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The Newspaper “City Buzz” has published an article about Sponsor-a-Child:  

  The YFS Hyderabad Environment Week celebrated from March 14-19 saw great and active participation from around the world. Everybody enjoyed doing their bit and here are the experiences shared by few of the participants. Pushpa from Mumbai , who forgot to carry a cloth bag when she went to get vegetables for the day, [...]

25th Feb Nagpur:   Sumeet, our YFS volunteer from Infosys and coordinator for YFS activities related to the Visually Challenged attended the 3rd national convention of SAKSHAM. Here is his report. Hi all, I would like to share my personal experience about trip to Nagpur for “Tritiya Rashtriya Aadiveshan” held by SAKSHAM(SAmadrushti KSHamatavikas evam Anusandhan Mandal). The journey started [...]

Sunday March 6th YFS Bhopal chapter has conducted volunteer training camp at Rajpushp School Bhopal. More than 75 volunteers including college students and working professionals participated in the day long event which started from 10.30 in the morning and went till 4.30 PM. All volunteers were asked to sign up on registration sheet which include [...]

  On the 9th of March, YFS conducted a Medical camp at Dabbahalli village in Mandya district for residents of Dabbahalli and surrounding villages. The camp was conducted in association with Rajarajeswari Medical college and Hospital (RRMCH), Mysore Road, Bangalore, and Vikasana Trust (an NGO), a project of NABARD in Dabbahalli (who made local arrangements- [...]

…. ….. …. On March 10th, 2011, Vyjayanti and I had travelled to Chamrajnagar district which is about 185 kms from Bangalore. Our intention in travelling there was to address 50 college girls about possibilities of starting a YFS chapter in Chamrajnagar and conduct our regular session on Menstrual Hygiene. However, the things we discovered [...]

We are pleased to inform you that YFS in association with Rotary will be starting a project on Menstrual Hygiene targetting High School girls in rural areas. To begin with, Rotary has already given us 4000 Sanitary Napkins (500 packets) to be distributed free of cost to adolescent girls in rural schools. Our first distribution [...]

  March 11th: YFS volunteers trained in Eye Screening conducted training sessions for about 10 volunteers at Wells Fargo. As a join effort all volunteers did an eye screening camp for all 90 students Izzat Nagar Govt Primary school on March 16th, a school jointly adopted by Wells Fargo and YFS.  About 15 students were [...]

…. …. …. YFS coordinated a story telling session and a paper handbag making activity in the paediatric ward, with around 50 kids, at Kidwai Cancer Institute on 13th March, 2011. These activities were conducted by Ms. Manjuala, Ms. Jayshree and Ms. Ranjini. This team does story telling, puppet shows and various other activities in [...]