Archive for the 'Community' Category
Happy Holi!
The GDL Team celebrated Holi or होली in Bagar this past Monday. We enjoyed visiting friends in the community, throwing colored powder or rang at each other, eating sweets, and watching Holika being burned.
Please learn more about Holi here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
Bagar Employment Institute and Source for Change speak to BITS Pilani students
A few of us at GDL were asked to speak on development at the grassroots level at BITS Pilani on Sunday February 7th. The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership hosted an Entrepreneurship week and our panel discussion was one of the events. Fortunately we were also able to bring BEI’s Community Leadership team, a nine member [...]
Read More..>>GDL’s first community showcase
On Sunday July 13th, GDL organized its first showcase. Through the medium of video, the GDL team presented to the community what all we have been working on in recent months. Overall attendance was approximately 250. Chief Guests at the event were the COO of the Jhunjhunu district, Gautam Mukherjee; the District Employment Officer, Harish [...]
Read More..>>Bagar Live!
For the past month, I have been working on creating a website for Bagar, a way to bring the identity of this lively town to the worldwide web. I have spent my days walking around the village, taking pictures and also talking to as many people as possible about the culture and history of this [...]
Read More..>>Good luck Football Campers!
As part of it’s community leadership effort, GDL interns Akshay Singh and Anurag Dutta started a football training camp for the Bagar Youth this summer. The goal was to impart football skills, and also to impart equally valuable teamwork and leadership skills. The ultimate goal is to excite youth about coming together through sport, and [...]
Read More..>>Week 1 of Summer Camp
After setting up the plates and cups, in preparation of the Summer Camp’s first meal, I waited outside. Suddenly I saw them coming – 40 summer campers. We had anticipated 25.
Since then, running the summer camp has been a challenge. We had to rearrange the schedule to accommodate so many students. And we are struggling [...]
launching the summer camp
GDL is a whole new place with 20 more people. The interns arrived this past Thursday and, after two days of orientation, everyone’s off and running with their projects.
On the summer camp front, the advertising that our team (which includes the interns and members of GDL’s admin team) has done is paying off. We talk [...]
Ward 11 Sanitation Proposal
Ward 11 Safai Project Proposal
Summary
GDL Bagar aims to find and implement effective solutions for improving the street trash situation in Bagar. With the support of the municipality representative, the GDL team has chosen Ward No. 11 of Bagar in hopes of making it a model ward for safai. The proposed project will focus on [...]