The iVolunteer overseas program helps Indian professionals who are interested in volunteering abroad find opportunities that match their skills and expertise. After the selection of volunteers, they are provided in-house training to equip them with the skills and knowledge to be efficient in their placements. We had four of our volunteers joining us last week […]
It was 5th January 2013, Saturday early morning I reached Traffic Police Park, St. Mark’s Road, where I saw many traffic police constables, equal no. Of Children from various schools, volunteers, auto drivers and Pourakarmikas (people/sweepers on road, garbage pickers who keep our city cleanJ) With a hope and wish to spread some happiness and […]
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Impact projects
2012 was a year of stepping up for me. I have been associated with iVolunteer for more than 5 years now and I have been talking part in various volunteering activities over the weekends, and while those have been very fulfilling and joyful, Prarthana from iVolunteer has been encouraging me to do something called impact […]
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A brainstorming meeting initiated by a female colleague on how to make city safe for women turned out to be really good. Some really nice points came up. Here is a list of some of the points in order of priority. 1 ) How can i fearlessly report a crime and or…
I have had so much fun volunteering at the Siddapura Community Learning Center! I made a lot of new friends and interacted with all the kids! We did arts and crafts and read story books. Also, we played chess and carrom board! I cant wait to come back to India again, so I can volunteer […]
Wow, a new year!!, a new beginning – that is what most of the young think. For slightly older people like me, it is just another year – a date change ;). Most of us welcome new year by our resolutions only to get into life’s revolutions by the end of the 1st month. And […]
One of the challenges of working with professionals with lots of skills to contribute is that they are very busy and typically don’t have lots of time at hand. However they have a great desire to contribute meaningfully and more than the regular teach kids, clean streets kinds of volunteering opportunities. This led iVolunteer to create […]
December 5th is International Volunteers’ Day (IVD) and December 18th iVolunteer’s Birthday:) So from 5th to 18th, we at iVolunteer will target the volunteers of tomorrow – ‘students’, from 1st to 12th grade. We aim to inspire young minds and so we will reach out to schools – private, public and community driven – and […]
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How to post on this blog
This is a public blog platform for staff and volunteers of iVolunteer. This blog is also open to anyone who wants to share their volunteering experiences. In order to request a username for posting on this blog please send a email to rahul@ivolunteer.in. Once we receive the email we will send you the invite. The […]
iVolunteer has been working to promote volunteering for the last 8 years or so. One shift that we have seen is that NGOs have now some very specific requirement of volunteers. For us this means a fundamental shift in our work as a volunteering promoting organisation. The kind of volunteers that we have been getting […]
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