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Archive for December, 2008

Its been more than a pleasure working with children. -Prithi, Student(RVCE)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

(Prithi is a 3rd year student of Architecture at RVCE and one of the ‘Teach India’ volunteers) I’ve been teaching at Veerabhadranagar government school for about a month now. I was the first volunteer for this school. I still remember the anxiety of the first class with so many questions reverberating in my head- where do I [...]

Memories of Desire Society
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Ashok Baliga As part of the YFS campaign of assigning volunteers to write about specific NGOs in their respective localities, I was assigned to cover a foundation that looks after the needs of children affected by AIDS, a disease that is often feared by even the well-educated folks, because of the pitiable lack of awareness [...]

YFS Charity Sale 2008
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

From charitysale_2008 -Ved Youth for Seva in association with NGOs like Aruna Chetana, Sajjanrao Vidya Samste, Ramakrishna Mission, Asha Special School, Sristi Special School, Seva in Action, Heart and Soul, and Prerana found a wonderful way to spread a few more smiles this Diwali. YFS is an organization that inspires youth to volunteer and connects [...]

YFS featured in “thebetterindia.com”
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

  Youth for Seva was recently featured by The Better India as an organization driving social development. Please follow the link for the full story.  The Better India.

Workshop on Counseling
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Smitha Mave A lot of our YFS volunteers regularly interact with many children and their families who come from different social backgrounds. These families struggle with a lot of problems and difficulties on a daily basis. All that a volunteer sometimes needs to do is to lend a patient ear to them. One of the [...]

Tejaswini Trust updates.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Raju Gubbi Tejaswini Trust is an orphanage and cares for many kids under them and provides quality education to each of them. Out of the many children there, they have 5 visually challenged kids who have a special place in the hearts of the volunteers and other children.

YFS updates on the Teach India Program
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Ved  Youth for Seva, an organization that inspires youth to volunteer and connects them to grass root NGOs partnered with The Times of India’s Teach India Program and plans to engage over 3000 volunteers in various slums and government schools of Bangalore. From Training_Malleshwaram

He came, he saw, he has been conquered- Sneha Charitable TrustSneha Charitable Trust
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Avinash T.V. This is my account of a visit to Sneha Charitable Trust, Bangalore on a rainy Saturday evening when I met a whole lot of school kids. I was not sure about the environment at Sneha, till I met an ever-smiling chap, Yogish who took me to Sneha Charitable Trust. Yogish is currently coordinating [...]

The five minute roundup
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Ved  Here’s a compilation of news snippets across some of the projects being run by Youth for Seva. This serves as an attempt to familiarize the newer volunteers at Youth for Seva with the activities that YFS involves itself with.

Medical Camp facilitated by Aricent
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | admin | No comment |

-Akhilesh Mahajan   Children are the future on the nation and we should ensure a healthy future. Keeping this thought in mind, few Aricent employees thought of conducting a medical camp on the eve of children's day. It appeared difficult to be able to conduct a camp due to challenges like finding time, venue, and [...]