DRACULA's "Nukkad Naatak" (Street-Plays) spreads awareness

DRACULA (the students' Dramatic and Cultural Association of XLRI) performed two wonderful Nukkad-Naataks today to spread the awareness about Joy of Giving Week: Jamshedpur JoyFest

@ Bistupur (in front of Chhappan Bhog)


@Beldih Club

Creating a benchmark for a "Litter-Proof" Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur being one of the 7th cleanest city in the country, finding a place to set this example to keep the city clean/ litter-less, etc, was a bit of a challenge...
..but yet, there are patches of neglect and vandalism

...with the growing neglect for environment and our own public spaces, this is the spot - slightly beyond the Novelty - which the volunteers from XLRI and JUSCO will clean, paint during the next two days - starting at 2pm



and become a part of The Ugly Indians movement...



...though, Yes!, the team still is looking for a ladder to clean the upper portions of the wall.. but guess, surely - "the universe will conspire" to make it happen...

if you are part of the "universe" (and Jamshedpur) help them out :0)
call: 0-8-1-0-2-2-1-5-0-6-7... if you can

Jamshedpur Autos carry the Message of "Joy of Giving Week"

The Auto Association of Jamshedpur joined in to carry the message of Giving around the city.

"Vastra Samman" at Motilal Nehru Public School

Besides many others, there are about 30 schools across Jamshedpur who are participating in "Vastra Samman" initiative (donation of wearable clothes, which will then be sorted and distributed to the underprivileged - and for Orissa Flood Relief). Since the Joy of Giving Week: Jamshedpur JoyFest is falling during the Pooja vacations, most schools are celebrating it either before or after the Week.

Since a picture is more than a 1000 words, here are some photographs from what Motilal Nehru Public School contributed for the initative today... and this is less than half what the students had collected; it filled up the entire Wagon-R (so tomorrow we will go with a tempo to collect the rest)






PostScript: We did return the next day to collect the remaining contribution. And now, with contribution from just one school, this is how our "collection center" looks like!!

A Gift to the City: "Clean, Litter-proof Jamshedpur Drive"

Jamshedpur is a beautiful city. And yet there are public spaces (lanes, footpaths, walls, etc.), which are littered, dirtied and stained. Since dirt attracts dirt, they become continue to become worse. On the other hand, clean well-kept places continue to remain clean (no one spits/ urinates/ throws garbage on clean spots).

So this is the solution. Come Oct 1st, XLRI student and volunteers from JUSCO will clean up some of these places, and paint them nicely on the Oct 2nd.

if you want to join in write to sigma[at]xlri[dot]ac[dot]in

Reduce-Recycle-Reuse... and Contribute!

Arunodaya: Inking the RECYCLED Future - an initiative by a group of students of the XLRI's entrepreneurship course, collected about 3000 single-side used A4 sheets - and have recycled them into these notebooks


They plan to donate some of these notebooks to a basti-school in Chhayanagar slum, which their own batchmates had made during a project in their 1st term

They also intend to “sell” a few to recover their costs (@ Rs. 50 and multiples as donation – notebooks are mere means to a cause) , and if they are able to generate some surplus, that too will go to the school....

the bidding for "giving" starts tonight!

Shadow a CEO is an innovative and unique programme, which was initiated by the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad to celebrate the ‘Joy of Giving Week’ in 2009. This year it has spanned over XLRI & IIMs-A,B,C.

The concept is simple:

- Selected CEOs (the list includes N R Narayana Murthy of nfosys Technologies, Adi Godrej, The Godrej Group; R Gopalakrishnan, Tata Sons; Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biocon Ltd.; Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank etc.) donate one day of their time

- Students bid for that one day, and the winner gets to spend one day with his/her favourite CEO

- The CEO matches (mostly exceeds) the winning bid, which goes to his/her selected charity/NGO/ Cause

The bidding (on eBay) starts tonight and will continue till Oct 4th - the results will be announced by Oct 7th.

So bid generously, donate with a heart!