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YFS Chennai conducted it’s first Health & Hygiene awareness training on 6th May. This session was attended by 15 volunteers and marked the beginning of our journey towards spreading Health and Hygiene practices for a better living. Write up about the Health & Hygiene training session by volunteer Booma- I reached YFS – Seva Bharathi [...]
The Chennai Chapter of YFS completed one year on March 20th. In order to mark this ocassion and celebrate togetherness, we invited all volunteers (and their families) for a visit to the Ramakrishna Math at Hanumanthaputeri, Chengalpet a small village about 60 kms from Chennai. The Math was changed from a barren land into an [...]
Youth For Seva’s Chennai Chapter has initiated it’s 1st School Kit Drive this year. About the School Kit Drive 2012: The School Kit promotion aims at providing school kits to financially challenged students at chosen schools, slums and orphanages in and around Chennai and in some places in TN. The School Kit contains a [...]
YFS Chennai volunteers provide reading sessions for the visually challenged students of Nethrodaya a self help institution for the differently abled (visually challenged & physically challenged) . Here are the experiences after the first reading session from 2 such volunteers – Bhuvaneshwari – I would like to share my volunteering experience in Nethrodaya institution. I [...]
YFS Chennai conducted its first vision pre-screening on behalf of Sri Perumal ITI of Palavakkam taluk, for the school children studying in standard 6th to 8th of Kodandarama School Oothukotai Village. On Feb 29th, Ramanaa and I travelled with Navaneetha Krishnan ji of Sri Perumal ITI all the way to Oothukotai Taluk (Tiruvallur Dist) which [...]
Volunteering in ICH (Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children) also popularly known as Egmore Children’s Hospital, started with the initial idea of doing a cleanliness drive – not as a one time event but as a sustainable programme with the involvement of local community and the hospital staff. This was an idea which [...]
The 4th Annual Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair organised by the Hindu Spiritual and Service Foundation (HSSF) in association with the Global Foundation For Civilizational Harmony – Chennai Chapter was held in D.G. Vaishnav College ground, Arumbakkam from the 25th to 29th Jan 2012. This sought-after annual spiritual fair had a total of 160 stalls [...]
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 [...]
