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Working on a Research paper

Cognizance of the plight of Indian child beggars and the need for an institutional rehabilitative framework Summary “States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare”- Article 36: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). The Indian government being a signatory to the UN CRC is bound to protect the rights of child beggars. Drawing on detailed field study done by Deshpande fellows in Hubli-Dharwad, we propose a much active and serious role by the government of India in rehabilitating child beggars. Adequate cognizance must be made to the deplorable situation of child beggars and institutional frameworks must be designed urgently to save the child beggars, currently caught in a vicious cycle of unending indignity, abuse and marginalization. Expanding on our hypothesis we put forward reasons for inadequate humanitarian work done for child beggars. We discuss reasons for the failure...

Computer Skills Workshop for NGO's

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Computer Skills workshop for NGO's

This is an endeavour to reach out to development professionals who need technolgy skills to be more effective. We would give them handson experience on the latest software on the best machine available. It is expected that after the session they are reasonbly more confident in handling technology.They utilise blogs,websites for their advantage and hence contribute more effectively.

Netra's Bday

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Here is how I wait for my classes

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Market Oriented Value Enhancement(MOVE)

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Market Oriented Value Enhancement (MOVE) is a method to approach income generating activities for the poor, landless, asset poor, and illiterate with marketing as the central focus. Marketing, for our purposes, is simply defined as understanding the customer’s needs and wants and designing and delivering products and services accordingly. Participants ask, “What does the customer want?” first and then, “How do I deliver it?” Market Orientation simply means shifting the participants focus to customers. Instead of being oriented to their own perceived abilities (or lack of) participants will undertake a business venture according to customer demand. This is market orientation. Value Enhancement is the process of continuously evolving new products and services to cater to customer needs and demand. By adding value to products according to the customers’ wants, entrepreneurs can serve specific market niches that larger producers cannot cater to.

Presentation Class

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Accounts Module ends

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Taryn's Birthday

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Akshay Patra Fundrasing Plan

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Relax Senior’s Home Marketing Plan- “Cheer up!! Life Begins at 60”

Relax Senior’s Home Marketing Plan- “Cheer up!! Life Begins at 60” The “Relax Senior’s Home” is a full-service old age care facility that cares for people from age sixty and better . Relax will provide day as well as residential services to our customers. Relax will be concentrating on the upper end of the market, two income professional parents. These personally ambitious parents typically want best care for their parents and are willing to pay to have their parents attend the best facilities. Through specialized training of the support staff and innovative systems, Relax will be market leader. Relax is cutting edge in terms of old age activities and development. This curriculum, coupled with a custom designed facility and a low facilitator/customer ratio ensures a top-shelf service for the senior parents and the working children. The “Relax” expects to become profitable by month 11, and has projected 10 lakhs as the revenue for year three. Purpose of Marketing The purpose of Relax ...

A bit about me

Spent early childhood in a tiny village Gairigaon(Kurseong) Darjeeling Was the only day scholar in class,only one from the village Gairigaon boy studying in the prestigious Goethals Memorial School and walked 15 kms everyday to school amidst leeches.Took the toy train once in a while Hindi is my mother tongue but spoke Nepali ,later did i realize the fact. Jesus was he only god i knew for long ,was too confused with the large no of hindu divine figure. Gorkhaland national liberation movement was an everyday influence on me. Fashion designing was my first career choice ,was in NIFT fashion design course after SSLC ,quit to pursue computer engineering Was the president of Sanket,Managed treasury,alumni relations,management technical and editorial board Published signature,malaviyan,eyewatch,sanketakshar and sanket magazine Did less of engineering and more of student affairs Never looked for a job got one to survive Won the tech prastuti national tech fest paper presentation in the 1st se...

Innovation...a different view

Can't agree more for the fact that innovation is the most important factor for entrepreneurs but it is important to highlight the ignored part of innovation. Ideas that work lie in between being outrageously innovative and being mediocre, a great idea is one whose time is now not the future. Though it is important to aggresively be futuristic but the big pitfall might be the complexity of idea itself, ,my mind wanders that the perfect idea would be one that a common man can understand and make sense of while the venture capitalist can see the innovativeness too. The excitement of innovation can make us work on ideas that are too far away from today's world offcourse these are the ones that transform societies but such ideas should have really small practicable implementations. It pays to say ,an idea should be simple.A simple idea is indeed an innovative one. I know all that i say is controversial...but its just a thought i need to keep in mind.

Victorious in Greeting Card Competition

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Manndeshi-Banking for the women,by the women

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Bank does banking nothing else Technology does not cut down costs its just increases efficiency Be open,accessible Awards may be cause for problems Everybody cheats..poor is no different Men do not snatch jewelery from women it goes against their pride,it makes sense to empower them by gold Economic progress does not mean health equity. Some things are rubbish ,don't take them Business decisions have no space for emotions The more times you talk the more it become ours Delegate power when u are important.

With the Pioneers of Ecotourism in India

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At one of late night meetings

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The Fundraising module

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Rehabilitation of distressed women

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Children's Day

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Different culture,different nationalities,different religion ,One Goal-Humanity

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Hillary leaves India

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Engaging Youth against Gutka

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Rescuing artistic heritage and empowering women

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Guerilla Marketing

Guerrilla marketing is an unconventional way of performing marketing activities intended to get maximum results from minimal resources. You don’t have to invest huge money if you invest time, money, imagination and information Guerrilla marketing removes mystique. It is the process you control Spirit and soul of small business is guerrilla marketing. Big dreams and tiny budget Lets all be guerilla

Lets Fly –A Colorful Kite fest

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On 16 of November the sky looked more colorful than ever, as evening set in the Kite Fest picked up. School students, college students and fellows of Deshpande Foundation had a unique experience something that would linger in their memory for long. Not all knew to fly kites, slum children experts in this skill guided elders and made them comfortable. Kite is symbolic in many ways; it’s a poor child’s world of dreams, hope and aspirations, something that goes against the wind right up in the sky. This fest meant fun for the people in it but the logistics gives it the feel of a social entrepreneurship, we had purchased the kites from slum children staying just behind BVB campus, they make kites during their leisure time and sell it at very low cost. Our moto for this fest was to help the child to earn profit by strategic planning. We sold the kites at higher prize to the participants and also involved the children for sales. They understood the value of effective marketing. The children ...

हरी-या-ली update

Hariyali has been moving places...after Nruptunga, we moved to PC Jabin Hostel and now we are working in BVB College near stadium ,the next big thing is watering plants. We have used now alll forms of watering 1.Rain water 2.Supplied water 3.Hired Tanks 4.Small pots of filled water 5.Asking people to water by small drinking bottles 6.From a small pond So we will have a 100% Survival rate at any cost Cheers to that thought.

वाटरिंग

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ग्लोबल वार्मिंग अवारेनेस सेस्सिओं इन schools

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Deccan Herald covers our story

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Obama's Victory Speech

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America. It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful o...

Wow!!!! Sunflower

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Prof V.S Venugopal ...Very Inspiring

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हल्लोवीन-Superman

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Diwali

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