“When Endeavor (Prayas) furthers opportunities…..”

Kasim and Arbaz in October, 2011, transitioned from their special class (exclusively taught by a special educator) to Preparatory (taught by regular educators). These children now sit with the normal children and slow learners in that class and study the syllabus designed for Preparatory by Prayas. Both these children are now considered as Slow Learners [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Countdown to Pragati ’11 – Pragati – Surging Ahead by Connecting, Sharing and Leveraging

This series of posts is leading to Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference to be organized by Vibha in Pune, India. As a field of study, delivering education through different public, private and entrepreneurial initiatives in India is well established; as a practice, it has been around even longer. Despite the passage [...]