Highlights
- 8 trained volunteers serve at 8 different districts other than
- 3 teambuilding hikes
- 2 major orientations
- 1 celebration: 100 days
- Weekend simple service projects start
- Environment Documentar and Discussion Series started
- Survey done amongst 1359 students (grades10-12), useful data on volunteerism extracted
- Small fund-raisings
- 6 Volunteers sent to Tanahu's community school
- “Youth Survey” and “Sexual and Reproductive Health Survey” conducted
- “International Volunteer Day” celebration
- NYS T-shirts printed
- “Youth Against Violence” concert organized
- Leadership transformation
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NYS TIMELINE
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UNTIL APRIL: 8 volunteers serve at strategic locations after trainings
Dec 2007: Preparations and trainings for 8 NYS volunteers
Mid-February 2008: Volunteers return
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MAY: Core team informally formed. Regular meetings: 5 a week in average. Card sale at speed. Networks expand.
May 2: Decision to work as to ‘promote volunteerism amongst other young people’ and to start by working as ‘matchmakers’.
May 4: Brief talk with some senior members of YI
May 8-9: Possibility hunt at 5 places: Agreement on sending volunteers at a school, 3 children welfare centres and one old-age home
May 10: Survey at Smart Club & sale of first batch of card for fund collection
May 13: Core meets with some YI Ex. Com members officially for the first time
May 20: A flower-shop agrees to sell greeting cards made for NYS fund-raising
May 17: First Orientation to 9 new people. 7 go for Env. week volunteers
May 24: Hike for support team Hattiban: 20 people plus core team
May 28: Survey on volunteerism starts at schools
May 30: Discussion on volunteerism organized with Smart Club at YDS
May 31: First big and formal orientation attended by over 30 people
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JUNE: Survey continues, volunteers start at several places, anti-plastic campaign preparations
June 7: National Youth Volunteers’ Conference (NYVC) with Youth Action Nepal
June10: Volunteers leave for Tanahu: Rina, Madhavi, Melissa, Tarun, Ganesh and Raghu
June 13: Meeting on the concept paper of NYS
June 15: 2 volunteers start at a community development centre (HW support): Ashish and Manoj
June 17: 3 girls start at a school (HW support)
June 20: First meeting for anti-plastic campaign
June 25: Meeting at a supermarket for anti-plastic campaign
June 30: Volunteers from Tanahu return
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JULY: Concept paper finalized, visioning meeting done, survey with 1359 students at 38 schools and colleges
July6: Meeting with a social research organization about training assistance volunteers
July 7: Training for survey volunteers
July 8: Survey by volunteers starts at a full speed
July 12: Presentation about YI and NYS at a leadership club of a school
July 14: NYS visioning meeting with YI Ex. Com
July 17: 2 volunteers sent to a child welfare organization
July 23: Meeting with 2 environmental organizations for anti-plastic campaign
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AUGUST: 100 days celebration, Small service projects take place, EDDS concept proposed and sessions start, survey analysis starts
August 2: '100th day of NYS Team' celebration at Sallaghari
August 4: Core celebrates 100 days of team internally, core members’ review
August 2nd week: Volunteers help with International Youth Day preparations
August 12: IYD: Volunteers participate and facilitate promotion of NYS and YI
August 15: Greeting-card making session with a leadership club
August 16: Grass-cutting session at a public school
August 19: Review of survey on volunteerism with survey volunteers: High recommendation to continue such survey projects
August 20: Capacity building – letter/email/application writing session for core members and volunteers
August 22: Craft session: students done with making cards and agree to sell at the school
August 26: First Environmental Documentary & Discussion Session (EDDS) at East-West B. School
August 31: Kutumba concert for Koshi victims. Volunteeers help with clothes management
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SEPT: Survey data extracted, EDDS in speed, small one day projects being designed, NYS structure formation
September 3: EDDS at one school
September 5: EDDS at an A level institution
September 6: Volunteers' bonding hike to Gokarna Sept 8: EDDS review and program structure formation
Sept 12: Garima goes as a volunteer to Koshi
Sept 13: EDDS at a plus 2 college
Sept: 18: Sharing session of volunteers about their expectations
Sept. 23: Elections for the new Core Team, formation of NYS structure and policies
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OCT: Capacity Building Session, N.Y.S. T-shirts printed for fund raising, Talent show organized at Learning Center,Pulchowk
October 1:
October 22: NYS T-shirts printed for fund raising
October 25: Talent show organized at Learning center of Naga tole,Pulchowk
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NOV: “Youth Survey”and “Sexual and Reproductive Health Survey” carried out at schools and colleges of Jhapa district, hike to Kritipur
November (
November 15: NYS organized hike to Kritipur .There were around 25 participants in the hike.
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DEC: IVD celebration, Run for Climate
December 5: NYS celebrated “International Volunteer Day” by organizing a concert by “KUTUMBA” at
December 6: NYS volunteers participated in “Run For Climate”. The Run started from Jawalakhel and ended at Basantapur.
2009
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JAN: “Youth Against Violence” Concert .
January 3: NYS volunteers helped in making the “Youth Against Violence” concert successful one by their active participation. The concert was organized by The Muse, Youth Inititative and NYS.
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FEB: Capacity building session,
February 5: NYS organized a capacity building session on topic “Blogging” at YI’s resource room. The resource persons of the session were Mr. Rukh Gurung and Mr. Surath Giri. There were around 15 participants for the session.
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