AIESEC IIT Kharagpur_Aarohan Workshop_2011_Press_Release1

August 8

PRESS RELEASE

2011

Workshops on every Saturday till August 30, 2011.

For more details, contact: Sarika Sivareena (+91-9593403907)

PROJECT AAROHAN

AIESEC is the world's largest youth run, not-for-profit organization spread in over 110 countries and across 1,700 universities with over 65,000 enthusiastic youth as active members. It forms a platform for students interested in world issues, a platform to discover and develop your leadership potential, with exchange of people and ideas among countries.

Vision of AIESEC: “Peace and the fulfilment of humankind’s potential” is the vision that drives the organization. AIESEC believes that the best way to achieve this is by first developing talent in individuals and thus inside companies, organizations and our communities. It is individuals who will positively impact society and create the change that will bring us closer to our vision for the world. AIESEC creates its positive impact by conducting several events through various social projects.

AIESEC India is the largest Member Committee of AIESEC International. We have 20 local chapters in AIESEC India with AIESEC IIT Kharagpur being the youngest and innovative one.

Contact: Sarika Sivareena sarika.sivareena@aiesec.net; (+91) 9593403907 www.aiesec.org | www.aieseciitkgp.org

PROJECT AAROHAN is a three-month long project which started on 17th July, 2011 in Jamshedpur. Under this project, students from various countries came to India to work in different Non-Government Organizations to create a social impact which is the vision of AIESEC as an organization. At present we have six interns from three countries - South Korea, China and Tunisia who are working with NGOs like Neev, Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS), Pariwar Kalian Sansthan in Jamshedpur on every Saturday starting from 6th August, 2011. They have been delivering result-oriented-workshops to the target sector of the NGOs focusing on social issues like    

Women Empowerment Leadership, Viral Fever and Chikungunya Career Counselling

Contact: Sarika Sivareena sarika.sivareena@aiesec.net; (+91) 9593403907 www.aiesec.org | www.aieseciitkgp.org

WORKSHOP ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT – TSRDS URBAN SERVICES [August 06, 2011]

A workshop was conducted on the theme of Women Empowerment by the collaborated efforts of TSRDS-Urban Services (US), AIESEC IIT Kharagpur & NIT Jamshedpur at the Community Centre, TSRDS-US, Jamshedpur on August 6, 2011. The target audience was mainly women of all age groups. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Owen, from China, working as intern at TSRDS-US and friends of AIESEC. The session began with an introductory speech giving a brief overview of the issue under consideration. A brief presentation & awareness videos was hence shown which reflected more on the issues like dowry, girl child, female infanticide, girl education etc. The session was an interactive one with participants enthusiastically asking questions & getting their queries cleared. A skit was being prepared by the Mr. Owen highlighting the differences between a Chinese family & an Indian family when it comes to the issue of women empowerment. Along the course of time, various interactive games were played which were aimed at creating awareness, identifying problems, providing viable solutions. On the whole the workshop proved to be an enriching learning & fruitful session for the participants.

Contact: Sarika Sivareena sarika.sivareena@aiesec.net; (+91) 9593403907 www.aiesec.org | www.aieseciitkgp.org

WORKSHOP ON LEADERSHIP – JAMSHEDPUR [August 06, 2011]

With an objective to spread importance of leadership, a workshop on Leadership was conducted by AIESEC IIT Kharagpur and NIT Jamshedpur at Centre for Family Initiatives, Jamshedpur this Saturday. The session was given by Mingxia, an intern from China. She described leadership and its importance in the life of individual at workplace and family.

Average age of all the participants was 18-20 years. Participants shared their experiences and views about leadership. Two activities were conducted to make the session interactive and effective. One involved presentation by groups where the members had to select a group leader, decide upon the name of the team, slogan and song of the team and also list down the qualities of a good leader. The another activity was to check upon team building skills of the members it was named ‘Windfire- Ring Side’ . We believe the workshop has been able to give a new dimension & plethora of ideas to the participants to excel in both their personal & professional aspects of life.

WORKSHOP ON CAREER COUNSELLING – JAMSHEDPUR [August 06, 2011] The workshop started with formal address from Mr. Anurag Jain,_________ where he told briefly about Social Entrepreneurship and work of NEEV in social service sector. Then he told about the entire process, followed by small introduction of AIESECers, Friends of AIESEC (FOA) and interns Kiddy and Joyce from China. Participants were students from 8th -10th standard with few class 10pass students. The Interns interacted with all the students; the topics were why they choose India for internship, some introduction about China, culture gap between both the countries. The workshop was very interactive and everyone actively participated in the discussing various topics like, what career path to select and overview of each of them.

A Presentation was shown on different types of careers. The students were asked about the career path they want to choose from it and then the interns gave details about each of them. Followed by Question & Answer (QnA) session where students asked queries related to the different careers. This was followed by a presentation on how to get into preferred choices of careers. This was all about the various entrance examinations followed by QnA about the examindations, what subject to choose after 10th and the preparation needed to clear them? The interns covered all the option the student can get after 10th from engineering, medical, commerce and arts. Then FOA, Interns and AIESECers shared their experience while appearing in the various examinations, and the preparation they needed. They covered what a good career plan should have. In the end the students were asked to make a career plan in group in the form of a case study and the best plan was awarded.

Contact: Sarika Sivareena sarika.sivareena@aiesec.net; (+91) 9593403907 www.aiesec.org | www.aieseciitkgp.org

WORKSHOP ON CHIKUNGUNYA – JAMSHEDPUR [August 06, 2011] The workshop started with formal welcome by Ms. Priya, a Friend of AIESEC. She talked about the objective of the workshop, and how AIESEC IIT Kharagpur chapter was instrumental in organizing the workshop. It was followed by the speech of Ms Pranavi, of AIESEC IIT Kharagpur, where she talked about the Project Aarohan. She also introduced the interns: Lily from Tunisia and Suzie from China.

It was followed by a small skit with the aim of creating awareness about Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted by insects. After that, the interns talked in detail about causes, symptoms and prevention of the Chikungunya. They also shared their experiences in the last one month in India. In the end, two doctors from Parivar Kalyan Sansthan held an interactive session with the audiences and answered their queries. They cleared many misconceptions regarding the disease and highlighted the importance of prevention over cure.

For more details, contact, Executive body Co-ordinator, Sarika Sivareena (+91 9593403907).

Contact: Sarika Sivareena sarika.sivareena@aiesec.net; (+91) 9593403907 www.aiesec.org | www.aieseciitkgp.org