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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, 2nd 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 [...]

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 [...]

Pragati ’11 – Day One – Off we go!!

This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India.  Saturday, 1st October 2011 – The stage was set. The crowd was buzzing with excitement. Ron, as charged up as ever, did more to warm everybody up than probably breakfast could. [...]

Pragati ’11 – Day Zero – Breaking the ice

This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India.  Friday, 30th Sep 2011 – “This is a stage for you to speak, and everyone else to listen and learn” stated Ron Victor (President, Vibha India), as he welcomed over 50 [...]