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YFS Hyderabad – A trip to Achampet & Tribal areas
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | No comment |
YFS Hyderabad – A trip to Achampet & Tribal areas

Namaste, Youth For Seva-US co-ordinator Ravichandra visited Achampet and surrounding tribal areas to meet the children sponsored by donors from YFS-US chapter as part of our Vidyadaan initiative, on the 10th of December, 2011.  He was accompanied by YFS Hyderabad volunteers Arshad, Sreenu and ChandrakantJi. A library was also set up in Shishu Mandir, Acchampet, [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Door to Entrepreneurship – From an Idea to a Venture
Monday, December 26th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | 3 comments |
YFS Hyderabad – Door to Entrepreneurship – From an Idea to a Venture

25/12/2011 YFS Hyderabad conducted a workshop for people looking to understand what it takes to be an Entrepreneur, and to bring out the angle of Nation Building through entrepreneurship. Mr Kamal Narang, Founding Class of Indian School of Business (ISB 2002 Batch), Entrepreneur and Advisor moderated the event and guided the audience into the exciting [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Experiences of student intern Anisha
Saturday, December 24th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | No comment |

Anisha Parikh, pursuing her B.A L.L.B (Hons) at NALSAR University of Law interned with YFS Hyderabad for 4 weeks.  She taught the students of Urdu Primary School, Dargah during this period. In her own words: When I was going to start teaching at the Durgah School, I honestly did not know what to expect. Just [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Workshop on Story-telling
Saturday, December 24th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | 1 comment |

On 11 Dec, 2011, YFS conducted a “Story Telling workshop” for volunteers, as a part of the  Akshar Bharati library initiative. Smt.Sunanda Kulkarniji, who has experience of 30years in teaching field imparted this valuable training for the volunteers. She narrated the stories and explained how to tell a story. Story telling must be interactive, questioning [...]

Awareness talk on animal welfare@Malleswaram School, Bangalore
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
Awareness talk on animal welfare@Malleswaram School, Bangalore

Youth for Seva  had conducted another program under its YFS Animal Division – School Awareness Talk and Orienting Volunteers at Malleswaram Government School, Bangalore on Saturday 17th Dec 2011. The program was conducted for one hour and its participants were children of class 5th, 6th & 7th grade. The objective of the seminar was to [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Ankit attends Saksham’s National Convention
Monday, December 19th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | No comment |
YFS Hyderabad – Ankit attends Saksham’s National Convention

Namaste all, Ankit, YFS volunteer from Infosys and active member of the YFSViklaang team attended the 4th national convention of Saksham on November 19th and 20th,2011. Here is his report.  [You can read the report from last year's convention here] I really want to thank YFS for giving me an opportunity to travel and attend [...]

Anti Rabies Vaccine Drive—Bangalore
Monday, December 19th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
Anti Rabies Vaccine Drive—Bangalore

*Anti-rabies vaccination for dogs in Ambedkar Nagar slum area was facilitated by YFS Animal Division. *In total 56 dogs and 6 cats were vaccinated Very often we get to hear, see, read and experience about the problem of stray animals and their menace. Sometimes the experiences can be traumatic and even life threatening. Dog-bites/attacks have [...]

LED lamps and drinking water provided to Nagalavi and Ambolli hamlets–Bangalore
Monday, December 19th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
LED lamps and drinking water provided to Nagalavi and Ambolli hamlets–Bangalore

Tribal hardware initiatives based on Gandhian orientation of science and technology. A team of individuals, consisting of eminent scientists and engineers, together with a few volunteers travelled north from Bangalore on the morning of Friday the 16th, Dec 2011. The destination being Nagalavi and Amboli, 2 primitive tribal hamlets situated in Dandeli forest, each an [...]

YFS Hyderabad – Chess competition – Visually Challeneged vs Wipro Employees
Thursday, December 15th, 2011 | Swathi Ram | No comment |
YFS Hyderabad – Chess competition – Visually Challeneged vs Wipro Employees

Namaste, Wipro Celebrated the ‘Inclusivity Week’ from 2nd Dec to 9th December 2011. As a part of this event, Youth For Seva had organized chess competitions on Dec 8th and 9th between visually challenged students and employees of Wipro. This was a very unique program conducted to create awareness about the visually challenged students’ hidden [...]

Milana 2011, celebrated with children and donors—Bengaluru
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 | sushma | No comment |
Milana 2011, celebrated with children and donors—Bengaluru

Milana, an annual program from Sponsor  a Child project of Youth for Seva was held at Mangala Mantapa in Jayanagar last Sunday. Every year, all the donors are invited to meet their sponsored child/ children. The main purpose of this program is to encourage donors to participate in ensuring the all-around development and wellbeing of [...]