WE CAN WE WILL An Initiative of ANNUAL REPORT 2015 - 2016 YOUNG INDIANS T H I R U V A N A N T H A P U R A M C H A P T E R INDEX MESSAGE FROM CII ZONAL CHAIRMAN 02 MESSAGE FROM Yi CHAPTER CHAIR 03 MESSAGE FROM Yi CHAPTER CO-CHAIR 04 LEARNING MISSIONS 06 LEARNING SESSIONS 06 YOUTH AFFAIRS (YUVA CHAUPAL ACTIVITIES) 12 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK 2015 15 NATIONAL VOLUNTEERING WEEK 2015 16 MAJOR EVENTS 17 SPECIAL INITIATIVES 19 EDUCATION 23 CHAPTER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2015-16 25 MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT 22 Yi IN MEDIA 27 ABOUT Yi 28 MESSAGE FROM CII ZONAL CHAIRMAN Dear Young Indians Team, It gives me great pleasure to see the Young Indians initiatives in a country where the dreams and aspirations of the younger generation are soaring to newer and greater heights. The Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter under Mathew's Leadership has seen some great initiatives and activities this year under all its Focus Areas. The year started with the Special initiative like the Yi Pratheeksha 2015 : Book Donation Drive for under privileged students truly proves the important rolean organization like Young Indians plays in our society. Yi also launched couple of national initiatives such as Horn Not Ok Please campaign (HNOP) and Project MASOOM: An awareness Session on child sexual abuse in Schools in association with childline. Yi has also taken some very important initiatives in the year 2015-16 and through its initiatives in leadership development, events, workshops, projects on arts & heritage, creating environmental consciousness, engaging the student community in many of the above focus areas and using them as they are truly a powerful arm of Yi. We would like to see many more joint initiatives taken in the coming year between CII, Yi and IWN and work together in a more effective and productive manner by engaging more number of Young Leaders. This will enhance the overall productivity of the organizations. The year has witnessed a lot of hard work, unflinching commitment and efforts by all our members. I believe and hope that the coming year would bring about more positive participation and new initiatives that would further consolidate and strengthen the indominate spirit . I felicitate the entire team of Yi led by Mathews Veliyath & Kenney Jacob for their Passion and Leadership. Here's wishing there would be many more such achievements in the years to come. JOHN MUTHOOT Chairman - CII Thiruvananthapuram Zone & Chairman , Muthoot Fincorp Ltd MESSAGE FROM Yi CHAPTER CHAIR Dear Young Indians Team, It's another year 2015-16 gone past by and we have completed 7 years of Yi in making in Thiruvananthapuram. Each year has been interesting with the leaders taking turns in making Yi more meaningful. We have been moving ahead taking good steps forward. This year we have been fortunate to be more visible on face book and more than 600+ people are updated .The new members came in and took part in the activities in a good way very soon .We had done 35 events and there has been a variety in terms of engagements we have had . We had many firsts credited to our Thiruvananthapuram account interms of having 3 colleges joined as YUVA this year. New members attending the national events where the maximum networking and learning happens . We have also launched couple of national initiatives such as Horn Not Ok Please campaign (HNOP) and Project MASOOM: An awareness Session on Child Sexual Abuse, Inspirations talks by entrepreneurs has impacted good number of members and students. CII has been a good support with Yi in conducting events and having its distinguished members as part of our learning drives. My Co Chair for this year Kenney Jacob has been very kind to cover my absence in many of the events and deliver this outcome for the year 2015- 16 .His leadership skills have already started showing the positiveness which are awaiting to be seen to the maximum in the next year . Young Indians has 37 chapters across India now and I am sure all the Yi members will explore this knowledge and awesome member's pool to make India a better place under the leadership of Kenney Jacob from Thiruvananthapuram. Thanks for entrusting me the responsibility for this year and I will be part of the Young Indians Team in the future. MATHEWS VELIYATH Chair - Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter & Managing Director, Innovspring Infoserve MESSAGE FROM Yi CHAPTER CO-CHAIR Dear Young Indians, As Co Chair of the Young Indians, Thiruvananthapuram chapter, the last one year has been a wonderful experience for me. We as an organization have moved forward a lot from where we started, seven years back. Being a part of this journey, so far, has been a great satisfying one for me. At the membership engagement level also, we were able to conduct various activities in the last one year. We have also launched couple of national initiatives such as Horn Not Ok Please campaign (HNOP) and Project MASOOM: An awareness Session on Child Sexual Abuse. All these activities had been a success because of the unstinted support and cooperation from the chapter members as well as from the Yi secretariat. Let us uphold the vision of our organization - To be the voice of Young Indians globally, in the future as well. This most powerful rallying point, certainly inspires the spirit of patriotism in all of us. Let us also strive to keep the spirit of innovation, excellence, leadership and learning to be very much part of our organization. We should continue the activities under the various verticals and be part of the national events and international missions that are being carried out by Yi National. I hope we will continue to strive hard for our goals in the coming years as well, and thus take Yi to greater heights. But this can only be done with the help of our Yi members. Thank you. Be Young - Be Young Indian. Together we can and we will KENNEY JACOB Co Chair - Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter & Chief Executive officer, Ayruz Data Marketing Pvt Ltd YOUNG INDIANS (THIRUVANANTHAPURAM CHAPTER) WE CAN WE WILL The year 2015 - 16 has been an eventful year for Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter under the leadership of Mathews Veliyath Chapter Chair and Kenney Jacob Chapter Co Chair. During the year there has been 14 Learning Sessions, 2 Learning Missions and 5 Special Initiatives, Among this International Yoga Day, Horn Not Ok Please Campaign and Project Masoom were the Mathews Veliyath, Chair, Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter & MD, significant Chapter events. Yi Thiruvananthapuram Innovspring Infoserve Pvt Ltd delivering the Acceptance speech. Chapter has strength of 34 members in the present year. Yi Thiruvananthapuram Chapter has done various initiatives and events under its various verticals. 6th Annual Meeting of Young Indians (Thiruvananthapuram Chapter) & Youth Leadership Summit 2015 7 March 2015, Thiruvananthapuram Young Indians Thiruvananthapuram Chapter celebrated its 6th Annual day for the year 2014 -15 on 7th March, 2015 at Hotel Hycinth, Thiruvananthapuram. Alongside the Annual day chapter also organized Yi Youth Leadership Summit 2015. The summit was focused on the Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parmiament (Loksabha) delivering the keynote theme like “Leadership in India” and “Thought address. leadership”. and Yuva members. He also spoke about the importance The key speakers for the summit were Shashi Tharoor, Member of youth in nation building and creating more of Parliament (LokSabha) Thiruvananthapuram Constituency employability opportunities for the citizens. & Author; Swarup B R, Brand Director, BR & S Consultants & Swarup B R Brand Director, BR & S Consultants & Co- Co-Founder & Director, STARK Group; C Balagopal, Former Founder & Director, STARK Group shared his success story IAS Officer, Entrepreneur & Author. The session was well and he explained how STARK group became one of the attended by around 100 participants including Yi members, successful Ad Agency in South India. He also explained Yuva members and IWN members. about some of his successful campaigns which he did for Nishant Nambiar, Chair, Young Indians (Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Tourism and Karnataka Tourism. He also spoke about need of leadership skills while handling a team. Chapter) and Managing Director, Inforich Technologies gave the opening remarks and welcomed the members and C Balagopal, Former IAS Officer, Entrepreneur and Author introduced the speakers sitting on the dais. DNV Kumara addressed the gathering and shared his experience while Guru, Imm. Past National Chairman, Young Indians and setting up the 1st Bio Medical devices company in India. Director-External Relations, Indian School of Business was He also added that he resigned from the IAS in 1983, and present on the occasion from Yi National Team. The chief guest teamed up with the National Research Development for the occasion Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament Corporation, Kerala State Industrial Development (Loksabha), Thiruvananthapuram Constituency delivered the Corporation, and the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (Dept of Science & keynote address and C Balagopal, Former IAS Officer, Technology, Govt of India) to set up Peninsula Polymers Entrepreneur and Author delivered the special keynote Ltd. to manufacture indigenously developed biomedical address on the public session. The session was well attended devices for the first time in the country. Balagopal by around 100 participants including Yi members, IWN concluded the address by communicating that younger members, Yuva members and selected non members generation are the future of India and they should focus During the public session Shashi Tharoor Member of more on entrepreneurship, politics and social justice. Parliament (Loksabha), Thiruvananthapuram Constituency DNV Kumara Guru, Imm. Past National Chairman, Young shared his thoughts about current Leadership scenario in India and also he spoke about the need of right leaders in Indians and Director-External Relations, Indian School of our country with the members; it was really an inspiring Business talked about his own personal experience and speech.