Last weekend my niece and nephew helped me clear up a small garden patch in our housing society, uprooting thorny shrubs and creepers. They now use this clearing to play cricket and badminton. Each time they are thanked for cleaning up the place they are thrilled! They may have not realised it but we volunteered… This got […]
It has been more than 10 years now since I was introduced to AID India. It all began at a walk on the shore between Callengute and Baga beach at Goa. I couldn’t believe that the walk would be a life changing one!.It was during 2004 I along with the students of mine from IIT […]
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This is not how I expected my evening will turn out to be. We were doing an event in our office called Seva Sandwich. There were volunteers who came with loaves of bread, butter, jam, tomatoes and cucumber. There were some 10 of us huddled together. We were peeling cucumbers,…
15th February saw an interesting session on “Presenting your Strategy to Corporates”. Through this GYAN training, NGOs were keen to understand the corporate perspective on social responsibility and how they could derive maximum from the business world. Dhruvi Shah (AVP – Sustainable Development, Royal Bank of Scotland) agreed to volunteer for the said session. Dhruvi […]
My dear buddies and co travelers Irio Ber ! Greetings from the “Pearl of Africa” I raise my tulip champagne glass with a toast to all of you my friends old and new on my Ugandan birthday, some of you who I have drifted away from yet remain silhouettes, many of you whom I have […]
8th April, 2014 iVolunteer – Kolkata Centre We are pleased to announce that we accomplished half day workshop on “Creating greater Impact using Skilled Volunteers” to orient Kolkata NGOs with our effective programmes for connecting skilled volunteers (skilled professionals and corporate executives) who can help them as advisors, as hands-on trainers in small groups and, as implementers to […]
Please tell us something about yourself: I am Akila, a software engineer by profession. I got introduced to volunteering through my software field. I have been volunteering for almost 4 years now. Can you tell us why you decided to volunteer with Makkala Jagriti? I was earlier visiting the NGO’s directly for my volunteering work. […]
Pradeep Kumar Banerjee dons many hats. He is a leadership coach, a graphologist & mind therapist and founder of Mindzone, Kolkata. Pradeep joined iVolunteer early 2011 and since then he has taken numerous guest lectures on personality development for youth with our partner NGOs working in youth welfare. Here he shares with us the experience […]
Namibia is a country with unique landscapes, skies that can leave you spell bound and sunsets to die for. In a country with a population of a mere two million people you wont be surprised if you find virtually nothing while you’re travelling from one city to the other, but you’ll find breathtaking views There is something about this country that excites me each time I think […]
It was raining heavily in Kathmandu. I was in dilemma whether to go to attend iVolunteer Overseas orientation session or not. Finally, decided to attend it. The session motivated me to apply for international volunteering. I applied and went through the recruitment and assessment procedures. My VPA (Volunteer Placement Advisor) Preshu offered a volunteering opportunity […]
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