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Reimagining Volunteering: Decoding the skill-based volunteering

Picture this: a room filled with leaders from NGOs, each carrying years of experience running schools, shelters, and community programmes. They’ve come not to recruit volunteers, but to rethink what volunteering could mean for their organisations. Over the past few weeks, iVolunteer organised a series of workshops in Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi to […]

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#PowerInYou JSW Foundation Fellowship

Navigating Life’s Contradictions: A Young Adult’s Journey

There was a young adult, smart-looking and sharp in mind, trying to understand herself and the meaning of life through her choices, decisions and experiences. She keeps questioning herself, her situations, her acquaintances, her relationships as to understand whether she is leading a truly happy and contended life. This search began especially when she set […]

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Fellowship JSW Foundation Fellowship

Talking is Teaching

In today’s busy world, most of us, as individuals prioritize ourselves over others. We constantly are trying to update ourselves in line with trends. But there are a lot of others who aren’t even aware of the daily happenings. It is our social responsibility to help them modernize and keep them up to speed. In […]

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Fellowship JSW Foundation Fellowship

Environment Day Special – Making seedballs!

A productive day was spent at the Government Co Ed Senior Secondary School Site 2 Dwarka Sector 6 Delhi on the occasion of World Environment Day, teaching kids about making seed balls, an innovative way of planting seedlings during off-season. In a world grappling with deforestation and environmental degradation, innovative techniques are needed to restore […]

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Volunteering

Giving Back: Discovering fulfillment in Service

As someone who is passionate about education, I always try to find ways to contribute towards bettering the lives of those who lack access to quality education. Recently, I had the opportunity to be a part in a conducting a teaching session of Maths for children who were from slums, orphans or who had to […]

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JSW Foundation Fellowship

Mitti

I never knew that life would take me on a journey where I’d get to breathe life into a saying that goes,” Mitti se, mitti par aur phir mitti mein, to phir ghuroor kis baat ka?” (Moulded of clay, living on it and one with it in the end – what is your arrogance about, […]

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Citizenship Volunteering in India

Everyone can be a Santa!

Ongoing winters are predicted to be harsh in Delhi. Children from orphanages and shelter home lack warm woollens. This winter, 24 santas put their heads, hearts and hands together to fundraise INR 40,500 and distribute woolen caps, socks, gloves and winter lotions and creams for 120 children from DMRC Children Home, Tis Hazari. The excitement […]

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#KindnessChallenge

The vibe of the week was set off by the Daan Utsav anthem, Pyaar ka Utsav which left the country swooning to the tune of giving. A beautiful line “sauda hai ye bada ye ajeeb, deke na hua koi gareeb” inspired team iVolunteer to invite people to donate something that we all have but doesn’t […]

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Prepping for Virtual Volunteering!

Covid-19 has changed the way we look at things, it has given a new meaning to the things that we presumed were important, to relationships, to the way we work and to life, overall. It has certainly changed the way we can volunteer. Though volunteering as a concept has been in existence for ages, the […]

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Citizenship Folunteering (Fun + Volunteering) Volunteering Volunteering in India

Annual tradition of doing at least one good deed

Good Deeds Day is an annual tradition of doing at least one good deed. Millions of people around the world choose to volunteer and help others, putting into practice the simple idea that every single person can do something good, no matter how big or small to improve the lives of others and positively change […]