The Akhil Bhartiya Terapanth Yuvak Parishad (ABTYP) is a youth forum that unites the Terapanthi youth from the age of 21 to 45 the world over.The formation of this organisation was due to the vision and efforts of Acharya Shri Tulsi. It was his thinking that has led to this strong and rooted forum of Terapanthi youth. This organisationhas a huge following of over 40000 youth across the world. The ABTYP has its wings spread all across the country with more than 325 branches which execute the vision of the present 11th Acharya of Terapanth His Holiness Acharya Shri Mahashramanji. ABTYP follows a missionary vision strategy wherein the missionsare so aligned that the vision will only be achieved if the missionsare followed well. The first mission being that of service. The ABTYP pledges itself for the service of mankind and humanity. Under its service mission ABTYP runs and manages activities of social causes like Blood Donation Drives, Eye Check Up and Medical Check Up camps, De Addiction Programmes,helping the needy by timely distribution of needy things free of cost,setting up of pathology labs, giving services on days of national importance to the nation at large, supporting in times of nationalgrief and natural calamities etc. By its mission of empowerment the ABTYP pledges to empower theyouth by inculcating the values of Jainism and Terapanth to the rootsby way of having regular training and teaching camps and programmes.Inviting their services during the Chaturmas is another way ofinvolving the youth to the philosophy of Humanity. Regular Meditation by means of Preksha Dhyaan, Science of living (Jeevan Vigyan programmes), etc are the ways in which empowerment of values in the youth is carried out. The mission of strengthening is basically to promote the feeling of fellowship among youth and enroute achieve a great network of Terapanthi youth all over the world. Facilities like encouragement to higher studies, hostel facilities in urban areas,talent hunt programmes, conducting seminars for personality and business development are the means by which the empowerment is generated in the youth and networking is promoted among them so that a youth is never out of resource and the hormonal links are established among the youth. Thus ABTYP intends to be a window of opportunities for the youth to interface with the world.
