Muscat: The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, represented by the Directorate General of Youth, announced the initiatives eligible for support for the year 2024. The number of these initiatives reached 59 fully supported initiatives (cognitive, logistical and financial).
These initiatives are expected to target 12,065 young people in various governorates of the Sultanate of Oman, which were selected by an evaluation committee according to the terms and conditions set through electronic registration on the ministry’s website.
Hilal bin Saif Al Siyabi, Director General of the General Directorate of Youth, said that supporting youth initiatives is one of the foundations on which the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth works, and aims to build bridges of cooperation between the Ministry and youth sectors and work to develop and improve initiatives due to their pioneering role in developing the skills and capabilities of youth and serving the community, and allowing them to provide executive solutions in a modern and innovative manner, and enabling them to assume a pioneering role in serving the community and creating fruitful competition between them.
He explained that the conditions for obtaining this support include that the application be submitted by a young Omani and represent a youth initiative, that the electronic form be filled out, which includes a description of the project, its activities, time period and location, that the initiative has a work plan that shows the procedural steps for implementing the project, that the project be developmental, aiming to serve the community and does not include financial gain for the initiative or initiators, and that it be far from anything that incites ethnic, religious or racist conflicts or calls for illegal gatherings or anything that violates the laws and regulations in the Sultanate of Oman, and that the project topic be in line with the goals that the ministry seeks to achieve and complement its projects.
These initiatives include the “Carbon Initiative” by Fatima Al Mukhaini, which aims to address the problem of climate change and environmental degradation by raising awareness and educating young people about their carbon footprint; the “Edraak Initiative” by Shamsa Al Salami, which aims to spread science and knowledge in the field of financial technology in the Sultanate of Oman; the “Technology Pioneers Initiative” by Sulaiman Al Salhi, which aims to qualify and train young people in the technical field related to artificial intelligence and prepare them technically for the future; and the “I Can Initiative” by Asma Al Khaifia, which is concerned with a program to support people with hearing disabilities in the field of entrepreneurship.
In addition to the “Secrets of Voluntary Giving Initiative” by Ahmed Al-Aufi, which is an educational awareness activity that aims to educate the community about children with autism spectrum and how to deal with them, and the “Wishes Initiative” by Hajar Al-Muqbali, which is concerned with managing and presenting specialized programs and sustainable development initiatives, as well as the “Industrial and Technical Rehabilitation Initiative” by Ahmed Amer, which aims to provide specialized training in the field of industrial engineering and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for recent graduates and engineers, and the “Salif Initiative” by Hamda Nasser Al-Maamari, which specializes in defining archaeology and explaining its importance and types of antiquities in the Sultanate of Oman as an aspect of enhancing knowledge of the cultural and historical depth of the Sultanate of Oman, and the “Investment and Youth Initiative” by Rehab Al-Mukhaini, which aims to encourage young people to work independently and how to invest and develop it by teaching it and engaging in it from scratch, under the slogan “Learning a Useful Profession.”
