India is home to the world’s largest youth population. Yet, young people continue to be locked out of the very systems they are expected to shape. Leadership is asked of them, but rarely supported. Participation is invited, but seldom sustained.
HOLD emerges from this contradiction.
India is home to the world’s largest youth population. Yet, young people continue to be locked out of the very systems they are expected to shape. Leadership is asked of them, but rarely supported. Participation is invited, but seldom sustained.
HOLD emerges from this contradiction.
HOLD: Centering Collective Care is a youth-led initiative that seeks to reframe care from an individualist standpoint to an institutional and social responsibility. It emerges from the critical recognition that while India is home to one of the largest youth populations in the world, young people continue to remain structurally underrepresented in decision-making spaces and discouraged by precarious, extractive institutional environments.
HOLD aims to position care not as an individual coping mechanism or a diversity add-on but as an organisational and structural value that shapes belonging, safety, resource distribution, and long-term participation in civil society
