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Feb 26, 2011 Venue: Jalige Government High School, Jalige, Devanahalli Taluk (around 35 kms from Bangalore) …. Volunteers present: Vikshut, Sinu, Anand, Siddharth, Vivek, Anjani, Shashank, Anand, Chandru, Sandeep <Photos of the program can be viewed by clicking here.> Prevention is better than cure. This was the message that Youth for Seva volunteers conveyed [...]
Date and time: 20th February (Sunday); 9:30 A.M to 3:30 P.M Venue: Government Primary School, Platform Road, Seshadripuram (next to Krishna Flour Mills) Number of people screened: 575 Number requiring further referral: 185 Screening conducted by: Bhagavan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Vasanthnagar A team of 21 (12 Doctors and 9 supporting staff) from Bhagavan Mahaveer Jain Hospital [...]
Date and time: 12th February (Saturday); 10:00 A.M to 3:00 P.M Venue: Government Kannada Model Primary School and Government Urdu Primary School, Wilson Garden Note: These schools have been adopted by BOSCH as part of their CSR Project, wherein the Health needs at these schools shall be addressed over 3 years. Volunteers present: Anand, Namita, [...]
One of the major focus areas of the YFS Prakriti team is to encourage people to minimize the use plastic in their daily lives. Keeping this in view, the ‘Cloth Bag Drive and Narayana Patra’ initiative was designed. As part of this, YFS volunteers conduct a door-to-door campaign, where people are given a cloth bag [...]
Meet Smt R.S Lalitha, 63. A science teacher who took voluntary retirement from the Government High School in Cantonment Pallavaram in the suburb of Chennai (Tamilnadu, Bharat) 11years ago after 29 years of service. Lalitha saved her retirement benefits till they accumulated to Rs 3.5 lakh. She then donated the money to build the noon-meal [...]
As part of YFSPrakriti team, we had this urge to do something for the children we teach in schools, so that they learn the importance of saving resources from a tender age! And this was how ‘Treasure from Trash’ came into being. As part of this initiative, craft classes are conducted for children. They are [...]
Blood donation is safe, simple and it saves lives. India requires 4 crore units of blood annually, but only 5 lakh units are donated. YFS has started an Emergency Blood Bank where we keep the blood group of our proud volunteers along with their other details. Whenever there is an emergency requirement for blood, YFS [...]
On 30th January, Seenappa Layout residents took the pledge of a zero waste lifestyle. The initiative was flagged at the Green Path, and was attended by close to 100 participants. Apartment leaders came forward for each of the 10 apartments to take forward this initiative in their respective apartments. Mrs. Sandhya Naraynan and Mrs. Vani [...]
12th Feb 2011 YFS Hyderabad launched its lay counselling division, through a 2 full day workshop. 25 volunteers were trained. Here is a report by Deepthi, one of the YFS volunteers. I am highly gratified to be a part of “Youth for Seva” as a volunteer, which helped me broaden my thinking in a larger [...]
10th Feb 2011: Shivamogga: Over 150 students of MCA and MBA departments at Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering(Shivamogga) celebrated the 148th Jayanthi of Swami Vivekananda on 10th Feb 2011. Sri.P.Shivanna,PWD Engineer & a seasoned social worker who runs the popular ‘Jolige Pusthakalaya’(Library in a bag) was the keynote speaker. He narrated inspiring incidents from [...]
