elect