Program
Sadre Alam
Sadre Alam
Work area : Delhi
Sadre was actively involved in the rehabilitation process of families relocated from 50 slums near JNU to Pappankalan in southwest Delhi during the organising of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Following this, Sadre decided to focus on the rights to the city.
Delhi Young Artist Forum (DYAF) was formed with the recognition of youth knowledge-building and understanding it as an opportunity to creatively channel the energies of unemployed and disadvantaged children and youth living in these areas.
DYAF works in the resettlement colonies of Bhalswa and Bawana of Delhi with a dynamic group of youth. The forum has played a key role in activating community participation for basic entitlements of housing, water, education, health, social security and basic facilities across slums and resettlement colonies in the city with a focus on peoples’ participation in decision-making processes. Sadre and his team also provided urgent relief and support to distressed migrant workers in Delhi and Bihar during the pandemic. He has also been working to mentor sangathan initiatives in Bihar – especially in his hometown Khagaria district.
Sadre has been instrumental in motivating and creating enabling conditions for young girls from the community to enrol for university – following more than a decade-long work with the girls, their families and the community at large. He also facilitates the SSC shivirs in urban bastis of Delhi and has mentored campaigns on gender justice, communal harmony, and improving school education. In the context of the increasing radicalisation of youth and joblessness, especially in working-class settlements, he has used art, theatre, songs, paintings and the collective voices of young girls to spread the message of freedom, equality, justice and fraternity. The voices of togetherness spread by DYAF have given wings to a thousand dreams.
