Generation Now - A documentary on Urdu VOA multimedia

Описание: Generation Now - Madeeha Hameed and Imran Siddiqui - Urdu VOA Washington --

Generation now, is about all the generations that are alive today, the young the old and the ones yet to come, all standing on the front lines of time. The project aims to encourage open communication and joint involvement of Pakistani-American youth, the Pakistani-American adults as well as the American teachers and professors to inspire everyone in nation building activities as well as promoting social entrepreneurship amongst the youth, keeping in view how the best of both Pakistani and American value systems can be used to find progressive solutions for the good of the people of Pakistan and the people of America. Gen Now is a window that will provide deeper insights about how each generation in the U.S helps the next generation to crossover. Pakistani-American parents bring the perspectives of Pakistani-American fathers and mothers. Teachers and Professors from American Universities bring their unique take on how they are educating the next generation of Americans and 6 Pakistani-Americans from six different fields of education and levels of social and cultural understanding of Pakistan and America meet each other at their local college where they talk about generational gaps between their parents and their Pakistani friends back in Pakistan, they are caught at the crossroads of leaving adolescence and becoming adults to carry the responsibility of giving something back to their motherland. They instantly bonded over the struggle of being Pakistani-Americans in the midst of the current political crisis between the two countries. Some of them were born in Pakistan and some were born in America or another part of the world, but their objective is to find common ground for the betterment of the people of Pakistan and America.