A session based on “I AM THE CHANGE” theme was planned for the kids at abhayasharam , Bangalore on the 11th of Jan 2015 .
The first part of the session kick started with a discussion on various social problems the intensity of the discussion went on from lighter talks like planting more trees to protest against child marriage.
The kids blew away our minds with depth of knowledge they had.
They were comments like , ” being independent is important than getting married ” to funnier comments like ” marriage is a very boring part of life “.
In the session topics such as dowry , save girl child , child abuse were stressed upon and discussed at length . At the end of the session every child in that room took an oath that they
would step up and question if they ever come across the discussed issues , as they believe in the theme I AM THE CHANGE .
The second part of the session was an activity session , where the kids we’re divided into two groups of four and were given the liberty to take up any one social issue discussed in the class and come up with an innovative board game to spread their knowledge to others.
Initially everyone in the class were taken back , they had no idea how they could implement these issues to design a game ,a bit of motivation from the volunteers side gave them that initial push they needed.
The first group decided to work on SAVE GIRL CHILD whereas the second group chose DOWRY. They were given one hour , chart paper , colour pencils and other stationery items for designing the game. They were instructed to make a draft copy before finalising a design , the kids for the first few minutes were lacking in ideas and wanted to give up , one of the child commented ” only scientists could invent things and they were not one ” , it was time for the
volunteers to spring back in action and motivated them to think about how much fun a game would be to play they invented rather than thinking about how difficult it was to create them .In the last 45 minutes , both the groups were busy and jotting points and designs on their rough paper . At the end of it all , both the teams had come up with two Mind blowing games .The first team who had taken up SAVE GIRL CHILD ,had designed a game on the basis of how important a director is for a movie the same way a girl child is important for a family , impressive right ?
The game was designed in a circular pattern where you had to rotate the pin and the place the pin stops is the points you get, the circle was divided into various boxes based on three messages:
KILLING A GIRL CHILD 100 POINTS
AWARENESS ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF GIRL CHILD 700 POINTS
SAVING A GIRL CHILD 1000 POINTS
the player with the most points wins the game , the winner gets a hand made thank you card with the message “THANK YOU FOR SAVING A GIRL CHILD” .The second group who had taken up DOWRY had made a game on the basis that only gifts given by parents with love are accepted and not gifts given forcefully which is titled dowry .So the game was roll the dice , they had made 28 boxes numbered , and you had to roll the dice to move your pawn to the number corresponding to the dice. If you landed on a box
stating dowry you immediately are thrown into the jail and hence are outta the game. The person who safely overcomes all dowry boxes would be declared winner . The volunteers were speechless seeing these kids design such wonderful apt games based on the theme . All the volunteers did was motivate and these kids had turned that motivation into a beautiful creative idea. At the end of it all each child had a huge smile on there face realising they were the CHANGE.
A small initiative but this can go on to make a huge difference to each child , their family and ultimately the society. The CHANGE you want to see around you starts from YOU.
I AM THE CHANGE.
It was a sunday; the day of vacation… when a few guys were getting acquainted in the ride in Chennai and reached the venue in an exactly planned fashion to skip breakfast (‘coz brunch was traded for early lunch 😛 ) a few were playing antakshari in Hindi, Kannad, Tamil,and Punjabi songs on the way in Bangalore. As a team on-time after a traditional south-Indian breakfast volunteers got the energy for a paintball session; on the contrary, our all time energy packages went out fetching bats, balls, nets to start with games of cricket, Frisbee,Tennikoit, handball etc…
In Munchinbelle after paintball the ground was set for adventure with activities like tight rope walk, shaky bridge walk and Burma bridge trail in which ramalakshmi ended up proving most athletic person in the team by doing the activities twice.
The special delicacy, Pepper Chicken was enjoyed by all. To relax, volunteers got the opportunity to canoe in the big reservoir. Everything from the scenic beauty to the still water touched their soul. Occasionally guys on the other shore chilled out on the beach after fari-stastic dumb-charades in chennai, and Some of them had a dip in Rock-on style jumping from the edge into the lake in bangalore. After that began the round of serious discussion over tea about issues like street children, it inspired the volunteers to carry on the things in bangalore but namma pasanga oru kuthaatam potu mudichaanga .Then, a journey back to home. Byju’s jokes, an integral part of the whole journey were both irritating and enjoyable at the same time. As the day came to an end, everyone had some memories from it that they would cherish for a long long time.
As we step into a new year, there will be some key changes to Bhumi’s Projects Team. While every project will continue to have a volunteer-national facilitator, he/she will be closely supported by a Bhumi employee/full-timer as follows. Please spare a few minutes to also understand the various communication channels for queries and major issues.
Shwetha Selvan (Regional Manager) will be supporting Kathambari Ezhilarasu (Facilitator) in implementing the Kaniniproject nationally. If you have queries/issues, contact the Kanini Support team [Kathambari Ezhilarasu, Shwetha Selvan, Arun Prabhakar – National HR and Vivek Agrawal]. Shwetha will also be managing city operations in Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur and Right to Education Awareness.
From L to R: Kathambari, Shwetha and Arun
Ganapathy Krishnan (Facilitator) will be supporting the coordinators in implementing the Lakshyaproject nationally. If you have queries/issues, contact the Lakshya Support team [Ganapathy Krishnan, Arwindh Paneerselvam – National HR and Vivek Agrawal].
From L to R: Arwindh & Ganapathy
Ranjani Ramamorthy (Facilitator) will be supporting the coordinators in implementing the Little Einsteins – Mathematicsproject nationally. If you have queries/issues, contact the Mathematics Support team [Ranjani Ramamoorthy, Ganesh Kumar – National HR and Vivek Agrawal].
From L to R: Ranjani and Ganesh Kumar
Agne Kirupha (Operations Manager) will be supporting the coordinators in implementing the Little Einsteins – Science project nationally. If you have issues/queries, contact the Science Support team [Yuvaneshwari, Agne Kirupha, Arvind Lakshmanan – National HR and Vivek Agrawal]. Agne will also be managing operations in Chennai and provide a supporting role for operations and volunteerism promotion nationally.
From L to R: Yuvaneshwari, Agne and Arvind
Ayyanar Elumalai (co-founder, Bhumi) will be supporting the coordinators in implementing the Nakshatra Reach Outprojects nationally i.e.Arts, Dance, Football, Music, Theatre and Volleyball. If you have queries/issues, contact the NRO Support team [Ayyanar Elumalai, Raghunathan, Swathi Sukumar – National HR and Vivek Agrawal]
From L to R: Ayyanar, Raghu and Swathi
Vaishnavi Srinivasan (Executive Director) will be supporting the coordinators in implementing the Speak Outproject nationally. If you have queries/issues, contact the Speak Out Support team [Lavanya Jagannathan, Mathangi Chandrasekhar, Vaishnavi Srinivasan, Aaditya Venkatesh – National HR, Princee Chaudhary and Vivek Agrawal]
From L to R: Lavanya, Mathangi, Vaishnavi and Aaditya
Anusha Vasu (Project Associate) will be managing city operations in Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
Tanushree Sharma (Regional Manager) will be managing city operations in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Kolkata.
Vivek Agrawal (Chief Operating Officer) will be managing HR, projects and operations nationally.
L to R: Anusha, Tanushree and Vivek
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Dr.Prahalathan KK (co-founder, Bhumi) is involved in strategy, project monitoring and finance. If you have any other or unresolved issues Bhumi’s Support Team can be contacted [Ayyanar Elumalai, Ganapathy Krishnan, Dr. Prahalathan KK, Vaishnavi Srinivasan and Vivek Agrawal]
Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was on Sunday accorded a warm welcome as he visited the tiny village of Puttamrajuvari Kandrika which he has decided to adopt under the Modi’s Scheme of Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
Tendulkar interacted with the villagers, who told him about the lack of proper roads, sanitation facilities, and also about the power supply scenario in the village and said they wished to see it turn into a model village after getting the necessary basic amenities.
Tendulkar laid foundation for the construction of Rs 2.79 crore worth developmental works (in the first phase), including a community centre, Anganwadi school with kitchen, a play ground, waiting halls and toilets, among other things.
The retired cricketer is also scheduled to administer oath to the villagers asking them to shun tobacco and alcohol.
Do you know?
Recently, the IRIS Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with UN-HABITAT was published that. In 2020, India is set to be the Youngest Country in the World.
They compared India with four cities Like China, Brazil and two more cities too. Comparatively India’s Population is lower than that of China’s Population. But India has the highest population of 10-24-year-olds. Nearly 78.9% of population is under the age of 10-24 Years Old. Now, China is in the range of 54% under the age of 10-24 years Old.
So, India has a lot of opportunity to convert our nation from a developing country to a developed country. This is not a big task for us because every citizen thinks India is our country. This mantra is enough to change our nation.
For Example:
Modi, our Prime Minister takes the initiatives to start social awareness activities, which inspires many celebrities and media to follow his footsteps. However, before that, how many actually thought about the dying need? Think over it. Serve our country, bring pride to our nation.
According to the Information Published on the website of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, the age limit and the number of attempts of applicants to be reduced from the upcoming year 2015.
According to this new norm, the upper age limit will be 29 years for SC/ST candidates, 28 years for OBC and 26 for the unreserved category. There will be an additional two years for physically challenged candidates in each category.
The Number of Attempts to be reduced to six for SC/ST Candidates, five for OBC and three for Unreserved Candidates.
At present, the upper age limit for SC/ST, OBC and unreserved candidates is 35, 33 and 30 years respectively.
This New Norms is recommended by Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) and almost entirely accepted by the government, were put up on the website a few months ago.
Merits:
Competition will be reduced.
Today, Lots of applicants are applied for IAS Exams due to Unemployment (Mainly Engineering Graduates). Many of the people are not willing to study for IAS Exam, because of their parents Compulsion and also lack of employment opportunities. Their aim is to get a job not to serve our nation. This will be really affected to those who are seriously prepared for this exam.
So this norms will be helpful to find the person who are really what to do something for our nation.
Demerits:
Basically, we completed our Bachelor Degree only in the age of 21 or 22 years. After that only we can able to attend IAS Exams. So we have only 6 years to do.
IAS Exams is the India’s No.1 Stuffiest Exam. So we need some more time to prepare for this Exam. And also this exam will take to complete the selection process nearly one and half years. So we don’t have sufficient time to prepare for this exam.
According to me, thousand of civil services aspirants are affected by this New Norm. At least they extend their age limit up to 30 years from each of the category.
Bhumi believes that every under-privileged child deserves quality education. We have transformed this conviction into a volunteering opportunity for India’s youth, launching a snowball effect of talent nurturing talent on the path to an educated, poverty-free India.
Volunteers who choose to lead enable tens, if not hundreds, of other volunteers in impacting thousands of lives. We believe Bhumi is a platform for young people to incubate their leadership skills.
Clockwise: Shwetha, Sriranjan, Sahithya, Uttara and Shubhadra
Sriranjan Gorty, City Coordinator
A blend of energy, passion, hard-work and motivation, he’s raring to volunteer and promote volunteering to his fullest potential. He has been associated with Bhumi for the last four yrs and he believes that each day drives him more to fulfill our common dream of ‘Change today … Change tomorrow’
Subhadra Bhagavatula, Project Coordinator, Speak Out
A Chartered Accountant working with Goldman Sachs in Bangalore since December 2010. She is hard working and ambitious, passionate about bringing a change to our society. She loves working with children of all shapes and sizes. In her free time, she enjoys reading, singing and gardening.
Shweta Tripathy, Project Coordinator, Lakshya
She strongly believes in “When you were born you cried while the world rejoiced. Live a life such that when you die you rejoice while the world cries to leave you”. So every moment of her life, she wishes to spread immense happiness to all those around. She’s passionate about dancing to the beat of every possible tune and loves being around kids.
Uttara Turumella, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins – Mathematics
A software engineer by profession, she started volunteering to spend her free time doing something productive. Little did she know then that volunteering will change her life (for better, of course). She joined Bhumi 2 years back and since then, there has been no turning back!
Sahithya Sreenath, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins – Mathematics
Currently working for Oracle India Pvt Ltd, she completed her Masters in Software Engineering from VIT University and has been working for the past 2 years now. She’s a dreamer by nature and believes in working hard to turn my dreams into reality. Writing is her stress-buster.
Smithi Manickam, HR Coordinator, Nakshatra Reach Out Dance
A confident, outgoing and broad-minded person. She believes in standing up for her opinions and does what she thinks is right. She is more of a positive person who gains happiness in whatever she does and loves sharing her happiness. She enjoys dancing, fitness, long drives, trekking and more.
Janavi, HR Coordinator, Nakshatra Reach Out Arts
An ambitious media student trying to bring a change in the way this whole world lives. A theatre artist who loves to write and paint. A Marathi woman who loves the Tamil culture and started following it. An Indian, a woman, a Bhumian.
Anerudh Murali, HR Coordinator, Nakshatra Reach Out Sports
Jovial, frank and down to earth person with whom everyone feels warm. For him work comes first, rest is secondary He says that a few months ago, he struggled to even get the kids together, but now even before he arrives their warm up is done – such is his impact on the kids.
Samantha N, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
An IT professional, she was born and brought up in Chennai. She is fun-loving and loves to interact with people. She says “be the change you want to see”.
Preetha, Project Coordinator, Fundraising
An IT professional with close to six years of experience in various projects. She plans to pursue her MBA in consulting and says she is passionate about the causes that Bhumi supports.
Saki Kripakaran, HR Coordinator, Nakshatra Reach Out Music
Gerad, Project Coordinator, Nakshatra Reach Out Sports
He has a view that is different from most; he maintains a focus on the past, present, and future to ensure he is positioned to dedicate himself to making a difference – and he is happy to say that he has helped thousands of needy. He is also an nature lover and a cricket fan.
Prahadeesh B, Project Coordinator, Kanini
Currently running S.L.Engineering works which manufacture automobile spares. A graduate in the disciple of Information Technology, his hobbies include photography and reading books.
Ankita P Raichura, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
Works as a processor in Vitae International Accounting Services Pvt Ltd., she has completed her B.Com and MBA. She loves theater and has taken part in plays and dramas which were organized in her college and work place. During her spare time she likes to cook. Apart from this, she loves to watch movies, and is an absolute movie buff.
Mahendran M, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
Veeramanikandan.C, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Science
Showmya J, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Science
The team from Delhi:
Clockwise: Ayesha, Ketan, Aniket, Ashwin and Ashir
Aniket Jain, Project Coordinator, Lakshya
A lawyer currently practising in the High Court. He did his schooling from St. Columba’s School in Delhi and his law from GGSIP University, Delhi. He plans to eventually start his individual practice in the Supreme Court of India.
Ashwin Ravichandran, Project Coordinator, Speak Out
Born in Delhi, studied in Madras, graduated in Coimbatore, graduated again in Delhi and lived life across the country. Bread and butter earned by writing LOC’s for websites. Live life by teaching kids.
Ketan Bhatt, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Maths & Science
An Engineering student and an occasional blogger, he loves food, enjoys traveling, reading and writing. He says that he was looking for ways to spend his time in something that, for once, was not completely selfish. He wanted to do something that had the potential to effect lives other than mine. In Bhumi he got his answer.
Ashir Aseesh Borah, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Science & Hi5 club
Born in Guwahati, Assam, he moved to Delhi to complete his senior secondary education from Delhi Public School, RK Puram. He loves to work with Bhumi because in the process of working for the society, he is learning a lot more about myself and discovering new things every day.
Ayesha Datta, Project Coordinator, Joy to the World
Currently pursuing sociology, she started volunteering with Bhumi just a few months back. She enjoys dancing, painting and loves to get engaged in social work. She has interned with organisations like CRY and has campaigned against child labour.
Presently working with TATA Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Ltd as an Engineer, he has also assisted in starting up a company from scratch. In doing so, he got varied experience of being an HR, Trainer, Business developer and Manager. He has stayed in different parts of the country and speaks about eight languages. An Aircraft Engineer by profession, he likes socialising, travelling, music and social working.
Aditya Valli K, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
She is kind, confident and likes to take up challenges. She possesses a positive attitude and enjoys socialising. She initiates many events and is supportive to others too.
Dharini P, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
An HR by profession, she works with TATA Consultancy Services. She has been associated with NGOs and volunteering activities in the past. She is highly passionate about music and loves singing. Her other hobbies include painting and writing.
Utkarsh, Project Coordinator, Kanini
By profession a mechanical engineer, always wanted to do something extra apart from regular job something which can give satisfaction and which can take out the better me and then he found Bhumi – which was a great platform and the best part was that it involve kids.
Vignesh S, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Science
Working in TATA Lockheed Martin Aero structures Hyderabad, as a Senior Executive Engineer for the last two years. He has been with Bhumi since 2011 but with the Tiruchirapalli chapter. In 2012, he had to shift cities, and has been waiting for Bhumi to start operations in Hyderabad.
Meghana Dodda, Project Coordinator, Hi5 Club
The team from Jaipur:
Clockwise: Bhumika, Vishesh, Vidhant
Vidhant Jain, Project Coordinator, Little Einsteins Science
A student at Amity University Rajasthan pursuing B.com(Hons) in Finance & IB. He is very much inclined towards helping people and initiating a change for the society. He believes that change begins from one person and is carried forward to all.
Currently working as an Asst. Manager in AU Financiers (India) Ltd. handling their Innovation and Automation department. He loves sports and has always been associated with them throughout his life. He also likes solving puzzles and listening to music. He loves kids and has always wanted to do something to bring about a change.
Bhumika Ojha, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Maths & Hi5 Club
Completed B.Tech in Computer Science and currently working as an Assistant Programmer in Jaipur. Has been volunteering with Bhumi for over one year and believes that the journey has been full of enjoyable and learning experiences. Hi5 is her favourite of all events.Loves reading and travelling.
The team from Kolkata:
Kala Neelakantan, Project Coordinator, Kanini
An IT person who looks forward to the weekends to do something that she is fond of. Volunteering has always been in her forte and has been with Bhumi for quite sometime now. She is the high energy loquacious person and hopes this energy makes her do a great job in leading the Bhumi chapter in Kolkata.
The team from Mumbai:
Kanupriya, Lijo
Lijo Philip Raj, Project Coordinator, Kanini
An IT professional with over four years of experience and currently working as a Project Lead with TCS, Mumbai. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering Degree has a keen interest in the education of children, reading books of varied genres, event management & game of cricket. His combination of engineering background and management experience gives his a unique ability to bridge the gap between practice and theory in various fronts.
Kanupriya Sethi, Project Coordinator, Fundraising
A BBA second year student, she joined Bhumi as an intern. She says that Coming this far since the start has been a new experience, meeting children, helping in organizing things and a few efforts towards fund raising also. She reads books, paints and sketches occasionally, likes listening to music, travelling and meeting new people.
The team from Pune:
Clockwise: Rohit, Sai Krishna, Robin, Ankita
Sai Krishna, City HR Coordinator
A PG student at PICT, Pune pursuing M.E in IT and also an intern at TIBCO software Inc. Other than social service activities, he loves football and reading books. He believes that bringing change in even one child’s life will make a difference and start a ripple of subsequent change!
Robin Sharma, Project Coordinator, Fundraising
Born in Haryana, graduated in Punjab, and now working in Pune. His life is more about travelling; whether it’s lush green valleys of Himalayas, sandy beaches of Goa and Pondicherry, monuments in Rajasthan or Banarasi Ghats. He likes to socialize, listen to people’s tales and learn from them. He believes in lifelong learning and giving back to society what it has offered him.
Rohit Gurlhosur, HR Coordinator, Kanini
Currently finished his graduation in mechanical engineering, Rohit, loves watching movies. He has been associated with Bhumi for the past 3 months and enjoys working with the Kanini team. He loves interacting with the kids and aims at giving back as much as he can, to the society.
Ankita Ghosh, HR Coordinator, Little Einsteins Mathematics
A final year student of B.Sc in medical technology from Symbiosis institute of health sciences. She has travelled various parts of India during her school days and has seen the problems that our society faces. She’d like to help foster Bhumi’s cause of helping children and our society as a whole. She is eager to contribute my time and dedication for the same.
This week was our first session after the ice-breakers on the module ‘social responsibility’. The children took part actively. They were enjoying in the cul-de-sac of happiness. And finally the closure was given by winnie; the kids were moved so much by it ; we collected (their individual feedbacks) what the session actually meant to them shortly written in sticky notes and gave it to her stuck on a chart (with a small note of appreciation from volunteers) which the kids presented to winnie . Briefly put this was a wonderful session with just a simple yet meaningful appreciation. {p.s. It was ashwin’s idea: instead of waiting for a caught ya card; this was an instantaneous gesture of gratitude }
– Santhosh, Trichy
Trust the trust in you…
The usual maduravoyal workshop session was about to be cancelled since a criminally accused was housed in that school premises and authorities have requested the session be cancelled and once we were about to move out of school premises; an inspector who happened to enter in enquired as in why we were leaving early; on learning the details he supported explaining what we are doing and he extended to take responsibility of the session and offered us a separate room to conduct the session peacefully.
DISHA, an initiative of the MaFoi foundation, is an opportunity for children from disadvantaged background to believe in their strengths and rise beyond all odds to become grounded, educated and sensitive individuals of the society. It not only provides scholarship to the disadvantaged children but also equip them with leadership skills. Disha Leadership Programme, provides children an environment to learn, act, and lead so that they can hone their skills, be productive and grow as concerned leaders. Disha Scholars from 8th standard onward undergo this programme till they finish their college. Recently Bhumi has partnered with DISHA to facilitate their leadership workshops for
class 11 children through its Lakshya program.
The first leadership workshop, focusing on communication and negotiation skills, was conducted on 17th Aug’14 wherein close to 45 students participated. The activity was “Junk Activity (Market Based)”, where children negotiate to buy junks from the market and design a product based on creativity. The planning was very efficient right from the start and it was executed better than expected with minor tweaks. The major success was including the market concept in clear and precise manner which was executed perfectly. Though the activity was the same junk activity which was done every year, the additions such as including a stable market with a seller who negotiates his items (junk) based on demand and other small tweaks such as round robin fashion with multiple rounds for different teams to get their items with virtual money and at the same time having equal chance to get what they require has taken this activity to a whole new level.
Since they were 11th class children they were able to understand the concept quite easily and were very open to learn and talk with the volunteers which made the activity even better. The negotiation part of the activity was very neatly done between the children and the volunteer who acted as the seller in the market. Children were highly enthusiastic and creative in designing, while being shrewd and efficient in the negotiation part with the seller. It would have been even better if there was a way to promote negotiation between teams during execution. The only negative aspect was the time to execute this activity as it took longer than expected. Ideas such as explaining the activity stage by stage and showing the children a video on negotiation at the end of the activity were well received and it made the process smoother. Volunteers from DISHA were helpful and efficient in handling the children. They were very happy at the end result of the negotiation activity.
Three more leadership workshops have been planned in the months of Oct’14, Jan’15 and Feb’15 covering various other skills of leadership. We believe this partnership will help Bhumi-Lakshya in strengthening their abilities in conducting programs for higher grade children.
http://augmented-reality-in-education.wikispaces.com/Augmented+Books – this is certainly going to redefine the way we teach children in future.. Augmented reality is a brilliant image recognition technology that helps children to visualise and feel what they learn. We can buy some books that comes with free apps to read those books. These can be projected on screen to teach the children. Especially LES can take great advantage of this technology.. To start with we can buy the book on solar system.
http://www.indiabookstore.net/bookish/ – this site provides the comparative prices of any book across top 6-7 sites like amazon, flipkart, infibeam , landmark and some such. But what more interesting is that they have an excellent blog on books – everyday they review a book and each review is 1-3 minutes read at max. We can search for books that are appropriate to our children and use for library initiative
http://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/ – this is a great website to explore the world of maps! We can start introducing these in the sessions of our existing projects like SPO / NRA / LES / LAK. Alternatively we can try this for weekday engagement or even roll it out as a separate project.
http://unplugthetv.com/archive – this has a huge collection of videos including many for educating children that can be used in many of our sessions as a prelude or closure. I couldnt explore more on how to search on interested categories.
http://www.lakshmirebecca.com/ – this is the blog of Lakshmi Rebecca who writes a lot about social entrepreneurs from India. We may get some good ideas or partnerships.
The following links have been compiled by Reshma, Lakshya volunteer, Chennai
Tendulkar interacted with the villagers, who told him about the lack of proper roads, sanitation facilities, and also about the power supply scenario in the village and said they wished to see it turn into a model village after getting the necessary basic amenities.
