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MMR vaccination for Govindarajanagar school girls
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
As part of IAP’s Adolescent week program, MMR vaccination was given to 50 high school girls of Govindarajanagar Govt. School.

As part of IAP’s Adolescent week program, MMR vaccination was given to 50 high school girls of Govindarajanagar Govt. School on November 19, 2011. After the vaccination program, Dr. Vimochana from Doctor For Seva team started the awareness talk explaining briefly about the symptoms of Measles, Mumps and Rubella, with special emphasis on the significance [...]

Activity Report 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | admin | No comment |
Activity Report 2011
Celebrating Waste!
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
The Best Waste Wise Apartments Championship was given to National Games Village apartments.

Bangalore generates 3,500 tonnes of garbage every day and spends Rs 402 crore every year to dump that waste, according to the Solid Waste Management Round Table (SWMRT) Bengaluru. To find ways to manage and deal with this waste, the SWMRT, supported by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and the [...]

YFS Hyderabad -10K Run 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | No comment |
With Hyderabad Commissioner of Police, A K Khan

Namaste, About 30 volunteers participated as a YFS Team in the  Hyderabad 10K run on 27th Nov. We raised awareness about the the cause of amputees. 3 people with artificial limbs were also a part of the team and helped us in sensitizing the importance of the same. Here is a video: Together we can, YFSTeam

Create deep impact to bring a positive change
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
Srikantan Moorthy, Vice-President  and Group Head, Education and  Research, Infosys Technologies

An active advisory board member with Youth for Seva, Srikantan Moorthy or Tan, to his colleagues, has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry.  He brings with him extensive experience in technology, project and people management and customer interaction. His experience ranges from systems and application programming on a variety of computing platforms [...]

Workshop for Volunteers, Bhopal
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 | admin | No comment |
Workshop for Volunteers, Bhopal

On 2nd October 2011, YFS organised a workshop for new volunteers who had joined YFS recently. The venue for the workshop was Rajpushpa School. The scheduled programme details : Time : Session details 10 AM – 10.30 AM       Registration of new volunteers 10.30 AM – 11.30 AM Session on YFS concept by [...]

YFS Chennai – Visit to MR. Indrakumar’s Home-Exnora:A Zero Waste Model
Monday, November 21st, 2011 | priya | 7 comments |
YFS Chennai – Visit to MR. Indrakumar’s Home-Exnora:A Zero Waste Model

Some of the Environment enthusiasts of YFS Chennai have been meeting regularly to brain storm, discuss and come out with a new approach to solve the ever increasing problem of Waste management in the city and its ill consequences in our daily life! We met up with the officials of the Solid Waste Management from [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Health team report – October
Monday, November 14th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | 1 comment |
YFS Hyderabad – Health team report – October

Namaste, The Health team at YFS conducts eye-screening camps and awareness talks on nutrition, general hygiene etc.. in various govt. schools/ destitute homes across the city.  Here is a report from 2 such camps, conducted on 29th of October, 2011. An eye camp was conducted at Govt primary school and Govt upper primary school, Hydernagar [...]

Computer Lab inaugurated at Garudacharpalya School, Blore
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
Computer lab inaugurated at Garudacharpalya School.

Today, IT Education is necessity of the time and no nation can do without it. Keeping this in mind, computers have found their way into several schools in the IT capital-Bangalore. Affordable access to computing technology has become a priority for many private school administrators. But unfortunately most public schools have no access to the [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Vidya Daan Scholarship Donor-Child Video Conference
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 | Swathi Ram | 1 comment |
YFS Hyderabad – Vidya Daan Scholarship Donor-Child Video Conference

30/10/2011 Namaste, Vidya Daan is a scholarship scheme of Youth For Seva Hyderabad. Students are selected from the most needy background of the society and provided Rs 300 per month to cover their educational expenses. Here is a video on the Vidya Daan initiative. YFS volunteers made a trip to Achampet, to facilitate a video [...]