Youth Venture

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YV's first batch of Changemakers

In the first cycle , YV Challenge is supporting 27 young people to launch ventures on their social change ideas. After 3 capacity building workshops, the venturers present their ideas to a panel. Based on the panelists feedback, YV invests Rs 10,000 in each lead venturer.

The issues around which ventures has been launched are; Environment, Working with Transgenders, Women’s empowerment, Environment, Sensitization of Youth groups for prevention of HIV /AIDS , Work with children to provide lifestyle counselling and awareness, Working with children in hospitals, Education of Street Children, Street Theatre , Girls education, Vocational Guidance, Consumer Rights and RTI, Education of school drop out children and Elderly Care.

Mumbai Marathon-2008

Join us in supporting our 1st batch of YV venturers as they run in the Mumbai Marathon for creating awareness around the idea of young people leading social change.

Send the link below out to your generous friends, members of your family etc who you believe would like to help these 20 young people follow their dreams!

http://www.giveindia.org/give/pledgepage/YouthVenture

Thanks!

~*~UPDATE~*~

Here are pictures taken from the Mumbai Marathon:

YV Venture Ideas

Shailaja Kasare and Manisha Adhar are working on encouraging young girls in their respective communities to take up academic and vocational guidance courses. They held a day long program recently to take the girls in their communities for a fun day out. After a morning of exploring the woods and games, they had an expert address them on different options for girls who have dropped out from schools.

Name: Tayappa
Venture Name: ‘The Garbage Program.’
Venture Description: Tayappa is creating awareness about the importance of keeping the community clean with the help of street plays and posters at popular festivals. Being a slum dweller and seeing tons of garbage around his place everyday he wants to educate people about the effects of non-scientific methods of disposing garbage and mobilize and educate the community to embrace modern methods of garbage segregation and disposal.

Name: Ramesh Joshi
Venture Name: ‘Ashayein.’
Venture Description: Ramesh wants the children who are leaving on the streets near his home to have access to basic education.He strongly believes that lack of education is the root cause of all problems. He conducts classes with the children twice a week and also encourages them to explore their other talents and skills.

Name: Ansari Masrud Sanjurali
Venture Name: ’Aashiyana.’
Venture Description: Masrud wants to build a youth group in Mankhud to work with social issues in and around his area. Mankhud, being a newly rehabilitated place, he believes that a youth group will help bring the people in the community together and also help people in settling down to theri new homes faster. This he also believes will be a strong deterent to the increasing levels of crimes in Mankhud.

Name: Geeta Koli
Venture Name: ‘Girl’s Education.’
Venture Description: The community where Geeta stays believes that there is no need to send the girl child to school as their destiny is to marry and taking care of the house. Geeta’s mission is to transform this attitude. Being the only girl in her community to have gone to school,she believes that educating a girl is equivalent to educating the whole family, thus benefiting all.

Name: Sumit Gade
Venture Name: ‘Pragati.’
Venture Description: Summit wishes to work with young children admitted in hospitals, engaging them in games and activites and thus helping them to deal with their illness with a smile.He believes that the childrens hospitals need to be made fun and child friendly.Using puppet shows and songs, he wants to make sure the kids enjoy their stay in hospitals, eat medicines without throwing tantrums and go home back smiling.

Name: Ashok Rathod
Venture Name: ‘Magic star.’
Venture Description: Ashok Rathod, is building an activity group in his community, where people can share their problems, express opinions on various issues, etc; through their common passion- football. As most of the people living in his community come from difficult backgrounds, he wants to build a community spirit around it. He wants to use football to build rapport and encourgage children in his community to go to school

Name: Vijay Johare
Venture Name: Jagriti
Venture Description: Vijay wants to work with young people and their families encouraging them and the key players in their life to look at education not as an option, but as a necessity. He started by undertaking a survey to understand how many children in his community go to school and is currently work with parents, and in particular mothers, to ensure all children in his community attend school.

Meeting up-4th workshop

PANEL

The panel day started with a briefing for the 20 panelists who were with us for the 2 days of panel discussions. Each panel comprised of 3 panelists and we had 6 panels running simultaneously. The panelists comprised of Ashoka fellows and professionals from the academic, business and ciitizen sector in Mumbai. Each team got 15 minutes to present their ideas, followed by 10 minutes for the panel to raise questions which was follwed by 20 minutes of panel debrief of the venture team.

There seems to be two kinds of people in this world... the ones who complain on how things are not working and the one's who dont have the time to complain because they are too busy doing something about the things which are not working. YV brought two 'generations' of the latter together ....one group who have begun the journey and travelled the path of leading social change and the next generation who through signing up at the YV Challenge are about to start on that journey!

Third Workshop

In the third workshop,Venturers were asked to think of their unique context and project idea and identify the people, skills and organizations that will support them, help to develop and implement their project idea. The Resource Mapping and budgeting exercises helped the venturers to think through and identify the network of resources in their community that will support their Venture.

Second Workshop

The World cafe was designed around three questions..

• What were your key successes?
• What surprised you and what did you learn from it?
• How has your idea progressed?

If you can't view pictures of this workshop above, go to lucidpanks.

First Workshop - Idea Development

Youth Venture Challenge (YVC) brought together 27 young people from across Mumbai to work on a social issue they are passionate about. In the 1st workshop, the venturers worked on building and developing their idea before going back to the community to field test their action plans and strategies.

Ladies & Gentlemen presenting...

....the next generation of Changemakers!