INDIA VOLUNTEER BOOK 2019

Stories of Inspiration

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CONTENTS

1. India Volunteer

2. India Volunteer Day

3. India Volunteer Awards

4. India Volunteer Book

5. About Integrate Volunteers Network (IVN)

6. Shubhro Roy, Mentor, India Volunteer

7. Manoj Kumar Dash, India Volunteer, Founder & CEO, IVN

8. Stories of Inspiraton – India Volunteer

1. IVN-IVDIVA003 – Farah Zaidee - Kashmir

2. IVN-IVDIVA005 – K G Mathaikutty - Kerala

3. IVN-IVDIVA006 – Dr Anurag Mishra - Delhi

4. IVN-IVDIVA009 – Rambabu Sharma – Bihar

5. IVN-IVDIVA011 – Krishna Kumar Gupta – Delhi

6. IVN-IVDIVA015 – Prerna Prasad – Uttar Pradesh

7. IVN-IVDIVA017 – JAFEESH. J – Kerala

8. IVN-IVDIVA022 – Hanika Arora – Andhra Pradesh

9. IVN-IVDIVA032 – Apoorv Om - Delhi

10. IVN-IVDIVA033 – Angrej Singh – Punjab

11. IVN-IVDIVA034 – Tirtha Prasad Saikia - Assam

12. IVN-IVDIVA035 – Braj shrivastava - Bihar

13. IVN-IVDIVA037 – Nivritti Walkikar – Gujarat

14. IVN-IVDIVA040 – Tej Kumar Thapa – West Bengal

15. IVN-IVDIVA042 – Malhar Kalambe - Maharashtra

16. IVN-IVDIVA046 – Umesh Pansari - Madhya Pradesh [email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 2 17. IVN-IVDIVA049 – Arvind Agrawal - Delhi

18. IVN-IVDIVA052 – Dr Shubhank singh – Hayrana

19. IVN-IVDIVA053 – Ashish Kumar – Hayrana

20. IVN-IVDIVA059 – Sathya N Natarajan – Maharashtra

21. IVN-IVDIVA061 – Swati Khurana – Delhi

22. IVN-IVDIVA062 – Amar jeet singh – Himachal Pradesh

23. IVN-IVDIVA064 – P Sreenivasa rao – Telengana

24. IVN-IVDIVA065 – Megha Bhatia – Delhi

25. IVN-IVDIVA067 – Priya Dalvi – Goa

26. IVN-IVDIVA070 – Thota sudha rani – Andhra Pradesh

27. IVN-IVDIVA076 – Ambuj kumar Shrivastava - Bihar

28. IVN-IVDIVA078 – Salma Memon – Maharashtra

29. IVN-IVDIVA079 – Sachin Vajpayee – Delhi

30. IVN-IVDIVA082 – Kushma DEVI – Himachal Pradesh

31. IVN-IVDIVA083 – Vanya Singh - Delhi

32. IVN-IVDIVA085 – Tanuj TJ – Uttar Pradesh

33. IVN-IVDIVA090 – Itinderpalsingh bali – Kashmir

34. IVN-IVDIVA0092 – Bhavreen Kandhari - Meghalaya

35. IVN-IVDIVA0108 – Alzubair Saiyed - Gujarat

36. IVN-IVDIVA0111 – Dipti R Bhadoriya – Delhi

37. IVN-IVDIVA0115 – Mithila Malhotra – Odisha

9. Summary of India Volunteer Day 2019 & IVAwards2019

10. India Volunteer Drafting team members

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Responsibility Chart of Drafting committee Members

Aniruddha: 2 || Parul : 7 || Monika: 7 || Biswajit: 2 || Vidhi: 6|| Nasreen: 6 || Megha: 6 || Nigam Sir: 1

Team Coordinator : Braj Shrivastav, Team Leader : Manoj Dash, Team Mentor: Shubhro Roy

1. IVN-IVDIVA006 – Dr Anurag Mishra – Delhi Aniruddha Dey Story Received 2. IVN-IVDIVA009 – Rambabu Sharma – Bihar Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 3. IVN-IVDIVA032 – Apoorv Om - Delhi Parul Rajhans Story Received 4. IVN-IVDIVA079 – Sachin Vajpayee – Delhi Monika Ingudam Story Received 5. IVN-IVDIVA065 – Megha Bhatia – Delhi Megha Paridhi Story Received 6. IVN-IVDIVA083 – Vanya Singh – Meghalaya Nasreen Story Received 7. IVN-IVDIVA067 – Priya Dalvi – Goa Monika Ingudam Story Received 8. IVN-IVDIVA059 – Sathya N Natarajan – Maharashtra Nasreen Story Received 9. IVN-IVDIVA003 – Farah Zaidee – Kashmir Parul Rajhans Story Received 10. IVN-IVDIVA005 – K G Mathaikutty – Kerla Parul Rajhans Story Received 11. IVN-IVDIVA011 – Krishna Kumar Gupta – Delhi Parul Rajhans Story Received 12. IVN-IVDIVA015 – Prerna Prasad – UP Parul Rajhans Story Received 13. IVN-IVDIVA017 – JAFEESH. J – Kerala Parul Rajhans Story Received 14. IVN-IVDIVA034 – Tirtha Prasad Saikia – Assam Monika Ingudam Story Received 15. IVN-IVDIVA035 – Braj shrivastava – Bihar Shiv Kumar Nigam Story Received 16. IVN-IVDIVA037 – Rameshwar Walkikar – Gujarat Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 17. IVN-IVDIVA040 – Tej Kumar Thapa – WB Nasreen Story Received 18. IVN-IVDIVA042 – Malhar Kalambe – Maharashtra Biswajit Mohanty Story Received 19. IVN-IVDIVA046 – Umesh Pansari - MP Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 20. IVN-IVDIVA052 – Dr Shubhank singh – Hayrana Megha Paridhi Story Received 21. IVN-IVDIVA053 – Ashish Kumar – Hayrana Biswajit Mohanty Story Received 22. IVN-IVDIVA049 – Arvind Agrawal – Delhi Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 23. IVN-IVDIVA061 – Swati Khurana – Delhi Megha Paridhi Story Received 24. IVN-IVDIVA076 – Ambuj kumar Shrivastava – Bihar Aniruddha Dey Story Received 25. IVN-IVDIVA078 – Salma Memon – Maharashtra Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 26. IVN-IVDIVA085 – Tanuj TJ – UP Nasreen Story Received 27. IVN-IVDIVA090 – Itinderpalsingh bali – Kashmir Vidhi S. Palsapure Story Received 28. IVN-IVDIVA0108 – Alzubair Saiyed – Gugarat Nasreen Story Received 29. IVN-IVDIVA070 – Thota sudha rani – AP Monika Ingudam Story Received 30. IVN-IVDIVA062 – Amar jeet singh – HP Shiv Kumar Nigam Story Received 31. IVN-IVDIVA022 – Hanika Arora – AP Parul Rajhans Story Received 32. IVN-IVDIVA033 – Angrej Singh – Punjab Monika Ingudam Story Received 33. IVN-IVDIVA082 – Kushma DEVI – HP Nasreen Story Received 34. IVN-IVDIVA064 – P Sreenivasa rao – Telengana Monika Ingudam Story Received 35. IVN-IVDIVA0111 – Dipti R Bhadoriya – Delhi Megha Paridhi Story Received 36. IVN-IVDIVA0115 – Mithila Malhotra – Delhi Megha Paridhi Story Received 37. IVN-IVDIVA0092 – Bhavreen Kandhari Megha Paridhi

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 4 Shubhro Roy, Mentor, India Volunteer Integrated Volunteer Network (IVN) He is a Post Graduate in English Literature from Delhi University and Diploma Holder in Journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi. He started his social work career as a young National Service Scheme (NSS) Volunteer and then later on went to join the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India as a founder employee where he spent almost two decades working in different capacities with the underprivileged masses especially urban and rural youths. He also took up many projects of CYSD before he moved on to Delhi to form and look after the think tank National Social Watch and Wada Na Todo Abhiyan Campaign (Keep Your Promises). Presently he is mentoring many new startups and organizations like Daan Utsav The Joy of Giving Week, Zestreet, Shades of Happiness, Indian Research Academy, Build India Group (BIG), Odisha Development Forum (ODF), Centre for Labour Studies (CLS), Centre for Social Change (CSC), Bharat Leadership Festival (BLF), Save Child Beggar (SCB), Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN), DIYA, Divya Yuva Manch, OSCAR Consultancy and Project 100 to name a few. He is also on the board of Zest, The Civil Society, Interfaith Foundation of India and Global Youth Peace Committee (GYPC) organizations and Advisor, International Youth Committee (IYC) and Bharat Leadership Festival (BLF). He has travelled a few overseas countries like Nepal, Colombo and Malaysia for Youth Work. He is a good communicator, networker and crisis manager with strong interpersonal skills. Lastly he has been awarded with the following Awards: India Peace Prize by International Youth Committee in February 2018, Ignited Associate Award by Global Youth Peace Committee in July 2018, Lifetime Achievement Award by Bharat Leadership in September 2018, Appreciation Certificate by International Youth Committee in November 2018 & 2019, Ehsaas e Hind Award by Navya Sarjana in August 2019 and Global Gandhi Peace Award by Khwab Foundation in October 2019.

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 5 Manoj Kumar Dash, India Volunteer, CEO, Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN), New Delhi Over 20 years of rich experience in sustainable development & management of social issues, particularly in Disaster Management, DRR, Humanitarian Response, Climate Change, Volunteering and Information Technology with organisations like Government, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNV, PCI India, Centurion University, Sphere India, RedR, CAF India, & Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN). Presently leading IVN and in Advisory capacity to national and global platforms for volunteer, disaster management & sustainable development. With his vast experience of 40+ disaster situations in coordination, response and rebuilding expertise for the disaster affected communities in various capacities, has established his place at global platforms like Global Inclusive Disaster Management Committee, Grand Bargain, Chatter 4 Change, International Youth Development Committee, Global Youth Peace Committee, and Global Environmental Peace Circle. He is the founder of Mission #IndiaVolunteer which has brought a revolution in-between the volunteers of India. India Volunteer Day, India Volunteer Book, India Volunteer Mobile Application & India Volunteer Awards are initiatives to Identify, Integrate & Intensify the voluntary power of India. He himself has volunteered to many, one of them was to 1st Ariel Assessment of Fani Cyclone affected areas of Puri, Odisha. He has presented the India Volunteer a model for Resilience at Iran, also participated to Asian regional dialog on Localisation at Jakarta, Indonesia. He has worked with various State authorities (SDMA) and government in planning, designing and implementation of Disaster Risk Management & Disaster Risk Reduction programs to build a resilient, safer & sustainable communities. He has been involved in more than 40+ disaster emergency coordination, responses, rehabilitation & recovery exercises in different disaster situations such as flood, cyclone, tsunami, drought, earthquake and landslides at Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram, Uttrakhand & Bihar. He has also international experience in Sri Lanka & Nepal Humanitarian situations. He has been actively involved in policy, research, advocacy, module development and designing early warning systems with state government of Bihar & Odisha. He has led various programs for Sphere India and IAG collaborative platforms in different capacity for building up Inter Agency Platforms. He has hands on experience in public health, WASH, shelter, livelihood, Skill, education & protection issues and led the Joint Rapid Need Assessments for 18 disasters, in active coordination with more than 50 Humanitarian Actors. Through his passion he has established a network of India Volunteers across pan India to promote the engagement of volunteers in Humanitarian situation and building environmental resilience, under the IVN platform. He has varied experience of working with Corporate, Academia, Government, Civil Society, UNV (Volunteering) & UN Agencies.

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Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN) is a volunteer’s network in India which aims to secure 2 human hours of contribution per volunteer per week and 100 Human Hours per volunteer per Year, to be contributed towards 5 core commitments i.e. Environment, Pollution, Health, Energy, Peace & Harmony through participation from individuals and organizations.

To build on this agenda, a group of professionals, with over 400 years of combined experience between them, have come together to establish IVN. A registered not for profit, IVN is in the process of building resilience through a pan India network of India Volunteers (IVs), who are committed towards the nation’s prospective development. IVN with it’s integrated strength takes up capacity building, Knowledge, research & evaluations and pioneer in finding Integrated Sustainable Development Solutions on Disaster Response & Risk Reduction, Environment & Renewable Energy. IVN network ensures cross communication, collection & dissemination of knowledge for building sustainable and resilient ecosystem. Integrated Sustainable Development Solutions are the flagship services supported for resilient environment, disaster preparedness & humanitarian response, climate change, disaster risk reduction & SDG Goals.

Vision: A society where local human potential is channelised within integrated groups of volunteers with self driven and committed voluntary action for nation building

Mission: To Identify, Integrated and Intensify voluntary energy & power of the nation towards promoting resilient ecosystem.

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Volunteers who are committed to save and help the Nation Building – India Volunteer

India Volunteers (IV) is the nucleus of IVN Family, who are known for their committed contribution of voluntary Human Hours of services towards prospective nation building process. IV commits 2 Human Hours of voluntary services per week, 100 Human Hour per year & being recognised for respecting the five core commitments in bringing the change that they want to see a resilient society.

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INDIA VOLUNTEER DAY || 13 JANUARY 2020

India volunteer day is observed & celebrated on 13th of January annually by IVN Family members, to recall our core commitments as a volunteer for India. This day is dedicated to all India volunteer who have been voluntarily contributing to help and save the prospective sustainable development of the country to make a resilient India. This year we have initiated the Version 2 of the India Volunteer Awards (#IVAwards2020).

India Volunteer Award (Version 2) is targeted to be held on India Volunteer Day – 13 January 2020 at New Delhi, India to Identify, Integrate and Intensify the voluntary energy of India. The global changes in the political, economic and development landscapes have developed the need for more voluntary hands joining in the implementation of global agendas concerning people, planet, and peace, requiring public and private partnerships.

Being a volunteer requires self-determination and self-respect to serve the cause from your heart. If you have been voluntarily contributing to the society for improving the resilience or promoting for a good cause you can describe your experience that illustrates your voluntary leadership. 13th January as India Volunteers Day - Why

5th December is observed as International Volunteers Day, there is no India Volunteers Day as of now. We need to have a Day dedicated to all volunteers of India, who can celebrate together to take pride on volunteering.

To create change, it must also change mindsets. Every India Volunteer is committed to the country’s development with their own committed contribution of Human Hours who shares through experiential learning, leadership, actions and commitments.

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India Volunteer is an initiative to mobilize the voluntary power of India towards sustainable development goals. This aims to integrate volunteers from Government, PSU, Corporate, Network, NGOs, Academic, rural & Urban.

In order to identify, integrate and intensify leadership through skill and knowledge, the young volunteers of India need to be recognized and volunteering model should be encouraged for promoting sustainability and resilience actions.

INDIA VOLUNTEERS DAY (#IVD) Objectives

 To identify, integrate & intensify the Volunteering energy of India  National recognition to volunteer’s contributing towards a sustainable society  To motivate volunteerism in building an improved quality of life & resilient India  Documenting the exemplary voluntary actions through India Volunteer Book  To take commitments from volunteers for nation building process.

HIGHLIGHTS of India Volunteers Day 2020

 Inauguration by eminent guest  Brief presentation on IVN & India Volunteer – A resilient model  Presentation of different volunteering models  Panel Discussion, Integrating the voluntary energy of India  Announcement of India Volunteer Book – Version 2  Cultural Show by Young India Volunteers  India Volunteers Awards

WHY India Volunteer Award

India Volunteer Award is pleased to inform you that we wish to nominate your venture/entity to showcase at India Volunteer Award with your enthusiastic volunteers. Every wall is built with brick similarly every entity is built with its employees or volunteers who come up with great ideas and take steps to grow an organisation. To appreciate their small steps every entity gives rewards and certification. With a similar concept but at a bigger level, India Volunteer Award wants to appreciate individual from your entity at National level. We request you to promote our initiative to make a better India and ask fellow volunteers for this award.

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India Volunteer Awards (#IVAwards) is a national award, aimed to identify, connect, promote and showcase the exemplary voluntary contributions being made by volunteers towards nation building. The most inspiring stories will be part of India Volunteer Book: Stories of inspiration. Click here for further details: https://www.facebook.com/events/431572104213825/ #IVAwards2020 is categorized in 3 categories:

Lifetime Male ( Category I- Female (Category Inclusion* Video Message Achievment III) IV-VI) (Category VII-IX) (Category - X) (Category - XI)

5-18 5-18 5-18 All Age Years Years Years Group

19-49 19-49 19-49 Years Years Years

50+ 50+ 50+ Years Years Years

 LGBTQ Community and Divyang

Total 11 inspirational volunteering stories was facilitated at the national level by selecting one inspirational story from each category for the India Volunteer Award - 2020 on 13th January 2020 at New Delhi, India.

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Flashback from 1st India Volunteers Day & #IVAwards, 13th January 2019. Integrated Volunteers Network observed 13th January 2019 as 1st India Volunteers Day at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, marking a new dawn in the aspect and ethics of volunteerism in India. This 1st India Volunteers Day was made unique and remarkable with recognition to 6 distinguished volunteers for their voluntary contribution in their respective fields with 1st India Volunteer Awards. The day was kicked off with an inspirational musical presentation by volunteers from Save Child Beggars, NSS, Deshbandhu College & India Volunteers. The inauguration ceremony was led by the Chief Guest Prof. Madan Mohan Verma, President, Interfaith Foundation of India; Shubhro Roy, Mentor IVN, Manoj Dash, CEO IVN, Guest of Honour Prof. Vinod Menon, Founder Member NDMA; Special Guest of Honour Vikas Ahlawat, DANICS; Guest of Honour VP Mahawar, Former Director ONGC; Guest of Honour Dr Geetanjali Kaushik, Director MahaParivesh; Guest of Honour Professor Biswajit Mohanty, Deshbandhu College; Special Guest, Shiv Kumar Nigam, Deputy Director (OL), Ministry of Electronics & IT; Guest of Honour D Kartikay, DANICS, ADM South. The inauguration was marked with plantation, launch of India Volunteer Mobile Application and release of India Volunteers – Stories of Inspiration Book. Representatives from government, nongovernment, NCC, NSS, Network, corporate sector as well as individual change makers made their presence felt through their innovative presentation, influencing and thought provoking deliveries, and inspirational suggestions. Besides, two panel discussions involving participants from a mixed Diaspora, the evening was mesmerized by regional cultural presentation from an inclusive plethora of artists. Volunteers from Deshbandhu College, Delhi University, NSS volunteers, NCC, academic, corporate & social institutions had their cultural presentations that revolve around the theme of voluntarism, patriotism and selfless service. These presentations invoked feelings of equality, inclusion and social bonding. Active participation of more than 250 representatives of NSS and cadets of NCC made the event memorable. Towards the end of the day, 6 awardees, selected from among 115 entries received from all over India, were recognized with INDIA VOLUNTEER AWARD for their voluntary spirit and actions. With

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 12 this, IVN laid down the foundation for a never-ending chain of recognition to the voluntary humane activities in days to come. The entire initiative brought 29 partnerships from all walks of life, to think, identify, connect, integrate and strengthen volunteerism towards sustainability and resilient India. This initiative was lauded by one and all. Special Thanks to all partners.

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INDIA VOLUNTEER BOOK 2019

To Identify, Integrate & Intensify Volunteer Power of India

The Untold Stories: Inspirations behind Indian Volunteerism “Mission India Volunteer”

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 14 Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA003 Farah Zaidee Jammu & Kashmir

FARHA ZAIDEE a 24 year Social/Women Rights Activist, born in district Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir has been working to Identify and address the various problems faced by women and girls of Jammu & Kashmir and developing immediate actions to solve their problems. She has been raising awareness about the rights of women and advocating for their equal rights & participation across all fields and therefore promoting their social and economic dignity. From last 3 years she has been working as a VOLUNTEER with ELFA International (non-profit INGO), actively working on a host of issues faced by women alongside with different activities ranging from Child Safety & Protection to Environmental Education in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2017, she actively worked for addressing the grave issue of BRAID CHOPPING in Jammu and Kashmir by organising meetings with lawyers, teachers, students and social activists and drafted immediate measures to stop Braid Chopping in Jammu and Kashmir, she was the first girl to address this issue and with her tireless efforts the problem completely vanished from state. Farha Zaidee organized a huge campaign on OVERCROWDING AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF GIRLS IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT and involved city Traffic Department to address the issue, within a few days the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir issued an order to SSP traffic for releasing a special squad to check overcrowding and harassment in public transport. In the month of February only as many as 116 mini buses were seized in the charge of overcrowding. She co-facilitated a grand event –celebration of International Day for Women on 8th March, 2018 with a localized theme NO TO OVERCROWDING NO TO HARASSMENT in the famous Tagore Hall of Srinagar District which was attended by SSP Traffic City Srinagar and Chairperson Jammu and Kashmir Women’s Commission and 100’s of social activists. Recently she has done a detailed study on Menstrual Health Management in 4 districts of Jammu & Kashmir and the findings of the report were surprising as well as depressing, she is committed to address the issues found during the study, she together with ELFA INTERNATIONAL has already distributed free sanitary pads to 1000’s of young girls and is planning to distribute free re-usable sanitary pads among the rural girls of Jammu & Kashmir. Farha Zaidee has organized many workshops for school children on Child Safety & Protection, raising awareness among these children about molestation, harassment, difference between a good touch and a bad touch, so far she has raised awareness among 1000’s of children of Jammu & Kashmir through workshops, activities, social networks and radio talks, she has talked on radio several times about these issues. During a Global Leadership Program organized by ELFA International Farha was instrumental in organizing major cleaning drives of famous Dal Lake of Srinagar City, she also attend this 12 day program and contributed actively throughout the program especially during the 4 day Gender Dialogue Sessions

Farha Zaidee has been tirelessly working on the issues faced by women and children of Jammu & Kashmir, she has been advocating for the rights of women and children at different forums including state, national and international level events, besides her direct interventions she also raises awareness among masses through her well written poetry.

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After his regular professional services with Lutheran World Federation, Geneva in the field of disaster management and social services outside Kerala and India, Mr. Mathaikutty has been extending his social responsibility as a professional volunteer in his home state Kerala since 2016. The following are some of the highlights of his voluntary engagements:

He has chosen to associate with United Religions Initiative (URI), promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and harmony to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living being. He has opted to become a part of India’s Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN) representing the state of Kerala and has extended support to organize a team for Post Distribution Monitoring Service by IVN team in early 2019.

Under the banner of URI, he is extending his voluntary engagements. Following are some of the main highlights:  Disaster Management, being his specialized professional competence for the past 40 years, he has initiated awareness campaigns in Kerala on Community Preparedness for Disaster Risks Reduction.  His successful engagement in Community Based Disaster Preparedness activities in the state of Orissa, he was able to convince the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) to be associated in conducting Training workshops and conferences on Disaster Risks Reduction for the NGOs and government officials and also communities at risks.  He has been providing awareness classes on Preparedness in Schools.  After the historic floods in Kerala he has volunteered to mobilise human resource and materials support to the flood affected families:  The activities include Psycho Social care, Need Assessment, providing food and non food family survival relief kits to over 5000 families, 35 units of sewing machine for Livelihood restoration to those families, who lost in the floods their sewing machines, installation of forty eight units of Water Treatment Plants in the needy communities.  In November 2019, he has organized a South India Conference on Community Based Disaster Preparedness for Risk Reduction under the banner of (URI) and its Cooperation Circle unit - Cosmic Community Centre, a voluntary local Non Government organization, in which he is the honorary Secretary.  He has also volunteered to organize Peace Rally during the Interfaith Harmony Week in February 2019 and United Nation’s International Day of Peace in September 2019 involving several schools in Kerala.  He has volunteered in conducting the International Holy Books Conference in April, 2019 in Malaysia.  He has also extended support in mobilizing people representing from the cross section of religious people from different states of South India for an interfaith Assembly in Varanasi (U.P).  Mr. Mathaikutty is also voluntarily engaged in the movement of “One Billion Youth for Peace” visiting schools, colleges and institutions motivating the authorities, teachers and students in taking Peace pledges.  He is also extending his voluntary services in conducting a “Students Summit of Religions on Climate Justice” during 9-12 January 2020.

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 16 Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA006 Dr Anurag Mishra Delhi

Dr Anurag Mishra, a surgeon by profession working as Professor at Maulana Azad medical College. Since his student days he engaged in active volunteering. His core area of interest was Disaster management and preparedness. During his college days he was one of the founding members of NGO “Doctors For You” which is still one of the prime organisation providing expert intervention in disaster response and preparedness in health sector. After finishing his formal education he realised his interest is in teaching and he is very much able to motivate and shape the young medical students. Realising his qualities he joined Maulana Azad Medical College as Professor. There also he continued working as volunteer in various roles in areas of disaster health, rural health, trainings, leadership among students, basic life support trainings and many more. After spending about 10 years as volunteer with extensive work in field and training in various workshop, he shifted his attention into motivating youngsters into volunteering and leadership. He founded “Gurukool” at MAMC which is working in this regards. Some of his works are outlined as below.  Organised Various workshops and training in disaster management and trauma management for doctors, nurses and paramedics training around 2000 personals across Assam, Uttarakhand, J and K  Organised workshops for schools (for underprivileged students) on health and first aid across UP, Delhi and Haryana  Part of team for disaster relief and rehab during Uttarakhand Landslides 2013, Assam ethnic violence, J and K floods 2014 and Nepal Earthquake 2015  Volunteering for DFY-USA (Trisha) which provides assistance for under-privileged kids with heart problem in their treatment (financial, medical and otherwise). Till now we have helped 250+ kids in their fight against the deadly heart conditions, who otherwise could not have survived the disease.  Founder of GURUKOOL in Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, which is working to encourage humanitarian values in medical curriculum. Through Gurukool we promote values like leadership, communication skill, humanitarian skills etc in medical students.  Established initiative “DOST” which is working of reducing mental stress and drug menace in campus of MAMC.  Forerunner in a unique program named “MASHAAL” which trains young doctors into leadership. The Program is recognised by American College of Surgeons.  Organised medical and surgical camps in Rewari, Mukteshwar and Gardchiroli under intitiative “DOCS- Doctors on community services”  Part of Several tobacco awareness program including 30 day long Mumbai to Delhi Auto rickshaw rally in 2010.  National Trainer for MISP, program directed at better disaster management for women.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA009 Rambabu Sharma Bihar

To impart skills and holistic education so every individual can become self-reliant, there would no need of asking for help if our youth themselves are equipped with the skill to earn their living.

I have opened two centers in Delhi (Dwarka & Janakpuri) in July 2017 to educate underprivileged children and provide skill training to youth/women. We conducted regular classes at our center and awareness campaigns in the community to mobilize children. More than 200 children got benefited by my initiatives. All financial contributions are made by my salary only (I am working in a company) it was around 4 lac to run these centers. We trained these children in dance, singing, painting etc. and brought opportunities for them to showcase their talents, they have performed in many college fest (Ramanujan College, PGDAV College, Jamia University), competitions, NAVOUDIT KIDS CARNIVAL at PGDAV College where they won 2nd prize in dance, 1st prize in debate & many more prizes.

I made computer lab at the center by my own (In the early age I was a child laborer and learnt carpentry work) bought computers and printers to start computer training classes.

Indian Periodical Magazine featured my story in their article Person of the week. http://indianperiodical.com/2018/04/person-of-the-week-rambabu-sharma/

Guiding principle behind everything is my journey itself, I belongs to very disadvantaged family & to fulfill the needs I count get chance for proper schooling and started working in a factory at the age of 12-13 years. I had a strong desire to help children struggling with the same situation what I was facing then I realized that there is only way i.e. to get educated. Finally, I appeared in 10th exam at the age of 20 and managed to study along with job. Secured 9th rank in IP University engineering entrance exam and got into engineering, completed with help of scholarship now I am working at German Company. Soon after getting job I started giving back to society. Almost 60% of my earnings in donated in this cause in last 1.5 years.

I have registered an NGO in dec 2017 Youth Empowerment Foundation. These are many more to say but I would like to conclude here you are doing great work I wish every child must get a chance to study.

This society is our family only we can it; our every single action creates impact on it we should never forget. We should always take a social responsibility it strengthens us to do better us of this transient life, it help us get rid of our own problems when we think for others. My life is a living example today I came into mainstream not because of my talents it was because of I had been doing good for others it made my own life so easier that I could never thought of. We have any talent it’s a gift of god, if we use those talents for the welfare of society is our gift to god.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA011 Krishan Kumar Gupta Delhi

Mr. Krishan Kumar Gupta is a social worker who has been working for our country since 1965 and the journey continues till now. His journey of volunteering started during 1965 at the time of war with Pakistan he took the job as a traffic police officer to control the traffic and helping police personals to take charge of another. In 1968, he became the part of forming National Service Scheme (NSS) at Delhi University during his studies at Kirorimal College as first and founding volunteer of the organization, during these days he learnt about social work. His core area of work includes: Adult literacy, Hospital welfare to take care of Patients, To organise Blood donation Camps, To aware Villagers about health and improved sanitation, To aware about Population Control. Also, he was the founder of NSS which is at present world’s biggest organization, more than 35 Lakhs volunteers join it from different universities.

We need minerals and vitamins to maintain our physical health same way volunteership help us to upgrade our own soul. It provides us positivity, self confidence, communication skills and moral values. We uplift our own soul through community services. We learn leadership qualities and working in groups. My involvement and achievements in this field is through a very long experience of more than 60 years. 1.Started with Scouts and guides. 2. Learned discipline in life through NCC. 3. General Secretary Delhi University Council of Social Service league DU 4. Founding volunteer National Service Scheme ( NSS) in 1968-69 5. Got best volunteer award 1968 given by General PP Kumarmanmanglam, then Chief of Army staff. 6. Organised first in India mass blood donation with Red cross in Delhi university. President of India invited us for join tea-party and appreciated our activities.

At present he is promoting volunteering through interaction with NSS volunteers at College level and Universities. I am also associated with so many NGOs working in the field of Child rights, Children in conflicts with Law and Old age homes.

World record for achieving MSW degree in Social work at the age 74+

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA015 Prerna Prasad Uttar Pradesh

Prerna Prasad is an environmentalist activist who works diligently and dedicatedly to bring change in the society. Her journey of Volunteering started in 2010 when she was working with CNN-IBN and on the same time she used to teach underprivileged children of Navjyoti NGO which is IPS Kiran Bedi NGO.

The seed of volunteer-ship was sown in 2010 when I was working at CNN-IBN. During my weekends and free time, I started teaching unprivileged kids of Navjyoti. Navjyot is Kiran Bedi’s NGO based out of Delhi NCR. Link In April 2012, she began to work in Political system of the country as well and in 2013 she became the campaign manager of Hari Nagar assembly constituency during Vidhan Sabha elections.

But, my full time volunteer-ship started with the launch of India Against Corruption movement in April 2011. It was always my dream to get into politics and bring mass level change and also to set an example of how a youth without any political background and having no money and muscle power can venture into politics.

In 2014 during Lok sabha elections, she campaigned in her hometown Bhopal for some time and then became the media manager for Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi but gradually she decided Politics is not something which attract her the most, It was something else she wanted to do and then she decided to work for the environment because she felt it was something which was not taken care by the people and shw should help here with her time and efforts and then she choose to formed a startup named “ecoplore” which promotes healthy holidays amongst people. Ecoplore is a socio-environmental enterprise focusing on conservation of environment and empowerment of women. Apart from this, she also initiated the protest against the cutting of around 50,000 trees in Delhi by NBCC and CPWD for their redevelopment projects.

Recently, She was also involved in organising the protests against the killing of Tigress Avni and it is the first time the issue of Tiger conservation was raised by the public and media at this level.

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Jafeesh. J is a social activist who has been doing social work from the long time. In his words the aim of volunteering is “ Volunteering can help to learn new skills, gain experience and sometimes even qualifications. Take on a challenge. Through volunteering you can challenge yourself to try something different, achieve personal goals, practice using your skills and discover hidden talents.”

He initiated the following projects in order to bring the positive change in the society :

● Blood Donation and Blood Group Directory

They conducted 6 major blood donation camps within the last 3 years in which Parents of NSS volunteers, teachers and NSS Alumni members donated 720 units of blood to the blood bank of Alappuzha Medical College

● “Karunya Hastham”- Hair Distribution and wig Distribution to cancer patients

Eleven girl volunteers of our NSS unit have donated their hair to make wigs for cancer Patients who lost their hair due to disease. They cut 38 cms of hair with the help of expert beauticians and joined the mission for supporting the patients

● “Kanivu”- hair for homeless

To promote the feeling of love, sympathy and fellow feeling among volunteers, they started the project “KANIVU’’ to help the poor. This major project includes 'Pidiyari', Miss a meal programme, old age home visit, palliative care activities, monthly collection of funds and distribution to poor patients etc. By the 'pidiyari' project, they collected rice from volunteers and distributed to poor people in the adopted village once in every two months.The highlight of ‘Miss a meal programme’ is that the volunteers skip their noon meal and donate to the poor patients of nearly hospitals like Govt. Hospital Kayamkulam and CHC Chunakara.

● Innovative Programme - Pradhan Mantri Dhan jan Yojna account opening camp and awareness campaign

As part of the programme, they organized an awareness campaign about the benefits of project and an account opening camp with the help of State Bank Of Travancore Charummoodu branch and Federal bank Chunakara branch. Over 1500 accounts were opened under this scheme by our campaign.

● Sukanya Samridhi Account mela “Beti bacaho beti padhdo” ● Clean campus safe campus ● Reading to homes (Vayana Veedukalilekku)

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Hanika Arora is a social activist who has been associated with Bhumi NGO from last four years. She beautifully described her aim of volunteering in the following words -

{‘Action speaks louder than words.’ I believe that individual responsibility and action can change the world; and bridging the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged through education can help the latter create better futures.}

She is currently making the Nakshatra Reach Out project in Bengaluru – through which the talent of children in art, dance and sports is nurtured every weekend by trained volunteers which objective keeping in mind to spread the Education and knowledge as much as she can. She further described her volunteering objective in the following words -

“I believe that education is the foundation for any nation to develop. A country could spend money and time on tourism, infrastructure or other short-term projects, but nothing significant would change if the citizen didn’t have a central role in society. This is ensured through quality education and civic welfare.”

She literally look at every event of Bhoomi guy which include “Run for Education, fulfilling basic wishes/needs of underprivileged children, blood donation drives, tree plantation, distributing food for the need, conducting annual inter-orphanage talent competition, Daan Utsav (joy of giving), taking children on field trips, lake clean-up, and setting up library at orphanages.”

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA032 Apoorv Om Delhi

Apoorv Om is a National Awardees by Govt of India, a deaf and Young Innovative artist as art, 2D model architects and activist from New Delhi who advocates for youth education with children good health and well being peace and harmony and inclusion for all into mainstream with underprivileged and deaf and others. Speaker the many Conferences in global. Apoorv meets with many dignitaries personality figures around the world as UN, Government. He provides free education of Yoga to children and youth coming from underprivileged society. He is making awareness about the benefit of yoga for the health and wellness of people. He also teaches art and craft and sport to the children, freely. He made a first-ever innovative Inclusive cultural performance for peace and inclusion representation with his younger brother Ayush N Chandra 21yrs, who is also National Awardees 19 (deaf) under his group name Apoorv Om Artist. Many plateform of social and educational to spread awareness for Leave No One Behind. He is also creating awareness among the people of the society about the value of natural resources like water conservation and climate and environment.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA033 Angrej Singh Punjab

Mr. Angrej singh works to support underprivileged students in securing quality education“God help those who help themselves, I realised this proverb, when my dream to go to college came true. Through hard work and consistency in the efforts, I got an opportunity to empower many youth in the state of Punjab as Professor and a Social worker. In recognition towards the contribution in development of youth and communities, the government of Punjab as well as many International Organisations has acknowledged and conferred me awards such and International Inspiration Award, State Youth Award, Best Program Officer Award. I believe that, poverty in the society can be eradicated by promoting quality education.”

The goal of life is to save the life of people from the perpetuity and to make the people aware of the perpetuity of the people. It is my goal of life ("Nar Seva Narayan Seva").

I like to fulfill the goal, help others. I used to do every single task, from the time of the school itself, from the time of self-realization. And I used to think of my good luck in helping everyone. In year 2016, when I trained disaster management from the Indian Red Cross Society branch, which operated the program in the name of SERV (Social Emergency Response Volunteer) in District Mandi.

After that I save people's lives in many places and bring them to the right place, to bring people right in the scene, training in disaster management in schools, colleges, panchayats, districts and states. Initially I started with treatment, rescue operations, generating awareness and practices based on disaster management in which approximately 6000 people were trained in various training programs.

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Ms Tirtha Prasad Saikia works to provide emergency response and towards disaster management practices in the communities of upper Brahmaputra. “Training proves to be key ingredient in handling any disaster”, he has been volunteering for emergency in the flood prone areas of upper Assam. He is committed to promote disaster preparedness in the communities to ensure justice & dignity towards people in maintaining natural resources. “We cannot stop natural disaster but we can definitely arm ourselves with knowledge, a competent disaster preparedness plan can save many lives.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde.

Since my childhood days, I had been witnessing people of my land Assam suffering in widespread humanitarian crisis of flood and river erosion. People were affected by the massive inundation in all aspects of life and livelihood into a significant amount, which rendered them every time homeless, also destroyed their agriculture in the land. Many a time’s I remember flood victims taking temporary shelters in our schools and thus living difficult lives where we were pursuing our formal education.

I was very much depressed looking at such poor people’s struggle in my village in such hazardous catastrophe many a times. I was always one of the frontliner with my friends in reaching out to those vulnerable and disaster hit people for sharing our deepest sympathy. As students we were enthusiastic and keen to provide help with our own mobilised local resources to the needy people and that was what gave me joy at the time.

Consequently my journey of volunteerism started into action. After joining North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a grassoot development organisation based in Jorhat of Assam, I am in this mission now to make difference of lives of poor people in their struggle against humanitarian crisis, exploitation & poverty in Assam. It was my passion always to be a good humanitarian activist with volunteerism spirit to support the lives of others. I never thought that humanitarian work with the affected would shape my profession in the later course of time. Every time I visit people in the field and come across heartbreaking stories of life from and inspiring realities which always motivate me with new energy.

I am extensively engaged with my efforts in institutionalizing the flood and river bank erosion risk-prone communities living in the flood prone areas of Upper Assam region. I am committed to the cause of promoting and defending disaster affected communities rights where people live their life with dignity, find scope to enhance their sustainable management systems on their lands, water and resources. I have been working with the flood affected community in a number of floodplain regions of upper Brahmaputra basin to prevent, mitigate and prepare for disasters and helping them to address the risks of flood and its consequences.

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Braj Shrivastav belongs to East Champaran (Bihar) and has been living in Delhi since 2010. His educational qualifications includes, graduation in Political Science Honours from Baba Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Muzzafarpur and Diploma in Hardware Networking and Security Management from IACM , South Extension, New Delhi. Mr. Shrivastava is the Chairman of the Global Youth Peace Committee.

“Volunteering is the contribution made by one's own will to the prosperity and development of society”

The purpose of my volunteering is to work for the convenience of the underprivileged and bring them into the mainstream of the country and to build a strong and inclusive peaceful sustainable development in society.

Interested in society and social work since childhood, there has always been a desire to do something good for society. In August of 2017, a new turning point occurred in my life, which strengthened my loyalty to the people of the society. Almost the entire north Bihar was hit by floods. I was here only in Delhi those days. My home and village as well as the entire Tiruah area of East Champaran district was facing the floods. Unable to make contact at home, mother and father were alone at home. Due to lack of contact, the mind was troubled and was getting distracted by the government and voluntary organizations were engaged in flood relief work. But, the apathetic attitude of the government was causing trouble. I started a campaign to work on our Banjariya block level formed a team with my friends and local bureaucrats, and then started flood relief work. Hundreds of people joined and then donations were collected. People were appealed to donate for relief work. Pressure was also placed on the officials of the administration to help in timely relief work. I was doing all this work sitting thousands of miles away from my city.

I also appealed to the people of my office; they also provided funds to contribute to the work of flood relief. When the amount was going to work, I stood at the India Gate in Delhi and raised the funds for the flood relief work. Slowly the river showed its humility and the water started working, then the phase of diseases started, the floods were flooded, Khasi, Dasta, Infaxon and hundreds of illnesses left, the roads made for traffic were broken due to water, Traffic was badly constrained, then we started organizing health camps. We put constant pressure on the health department of the state to provide necessary medicines for the health improvement of more than 2000 people. I believe that voluntary service can be done even after staying away, if you have a strong will and passion to do something good and you really want to contribute to the inclusive development of not only society but your country.

In the year 2019, I set up a Global Youth Peace Committee (GYPC) in Sirsa, Haryana, in July 2019, to connect it with government and corporate people around the world, to expand the scope of my self-service and meet the goal of sustainable development. Formed. The first International Youth Development Conference was held in which participants from nearly 22 decades participated. On 2 October 2014, the Government of South Delhi organized the Global Fair for Global Environment and Peace with about 40 volunteer institutions with a positive impact on the global environment. Let us tell you; today the Global Peace Committee is reducing caste in about 35 countries all over the world.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA037 Rameshhwar Walkikar Gujarat

Volunteering experience at the “Internet for All Camp of IIT Mumbai” is truly a life-changing platform for me. During the volunteering I interacted with students of different economic and social backgrounds. I was able to understand their eagerness to learn new things. But due to limited resources and opportunities, they were limited. It was a hitting point for me. in this technological world, I was unaware of computers till the age of 16 so I thought to bring an opportunity for rural students to get access to technology tools and resources and my journey started. चाय की दुकान पर बैठकर देश के बदलाव का सुझाव देनेवाला रामेश्वर अब देश के बदलाव मᴂ अपना सहयोग देने लगा है.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA040 Tej Kumar Thapa West Bengal

Tej kumar Thapa is a child rights activist since 2004. Life was normal till 2004 when he was preparing for a mechanical engineering entrance examination. During preparation he joined Bachapan Bachao Andolan in 2004, Secret surveys, Raids and Rescue operations against child labor as a volunteer changed his perspective and child rights protection became his passion as he witnessed the harsh reality of how the rights of innocent souls are being violated. Understanding the bigger purpose of his life, he left his preparation and started working full time for his passion and in his first rescue operation itself he rescued 53 children and till today he has rescued 4000+ children from slavery and abuse in various operations. He worked with organizations like CHILDLINE, BAL SURAKSHA ABHIYAAN. With his expertise in the field of children , he has now pioneered into projects like Children’s Parliament & he is fighting nearly 300 cases for children on his own apart from his regular job and volunteering. More inspiring is the fact is he is fighting all those cases without any kind of external support & financial aid. Currently he is also acting as REGIONAL CO-ORDINATOR of east zone for “NINE IS MINE” An organization for children and working as child protection officer at “ANUGYALAYA”. He received many awards for his exemplary services. Technically an activist but ANGEL is the correct word for people like TEJ KUMAR THAPA who are the real inspiration in action. “My work gives me immense satisfaction and this drives me do more for the innocent souls in trouble, I want to make maximum use of the expertise I have attained in this field for guiding other volunteers working in this field, together we can reach out to more children in need, they need us” he says.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA042 Malhar Anil Kalambe Maharashtra

On 14 August 2019, Beach Please volunteers celebrated their 101st week of the clean-up drive of Dadar sea beach in Southern Mumbai. Malhar Anil Kalambe, a 21 year old Charted Accountant aspirant, who had inspired the youths of Mumbai to clean the beach, had twitted "The world was a clean place until we polluted it. Now, the world will remain dirty until we clean it!" He was concerned about the single-use plastics littered irresponsibly by the tourists visiting the beach. During the process of cleaning up, Malhar and his friends realized that the littering of single used plastic by the tourist is not the major source of Dadar beach pollution. The major source of pollution is the Mithi River or what is locally known as Mahim River. The river is clogged with domestic as well as industrial waste that needed to be cleaned as well. He took initiative to clean up the river as well. According to the newspaper and visual media sources, the team has cleaned about 16 lakh kilograms of garbage from the Dadar sea beach so far. From where did he get his motivation? Nature was the motivating factor. The pristine, un-savaged, non-littered and exquisite sea beach of Bali, which is frequented by the Indian as well as world tourists that he had visited three years ago, changed his perspective on nature. After coming back from Bali he started his journey as an environment volunteer. He did not heave a sigh rather with gusto started the clean-up drive and motivated his friends to take upon themselves to cleaning the beach. Thus began the Beach Please movement in Mumbai on 10 September 2017. The endeavour not only received national recognition but Malhar has been awarded as a volunteer for change by the United Nations India. What is his future plan? He is disturbed by the fact that the common people are acting irresponsibly. He wants to sensitise them for which he has coined the motivational slogan “I have cleaned my bit, have you?” and trying to propagate the idea. Malhar loves the idea of a beach: the sound of waves crashing on the shore, the smell of the sea breeze, the feel of soft sand crumbling beneath as he walks along the shore line, the refreshing calmness it dawns upon him. So it is only natural for him to feel irritated upon seeing a beach violated with plastic bottles and fast- food wrappers.

With the support of his parents, Malhar started the Beach Plastic initiative along with his classmates in 2017 and now runs weekly clean-up drives at various beaches of Mumbai. Since its inception, the initiative has reached and engaged more than 10,000 volunteers and has collected and safely disposed more than 500 tonnes of garzbage in 58 weeks.

Cleaning beaches especially during the festive season of Ganesh Chaturters associated with him have restored and gifted 18 idols which are now installed across various temples of Mumbai.

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Belonging to a middle-class family, Umesh was just like another kid. His father is a shopkeeper and mother, a housewife. His financial condition wasn’t good enough, but that was not something to stop him from doing what he wanted to. In his 11th standard, Umesh gathered a group of students and started youth leadership. With his oratory and leading skills, he became the leader of a bunch of youths in his district. This was just a beginning.

The lack of leadership in current youths and the need of society made a Youth Icon. Umesh went on to join the National Service Scheme and with this began his journey to the path of social activities. He soon got selected for many state and national level camps and programs, all thanks to his growing leadership skills. His transformational talks and speeches helped him do many social campaigns making people aware of the prevailing social evils in the society. Not only this but also extracurricular activities like essay writing, debate, speech, slogan, painting, etc. were Umesh’s hobbies.

Umesh’s work might seem easy from the outset, but actually, it was not as such. Apart from belonging to a poor background and starting from scratch, he also found that the present day youth is difficult to indulge in social work. The mentality of people has changed, and it is not easy these days to attract people towards works related to the environment like climate change, etc. He had a task in his hands which he achieved successfully, all thanks to his hard work and commitment.

When Umesh attended his life's first orientation program as a participant, he saw the anchor being unable to control the gathering. The crowd was getting uncontrollable, and the situation was getting worse. In this circumstance, Umesh got up and took the baton of managing the students in his hands. Within minutes, he was able to control a crowd of two thousand. Later on, there were many such occasions where he did something like this.

Umesh has also worked towards creating awareness about women empowerment and human rights. He has also been an active participant in activities like Shramdaan, plantation, Soakhta pit, drain construction, etc.

Some Special Achievements - Gold Award in the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2019, RCS London. Silver Award in the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2018, RCS London. NSS State Award by Higher Education of MP. National Record at India Book of Records 2018. Assist World Record 2018. National India Leadership Award 2018. Academic Excellence Award 2016. Finalist Award at World Youth Essay Competition German 2018.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA049 ARVIND AGRAWAL AND ANJALI AGRAWAL

Arvind Agrawal & Anjali Agrawal a dedicated couple from Dwarka Delhi; are working tirelessly for the society because they believe” Contribution towards society betterment is everyone individual social responsibility, its not just responsibility of leaders, government, organization, NGOs only. Our country has population of 125 crores, which is full of abundant issues in all areas e.g. poverty, education, health, environment etc. More and more volunteers are needed in all areas to improve the system. By god grace we are well versed with all facilities. Country has given so much to us, its our moral duty to pay back to society without any lame excuse”. His inspiration and credit towards social service goes Mr. Anshu Gupta, Goonj founder and Goonj NGO, who motivated them to start volunteering journey with Goonj NGO. Later he also started doing volunteering for other social initiatives.

Their Volunteering stories are: 1. Volunteering with Goonj NGO: volunteering for about 17 yrs. Volunteering includes organizing and regular collection camps, spread awareness about Goonj work and its various campaigns among people, encourage people for contribution of material, monetary support, join hands for volunteering, active participation in all Goonj’s events, meeting, woollen distribution for homeless people in the winter eve. Some of the significant work, as follows: ∙ So far have initiated, organized and volunteered for more than 65 collections camps in various Dwarka localities and also in the corporate (Nokia). ∙ About 80-100 trucks material has been collected in afore-said collective drives. ∙ Dwarka a biggest Goonj collection hub in India (upto 4 truck material collected in single collection camp) ∙ 3 days campaign in Lucknow in 2017 for Goonj’s Joy of giving week campaigns. ∙ Afore-said material has been used as resource for empowerment of work beyond charity in remote areas in 22 states as wages or parallel currency for their own developmental work like digging well, making roads, bridges, marriage kits, water re-charging, addressing rural women’s basic issues of menstrual, immediate relief in case of any disaster (earth quake, floods, cyclones etc). Other Goonj Dwarka volunteers: Munish Kundra, Vishal Lal, Ms. Vipan Basrar 2. Volunteering with Helping hands ( volunteers group): drive and support for various social causes, urgent blood requirement, woollen distribution drive in winter eves, monetary support and collection for needy people for urgent medical treatment and various other causes. 3. Miscellaneously activities- work at individual/groups/ some NGOs ( Green Circle): ∙ Drive and awareness campaign against usage plastic at individual and market places ∙ Cleanness of footpath, immersion of pooja material from peepal tree ∙ Park and public places cleanness ∙ Awareness Waste segregation campaign ( wet and dry garbage separation) ∙ Plantation of plants/trees ∙ Voluntary support for India against corruption movement ∙ Voluntary support for movement against Tree felling in Sarojni Nagar 4. Awareness of pledge for eye donation: Pledged along with family for pledge for eye donation. Spread awareness about pledge of eye donation.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA052 Dr Shubhank Singh Hayrana

Dr Shubhank Singh is Project lead at Public Health Initiatives, Medanta The Medicity Hospital Gurgaon. He is president of Indo Nepal Doctors Association (INDA) and vice president of Indo Nepal Association of Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Lymphology (INAPNSL). Dr Shubhank has worked extensively on various public health issues in India, Nepal and Afghanistan. He has tirelessly worked towards betterment of public health including in remote hilly areas. When earthquake struck in Nepal in 2015, Dr Shubhank Singh organised medical camps in earthquake affected districts. He has also worked in rural areas of Nepal and Haryana in field of Epidemiology and rural research and use of point of care devices developed by Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) involving school students for field survey and training. His efforts have been noticed and appreciated by multiple organisations and authorities including SWACHH BHARAT NEPAL: SWASTH BHARAT NEPAL ABHIYAN. He has also worked continuously to promote India-Nepal relations on different platforms raising concerns for better economic relations, health policy cooperation, and other concerns. His international efforts include active participation in Afghanistan to provide best healthcare facilities. He visited Heart, Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan in 2016 to run general medical OPDs. He also visited Mazar-e Sharif and Kabul Afghanistan from in 2017 for General Medicine OPDs and Telemedicine. Nepal, one of the developing nations is visited regularly to provide best healthcare and latest technology to the local people. With his efforts, he has trained more than 75000 students of schools and universities in 6 steps hand washing technique of WHO.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA053 Ashish Kumar Hayrana

Ashish is a well-known speaker in the area of green startups, brand building, industry specific supply chain and has been invited by over 100 colleges in India including the IITs, DU and top Engineering colleges either as a speaker, guest or judge. He is also mentoring multiple projects on solar at different colleges in Delhi and have trained over thousands on solar startup opportunities.

He has been associated with the IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology- UK) since 2009 as a volunteer and has been instrumental in organizing over 30 international and national level events across India under the IET banner.

He is one of the Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission, an initiative by NITI Aayog (the think tank of the Government of India). He has worked for MNCs like Accenture, Tata Communication, Nokia and presently serving as Manager at Su-Kam Power Systems. He became the first and only Indian till date to be awarded with the prestigious Paul Fletcher Award in 2014 by the IET-UK at London for outstanding achievement in contributing to the activities of the IET as a volunteer. He is also the proud recipient of India's Great Leader Award, Bharat Leadership Award, Energy Contributor Award, Bihar Excellence Award, Young India Change Maker Award & over 10 other national level awards and multiple honors at university level.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA059 Sathya N Natarajan Maharashtra

Volunteerism is not just a special act of making earth a better place to live but a karma or duty that has to come with every citizen’s individual social responsibility. I derive immense satisfaction by doing my duty, be it be cleaning the heritage mastani talav lake or preventing a 100 year old tree being cut by sleeping near it. Always a believer in doing things that can inspire or enable change for the greater good as a part of our everyday lifestyle.

Instead of blaming destiny for things, I chose to use my 15 years of sleepless night shift struggle to see an opportunity of 6 hours in the daytime to offer myself to volunteering. I felt happy doing hands-on work in spite of a busy life as a Site Leader of a MNC as every week you have a variety of job inside & outside the organization which are engaging & are challenging. In this journey, I have conducted & participated in 400 Swachh Pune events, volunteered to create policy, citizens pressure groups towards new LAWW (Land, Air, Water, Waste issues), Dignity of Labor cum sanitary waste issues with SwaCH red dot campaign, dealing with vision disabled citizens issue, breaking stereotypes & prejudices through ”Human Library”, educating night school students with Tuba Foundation, speaking on Women empowerment issues to 4000+ women individually , getting 20 green schools to be aware, 7 housing societies pledging to segregate waste, conducting 15 days environment festival at city level.

I used my techno-writing skills towards Operation Green creating my first “Urban Tree Election Manifesto”, distributed it to all political parties, submitted “One Page Tree Act” to Pune Municipal Corporation.

What keeps us going is the “No strings attached open arm” invite by these groups to participate with your time or skills. Right from interacting with a 6 year kid who paint Pune Shivajinagar Railway station walls or 23 year NSS Volunteers who build check dams in remote villages or with NDRF local volunteers who rescue flood affected people, it not only gives you perspectives & challenges faced, but help empathize about a variety of causes.

In the age of Subscription based fun like Netflix & Amazons, here is an alternative to work cum fun … Welcome to world of Perpetual Volunteering.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA061 Swati Khurana Delhi

With aim to provide excellent education to all, Swati Khurana is striving to make education accessible for everyone. She is currently Teach for India Fellow at Rani Chennema School, Jahangir Puri. She has volunteered with Swechha, Kamalini, Kilkari Rainbow Home, Ummid Ghar. Working for NEID Assam in 2018, she has interacted with more than 100 students, prepared lesson plans for primary grade, and trained teachers about best classroom practices. She was chairman of 4 Anganwadis of Haiderpur, Delhi where she elicited community support and participation in running the program. Her work at these anganwadi’s have impacted more than 200 students. In 2015 she founded ‘Tickled Pink’ initiative. She connects volunteers and NGO’s to channelize efforts to serve the society. She plans and implement various events to make volunteers experience Joy of Giving. She also manages the communication between NGO’s and Volunteers. She aims to make excellent education available to 1000+ students by 2020.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA062 Amar jeet singh Himachal Pradesh

His goal in life is to contribute in reducing disasters, Road accidents, arson, landslides, floods etc. He has helped many times in such natural calamities. On the other hand, he has been helping women in leaving them to a safer place in night hours or till the time they need. Whenever he finds a woman or child alone in the area around himself, he tries his level best to leave them in their family. If any child is lost and it comes to his notice, he searches in various parts of the country through our network of volunteers. Don't be untoward. Many times in the accident, the first treatment is done at the place of the accident itself, secondly in the hospital. He has helped people and administration in accidents took place in Salapad, Bandrabrani, Bablaspur, Kangu. A school bus met an accident, our team helped the injured people, besides we supported the police in various fire accidents and worked with the departments concerned.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA064 P Sreenivasa rao Telengana

Mr Parcha Srinivasa Rao works to promote social activities to ensure equal opportunities in the society. “All of us do not have equal talent, yet all of us do have equal opportunity to develop our talents. In the capacity as a trustee, I have been engaged in enhancing public education in the SC/ST/Minorities communities of Telangana state. My consistent social service has been able to reduce the dropout rates of students in the villages. Healthcare services has been imparted to the marginalized communities and old aged people staying at shelter homes”. “I strongly believe that we are living in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach”

Our voluntary slogan to the students, on who get help from the voluntaries for development their studies, then they are to be help to poor people and students I the society after settlement in the life. This can be achieved also through voluntary work.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA065 Megha Bhatia Delhi

Megha Bhatia is an energetic founder of VOIX working on children rights and raising awareness about child sexual abuse. She has completed a bachelor’s degree in law from Amity university after which she went to pursue a master’s degree in Human Rights from University College London. Megha recalls her internship with one of the NGOs during her law degree where she first encountered harrowing stories of child sexual abuse. This stimulated her to work towards this cause. The more she worked with different NGOs and organisations, the more stories she encountered. She realised that lack of awareness is one of the main reasons behind the occurrences of child sexual abuse. Children often don’t know the difference between ‘good touch’ and ‘bad touch’. Parents and teachers too find this difficult to talk about. She decided to tackle the stigma associated with sex education by striking a conversation with children. Hence the VOIX was born. VOIX started officially in 2018, but Megha has volunteered actively for different causes for a long time. VOIX’s mission is “to prevent children from becoming victim or culprit to sexual abuse” and “to empower children by imparting knowledge of good touch and bad touch”. The organisation has also worked with other organisations like Ashman Foundation, Lakshyam, Pehchaan, and Rainbow Foundation. VOIX not only raises awareness among children but also among parents and teachers. Through her programmes Megha and her volunteers introduce the concept of ‘POWER’ to children – Power to say no, to raise voice and to differentiate between good touch and bad touch. VOIX also makes sure that the content being delivered is child-friendly and culturally appropriate. Under the leadership of Megha, VOIX offers free workshops and preventive programmes for children. She has also launched a comic book to educate children about ways to identify sexual abuse and raise awareness among children. Till date, VOIX has reached More than 50 school and more than 15,000 children. The comic book launched to raise awareness of child sexual abuse is now part of school libraries in more than 8 states. With a vision to take a step further, Megha plans to empower young girls to lead change and work on social causes. She also wishes to promote co-coexistence among people from different religions, caste, culture, gender. She also aims to provide the comic book to each state and in as many schools as possible. VOIX also plans to reach about 400 schools in the coming year.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA067 Priya Dalvi Goa

Ms Priya dalvi works to encourage youth to find their passion and potential, and live a life of their choice I’m a Software Engineer turned Author and Speaker. I’m a recipient of Asia Inspiration Award 2018 in the category Literature for my first book What About PASSION? I discovered my passion for writing while working in a software corporate and began blogging for leisure. My talks profoundly revolve around helping individuals identify their PASSION and following it.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA070 Thota Sudha Rani Andhra Pradesh

Ms. Sudha Rani works to empower youth & women in the society Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart, I have volunteered in Health and Environmental Camps in various places in Telangana State. I have been associated with the street children project for teaching classes of English, and art and games to previous street kids of Japan. Also, got the opportunity to see the mobile VAN project for slum children & make chapati’s in Elephant Village.

To present in her own words, “In the society today many unfortunate people are undergoing a lot of suffering. My aim is to give them a helping hand and create social awareness among them. I am straining my every nerve to make them self-reliant economically and this alone can help them progress in many fields. I honestly believe that self-reliant women can bring a sea change in the society. I congratulate every woman on the occasion of the World Women’s Day (March 8) and appeal to them not to get upset at trivial things and march ahead boldly for building a strong India. Another social evil is child labour. In this connection, I appeal to the powers - that - be to find ways and means to eradicate the menace of school age children working as child labour in some places. It’s also unfortunate that those who are future citizens of the country have to undergo such travails. This is quite unnatural. The mode of brinigng up of children by parents, busy lives etc. are making children feel lonely and socially irrelevant. I believe that the mother must take special care about the child to create an aim and will in his / her mind which can create a new and vibrant society. Our national becomes stronger only when women and children get actively involved.

Volunteers are not paid because they are worthless but because they are priceless

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA076 Ambuj kumar Shrivastava Bihar

I 'Ambuj Shrivastava' basically from Bihar state of India Republic aimed to create "ABCDEFGHI"-"Any body can do everything for good health of India" In the society.

I am a MBA graduate and currently pursuing PhD.I left my job and trying to make my village a model one.

I am a President awarded scout and a cyclist.I travelled solo From Kashmir to Kanyakumari 4000 kmson cycle to promote plantation and to spread awareness about global warming and i did all india solo cycling 12000 kms for the same.

I took part many times in various social couse and as a social activist. I took training of Adventure and disaster management and trained approx 10000 student in Bihar,Jharkhand as well as Uttrakhand.

I got black in karate in 2013 and started giving self defence training of slum and village Girls. In this movement we trained approx 1600 Girls.

I left my job and returned to village and collaborated 14 villages and started dairy farming and Organic farming. I turned approx 86 youth to self dependent from other jobs. I also got so many awards for this.

I have started a Happy Pathshala for my village and poor kids where they are getting quality education and moral education too. We are also giving them sports training.

I am also a seceratery of Rotaract Club in my area and volunteering so many projects for Children education,Girls Safety,Self Defence training, Survival cancer awareness,Hand wash and mouth wash awareness, Cleanness, Plantation and Water conservation.

There are so many volunteering work we are still doing and yet to do.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA078 Salma Memon Maharashtra

Challenges are in abundance, empowerment is the Solution Believe Salma Memon. Salma Memon a young Dynamic Social Worker from Mumbai. She is working from her tender age of 10 for the society and she is now just 25 year old. She has created a legacy to leave behind, legacy in form of goodness, legacy in form of Successful Students by supporting in Education field who are an asset to the society and leaders for the better tomorrow. She believe in creating leaders not the followers. She prepare the students not just for exams but for life. Her joy lies in seeing others Happy. She lost her father at a very young age and had to face great difficulties for her own education. Working Part Time and completing her own studies.This experience left her touch her life and salma made Motto of her life to help everyone around who walks in her life with a appeal to seek help. Be it for Education, Old age home, Madarsa, Orphanage, individual help, cancer institutes, Blood Donation , hospitals, marriages and so on in short she is there everywhere. Salma is a Director -Social Ambassador of Education Project at Indian Development Foundation from last 10 years and Founder Initiator of Project UMEED undef IDF. Social Work is her Passion and Teaching is her Profession for her lively hood. She is an epitome of Goodness, she is been spreading goodness selflessly all around. Salma is a great innovator, who innovates new idea into Social Development Model and try to see how it can be implemented. One such innovative project is UMEED, which is Ray of Hope for 400 plus students in Mumbai. Normally NGO supports with scholarship to those who are excellent in study but she works in opposite direction which means she supports for average scorers,single parent child or orphan because she believe no child is an average child .Their Life Circumstances have made them Average and they are the one in real need.If we want to stop the dropouts then support them,motivate and guide them then we can surely say Padhega India toh Badhega India. She started this initiative 5 years back with 2 students ,the one who use to fail or score 35-40% after her support by paying fees ,guiding and mentoring them she found the students scored 70% that was the real achievement. Till date she is supporting 400+ students.well she is not focusing on the number but yes she is focusing on the quality of education and impact created in them. In 2017 she suddenly got to know she has brain nerve problem, looking at the reports doctors were surprised how did she suurvived 24 years because the problem was right from birth .Either she should have been a abnormal child or should have got some side effects. But she is an angel sent by God and she had no issues like this infact what she do for society is more then a normal child.The society raised funds for her and she succesafully underwent her Brain operation and she survived.To be surprised immidate after her operation the next day itself she said call my children at home they have exams and started coaching them at home.some funds were yet to be raised for submitting into school to complete academic year and within a month she did it successfully and supported children to complete academic year. In this 15 years of Journey ,she is been a Role Model for the Youth and inspired many young minds. Her service for any cause is available 24*7 Selflessly and unconditionally. For her dedication into Humanitarian Service towards society she has received more than 200 Accolades in National and International level. Salma Memon Says, Alone I can't reach everywhere ,Let's Join Hands together to serve the society unconditionally in better way and Bring the change that we wish to See.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA079 Sachin Vajpayee Delhi

He wish to inspire and empower people to work positively towards their dreams.

PASSION TO PROFESSION, the transition of a dream to reality, was witnessed to himself when her performance at the Dance India Dance was acknowledged and appreciated by the famous star Mr Mithoon Chakraborty. She want to convey to the aspiring youths that, The human spirit is one of ability, perseverance and courage that no disability can steal away. the recognition, love and support from my well wishers have inspired to start his very own company "SACHIN VAJPAYEE DANCE COMPANY at New Delhi, together with his team he works toward advancing the dreams of becoming dancers of many youths, also promote healthy lifestyle for all by providing services like Zumba, Yoga, Music, and dance fitness.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA082 Kushma Devi Himachal Pradesh

The children were told how one has to be treated when sunk in water. She has conducted several training programmes in her own village Bhaunr, Mandi, Himachal Predesh to make the villagers understand the process of treatment. Besides, she gave the information about Red Cross Society of India, which helps poor and under privileged people of our country in times of natural calamities and disasters. This way her team strengthened and people of surrounding areas came forward to be associated for this noble cause. She got encouraged and started it as a movement. People were very keen to know about the process of treatment and started contributing in her mission. This was the turning point of her life to chose Volunteering as aim of her life.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA083

Vanya Singh (Delhi) Meet Vanya Singh, Her tryst with volunteering started as she grew up seeing the struggles of specially abled & under privileged children when her mother used to take her to competitions and social service works which her mother was a part of. Then she decided that she won’t take the flight to her dreams alone but also will enable other children to fly to their dreams. This 14 year old wonder kid is already running an academy of her own “NAVYASARJANA” to gift other specially abled and underprivileged children a key to unlock their talents as she gives them free dance classes. She was crowned “Miss Cinderella India 2019” , “Miss Junior India – runner up” and 300+ awards , she has already given 450+ stage shows many involving special children, she is using her skills to create awareness on causes like “CLIMATE CHANGE”, “WATER CRISIS” through 13 short films, many awareness ads. “Everyone should get a platform they deserve so that they can show the world what they can do. I believe in “WE” not in the word “I”. I am strong because my team is strong. Growing together, celebrating my happiness and my journey with special kids gives me immense satisfaction. I will keep improving my dancing and acting skills and try to provide platform to even more underprivileged and special children in future” says this bold and beautiful heart.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA085 Tanuj TJ Uttar Pradesh

A journey from self-doubt to making others analyze their worth “Success is not final, Failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill, after failing in 12th grade he was scared & ashamed and went to his village to escape that situation. But he was not aware of the hidden opportunity this would bring which will transform his life, living there he realized the real treasure the people of his village hold but were unable to channelize. With compassion for his land and people he started computer classes for everyone, young and old whoever needed it and within 8 months, he covered more than 200 people. Again for graduation he had to move away from his village but this did not stop him, he started working with various NGO’s, he started going to college very early to meet likeminded people and students who want to do something but lacked a platform, then he started his own group “CANDID” with motto “here hard work is more important than talent” shared his knowledge of photography, event management with them, he with his group volunteered for many events. He acted as media head for more than 3 NGO’s. But he always had a feeling to go back to his roots, he left his job and went back to his place and today he is a full time social worker, a story teller who works on people and their stories which deserve to be heard and in doing which his inner peace and happiness lies. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about all the problems that exist. Then I realized that I was also that “somebody”, then I acted and that changed my life” he says.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA090 Itinderpalsingh bali Kashmir

Dr Itinderpal Singh Bali from J&K is working with the Aim of Volunteering, To train and educate people at ground level on how to respond to disasters/emergency situations with emphasis on first aid and search and rescue and the Objective ,To develop and capacitate quick response teams at community level (task forces) that can respond effectively during emergencies and to develop a big volunteer network in J&K.

A dental surgeon by profession, he was always passionate about giving back to the society in some way. He had been associated with Red Cross since 2007 and have trained more than 15000 personnel from different departments and schools across the State of J&K on first aid and have been awarded by State Red Cross Branch J&K for my voluntary work. He is a Master Trainer on first aid with Indian Red Cross Society Delhi and in the last three years he has developed 30 Master Trainers in J&K who are training people at community level under my supervision. Besides, he was also entrusted with the responsibility of training certified St John Ambulance trainers on the new methodology of first aid in Hyderabad and Haryana State. He have also been involved in many medical/ dental and blood donation camps in Kashmir. He is deputy warden in civil defense for district Baramulla and have the responsibility of training civil defense volunteers in disaster management, first aid and drug abuse since 2009. He has trained nearly 5000 volunteers in Kashmir and conducted 15 successful mock drills in coordination with district administration. He was felicitated on 26th Jan 2017 and 15th Aug 2018 by the district administration for my achievements. He actively participated in rescuing people during the floods in Kashmir in 2014 and was awarded by the army for the services rendered in 31st Jan 2015 He was involved as first responder (voluntary) during the Nepal earth quake in 2015 and was given the responsibility of organizing medical camps in remote villages of district Bhagapur, Nepal focusing on women’s health. He has worked with Gaint International from 2006 to 2010 as Director Health and have organized many medical/dental camps in different parts of Kashmir and conducted many awareness programs on drug abuse. He worked as first medical responder during the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005 under the leadership of Smt. Nirmala Deshpande (Member of Parliament). Our team provided medical aid in the remote villages in Uri area of district Baramulla. My work was appreciated by Smt Nirmala Deshpande.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA092 Bhavreen Kandhari Meghalaya

Born to an Indian Air Force Officer had the opportunity to travel widely through India. Post graduated from Indian Institute of Mass Communication to become a copy writer by profession but enjoyed working as a social analyst ....now a mother of 15 year old twin girls ...and lately an activist... the new designation that I have been given in the recent years. Sure enough because as a parent & a citizen I was beginning to fight for many issues especially to do with environment. This new role emerged as merely contacting authorities & sending them mails wasn't helping much. It was this frustration & desperation to correct these malfunctioning authorities in the society ... be it children's "right to play" or "illegal cutting of trees" or "disastrous waste management" or "fighting the killer air" that brought the activism & desperate need to now nurture our children with these environment related fundamentals. Now it was a matter of fighting for my children's right to breathe ....!!! #MyRightToBreathe Launched by instinct of concerned Citizens in November 2016, #MyRightToBreathe (MRTB) started as a hashtag movement for amplifying the digital presence of a common man's voice against air pollution and neglect of the environment. It has now grown into a citizens-led movement that supports the actions of the Clean Air Collective, comprising of many NGOs, civil society organisations, experts, journalists, doctors, lawyers, educationists and parents, to further mobilize active participation of other citizens’ groups, NGOs, and individuals including scientists, entrepreneurs, school children, Bollywood and other celebrities, and sportspersons united to reduce emissions causing air pollution. In 2016, no one spoke of air & it has not been easy for citizens like us to bring air into the prime agendas of the government. This year we are pushing the government to notify the 'National Clean Air Programme'. But we believe that the movement works proactively towards promoting behavior change through school-based programs, provide evidence for informed policymaking and implementation of solutions at the grassroots that will help improve overall Environmental Health in India.

I feel a part of every movement or organisation that is looking for that one step towards a better environment for us & our future generations & like to give it my best. Hope to be the change to bring the change !!!

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA108 Alzubair Saiyed Gujarat

Alzubair completed M.Tech in Thermal Engineering and had secured a well-paying job of Assistant Professor. On an assignment, while visiting villages in Gujarat, Alzubair noticed that houses still relied on conventional and obsolete stoves which run on firewood to cook daily meals. Those stoves are normally located in the interiors of the house in kitchens mostly cordoned off, poorly lit and ill- ventilated. On further investigation he came across a WHO report that equated exposure to pollution from burning firewood to smoking 400 cigarettes in an hour. Not surprisingly, this poses a serious health risk especially for women and children. Solar cooker was an option but it costed around 3000-10000 which the poor, rural women can’t afford. Determined to work on the problem, Alzubair left his promising carrier, put his technical skills to work, harnessing his inner drive for social entrepreneurism. He drained his limited savings and started a campaign across villages of Gujarat, teaching women to build their own solar cookers for about rupees 50-60! Which normally would have costed at least rupees 2000 even after being subsidized. So far he has managed to train more than 2000 women in manufacturing their own solar cookers all by his own at an individual level without the support of any organization. “As an engineer, I would like to contribute in building a more sustainable, stable and equitable world by finding ways to empower marginalized communities and through transfer of skills” he says.

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA111 Dipti R Bhadoriya Madhya Pradesh

Dipti is presently working as Principal B.C. jain hr. Sec. School. She is Member of World Parliament (Wcpa), Deputy country coordinator of YOUTH CRISIS AFFAIRS AND FORUM (YCAPF), District president private school and children welfare association. Katni Madhya Pradesh.

She is National Advisor @ sports Academy association of India (SPAA ) Madhya Pradesh, Member of UN global compact AUGP in USA and UNICEF @ Inlirnational UNION Education'st Forum. Madhya Pradesh, State Co-ordinator @ Anticoruption foundation of India . Madhya Pradesh, Chairperson National Human Rights and Humanitarian Federation Madhya Pradesh, Ambassador of Brahmand state, Ambassador of Ecocit Humanist, Ambassador & National face of Tiranga challenge (green Ambassador) of World Phd Hindustan Movement, Career counsellor, Ambassador of Child Abuse Prevention Programme.

She has received Deputy country coordinator Youth Crisis Awareness forum, Global Peace Ambassador of India Gandhi Peace Foundation, Nepal

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Entry No: IVN-IVD2019IVA115 Anu Mithila Malhotra Delhi

Mithila Malhotra was inspired by the speech “Vision 2020” of honorable ex-President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in which he had projected to build a developed India She says “I was 12-year-old then. The speech has left an indelible mark in my life and I used to ponder here and there about the visions and dreams. Reaching my college days, I started looking for developed India. Though She had made big strands in economic fields and was gaining respect for these, in social field the successes have not been replicated. So I thought we have to build developed India with freedom of want for the coming generation.” She became a part of the initiative “VIKALP” during her college days. She started to teach the slum children from the nearby areas during her leisure time. She describes it as fulfilling experience where she was able to make perceptible changes in life of children. She learnt that one doesn’t need to wait a single moment to start bringing positive change in society. She was preparing for civil services when she came across an NGO, UPAY- Underprivileged Advancement by Youth, working for the education of the underprivileged children who lack access to even the necessities of life. She joined UPAY and started teaching at one of the centers in Gurgaon. Here, along with getting the satisfaction of working to bring the desired change in society, she learnt new skills related to center operation and expansion. Thereafter, she worked for increasing the reach of UPAY to other areas that desperately needed such voluntary action. She started a new center of UPAY at Karol Bagh. From convincing the family of the children to send their kids to study to find an appropriate place to conduct the classes, everything had its inherent challenges. With indomitable will to make education reach to the streets and with the help of a dedicated team, Mithila with her team strived to resolve issues in hands. After extensive surveys, Mithila and her team were able to gain enough support of the community and conducted first class with 35 students and the numbers scaled up ever since. Currently they are serving more than 60 children. She believes India needs its youth to rise to the occasion so that we can fully reap our demographic dividend. Her contributions are aimed in the direction of making India free from illiteracy and other social malaise. She aims to take vision of Gandhiji and APJ Abdul Kalam forward to make India “Sone ki Chidiya” it had been in its ancient past.

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Guidelines to share your Inspirational Volunteering Story (500 Words)

1. You have been volunteering in your field of interest, while expressing the Stories of Inspiration, it should clearly express, what is that it has always motivated you to do it next time. 2. The story can be of a moment while you helped the needy or may be for number of times for the same support to the cause. 3. The feelings, concerns, commitments, that makes you drive to the next level as a change maker for yourself and the society. 4. What impacts has been created by your volunteering to be followed by others. 5. How your volunteering model can be followed by fellow Indians to save and help the nation building process. 6. How do you see your volunteering efforts have filled the gap, contributed to family, society, city, group who are approaching towards a sustainable and resilient society.

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Video Length *2 Min* Maximum will be only considered.

1. Introduce yourself & workplace (Within 20 Sec) 2. What made you to act as a volunteer (Within 20 Sec) 3. Share your most inspirational volunteering Story, which fuels you to contribute more. (60 Sec) 4. What is your voluntary commitments to make India Resistant. (20 Sec) 5.Mail your video on [email protected] 6. Post the video to your social media with #IndiaVolunteer #IVAwards2020 #IVD2020

1. प प र और प र (20 ) 2. आप प र (20 र) 3. प र र , आप र र (60 ) 4. र आप (20 ) 5 . र आप 6. प पर #IndiaVolunteer # IVAwards2020 # IVD2020 प र

Best Video Messages will be awarded.

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 55 Important dates - Timeline #IVAwards2020

1st November 2019 Announcement of the #IVAwards2020 15th December 2019 Last Date to receive the entries for IVAwards 18th December 2019 Filtering of the entries to different categories. 19th December 2019 Sharing of India Volunteer Stories to Jury members 22nd December 2019 Sumession of IV Awards evaluations sheet by Jury Members 24th December 2019 Open consultation with jury members to select the best stories 25th December 2019 Coordination with selected volunteers to join IV Awards2020 13th January 2020 India Volunteers Day #IVD2020 13th January 2020 Honoring the India Volunteers with #IVAwards2020 13th January 2020 Launching of the India Volunteer Mobile Application 13th January 2020 India Volunteer Book - Stories of Inspiration 1st edition release 13th January 2020 IVAwards - lifetime achivement for volunteering

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 56 Steps to evaluate the #IVAwards2020 entries

Submition of Category wise entries to Jury Members

Evaluation of the entries as per indicators

Sharing the evaluation sheet to IVN

Compilation of the evaluation sheets

Top 9 entries will be awardsed for inspirational contribution

Top 60 entries will go for the India Volunteer Book

Top 20 entries will be coordinated for sustainability support

Guidelines to evaluate the #IVAwards entries

THIS IS OUR SECOND TIME EXPLORING FOR STORIES OF INSPIRATION THROUGH THE INDIA VOLUNTEERS AWARDS #IVAWARDS, WE WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND MORE ON VOLUNTEERING, BY READING THE STORIES OF VOLUNTEERISM. OUR TARGET IS TO IDENTIFY THE SPRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM WHICH IS AN INSPIRATION FOR OTHERS TO CONTRIBUTE MORE. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO LOOK AT THE INSPIRATION BEHIND TO BECOME A INDIA VOLUNTEER AND CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR MAKING IT MORE RESILIENT.

We would broadly look at the stories of inspirations under following strategic indicators for Jury to evaluate the applications for #IVAwards:

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 57 •Story of inspiration presented with his clarity on aim, objectives, 1.Presentation: photos & Certificates.

1.Sprit: •Volunteerism with age, time, area, leadership, team & continuity

•Ability to originate an action; to take the first step, usually, in a 1.Initiative: subsequently emerging new situation and coordination’s.

•Does the person implement keeping in view key objectives, able to 1.Commitment: mobilize resources in terms of man & materials.

1.Passion for Result: •Evaluate the person's passion and ability to drive results

1.Impact: •Local impact/Impact on community & society, evidence

•Addressing SDG, DRR, global relevance, environment, humanity & 1.Value: resilience

•Continuous engagement & interest in the process to make things 1.Sustainability: better for tomorrow in prospective social developments.

•Acceptance of process, engagement of community, replications 1.Evidence: models.

1.Contribution: •To society, city, Nation & Earth

EACH INDICATOR TO BE ASSESSED FROM A SCALE OF 10 WHERE 1 IS LOW AND 10 IS MAXIMUM.

TOTAL MARKS WILL BE 100 FOR 10 INDICATORS.

We will provide a excel sheet with Name and entry no, you need to rate them after going through the stories of inspirations.

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 58 We would further like to take your suggestions

1- How can we improve next time for the #IVAwards process?

2- How can we promote and integrate volunteerism power of India?

3- Any scope to work together?

FOR ANY CLARIFICATIONS YOU MAY CONTACT:

Manoj Kumar Dash, India Volunteer, Founder & CEO, Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN), New Delhi 9999445658, [email protected]

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India Volunteers Day 2019

INDIA Volunteers Day – 13th January The global changes in the political, economic and development landscapes Objective have necessitated more voluntary hands joining in the implementation of To integrate & promote the global agendas concerning people, planet and peace, requiring public and Volunteering power of India. private partnerships.

India Volunteers Day is observed & celebrated on 13th of January to recall National recognition to our core commitments as a volunteer for India. This day is dedicated to all volunteer’s contributing towards India volunteers who have been voluntarily contributing to help and save the SDG / DRR / CC. prospective development of the country in making a resilient India.

India Volunteer To motivate the volunteerism in building an improved quality of life & resilient India. India Volunteer (IV) is known for his committed contribution of volunteering efforts to save and help the prospective sustainable development of the nation through his vested interest. IV contributes individual Human Hours of Documenting the exemplary voluntary services per week / month / year to bring the change that they voluntary inspiring actions – India want to see. Volunteer VISION - #IVNFamily Categories Our vision is to integrate a network of resilience volunteers’ , who Volunteers From demonstrate the spirit of volunteerism by committed contribution of voluntary human hours & become the drivers of change for peace & harmony, safe, sustainable & resilient communities by respecting, loving & Individual caring for the environment and ecology.

NGO Corporate India Volunteer Awards #IVAwards Academic India Volunteer Awards (#IVAwards) is a national award, aimed to identify, connect, promote and showcase the exemplary voluntary contributions Government being made by diversified volunteers from different sectors of India in Only Indian citizens building a resilient India.

No age bars Program #IVAwards will help in identifying such volunteers of India and connect them

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Venue Desbandhu College India Volunteer mobile app Kalkaji Main Rd, Block H, Kalkaji, New Delhi, 110019 Mission Towards Integrating Volunteers Power of India

Activities Inaugural Ceremony The Integrated Volunteers Network Application (IVP- App) is a user friendly Presentation on IV Models mobile application to integrate volunteers from diverse expertise in a common digital platform to save and help the nation’s requirements with Panel Discussion proper information, knowledge and scope. Cultural Show by IV IV is an application which Helps in -Volunteers to register, Search a Volunteer India Volunteer Awards in real time geographic position, interface to knowledge and volunteerism actions. This will witness the volunteer’s accountability. India Volunteer App Partnership scopes

Government

Corporate

Sponsorship NGOs Awards & Certificate Media / Radio Momentous Academia / University Refreshment Voluntary Network – NSS / NCC / VYK / PIV etc. Plants & Kit Knowledge & Sustainability IV Book Printing Volunteers Mobile App

Auditorium

Travel

WHY India Volunteer Award India Volunteer Award is pleased to inform you that we wish to nominate your venture/entity to showcase at India Volunteer Award with your enthusiastic volunteers. Every wall is built with brick similarly every entity is built with its employees or volunteers who come up with great ideas and take steps to grow an organisation. To appreciate their small steps every entity gives rewards and certification. With a similar concept but at a bigger level, India Volunteer Award wants to appreciate individual from your entity. We request you to promote our initiative to make a better India and ask fellow volunteers for this award.

[email protected] @ivnorg 8851415797 involnet India Volunteer Book 2019 - 61 Being a volunteer is a self-determination and respect to serve the cause from your heart. If you have been voluntarily contributing to the society for improving the resilience or promoting for a good cause you can describe your experience that illustrates your voluntary leadership.

The below format has illustration to fill nomination forms.

Nomination form for India Volunteer Awards Name: Date of Birth: Gender: Address: Photograph

Aim of your Volunteering:

Objective of your Volunteering:

India Volunteer story – 500 words Describe your voluntary contribution towards India with action photographs.

Give 2 reference who had been a key support to your initiatives. Attach any certificate of appreciations.

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You can email your entries to [email protected] or can submit at www.ivn.org.in

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Location: Deshbandhu College, Kalkaji, New Delhi, 110019

Date: 13 January 2019 13.00 – 18.00 Time: AGENDA Organizer: Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN)

13.00 Registration

14.00 – 14.45 Inaugural Session Facilitation by with plantation Dr. Henna Hejazi, General Secretary, IVN & Neha Siwatch, CEO, DIYA Hum Honge Kamyab By Children from Save Child Beggar Anjum, Kaif, Dev, Shahbaan, Reshma, Rozy, Akash, Krishna, Salman, Sangeeta, Punam, Badal & Kiran Ekla Cholo Re By Volunteers, Deshbandhu College, DU Pledge By Anushree Dash, India Volunteer Welcome note by Shubhro Roy, Mentor, IVN Key note address by Manoj Kumar Dash, CEO, IVN Address by Prof. Vinod Menon, Founder Member, NDMA, Guest of Honour

Vikas Ahlawat, DANICS, Special Guest of Honour

VP Mahawar, Ex Director (Onshore), ONGC, Guest of Honour D Kartikay, DANICS, ADM South, Guest of Honour Biswajit Mohanty, Associate Professor, Deshbandhu College, DU, Special Guest Shiv Kumar Nigam, Deputy Director (OL), Ministry of Electronics & IT, Guest of Honour

Address by Chief Guest: Prof. Madan Mohan Verma, President, Interfaith Foundation of India, Chief Guest

Launching of IVN Mobile Application and release of #IndiaVolunteer Book – Stories of Inspiration

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14.45 – 15.30 Volunteering Model in Urja Manish Doshi, India Volunteer, IVN Mumbai India Mission India Manoj Kumar Dash, Founder, India Volunteer & Volunteer Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN)

Aniruddha Dey, Hon'y Executive Director, Professional Green Scout / PINV Institute for Development & Socio Environmental Management – PRISM, West Bengal

Mehran Khan, CEO, ELFA International, J&K International Volunteering Uday Shankar Singh, Chief Controller, Vishwa Yuvak Vishwa Yuvak Kendra Kendra, New Delhi Tanveer Khan, Relationship Manager, iVolunteer, I Volunteer for Skill Kolkata, West Bengal

Mayank Giria, Founder, Picture Perfect Moments, Volunteering West Bengal Entrepreneurship

Dr. Anurag Mishra, Associate Professor, Maulana Azad Docs Volunteering Medical College, New Delhi

Samriddhi Gupta Sare Jahan Se Achha Guitar music play Anshumann Dash Pollution Speech Anushree Dash Odishi Dance

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15.30 – 16.30 Panel Discussion: Nagender Shekhar Pati Tripathi, SDM Rohini Moderator Raman Kumar, Simi Suri, HCL Foundation (Panel Chairperson) Vice President, IVN Srikant Bhatia, Editor, Sambad Sindhi, New Delhi Integrating the Krishan Kumar Gupta, Founding Volunteer of National Voluntary Power of Service Scheme India – Scopes, Opportunities and Mintu Debnath, Integrated Volunteers Network partnership Dr. Geetanjali Kaushik, Director, MahaParivesh,

Jyotsana Chuchra, Project Head, GIDMC 2019, iCONEX Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd.

Mukesh Kumar, NCC HQ, New Delhi

Bhavreen Kandhari, Member, #MyRightsToBreathe and #DelhiTreeSOS Community led movements

Wing. Cdr. Sandipani Patra, Indian Air Force

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16.30 – 17.00 Cultural show by India Volunteers Inclusive Yoga By Apoorv Om and Ayush N Chanda Circus Art By Nine is Mine Solo Dance By Sachin (DID, India) Solo Dance By Vanya Singh, Ehesas

17.00 – 17.30 India Volunteer Award Dr. Henna, Urja, Ishita, Anushree, Ankita, Samriddhi 2019 and Prof. Madan Mohan Verma, Chief Guest Felicitations to Partner Abhimanyu Singh, CEO, iCONEX Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd. & Esteemed Jury Members Rajiv Agrawal, Principal, Deshbandhu Collage Special Guest of Honor & Guest of Honor By Manoj Kumar Dash, Shubhro Roy, Mentor, IVN CEO, IVN Raman Kumar, Vice President, IVN Dr. Henna Hejazi, General Secretary, IVN Manoj Kumar Dash, CEO, IVN Prakash D Atreya, IVN Vote of Thanks Mintu Debnath, IVN

17.30 – 18.00 Group Photograph followed by Refreshments

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OUR Partners FOUNDED & ORGANISED BY

HOST PARTNER

VOLUNTEERING PARTNERS

ACADEMIC PARTNER

NGO PARTNERS

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MEDIA PARTNER

IT PARTNER

FB EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/191781601766586/ WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.IVN.ORG.IN/IVDAY/IVDAY2019.HTML Important Dates for the #IVAwards

th 5 December 2018 Announcement of the #IVAwards

st 31 December 2018 Last Date to receive the entries

rd 3 January 2019 Filtering of the entries by Ist Core Committee.

th 9 January 2019 Evaluations of the entries by Jury Members

th 10 January 2019 Finalisations of 10 best India Volunteers

13th January 2019 India Volunteers Day #IVD2019

th 13 January 2019 Honoring the India Volunteers #IVAwards

13th January 2019 Lunching of the India Volunteer Mobile Application

13th January 2019 Announce of entries for the India Volunteers Book

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DRAFTING COMMITTEE MEMBERS – INDIA VOLUNTEER BOOK 2019

Dr.Nawab Mehetab Nasreen, 23 year old doctor, Orator, Volunteer and a Policy maker .Currently working as Medical Officer in ESIC Delhi, Ministry of labour. Best NSS volunteer of Govt.Medical college from 2012-18, resource person to NYKS – MOYAS – Ananthapuram. Honored with Best Youth Parliamentarian Award, Overall best policy maker award at National Youth Parliament in 2018 and 2019 by Youth Affairs, Andhra Pradesh and MOYAS – GOI. Currently spearheading projects MONTHLIES , A campaign about menstrual hygiene , cancer awareness in women, V force leader in UNV India. Appreciated by UN WOMEN for being in top 5 volunteers for IWD campaign. She has published national award winning research papers on rural health twice. Currently she is continuing her research on Volunteering in India, and acting as Vice PresIdent of Vision Youth Association, which works on rural youth capacity building, which recently received Swachh Puraskar for the best youth club in india by honorable president of India.

Megha Pardhi

Megha is pursuing MA in Politics and International Relations at JNU, Delhi. She volunteers for UN. She is also member of GYPC. On social front, her primary interest is to raise awareness of importance of affordable and quality education. She has participated in various youth dialogues including India China youth Dialogue 2020 held by Embassy of People's Republic of China. She is delegate at Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Harvard University 2020.

Monika Ingudam, Social Entrepreneur from Manipur, Alumni of New York University, Abu Dhabi. Working towards attaining the UN SDGs since the last 5 years. She was conferred as the National Youth Icon 2019, Currently she is promoting climate literacy as a Climate Action Network Fellow by Youth Ki Awaaz. She is also associated with prominent entities, such as UN, ICCO Cooperation, ActionAid, Tech Mahindra Foundation, IVN, Ministry of DONER & International Youth Society as Youth Ambassador.

Ms.Vidhi S .Palsapure, M.Sc final year student ,a researcher at IITB;University topper,gold medalist for botany, microbiology and english is the one who loves writing.A trained katthak dancer,a learner of Hindustani vocal,has bagged many rewards and honors in her credit related to arts,drama and cultural activities.A resident of small town Latur, Maharashtra,ahe finds interest in travelling and exploring new cultures and traditions all over the world.She has addressed many events ,being an orator has always tried her best in district,state and national level elocution,debates and extempore competitions.She is a social activitist participating in many NGO programmes.

Parul is pursuing her masters of Commerce from Shri Ram college of Commerce, University of Delhi. She has been into social work from 2017 and through our this journey she became member of different social organisations and right now she is working for Mash Project Foundation, Make a Difference and IVN. She wants to bring change and believe in becoming the best version of herself.

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Aniruddha Dey, M Sc., M Phil, Ph D is the Hon'y Chairperson of the Professional Institute for Development and Socio Environmental Management - PRISM and also a Participatory Research, Innovation & Action Consultant with an expertise in the areas of Disaster & Climate Change Resilience; Environment Education; WASH; Food Security-Safety-Nutrition; Livelihood Promotion; Socio Economic Impact Assessment and Rehabilitation. Experienced in Community Development works with multidisciplinary approaches and mostly dedicated in developing solutions from within based on Traditional knowledge systems approach.

Biswajit Mohanty is an associate professor in the department of political science, Deshbandhu College, university of Delhi. He specialises in border and migration studies and election studies in India. He has contributed articles in journals and edited books on these subjects.

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