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Little's Science Yard 2017

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This innovision saw a successful continuation of AASRA's 'Little Science Yard' streak. Little science yard is a science project making competition for the children from aasra's different workplaces and it aims at bringing the innovation and talents of the young minds into the limelight. The event took place in the LA premises on 5th of November, 2017. The children reported to the venue by 9:30 am in the morning and submitted their projects- models and chart papers. Apart from these, there were also glass paintings and crafts from the students of OSAP and Sector-6. The event coordinators from AASRA made sure that the projects were divided according to their workplaces and thereafter arranged in the different stalls that were allotted to each workplace. There was arrangement for all the meals and accordingly, breakfast was given to the kids at 10:30 am.  Once the stalls were arranged, Prof. Ujjal Chattraj, Faculty Advisor of AASRA- Prof. SK Das, and a PhD scholar, Pus

Diwali, The AASRA Way

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This year, the festival of lights was celebrated with great gaiety and joy in the workplaces of AASRA. The Diya project initiative of AASRA was a great success this Diwali and played a small yet significant part in lighting up the lives of the people in need. It was celebrated in six workplaces of AASRA which are sector 6, sector 21, sector 5, OSAP, Jagda and Khalsa involving enthusiastic children and equally enthusiastic members.   The first and foremost thing that marked the beginning of Diwali celebration was the distribution of profit made in Diya project among the women who made the diyas in Sector-6, OSAP and Sector-21. Diwali is incomplete without crackers and sweets, and keeping this in mind, sweets and crackers were distributed among the children of all the workplaces. The members were also fed sweets at the end as a happy Diwali from the

Lighting Lives, Making a Difference: Diya Project 2k17

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New clothes, sweets, crackers. Diwali is a time of joy and celebration. But there are many who aren't fortunate enough. For the poor, buying things during festivals can be nothing but a far fetched dream. We at AASRA believe that there's no greater joy than the joy of serving the poor and the less fortunate ones. Each year, we create employment opportunities for dozens of poor women during Diwali, so that they have enough money to celebrate the festival of lights with their families. DIYA PROJECT is our greatest and most awaited project every year, for which every volunteer of AASRA puts in a lot of effort (and love). We buy diyas from a wholesale seller, and buy decorative items such as glitter powder, paints etc. We go to three workplaces and ask the women there to decorate these Diyas for us. Our volunteers roam around the campus of NITR, visiting faculty and students and taking orders for diyas from them. These decorated diyas are sold for a profit, and the profits are g

To New Beginnings

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Guru Nanak Public School, Khalsa has been a partner of AASRA for a long time. We’ve been teaching kids of neighboring slums at GNPS for quite some time now. A few of our alumni members had the idea of using GNPS’s infrastructure for teaching children of Sector-21 and OSAP colony, to maximize our efficiency and also to benefit other children in nearby areas who weren’t in our former workplaces. AASRA’s members had a meeting with the school management body of GNPS in March, 2016. There were some obstacles during the initial phase, as some of the board members were skeptical about giving their infrastructure to be used for teaching kids of nearby localities, due to former issues with people of the naya bazaar area. With a little help from Mr. Kulwinder Singh from GNPS, who has been very supportive of AASRA and a series of discussions and meetings, we finally were able to convince the management. Now, you’ll be happy to know that we have formally begun teaching a

A STEP TOWARDS SKILL DEVELOPMENT

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AASRA, the social service wing of NITR has been working from years to uplift the poor. Our volunteers go around Rourkela and teach underprivileged children. But success isn’t restricted to classroom scoring. Many of these kids are left without jobs after their 12 th . Many are known to leave studies after their 12 th , find petty jobs and work on a wage, or get married. That is when we realized that we needed something to help these kids secure a bright future. The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) is an initiative by the Government of India under the Ministry of Skill Development and Enterpreneurship. It aims to prepare today’s youth in Industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. To help some children who had fewer resources, we at AASRA identified a few kids from our workplaces who could be potential benefactors of this program. Since we go around a lot of places in Rourkela, the search wasn’t difficult for us. We sat down wi