I first learnt about the energizer called banana dance in college during our rural camp. Fast forward to 2014 I relived the enjoyment of doing the same energizer during a training program on Volunteer management. Just lately the banana dance was performed with 5th grade students at a school run by a NGO. There were […]
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Interacting with young minds can not only be energizing but instills a sense of responsibility. What you say and do can influence them greatly. This is something that my colleague and me experienced when we had college students from a nearby university at our office. They were required to complete their 25 hours of internship […]
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How I got LinkedIn …
I first learned about LinkedIn when I had passed out of my post graduate program. I was excited and spent good amount of time setting up my profile. I wrote a few recommendations for a few of my classmates and they returned the favour. From then now I got hooked looking up people’s profiles with […]
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Not just another year gone by ..
I first heard about iVolunteer from a friend with whom I was studying a certificate course in Social Entrepreneurship in 2012. He was a software engineer, a typical profession of the expanding Bangalore population but his heart lay in social policies and volunteering. He was a volunteer member of iVolunteer and spoke highly of his […]
“Am sorry, you had informed me on Friday, but I forgot to tell you that we have exams in the morning”. I appreciated the Principal mentioning this to me on Monday morning. Her chance meeting with one of the core organizers from the corporate team on a local train resulted in the postponement of the […]
Bim, Bam, Pow, Hairy Back and Sparkle are just like any other super heroes! They save the world from the bad guys! But that’s not all that they do. They have special powers to help children stay healthy and maintain hygiene. Welcome to School of 5 which consists of these 5 superheroes. Each of the character […]
I visited a school the other day. It was part of the Corporate Employee Volunteering Program wherein we partner with corporate companies to design activities to promote volunteering among their employees. In this particular project we require getting permissions from schools to conduct an environmental awareness program for their students in partnership with a corporate […]
My First Stint at family volunteering We as individuals might like to volunteer our time and efforts for a cause. How often do we do it with our families ? I had my first stint at family volunteering in Jawahar Bal Bhavan, a children’s park in Bangalore. The mission being to complete painting the second […]
Interacting with the three worlds ! It all began on the 30th of April. I received a call that I need to take permission for Cubbon park clean up and need to design activities for 7th June’s corporate employee volunteering program or shortly known as the CEVP. CEVP is one of iVolunteer’s programs conducted in […]
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