After the success of the first travelling workshop in Uttarakhand in the year 2011, the ICICI Fellows Programme team was eager to replicate the same experience for the 3rd batch of ICICI Fellows Designate (IFDs) PRAYAN – the travelling workshop means commencement or progress towards. And so we did on May 6, 2013 to Ladakh […]
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A cup of tea
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During one of the sessions of our travelling workshop ( a learning expedition in Ladakh led by me with a group of volunteers from a program called ICICI Fellow),Aksansha, a young and cheerful volunteers shared an amazing story. A student (at SECMOL): Didi how many cups of water for making…
The first ever iVolunteer Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai on April 8, 2013. The awards identify the champions leading the volunteering movement in India, recognize the contribution of volunteers and organisations that enable volunteering; and aim to celebrate, reward and promote volunteering in India. Nandita Das, Actor Director with a fiery passion for social change was Guest […]
I am running for iVolunteer to show my consistency towards various causes dear to me and towards which I have been contributing my bit for past 9 years. I am participating in Run solely with an intention to make thousands of people aware about various Volunteering opportunities which are available under one umbrella named iVolunteer […]
Years back, at a workshop on volunteer management, I asked volunteer managers at leading NGOs in Bangalore for words or images that the word ‘volunteer’ conjures in their mind. The outcome, if real, would have been very close to that of an ‘angel’. Ask a lay man and the image of a volunteer would be […]
Donning on documents, emails, long conversation on phone, skype calls, meetings and social media…. Contrast this in early 2009, when sitting in a computer lab involved in design, coding, debugging and testing. It was in 2009 when I decided to quit my well paying corporate job as a software engineer, to take up something that […]
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Working Together towards ‘Change’
Since the last issue, we have been speaking to many people and volunteers on being active citizens, working together, asking themselves “who am I” and “What change am I going to influence today”. Perhaps a very simplistic definition of ‘actively working together’ in a representative democracy like ours is to maintain a balance between our […]
Get a call on Thursday night at 9, from my super enthu Kiran saying “Aare urgent requirement hain, mail bheja hai, event hai with VI candidates and we need 10-15 volunteers and we will help them know about post office and how to post letters” Letters… Writing letters has always been close to my heart […]
As part of our work to reinvent iVolunteer and its offerings we had a small brainstorming session in the iVolunteer ( http://www.ivolunteer.in) Delhi where some of our key people were asked to come out with issues and concerns that NGOs face regarding volunteering. They were asked to spend 10 minutes thinking about it and then […]
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 […]
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