Namaste, A survey by TOI reports that 70% of the women in India cannot afford sanitary pads. When we conducted a survey in many schools here in Hyderabad and also in rural areas surrounding Hyderabad, we found that affordability is just one of the causes, the major one being awareness. The girls are not aware [...]
— A report by volunteer Dharma Teja According to National Family Health Survey conducted in 2005-06, the statistics mark a growth in cases pertaining to anemia. Most of the anemic patients, especially women, suffer from mild to severe deficiency of Iron. The hemoglobin count in most of the adolescent girls in India is less than [...]
Namaste, As shared before, YFS volunteers have been visiting the homes of the students to forge stronger bonds and also to interact and learn about their family environment and needs. YFS volunteer from Oracle Raunak , who teaches at Urdu Primary School-Dargah, Tolichowki has been visiting all his students at their homes he Raunak says [...]
Background: Youth For Seva volunteers regularly visit and teach at financially limited schools across the city and in surrounding rural areas. It has been found that the students lack the minimum infrastructure to study. As per the survey conducted, most of the students can’t afford the basic things needed for their education. Their educational performance [...]
Namaste, YFS conducted a day-long event for the students of Mass Communications Dept of Loyola Degree College, Alwal in co-ordination with Urban Geo Spirit on the 15th of March, 2012 at M-VYASA, a Yoga research center. 65 students participated in the program which aimed at making them understand what conservation of Ecological Balance is all [...]
Namaste, YFS volunteer Vinay, first year B.Tech student of Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology teaches at Karunya Sindhu, destitute home for boys in Saidabad over the weekend. Recently, he made a rural trip to teach students basic English for the upcoming exams. He shares his experiences: I went to the village called Sairamreddygudam and taught [...]
Namaste, YFS student volunteers conducted an event ‘Take a Leap, Spread a Smile’ on the 29th of February 2012. Volunteers spent time with the inamtes of Suraksha Old Age Home and entertained them for about 2 hours. 18 students from 3 colleges participated in this event – Sri Datta Engineering College (Ibrahimpatnam) , Methodist College [...]
Namaste, YFS Hyderabad is extending it’s activities to many rural areas. In view of the same, a 5K run was conducted in Armoor, Nizamabad district on the 26th of February, 2012. The run saw a total of 5oo+ participants, including many school children. Kottapally Narsimha (Armoor DSP) and Sunil Reddy (M.D & C.E.O – Orange [...]
Namaste, YFS Volunteers have started visiting the homes of children who have benefited through our free eye-screening and spectacle drive scheme to make the parents aware of the same and to follow-up on the proper usage. This activity has been very successful in building a bond between the students’ families and the volunteers. Here is [...]
Namaste, Sampath Patnala, YFS Volunteer from Motorola recently scribed for a visually-challenged student Abhinay, for his pre-final examinations of Intermediate 2nd year in “Sai Junior College for the Visually Challenged”. Sampath writes: This experience is meant to focus on the necessity to feel responsible to help those in need. The responsibility increases further more if [...]