A Humbling Experience

This publicity leaflet may appear strange to many, especially if one  can read Telugu. This one was brought out by a Sikshana school months back- even I did not know about its existence till yesterday.

It is from the Government (ZP) High school in Mukalacheruvu ( Madanapalle Cluster), in which GORD and Sikshana worked together during 10-11.  In the SSCLC Examinations of ’11,  85 students appeared and all but one passed. Even the failed student scored 60% on the whole but could not get through just one subject – Telugu- since his mother tongue was different. 27 students scored more than 500 out of 600, the highest being 562 (94%).  The biggest surprise of all: the average marks of all the students who appeared for the examination was 84%!
These are extremely impressive figures by any standards – Private schools included- but the one that took the cake was what followed in their presentation. 40 Students migrated from Private schools to this Govt school in 8th Std , 20 in 9th and 10 in 10th at the beginning of the current academic year! That is a real shocker for anyone who still doubts that Government schools can deliver on their promises.
This school was scoring 58% and 64% during the years preceding 08-09 when the current HM- Mr Prabhakar- came into the school initiating the upward swing. Of course the credit goes no less to the dedicated set of teachers who needed only this trigger to show their mettle.
That the school is putting in its best efforts to rope in the community through publicizing the improved performance , which incidentally has resulted in the above reverse  migration, speaks volumes about their determination to break out of the mold and show the better face of the Public Education System.
My next stop yesterday was the ZP school at Pulikallu. Here there were 29 students last year and all of them passed. The average mark here was 92%! There was very little I could ask for in terms of improved performance in the examinations when the scores are this high already. I did suggest to them that they should focus on two things now onwards. The first is the ‘Achilles Heal’ of the entire system, which is the learning level in English. Marks apart, the ability of the students to understand and handle the spoken language continues to be poor. The second was to share their experiences and help the other schools in the cluster to emulate their results. We do need badly ‘leaders’ in the field who can become instruments of change. Maybe we will find some of them in these schools.
It was seen that three out of the seven schools supported by us scored 100% results, something that has never happened in these schools in the past. I came back humbled by the experience; what a pool of talent is lying there waiting to be tapped by someone and how we are still reaching only the fringes with all that we are doing?  This is something that both Vibha and Sikshana should ponder – besides hosts of others who could also chip in.
Ramamurthy

Pragati ’11 – Day Two – The conference ends and the journey begins

By Akshat Shukla

This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India

The Day 2 of Pragati, focused on Social Metrics and its importance to bring out the true potential of the works of the organizations, functioning of the projects and volunteers. The opening session was preceded by Ron Victor, according to whom, “it was critical that what we do is replicable and scalable. When we have 5 million lives to change, the importance of measuring the impact of these experiments grows enormously”.

Vibha supports many success stories being made every day at various organizations under its umbrella. Prior to the opening session, Sasi introduced everyone to Sajan (Member, HEARDS) who shared a successful story of freeing their district of menace of child labor. The opening session was chaired jointly by Ms. Jayshree (Door Step Schools, Pune) and Mr. Prasanna (Sikshana). Both the speakers talked about how they measure the impact being created in their respective organizations. While DSS started in 1988 and their focus is on construction workers’ children, Sikshana is still an upcoming organization focused on underprivileged children in rural India. Jayshree was of the opinion that the limited trained resources at DSS should focus on dealing with children and not data. “We’re not here to fill glasses, but to increase the level of the lake by an inch” she said. She described DSS’s journey in moving from pen and paper based tracking, to MS Excel and then on to developing database and putting in places a MIS system. She shared with the audience the amount of transparency and accountability such tracking brings into the organizational culture. Not only does this help in impact measurement but also in generating customized reports for donor agencies and launching interventions.  Mr. Prasanna on the other hand highlighted the importance of assessing all the students prior to and post any event. According to him assessing the results from a standardized measurement tool like the ASER report designed by Pratham adds more credibility to the results.

 

Prasanna V.R., CEO of Sikshana makes a point

The second session focused on volunteer recruitment and management, something even the Vibha volunteers were looking forward to. The session was led by Madhukar Kumar, who spearheads the operation of iVolunteer and serves as the Program Head of ICICI Fellows Program. The unique aspect of the entire session was that Madhukar encouraged the participants to come up with a solution to issues regarding necessity of a volunteer, planning volunteer engagement, supporting and recognizing volunteers. The cross organizational group discussion that ensued made some startling revelations about the intensity of impact volunteers can create. All Vibha volunteers shared their views and understanding on these topics. Ron summarized the session by concentrating on the importance of inducting a volunteer into the organization. He emphasized the importance carrying out requirement analysis, mapping skills to appropriate tasks, setting timelines and clearly defining deliverables. Later in the day, Ms. Nilanjana Das of South Asian Fund Raising Group joined the session to focus on fund raising strategies for social organizations – the lifeline of any such set up. She spoke about resource generation strategies and the importance of setting targets before embarking on the journey, the importance of planning fund raising in sync with designing interventions. The discussion revolved around drafting mails, selecting donors, the importance of sending personalized communications to those already in the network and making it all work.

  

Vibha volunteers at the brainstorming session

The last session was conducted by Dr. Vidula Mhaiskar, from Arvind Gupta Toys Foundation. She captivated the audience’s attention by a unique presentation toys made out of junk. Through these toys Dr. Mhaiskar, explained concepts like Bernoulli’s theorem, wave theory, electricity and magnetism, optics, capillary action, gravity and many others, with complete ease. Many engineers present in the audience were impressed with interesting explanation of these complex theories, through such cost effective toys. A simple message was thus successfully delivered – we can’t expect to produce rocket scientists out of a generation, which has crammed up the basics of science. It has to be learnt by experimenting and hence visualizing.

 Dr. Vidula performing an experiment

The next edition of Pragati hopes to include organizations not associated with VIBHA, in order to share more and the leverage the learning. To end the session on a lighter note, some of the Vibha volunteers put in a humorous skit for the participants. On the occasion, Ron also launched the website for Rachana, a Vibha supported project at Pune. The participants also planned to visit the sites for Door Step School and Rachana the next day, to watch and learn. One of the volunteers rightly put across the objective of Pragati,“The two days were a great opportunity to learn, connect, network, be an inspiration and get inspired, forge relationships, work on weaknesses, strengthen the strengths and finally grow and scale the impact.”

 

  Ron launching Rachana’s website

Vibhasana

by Ansy Mathews

Reminiscing back to what we did over the past weekend (Nov 5-6), volunteers here in Bayarea did a phenomenal job managing Vibha’s 1st ever Vibhasana Yoga Conference. During the conference we got to experience first hand the meaning of Yoga which is ‘to join’, ‘to unite’ or ‘to attach’. This spirit of Yoga was celebrated when Almaden Yoga and Vibha joined hands in executing a wonderful cause driven event.

We had over 90 yogis over a span of 2 days. The conference included an impressive line up of teachers, informative lectures, and a lot of positive energy. Each day started with an hour of meditation and continued with Yoga practice sessions and lecture sessions throughout the day. Practice sessions lasted for two hours and lectures for an hour. Each teacher brought a different style of Yoga and enriched the students with a unique experience. The sessions challenged them to think what Yoga means to them and share their own perspectives with others.

Throughout the day in each of the sessions, our volunteers inspired the Yogis with the story of Vibha and the projects we support. It was also a reminder to the volunteers why we volunteer and what it means to the children we support. Thank you to all the volunteers for their support and let us keep reminding ourselves that each step we take helps a child to dream bigger.

Vibha Volunteer Conference 2011 – Day 1 Part 2

by Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar

The second part of Day 1 of the conference involved with all the breakout groups presenting their solutions to the three buckets of issues that were presented to them by the executives. After a rigorous Q&A to understand what each solution is aiming to address, the group evaluated all the proposals and decided to adopt parts of each group’s solution.

• Plan of Action for Execs:
• Board to visit the Action Centers frequently
• Board mentors the ACCs
• Board to define the roles and responsibilities for the different AC roles and communicate it to them

Other action items and next steps that were assigned to specific volunteers were:

• Compile, publish, and publicize success stories
• Helps in aligning the ACs with VIbha’s overall goal and presents a bigger picture of the impact that Vibha is making
• CFC program needs to be “fixed” to be made more effective (specially in the Bay Area and Dallas)
• ACs to be grouped regionally and have executive mentors
• Action Center Project Ownership Initiative as an experiment for the next year:
• Action Center will be the ultimate contact for the project
• Action Center volunteers will be more involved in the project calls and be more informed
• Project Lead involves the Action Center
• Every Action Center should limit the number of events to no more than two events per year and use the additional time, resources, and energy to focus on programs and develop the Action Center and the volunteers and promote programs

Day 2
Sunday has started off on time with a very impressive and innovative presentation by Samir Patel focused on Vibha’s Growth Strategy and specially the idea of Vibha-U (Vibha University). Looking forward to the keynote speaker’s address and the rest of the day of more ideas!

“It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.” – Lena Horne

Vibha Volunteer Conference 2011

by Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar

Welcome Address

The day started off at 9:00 am with an opening address by Rajesh Haridas about Vibha, the growth of Vibha, and Vibha’s success stories. The Welcome Address focused on the fact that this conference is meant to bring all the volunteers together to address three main areas that Vibha needs to work on for the upcoming year:

• Alignment and balancing action center activities with Vibha’s goals – The Action Centers and Vibha’s Executive board need to be on the same page at all times
• Accountability and leadership – ACCs and volunteers in other roles need to be held accountable for their responsibilities and those responsibilities need to be communicated
• Dreaming big and achieving the dreams – Action centers tend to get overly involved in local fundraising events and move away from understanding and thinking about the big picture and where Vibha is headed and the issues that Vibha is addressing

Workshop Session

The volunteers were broken up into four smaller groups to discuss the three issues at hand and come up with a solution and a plan of action to address the issues at hand. Every group had an executive member and volunteers/ ACCs from various action centers. The discussions among each group were long and lively and each volunteer brought a different experience into the discussion and a different perspective.

The delicious and heavy lunch did not slow down the rate of ideas brought up and opinions voiced. Post lunch, the teams are now presenting their solutions to the rest of the volunteers leading to a colorful exchange of questions and clarifications to address how the proposed solutions work. After the presentations, the group will decide on the final strategy.

“It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.” – Lena Horne

Volunteers – the building blocks of Vibha

This post has been contributed by Alija Sule, a volunteer with Vibha Pune Action Center. During Pragati ’11, she went around talking to some experienced volunteers about their journey with Vibha. Here’s the compilation.

The Vibha Pune action centre was launched in January 2008, with a strong motive of making a difference in the life of an underprivileged child. Almost three years from the date of its launch, most of these set goals are finally seen materialising into reality. The driving force behind this success is the dedicated group of Vibha volunteers. Their determination, enthusiasm and zeal to make a positive difference in society are vital in realising the chalked-out plans. Volunteers from different walks of life bring with them a positive energy, fresh ideas and inspiration. The volunteer force of Vibha Pune has expanded from just three in 2008 to more than 50 currently.

The active participation, resolve and fervour of the volunteers were evident at the recent Pragati ’11 conference held at YMCA House in Pune, from October 1-3. All the project partners of Vibha communicated on a common platform. Every minute detail was planned and executed to perfection by the Vibha Pune volunteers. Right from conducting the ice-breaking session to managing food and hospitality, they did it all.

A few of the volunteers were with Vibha were since the beginning, while a few had started their journey recently. Yet everyone seemed to gel in wonderfully. While the new volunteers were inspired with words of wisdom and experiences of the older volunteers, the older ones picked up on the varied and fresh perspectives of the new ones. Each one had something unique to offer to the rest.

Here’s giving you an insight on what motivated a few of them to become a Vibha volunteer and their journey so far.

Sreekanth Pannala

Sreekanth is the founding trustee and secretary at Vibha India.He started his Vibha journey in 1996 in the U.S. He was often troubled by the inequality against children that existed around him. Initially, the rather shy Shreekant let go because he thought his efforts would be too insignificant in solving a problem so grave and massive in nature. However, later he mustered up courage and made up his mind to make a positive difference in society. Since then he has been actively involved with Vibha. This involvement has helped him come out of his shell and evolve as more confident and determined individual.  Channelizing his energy and skills to bring a smile to someone’s face gives him immense pleasure and satisfaction.

Janardan Prasad

Janardan is a graduate from IIT Kanpur and is currently the Director and Founder of Ubida Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He joined Vibha during one of Vibha’s Dream Mile events in the U.S. He wanted to work with a group that has various centres so that while moving cities/ countries he did not have to move NGOs. Volunteering with Vibha helps Janardan work a dynamic group, one that helps him as well as others grow and impact the society in a positive way. He also learns from people and their experiences. He likes meeting various sets of people because of volunteering. Also it gives him hands-on experience on various skills. Janardan enjoys motivating others or self to work with any compulsion.

Sheetal Venkatesh

Sheetal is currently a senior product manager at Symantec. He joined forces with Janardan when he came to India in 2007. They were pioneers in the launch of the Vibha Pune action centre. At the onset, the two decided not to immediately venture into fund raising, but instead lend support ongoing projects, namely DSS and Rachana. Sheetal wanted to make his own little contribution to the society, which motivated him to become a Vibha volunteer.  Meeting new and varied people, with diverse ideas is what he likes the most about volunteering.

Such an ardent group of self-driven volunteers are indeed an asset to any group that wants to work towards a social cause. Vibha too thrives on single-mindedly focused individuals like these.

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2011, the year so far..

It has been a busy year so far for Vibha with a number of exciting activities.  Here are the highlights.

1) Launch of Adopt-a-Project:
With this new program, a patron can donate his or her money to particular projects pre-selected by Vibha that focus on child development initiatives. This is great news for patrons who want to be connected to projects in a more direct and meaningful way.  Visit http://adopt.vibha.org/ for more details.

2) Contributions Vibha received from student community:
$5,001 from North Penn School District for Sikshana
$10,000 from Northwestern University for Jan Madhyam Project.

3) Dallas Action Center resurrection:
The Dallas Action Center (AC) has grown from 1 volunteer in fall 2010 to 20+ volunteers today. Catch the action at the Dallas AC by visiting http://dallas.vibha.org

4) Establishment of National Volunteer Network:
The objective of the National Volunteer Network to establish a volunteer network across different US cities is two-fold: to reach out to the prospective volunteers and ultimately patrons in cities where Vibha does not have an Action Center, and to spread Vibha’s vision and mission to a larger community – including universities, associations, and local organizations. If you have any interested volunteers or suggestions, please feel free to send them across to volunteernetwork@vibha.org. If you have any friends or family in any US city where we currently don’t have an action center, please pass on this message to them and request them to sign up. We will promptly send them a ‘volunteer orientation kit’ and help them get started.

5) Sikshana’s expansion into Gujarat:
Sikshana recently expanded to the state of Gujarat. Visit our blog at  http://vibhablog.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/gram-vikas-trust-sikshana-in-gujurat/ for more information.

6) Pragati conference 2011:

Vibha recently organized Pragati 2011 conference from October 01 to October 03, 2011 at the Y.M.C.A. in Pune. The mission of the Pragati Conference is to “Connect, Share & Leverage.” to enable knowledge sharing for Vibha projects in India.  All Vibha volunteers everywhere (India and the US) were invited to attend. There are blog posts on Pragati on http://vibhablog.wordpress.com/ describing how the conference went.

7.) Vibha received $19,456 grant from Juniper Networks Foundation for Sikshana project.

8.) Vibha Beneficiary Program donations:

Tibco Software, Inc.  $5,000
Angiras Foundation $20,000 for Rajasthan Mahila Kalyan Mandal and Prayas projects.
Steve Kupetz $10,000 for Jan Madhyam

Events so far in 2011:
First Half Marathon in Bay Area –  raised $54K
Vibha Vibe events in Atlanta, Milwaukee and Los Angeles.
Lakeside Soire new event in Minnesota

Upcoming new events in 2011:
Art for Heart 2011 in Dallas on October 22 2011
Dream Mile Los Angeles October 22, 2011
Diwali Mela Sacramento October 22, 2011
Yoga conference in Bay Area on November 5th and 6th
Dream Mile Houston November 5, 2011

Some Numbers

• $286,251 – Amount channeled for existing projects this year.
• $56,490 – Amount of corporate donations this year.
• $106,271 – Total funds raised through fund-raising events this year(Based on events account closed so far)
• $229,238 – Donations from all other sources

 Thanks for your generous contributions and support making this an exciting year so far. Keep the momemtum going so we can close the year with huge success.

Research well and Give Generously

That seems to be the motto of Tufaan Entertainment Group, the student’s organization at Northwestern University in Illinois, which donated $10,000 to the Jan Madhyam project in New Delhi, India. Tufaan Entertainment Group organized a national level Bollywood fusion dance competition in March of 2011. Nine dance teams from all over the country participated in this competition and the proceeds from this event were donated to Jan Madhyam a Vibha supported project which strives to help girls with physical and mental disabilities. Recently I had the opportunity to chat with Eisha Wali, one of the members of Tufaan Entertainment Group to learn more about them and the motivation behind this generous gift. Eisha is also an accomplished dancer herself and is currently pursuing her degree in medicine. Here are the some excerpts from this interview.

Me: How did you hear about Vibha and Jan Madhyam project?

Eisha: Right from the beginning of the event planning our goal was to raise money for a charity. We wanted to support an organization which had similar goals as ours, that is to promote the arts, preferably in South Asia. We also wanted to make sure that the money we donated reached the beneficiaries and that the project could be monitored easily. Months before the actual event we found Vibha through their website and communicated with them regarding donating money to a project. After numerous emails and phone calls we were convinced that Vibha was a good organization to entrust our money with.  Among the many projects Vibha supports we chose Jan Madhyam as it promotes the development of disabled girls through the use of different forms of arts. We also spoke with the founder of Jan Madhyam to know more about the project before we made the decision to go with this project.

Me: Have you received any updates from Jan Madhyam?

Eisha: Vibha has been in contact with me to keep me updated. Also one of our team members Ashna visited the project. She met with the staff and participants of Jan Madhyam. While at the project site she spoke to girls with mental and physical disabilities who noted that Jan Madhyam gave them a purpose when nothing else did. Two girls emphasized how Jan Madhyam taught them important life skills in which they began to excel, so that they could stand up on their own two feet and not feel like a burden or responsibility on their parents. Overall this visit was very rewarding and vindicated our decision to support Jan Madhyam. Going forward we would love to get biannual updates from the project so we can see the impact we made through our donations and share it with the rest of the Tufaan Entertainment group which labored so hard to raise the money.

Me: What is your advice to other event organizers who are contemplating on donating to charities?

Eisha: It’s going to be incredible amount of work to organize events of this scale but you need to keep your goal in mind (that is to donate to charity), so you need to constantly remind yourself of the fact that this all for a good cause. Although you might get carried away with organizing the event the best way possible, you need to make sure that you are saving enough money to donate to charity. In spite of the hard work involved, it’s an extremely gratifying experience to be able to raise money for a good cause.

Tufaan Entertainment Group 2011

Pragati ’11 – Day Two – The conference ends and the journey begins

This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India

Sunday, 2^nd October 2011 – Its 8.30 am. The participants and volunteers take their respective positions for next words of wisdom from Ron’s mouth. The theme for the opening session was Social Metrics. “We need to measure results accurately” he said. The 29 projects currently taken up by Vibha in India are nothing up 29 different social experiments – we see what works and do more of it. When we have 5 million lives to change, the importance of measuring the impact of these experiments grows enormously. It’s high time we stop putting band-aids over the root causes of our problems; that part has to be surgically removed. “We want to ensure that whatever we do is replicable and scalable” he added. There’s something about the way he delivers his speech that the message tends to stick. The sessions held yesterday talked in detail about NGO financing. But there was a lot more in store for the day.

Jayshree Joglekar, Director of Door Step School, Pune

Vibha supports many success stories being made every day at various organizations under its umbrella. Prior to the opening session, Sasi introduced everyone to Sajan (Member, HEARDS) who shared his story of freeing their district of menace of child labor. A wonderful achievement indeed. The opening session was chaired jointly by Ms. Jayshree (Door Step Schools, Pune) and Mr. Prasanna (Sikshana). DSS was covered previously in one of our posts. Both the speakers talked about how they measure the impact being created in their respective organizations. While DSS started in 1988 and focuses on construction workers’ children, Sikshana is still an upcoming organization focusing on underprivileged children in rural India. Jayshree is a firm believer of the fact that the limited trained resources at DSS should focus on dealing with children and not data. “We’re not here to fill glasses, but to increase the level of the lake by an inch” she said. She described DSS’s journey in moving from pen and paper based tracking, to MS Excel and then on to developing database and putting in places a MIS system. She highlighted the amount of transparency and accountability such tracking brings into the organizational culture. Not only does this help in impact measurement but also in generating customized reports for donor agencies and launching interventions.  Mr. Prasanna talked about the importance of assessing all the students prior to and post any event. Bringing onto the table the results from a standardized measurement tool like the ASER report designed by Pratham adds more credibility to the results.

Prasanna V.R., CEO of Sikshana makes a point

The second session focused on volunteer recruitment and management, something even the Vibha volunteers were waiting for. The session was lead by Madhukar Kumar, who spearheads the operation of iVolunteer and serves as the Program Head of ICICI Fellows Program. The unique aspect of the entire session was that Madhukar encouraged the participants to come up with a solution to issues regarding necessity of a volunteer, planning volunteer engagement, and supporting and recognizing volunteers. The cross organizational group discussion that ensued made some startling revelations about the intensity of impact volunteers can create. All Vibha volunteers too chipped in with their views on these topics. Ron summed up the session by mentioning the importance of inducting a volunteer into the organization, carrying out requirement analysis and mapping skills to appropriate tasks, setting timelines and clearly defining deliverables. Ms Nilanjana Das of South Asian Fund Raising Group came in for the post lunch session to focus on fund raising strategies for social organizations – the lifeline of any such set up. She talked about resource generations strategies and the importance of setting targets before embarking on the journey. The planning of fund raising should go hand in hand with designing interventions. The discussion revolved around drafting mails, choosing whom to ask for donations, the importance of sending personalized communications to those already in the network and making it all work.

Vibha volunteers at the brainstorming session

The last scheduled session was conducted by Dr Vidula Mhaiskar, from Arvind Gupta Toys foundation. Anyone who had doubts that the participants’ enthusiasm must have died out by the end of the day was in for a surprise. Dr Vidula’s amazing ability to captivate adults by showcasing toys made out of junk livened up the atmosphere. Bernoulli’s theorem, wave theory, electricity and magnetism, optics, capillary action, gravity and many other so called esoteric concepts of our Science textbooks were explained by her using these toys. It made most of us engineers doubt our grasp on the subject. She mentioned how these so called complex theorems could be made interesting by wrapping them up in such cost effective toys. The message was simple – you can’t expect to produce rocket scientists out of a generation which has crammed up the basics of science. It has to be learnt by experimenting and hence visualizing.

Dr Vidula performing an experiment

As we approached the end of this edition of Pragati, Ron re-emphasized the importance sharing and leveraging. The next edition looks forward to including organizations not associated with Vibha as well. When it comes to creating a knowledge dispersive platform, I think learning knows no bound. Vibha volunteers [Mukesh, Ron, Anjeli, Mangal and Haseeb] put in a humorous skit for the participants. On the occasion, Ron also launched the website for Rachana, a Vibha supported project at Pune. The participants plan to visit the sites for Door Step School and Rachana tomorrow to watch and learn. The past two days have been an opportunity to learn, connect, network, be an inspiration and get inspired, forge relationships, work on weaknesses, strengthen the strengths and finally grow and scale the impact.

Ron launching Rachana's website

All of us volunteers would like to thank Ron, Sasi, Sreekant, Deep and Zankhara for being our guiding post. We hope to carry on the good work. Stay tuned for reflections on the event.

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Pragati ’11 – Just for laugh :-) Part 1

This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India

Volunteering, besides giving us exposure to ground breaking work being done at grassroots and a platform to connect to like minded people, also helps us make new friends and enjoy little things that matter. Below are certain light moments shared by volunteers and participants during the first two  days.

Mangal Pandey at full strech - Jai Ho!!

 

Ron going Ramdev Baba way

 

I believe I can fly....

 

Bonding over a cup of tea (People you were supposed to be inside the hall )

 

Yeh dosti.....

 

Mera no.1

 

There's something fishy about the speaker!!

 

Sri Sri Mukesh ji's knowledge transfer session with girls

 

Ron filling up on Indian delicacies.. Beware of the impending paunch Ron

 

This session sure is interest...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

No hard feelings people. Will be putting my pics too (you wish!!). Cheers

Credits – Bhairavi, Priya and Alija, Volunteers with Vibha Pune.

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