iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringFellowships are beautiful in a sense that they unlock our potential, expose us to the needs of the communities and provide directions for our future endeavours. Tangibly, fellowships help us to establish appropriate networks in the sector, help us to engage with various stakeholders – govt, administration, communities, and other organisations, and cultivate skills of […]
Its disheartening, almost shattering to not be able to make it to things, especially those that we have worked the hardest for. Failure in 2 UPSC prelims attempts broke me and made me doubt my efforts. I was confident, I worked hard, completed the syllabus, revised, solve more than 3000 PYQs, gave more than 50 […]
We have all heard of notorious capitalism, infact we have lived it. While buying groceries from Dmart or BigBazaar, you get a huge discount on the MRP – from cosmetics to clothing, from groceries to cutleries, toys and etables, everything we see on the four floored building in an acre of land, attracts us more. […]
During the months of September and October, custard apples in Maharashtra are ready to harvest. My project is about establishing a value chain of custard apple through processing, value addition and market linkages of custard apple. In those times, I was managing the processing unit, people and paperwork, and rarely I woke up with a […]
Once our 5 day slot for exhibition at Udyan Utsav was booked, there existed a sense of worry about who will visit our stall, how much public will come, what will sell, how much will sell. Questions about how much we should take, about restocking our products every next thing was panicking us more before […]
For a year long, I have been understanding the rural enterprises through conducting various Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) trainings among women where I talk about starting or growing a business, marketing and finances. I have been attending various exhibitions to understand the variety of products, their labelling, packaging and marketing strategies and learning deeply about […]
No doubt action is adventure but the roots of action lies in learning, and learning sometimes comes with boredom. So everytime a learning bore me, I resort to action in the form of creation. Creating patterns, doodling lotuses and leaves, curves, etc., is a pass time activity for me. One evening, I was getting bored […]
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