Internship Opportunity at Anugraha India 2012

Anugraha India is a national NGO ( Not for Profit) , working for marginalized communities since year 2000. Its activities range from health care programmes in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh to research studies in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Assam. Anugraha has covered a wide spectrum of issues in the community development and age care. 

Anugraha India invites application from Domestic & International Interns , who wish to work in India.

We require assistance in following areas:

1. Survey & field work

2. Outreach & mobilisation of senior citizens

3. Report writing, documentation, designing IEC material on ageing

4.Overall pubilicty and resource mobilisation campaign

5. Other areas may be considered , if the interns write to us.

Requirement: 

• The interns should be min graduates, not necessarily in social work but MUST have genuine interest and commitment to work hard & make a difference during their stay with Anugraha.
• They will have to make own arrangements for stay, however we will try to offer any assistance if they apply to us atleast one month prior they intend to join.
• At present we have projects in Delhi, Faridabad (Haryana), Ambala(Haryana) & Dehradun.
• We shall reimburse expenses incurred on TA or any official work assigned by us, as per our guidelines.
• No stipend will be offered.
• A certificate of appreciation & a token memento will be given at the end of their internship.

Those interested may contact: Ms. Arti Panchal at  anugrahaindia@gmail.com and phone at 011-22234969/65651539.

Please note we shall study the application / CV and expression of interest and might have a telecon before finalising.

Know more about Anugraha:

Anugraha is a national NGO, working for marginalized communities since year 2000. Its activities range from health care programmes in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh to research studies in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Assam, Anugraha has covered a wide spectrum of issues in the community development and age care.

Provided medical screening, MMU, medicines to over 15000 patients, 6000 cataract surgeries through Multi speciality Medical camps.  Participation and presentation made in about two -dozen National and International forums. Signed MOU with Senior Citizens Council, Republic of Mauritius. Anugraha implemented extensive initiatives on Slum health care & Environment improvement programme, Bal Shiksha, Bal Arogya, Corporate Social Responsibility programs, AIDS Control & Awareness along with a Project on Development & Empowerment of Adolescents. It collaborated with Ministry of women & child development for Skill development, awareness generation and training of 1000 BPL backward class women in U.P.

As a collaborative partner with Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GOI, it has organised several National seminars, training programs & Consultations.  In 2008, Anugraha in collaboration with Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GoI.  organized a National Consultative Meet on “Safeguarding  Rights of the Elderly in India” in context of the “Maintenance and Welfare of parents & senior citizen Act 2007”, at Delhi for NGOs, Judicial & police officers, State Govt. officials, State Human Rights Commissions of different states.  Trainings on “Management of Dementia” were organized in Uttarakhand & Delhi for NGOs, medical colleges, academic insts., psychologists and care givers. Community Training in Computers for Senior Citizens organized in Delhi, Dehradun, Rajasthan, Punajb & Ahmedapad. Sensitization programmes on Promoting Micro Credit among Elderly in Uttarakhand. As a part of its “active ageing” campaign, it has been celebrating International Day for Older Persons in collaboration with NISD since 2004; organizing walkathons, award ceremonies, Workshop on Madrid Plan and Mega Cultural Events with Padma awardees in Delhi.

As member of State Council for older persons, Govt. of Delhi NCT, Anugraha formulated the “State Policy on older persons”. In its Day Care & Recreation Center, supported by Govt. of Delhi NCT Delhi, Anugraha is running e-learning and computer center, library, counselling, spiritual, social support & health programs for senior citizens. Anugraha is a zonal chairperson of Indian society for Universities of Third age (U3A) and has forged effective partnerships with Dept. of social welfare, Govt. of Delhi, Delhi Police, Academic institutions and sponsored by corporate bodies- SRS Society for seniors, Haryana & ONGC, NTPC, OIL, SCOPE etc.  An internationally renowned agency on age care it has worked with International Collaborators like UNFPA, UN information center, UNESCAP, FAO, Southern Cross Care, Australia & International Federation on Ageing, Canada. 

Anugraha is headed by a qualified social gerontologist, doctorate in ageing & technical expert. It has trained staff in social work, educationists and counselors who manages their Elderly day care center and other activities. Many retired persons are engaged with Anugraha as counselors, care givers, trainers and social workers.

Address:

Anugraha India , DR.AABHA CHAUDHARY - Founder Secretary

Head office :   B-33, Arya Nagar Apts.,91, I. P. Extension, Patparganj, Delhi – 110092,

Ph. 011-22726632

Field Office : Dehradun, Uttaranchal, Rae Bareli, U.P., Bharuch, Gujarat.

Website :  http://www.anugrahaindia.net/

Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.

Short Film Competition on Mental Health , WIN $1,000 cash prize

 

Winning filmmaker to receive $1,000 cash prize and have work featured in education and advocacy work around the country.

Open call to submit film projects, up to 5 minutes in length, of any genre, using mental health as the point of interest. Film topics may either be interpretive of mental health, or address it directly.

Art With Impact views the short film as an important art form and springboard for young talent. As such, we do not place any formal restrictions on submissions, and will consider all genres and types of short films, including submissions utilizing original footage, shared footage, photo stills, music, essays, screenplays, original art work and more.

All submissions are subject to Art With Impact's Mutual Respect Policies.

There is no fee for submissions.

Submission Guidelines

●     Submissions must be five minutes or less. Films longer than five (5) minutes will not be considered.

●     Submissions must be added to the Mental Health Short FIlm group on Vimeo and the URL for the video must be included in the Entry Form. Only submissions with complete entry forms (including Vimeo URL) will be considered.

●     Any participant may submit more than one project, and up to three. A separate Entry Form must be completed for each submission.

●     Submissions will be judged by a panel of guest filmmakers and Art With Impact board members. User comments / audience popularity may be taken into consideration in the final selection but will not determine the winner.

●     Jurors who are also filmmakers may submit work, but only during months in which they are not serving as a juror for the competition.

●     Past winners are required to wait at least one year before re-submitting to the competition.

●     Filmmaker agrees that all submitted films may be used by Art With Impact for educational and outreach activities and the winning film may be used by Art With Impact and affiliated organizations in any relevant programming in perpetuity.

Eric Roache : eric@artwithimpact.org
Art With Impact Connects Film With Action 

http://www.artwithimpact.org/awi/short-film-competition-mental-health 

 


 

Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.

Bright minds and Dark Angels

Being a 5-pointer proves to be too much for these bright students and they fail to deal with the pressure.

Dad – sorry I couldn't be a better son to you… all you asked was my betterment of my career and future and I couldn't give it to you… I have failed you dad and I am so sorry about it. I cannot show my face to you

Mom – Sorry mom, I really did love you more than dad….

I was weak I thought I could become strong but I was weak, I was so so so weak the fault is my own. The fault is my own. Hope something good happens with my death. Firestallion has left the building…

I wish to donate my eyes and internal organs…. At least somebody can be benefitted with my death.

In another 2 min it will be 3:13 both my fav numbers. awesome time to die 

These were Nitin Kumar Reddy's last words in an email he sent to his father. The final-year M.Tech student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room after he got a semester extension.

Straight out of Raju Hirani's blockbuster 3 Idiots, Nitin aka Firestallion aka Swamy was on the verge of completing his final-year project, but could not meet the deadline. Unable to face the embarrassment of not graduating with his batch, he “left the building”.

'' I had told him not to worry; I would sort it out,'' says Nitin's father, Lakshmana Moorthy, who was to land in Chennai by the first flight the next morning. “I had left my office to attend a meeting. I got a call telling me that Nitin had sent a disturbing email. By the time my friend read out the email, he was gone.”

The pressure cooker description given by the media certainly does not go with the IIT Madras campus, located within a 620-acre natural forest with a magnificent lake and a wide range of flora and fauna.

However, in the last three years, the campus has witnessed six suicides—the highest number across IITs. This year eight IITians killed themselves across India, and IIT Madras leads this list, too, with two students, both from the mechanical engineering department, killing themselves.

In February, V. Anoop, 25, a final-year M.Tech student at IIT Madras, hanged himself in his hostel room, as he could not complete his course in time.

His father, Vijay Kumar, says Anoop had trouble with his guide, who “wasn't happy that Anoop did not consult him enough”. Anoop had requested a change, and it was granted. “His new guide had assured him that he would complete the project in time…. But we got a letter from the institute asking us to re-register. I got a call that midnight that he was gone,” he recalls.

And more recently, in September, B. Gowri Shankar, a second-year postgraduate student at IIT Madras was found dead in his room. It is suspected to be a case of suicide, though forensic experts are yet to confirm it.

According Nitin's friends, he had finished the major part of his project: simulation. “He had trouble fixing the engine,” they recall. “He asked his guide for help. He was told to approach the lab technicians, but they apparently were unable to help. Nitin tried fixing it himself, which did not happen. Finally on the day when he had to submit the thesis, the engine wasn't ready.”

And that meant Nitin had to repeat a semester. His plum placement plans bid him goodbye, and he bid goodbye to life.

Students who knew Nitin say he had initially faltered with his time-management. “His project guide should have noticed this and helped him fast-track his work,” says a student. “Indeed, many professors fail to pay enough attention to projects, as they are busy with researchers under them.”

While extensions pushed Anoop and Nitin to the extreme, the latest IITian to give up on life—Mehtab Ahmed, a first year student in IIT Kanpur—had been on campus just for a couple of months. The youngest in his family, Ahmed hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his hostel room on September 22.

The reasons being cited were many, including love affair and homesickness. The end result, however, was scrawled across the wall of his room in pencil: “I am tired of IIT-Kanpur.” This was the ninth suicide in IIT Kanpur in five years. 

Concerned about the spike in the number of students killing themselves, the IIT Council headed by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has recommended setting up of a task force—consisting of teachers, parents and students—to study the issue.

Eight suicides across India in an annual combined batch of 10,000 might seem, as one professor in IIT Madras put it famously, “statistically unimportant''. But when the country's brightest students decide to end their lives, it does call for, if nothing, introspection.

Life@IIT

What makes these brilliant students crack? Boman Irani as the heartless professor may have been the chief reason for many students to give up in 3 Idiots, but in real life, it is much more complicated.

And it is not that IITs are like Nazi camps. Majority of the graduates say IIT was the best part of their lives. Even current students agree: “It is fun; the pressure is part of it,” says an IIT Madras B.Tech student. “We booze once in a while, we have ‘unofficial' inter-hostel competitions, and we have our own share of masti, besides plenty of sports and recreational facilities.”

Read in Detail: The Week | Bright minds and Dark Angels

Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.

Free culture for a free society

On January 31, 2011, there was an unusual meeting at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala. The participants were a group of young people, some of them activists of the Free Software movement in Kerala, people who were contributing to free software or to localising free software in Malayalam. Some were interested in animation, and one or two of them had experience in 3D animation. What brought this group together was a project that had been launched a few months earlier. The project was to create a 3D animation movie as a community effort using Blender and other free software. 

Blender is a piece of software for 3D modelling, animation and non-linear editing. Proprietary software to begin with, when the company found the going tough it was taken over by a group that included its developers and users who liked the software. They released it under the GNU General Public Licence, which made it free software that anyone could download and use. 

The Blender Foundation that was created to maintain the software subsequently got animators together to create three short animation films -- Elephant's Dream, Big Buck Bunny,and Sintel -- that are available for anyone to download. 

While the objective of the Blender Foundation was to demonstrate the software’s capabilities, the objective of the young enthusiasts who got together in Calicut (now known as Kozhikode) was to show that cultural products like films can be created by a community and distributed freely -- something that’s contrary to the existing paradigm of culture being viewed as an industry and a means to making profit. The project is called ‘Chamba’, following the practice started by the Blender Foundation of naming their free movie projects after fruits. It was started at the suggestion of a young veteran of free software, Praveen, who also gave it its name. Details of the project can be found at http://www.chambaproject.in.

Readers may wonder about the purpose of such an exercise. Creating a movie involves a lot of effort by a number of people, expertise, and monetary investment. If the product is distributed free, how will the money be recovered? And with little chance of the money being recovered, who is going to invest in the first place?

It’s understandable for people to consider the idea wildly Utopian. But such ideas are a sign of the changing times. We are in an age when products that used to be made by companies in pursuit of profit are increasingly being created by groups of individuals for the fun of it. Free Software and Wikipedia are very good examples.

Read in detail:  http://infochangeindia.org/technology/analysis/free-culture-for-a-free-society.html

Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.

Distance Learning Diploma in Social Entrepreneurship (DSE)

The Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & CSR at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) has launched its unique program for training and developing social entrepreneurs. 

You will agree that we need more and more social entrepreneurs who can bring positive changes in the lives of the poor people whose daily income is less than one dollar a day.  Purpose of this DSE is to train potential social entrepreneurs who can set-up for-profit, self-sustainable social businesses anywhere in the world.

This course is for anybody who wish to change the world because they think that they can.

DSE is unique course offering various features like: Social business opportunity identification, practical four-week field work as a volunteer in for-profit social enterprise (in your respective location/ region) and social business plan preparation, etc.

NGOs/ PVOs can sponsor their employees to start separate for-profit social businesses to address social issues with measurable social impact. 

I request you to go through the brochure which is attached herewith and if you are interested kindly download the application form from our website www.ediindia.org , and send it along with demand draft of Rs.7721/- (for international participant US$772 only) and send us immediately.  EDI offers this course twice in a year in every October and April. 

You are most welcome to call me or send email for any further information if you need in this regards. 

Let us together change the world.

Thanking you

With regards,

Ajay Dixit
Sr. Faculty
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
P.O. Bhat 382 428- Dist. Gandhinagar -Gujarat-India
Mobile:09925008328; Phone:  +91 79 23969163, 161, 159; Fax: +91 79 23969164
Email: dse@ediindia.org; Website: www.ediindia.org
Skype: ajaydixit4

Forget yourself for others, and others will never forget you.