Volunteers: Anupama Pain and Gurudutt Shenoy Duration: 20th to 30th July 2013 Enroute: Mumbai-Delhi-Dehradun-Rudraprayag-Guptkashi-Sonprayag-Triyuginarayan Location: Last village on the route to Kedar Valley Purpose: First assessment of ground situation after the disaster, networking with local organizations/nodal agencies, coming up with tentative areas of impact work both in short and long run, aid in distribution of […]
As promised following is the revised calender for GYAN with updates on sessions in Banaglore & Chennai. August brings a bonanza of opportunities for building your skills that will have a direct impact on your work. GYAN (Get Your Answers Now), the initiative that offers customized tanning’s to NGO’s 1. Topic: Innovative ways of […]
“A workshop on Social Media? Do YOU need it?” This was the reaction of someone near and dear, when I said I was attending one. Considering that practically anyone (this includes a wide range of ages) who uses the Internet is on at least one of the SMs (Social Media), I was not too surprised […]
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iVolunteer June 2013 Newsletter
Volunteer Hero 2012 C. Kartheeban visited the Points of Light conference in Washington D. C. on Volunteering and Service in June. He used this opportunity to visit some spectacular sites, connect with inspiring volunteers from over 40 countries and simply have great time! Here’s an excerpt from an interview he gave Techgoss. Kartheeban has founded Team […]
Get Your Answers Now (GYAN) workshops of iVolunteer are focused on building the skills of professionals in the development sector. Each session is customized to the needs of individual participants so that the participants can apply the learning on the job. Child Survival India, a well respected Non Profit in Delhi has been a regular […]
iVolunteer conducted GYAN training Gyan Training on “Project Management for NGO’s” on the 4th July 2013. There we 7 participants with 4 new NGO’s who attended GYAN training for the first time. Our trainer was Mr.Sivaram Athmakuri who is a project management consultant with 16 years of experience in IT field. He is a certified management […]
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The Volunteer ME
Little did I know the journey I began 13 years ago would alter my perspective and re define the path that I took in my life. Unaware of the word Volunteering I began with collecting as little as 50 Rs from the neighbors and relatives to contribute for Quake that Shook Gujarat and that was […]
I have now been in India for 10 weeks. My internship will be over in less than 2 weeks and I feel like I’m running out of time! The last 10 weeks went by so fast that 2 weeks seems like no time at all and I have so much I want to do before […]
I was forwarded the invite for Gyan session on effective presentation skills by my organisation’s founder. In my capacity as the communications and outreach associate of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), these skills are at heart of what I do, therefore I quickly lapped up the opportunity. I arrived at the Qutub Institutional Area at […]
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