Day 4: Pyramid of Support

Before the start of public school, we had a short exercise on the pyramid of support. The pyramid of support identifies the various stakeholders in the project and how each…

Day 3: Unexpected News

Today when we woke up we received a minor shock. Dhiraj told us that the King of Mysore passed away last night from a heart attack and the whole nation…

Day 2: The Big Day

We woke up really early today. Everyone was feeling very excited and nervous because today is the big day. We were going to the public school as well as the…

Day 1: Touched down

We arrived at Bangalore early in the morning at 3am. Everyone was feeling tired and slightly jet lag. Bangalore is 2.5 hours behind Singapore and the flight was not very…

Flying Off to Bangalore :)

Oh it’s finally here. It’s finally here. I’m so excited that we are going to fly off soon. So many months of hard work all leading up to this day….

Service Learning Workshop

NUS OSA signed us up for a compulsory service learning workshop conducted by Touch Community. Apart from Inspiring India, there were also 2 other teams attending the workshop. It was…

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Fundraising Booth

For this fundraising event, we set up booths in our university and sold pre-loved items – old books, dresses, accessories, paintings done by the children as well as snacks. Our…

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Local CIP

As required by the National Youth Council (NYC), we conducted a local volunteer project. We liaised with Henderson Community Centre (HCC), who was our partner for the previous Inspiring India…

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General Meetings

Jacqueline and I planned to have General Meetings every Friday evening fortnightly. We took a lot of effort in planning the agenda for each meeting so as to make it…

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First Fundraising Activity

Putting oneself into the shoes of a “Karang Guni” for one day has been one of the most interesting yet impactful experiences.  Last Saturday, 22nd September 2013 was our first…