Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Are we growing old?..or YOUNG..!
Whats in news!
Its pouring badly in Chennai.
More people are seen in the library.
Camera is back and Cyril's fingers moving crazy to capure all the moments in campus.
We are wearing formals more often!..placement season catching up..
Some more changes are going to happen n next few weeks.
Poeple who are representing Radius in all key positiins are going move back stage.
Some new faces will be coming up.
Are you interested to know, who they are!..who have stood tallest to take it all up on their face for next innings of Radius..?..keep watching out for it...
There are more outstanding people..who are going to become a part of a challenging project form Radius..the stars of first think tank project.
Have you identified the stars as yet!..
NO??
Keep guessing..
we wil be back with more!
Till then,
.. enjoy the rain!
Its pouring badly in Chennai.
More people are seen in the library.
Camera is back and Cyril's fingers moving crazy to capure all the moments in campus.
We are wearing formals more often!..placement season catching up..
Some more changes are going to happen n next few weeks.
Poeple who are representing Radius in all key positiins are going move back stage.
Some new faces will be coming up.
Are you interested to know, who they are!..who have stood tallest to take it all up on their face for next innings of Radius..?..keep watching out for it...
There are more outstanding people..who are going to become a part of a challenging project form Radius..the stars of first think tank project.
Have you identified the stars as yet!..
NO??
Keep guessing..
we wil be back with more!
Till then,
.. enjoy the rain!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Hmmmmm.... Something cooking at Radius meetings????
It was a day of nerves for all the office bearers of LIBA radius as the quarterly results of the committee were to be reviewed. The meeting was presided by Dr. Victor Louis Anthuvan, the mentor of the committee. The secreatary of the committee put forward his words of appreciation towards all. The volunteers who made the Joy of giving week, the blood donation camp, the school teaching activities, Eye donation camp and various other programs were given appreciation. The review process intorduced feed back generation drive in the team. The feedback forms were circulated for a critical evealuation of the performance of core and sub committes. This will help to better our performances in coming inititives.The road ahead was discussed- The Rock show and World AIDS day being in the forefront.
Friday, October 30, 2009
School Team Updates
Radius School Initiative: The Way Forward
The Radius: School Committee of LIBA stands for innovation, creativity and passion. The committee has realized the need of leaders in our country and not just the race-winning rats for the rat race. Therefore it has brought the likeminded people together for improving the education system in corporation schools.
From its inception to the present day, the school committee has grown, from being a loosely formed group with tender objectives to a team with clearly laid out goals. The committee aims to reach at least 150 students by the end of the year and help them realize the importance of education in their lives.
Our committee has currently spotted a school Sarvodaya School, Chennai where less privileged children study with minimal facilities. We initially thought of teaching students various subjects however we soon realized that it might not be very useful to them. Since the most important thing that these children lack is motivation. If we succeed in motivating them then the children will manage the rest on their own.
Therefore our committee has come up with an objective to motivate them by developing their personalities and inculcating leadership skills in them at a tender age. To achieve this we are developing 5 modules , each module targets a particular quality of an ideal leader.
The first module aims at building self confidence in children so that they start believing in themselves through which we can target the general sense of helplessness that is found in the less-privileged children. The next module aims at building self-respect in children and also teaching them the importance of respecting others. The third module is on Team building so as to help children form teams and work in teams effectively. The fourth module will concentrate on developing children’s skill to view a problem as a set of goals and sub-goals. We believe that this module will help children in gaining clarity in their personal life’s goals which in-turn will motivate them to pursue their education. The last module focuses on sensitizing children to the social problems troubling society in general. It includes issues like HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, sexual harassment and forced child labour. Also there are few general issues like corruption, dowry, pollution etc. This module should help our children in gaining an insight in to the social problems. They should be able to protect themselves and their siblings from these problems.
We further hope that the children take these issues in hands and fight for them when they enter the world as adults. We believe that these modules will help them realize the importance of education and motivate them to continue their education even under hardships. However we feel that these modules are futile unless we can measure the success we achieve at each stage. Therefore we have also planned to come up with a measuring method through which we can evaluate the usefulness of our strategy.
We currently are in the final stage of developing these modules and measuring instrument and we hope to implement it, right from this month by visiting the school regularly. We at the School Committee believe that as a growing nation it is our children who hold the key to the success of our country. If they are nurtured with care today then they will bring accolades for our nation tomorrow. Therefore we at Radius- School Committee are committed to the cause of aspiring these children for a better tomorrow
The Radius: School Committee of LIBA stands for innovation, creativity and passion. The committee has realized the need of leaders in our country and not just the race-winning rats for the rat race. Therefore it has brought the likeminded people together for improving the education system in corporation schools.
From its inception to the present day, the school committee has grown, from being a loosely formed group with tender objectives to a team with clearly laid out goals. The committee aims to reach at least 150 students by the end of the year and help them realize the importance of education in their lives.
Our committee has currently spotted a school Sarvodaya School, Chennai where less privileged children study with minimal facilities. We initially thought of teaching students various subjects however we soon realized that it might not be very useful to them. Since the most important thing that these children lack is motivation. If we succeed in motivating them then the children will manage the rest on their own.
Therefore our committee has come up with an objective to motivate them by developing their personalities and inculcating leadership skills in them at a tender age. To achieve this we are developing 5 modules , each module targets a particular quality of an ideal leader.
The first module aims at building self confidence in children so that they start believing in themselves through which we can target the general sense of helplessness that is found in the less-privileged children. The next module aims at building self-respect in children and also teaching them the importance of respecting others. The third module is on Team building so as to help children form teams and work in teams effectively. The fourth module will concentrate on developing children’s skill to view a problem as a set of goals and sub-goals. We believe that this module will help children in gaining clarity in their personal life’s goals which in-turn will motivate them to pursue their education. The last module focuses on sensitizing children to the social problems troubling society in general. It includes issues like HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, sexual harassment and forced child labour. Also there are few general issues like corruption, dowry, pollution etc. This module should help our children in gaining an insight in to the social problems. They should be able to protect themselves and their siblings from these problems.
We further hope that the children take these issues in hands and fight for them when they enter the world as adults. We believe that these modules will help them realize the importance of education and motivate them to continue their education even under hardships. However we feel that these modules are futile unless we can measure the success we achieve at each stage. Therefore we have also planned to come up with a measuring method through which we can evaluate the usefulness of our strategy.
We currently are in the final stage of developing these modules and measuring instrument and we hope to implement it, right from this month by visiting the school regularly. We at the School Committee believe that as a growing nation it is our children who hold the key to the success of our country. If they are nurtured with care today then they will bring accolades for our nation tomorrow. Therefore we at Radius- School Committee are committed to the cause of aspiring these children for a better tomorrow
On campus Updates
JOG week preparations took over the on campus team from the end of the term exams. But still, the green initiative teams grew in the midst of all the preparations for the Joy of Giving Week. Tree plantation and the Solid waste development found a place for their birth in the JOG week.
For the tree plantation drive, a total of 80 saplings were bought at a total price of Rs 2800, 40 being Rain Forests trees, and 40 being Neem trees (due to the popularity of our small flying friends). Tree plantation was conducted on the 30th Sept and 2nd Oct 2009. A total of 45 saplings were planted- thanks to the effort of many LIBAities. In fact, many students have adopted most of the saplings planted. The rest of the saplings didn’t get their chance at being planted due to many small reasons burgeoning into a large one – lack of clear communication. So there will be a last (hopefully) tree plantation drive on the 20th Oct 2009 to finish this program. Let us join together and give the trees a home. Who knows, maybe the third time will be the lucky charm.
The Tree plantation drive also initiated the “Adopt a Tree “campaign, informally. It is a variant of the proverb “Little drops of Water make a mighty Ocean”. All you have to do, when you sign up, is to water the sapling that you have “adopted” twice a day. Once while coming to class, and the other while going back. Is it so difficult?? No way. On the other hand, think of the plus points... After 5-10 years, you could come back and show proudly “This is the Tree I have planted”, and maybe in that future, the only trees standing will be ones you planted. So, be on the look out for the “Adopt a Tree” campaign.
The solid waste program started on the 28th Sept 2009 with the newspaper collection drive and the clothes donation drive. This drive was continued throughout the week thanks to the enthusiastic response from the LIBAities. The newspaper collection, at the end of the week, yielded Rs 1000, and the clothes donated made a lot of people at the Goonj happy. Let’s keep up the good response. To make most of this enthusiasm, there will be a newspaper drive every month. Please be on the lookout for it and participate whole heartedly, for a newspaper free room (in your case) and a sustainable effort (on our part).
The last team of the green initiative is the energy efficient LIBA drive. The main objective of this drive is to reduce the power consumption of LIBA. We are in our first phase, which involves the analysis of the consumption patterns for the LIBA buildings. This phase will continue till the 14th of October2009.
Disclaimer: Radius is a LIBA initiative. The Radius members are only the facilitators to make the change in society easier. We are here to make your suggestions and ideas into reality. Please join hands with us and help us make the change quicker.
For the tree plantation drive, a total of 80 saplings were bought at a total price of Rs 2800, 40 being Rain Forests trees, and 40 being Neem trees (due to the popularity of our small flying friends). Tree plantation was conducted on the 30th Sept and 2nd Oct 2009. A total of 45 saplings were planted- thanks to the effort of many LIBAities. In fact, many students have adopted most of the saplings planted. The rest of the saplings didn’t get their chance at being planted due to many small reasons burgeoning into a large one – lack of clear communication. So there will be a last (hopefully) tree plantation drive on the 20th Oct 2009 to finish this program. Let us join together and give the trees a home. Who knows, maybe the third time will be the lucky charm.
The Tree plantation drive also initiated the “Adopt a Tree “campaign, informally. It is a variant of the proverb “Little drops of Water make a mighty Ocean”. All you have to do, when you sign up, is to water the sapling that you have “adopted” twice a day. Once while coming to class, and the other while going back. Is it so difficult?? No way. On the other hand, think of the plus points... After 5-10 years, you could come back and show proudly “This is the Tree I have planted”, and maybe in that future, the only trees standing will be ones you planted. So, be on the look out for the “Adopt a Tree” campaign.
The solid waste program started on the 28th Sept 2009 with the newspaper collection drive and the clothes donation drive. This drive was continued throughout the week thanks to the enthusiastic response from the LIBAities. The newspaper collection, at the end of the week, yielded Rs 1000, and the clothes donated made a lot of people at the Goonj happy. Let’s keep up the good response. To make most of this enthusiasm, there will be a newspaper drive every month. Please be on the lookout for it and participate whole heartedly, for a newspaper free room (in your case) and a sustainable effort (on our part).
The last team of the green initiative is the energy efficient LIBA drive. The main objective of this drive is to reduce the power consumption of LIBA. We are in our first phase, which involves the analysis of the consumption patterns for the LIBA buildings. This phase will continue till the 14th of October2009.
Disclaimer: Radius is a LIBA initiative. The Radius members are only the facilitators to make the change in society easier. We are here to make your suggestions and ideas into reality. Please join hands with us and help us make the change quicker.
Social Entrepreneurship Series – No. 2
Wow!! What a wonderful celebrations we had during Joy of Giving (JOG) Week! I was inspired and motivated by the activities of LIBA Radius in taking such initiatives. One of the best things to me is that LIBA Entrepreneurship Cell (E – Cell) was able to be a part of JOG week by organising a Conference on Social Entrepreneurship on the theme we “mean” Business – Emerging Social Entrepreneurs of the 21st Century, for LIBA Radius during JOG week. Hope the conference enlightened the minds of the students with Ashoka fellows, Mr. Sriram Ayer (Nalanda Way) and Mr. Illango Rangaswamy (TVSG) sharing their experience after the theme introduction by Fr. Joe Arun SJ, professor of Social Entrepreneurship at various institutes across the globe including LIBA.
Coming to our series, let us clearly understand who Social Entrepreneurs are. There is no clear definition for the term Social Entrepreneur, though the term was first created and defined as “men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems” by Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, an organization that strives to create a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector. Different people interpret the term in different ways. Literally speaking, Entrepreneur means one who sets up a business and Social means something related to society, which put together means as a business set up basically for the betterment of the society. This can raise a question whether social entrepreneurship help in generating profits and how it is different from a normal NGO? To be precise, positive social change is the main motive of social entrepreneurship rather than profits. But the possibility of social entrepreneurship resulting in profits cannot be ruled out.
It is very interesting to learn that the number of social entrepreneurs is on the raise year on year. In a materialistic world that runs towards profits, we have people who have made positive social change as their prime motive in their life. What an amazing job they are doing! What triggered them to do so? Why should they do it? What pleasure do they derive from it? Do all these questions have answers? What LIBA Radius, which has promoting social entrepreneurship as one of the missions, can do worthwhile in promoting social entrepreneurship? Watch out this space for more. Let us explore the world of Social Entrepreneurship to the core!
Keep your feedbacks posting. Let us together make this column a meaningful one. Have fun. Wish you all a meaningful and colourful Deepavali wishes! Let the festival of Lights add more light to our lives.
- Boniface P.
The writer is the secretary of LIBA Entrepreneurship Cell (E – Cell) and can be reached at
+91 9884342050 and boniface_p@liba.edu
Coming to our series, let us clearly understand who Social Entrepreneurs are. There is no clear definition for the term Social Entrepreneur, though the term was first created and defined as “men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems” by Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, an organization that strives to create a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector. Different people interpret the term in different ways. Literally speaking, Entrepreneur means one who sets up a business and Social means something related to society, which put together means as a business set up basically for the betterment of the society. This can raise a question whether social entrepreneurship help in generating profits and how it is different from a normal NGO? To be precise, positive social change is the main motive of social entrepreneurship rather than profits. But the possibility of social entrepreneurship resulting in profits cannot be ruled out.
It is very interesting to learn that the number of social entrepreneurs is on the raise year on year. In a materialistic world that runs towards profits, we have people who have made positive social change as their prime motive in their life. What an amazing job they are doing! What triggered them to do so? Why should they do it? What pleasure do they derive from it? Do all these questions have answers? What LIBA Radius, which has promoting social entrepreneurship as one of the missions, can do worthwhile in promoting social entrepreneurship? Watch out this space for more. Let us explore the world of Social Entrepreneurship to the core!
Keep your feedbacks posting. Let us together make this column a meaningful one. Have fun. Wish you all a meaningful and colourful Deepavali wishes! Let the festival of Lights add more light to our lives.
- Boniface P.
The writer is the secretary of LIBA Entrepreneurship Cell (E – Cell) and can be reached at
+91 9884342050 and boniface_p@liba.edu
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