Confluence of Ideas and Process,

Confluence of Ideas and Process,

Some were in June 2012 I attended a workshop called Techprenuers… During the work shop each participant was asked come with an idea and a model to implement it. Now it was the right time to think of action plan which I can do at my level towards UN MDGS. I proposed a social enterprise Model for people to get involved in UN MDGS. The concept is to have a platform for all those who want to something good to the society in general …MDGs in Particular. After 3 days of Preparation I made a basic presentation on the fourth day and found that if was well received and in fact some the attendees of the works shop wanted to get involved the in project

Ideas is fine...what about action,

With this idea I had meeting with Mr. Balsunder who is my friend and mentor for all good causes and after few hours of discussion we came out with a name UniGloW (Uniting Initiators for Glorious World).Now we wanted make the first pilot implementations. We had small core group meeting with some youth who already involved in some environmental activities with us and then we formed sub teams.

Enterprising Project Support in Leicester,

Mean while there was a great support at University of Leicester for student who has an idea and wish to take forward. I discussed my Ideas with Rajinder at Career and followed by that I was suggested to attend the Bootstrap camp. The camp was three full days of workshops which conveyed everything we wanted to know about. Now I was even more clear and was ready to take up the project to a next level and with further action Plans I had few more guidance on action plans started putting my thought in to actions and found the below result

Result in the pilot

A new initiative to educate the children in Orphanage was made and a team of about 7 volunteers visited an orphanage on weekly basis and thought then basic math’s and English

Another team took up the imitative at Abode Precious home...and handled English. The teams also visited old age home and provide moral support to the elderly and also helped children affected with HIV by sponsoring Nutrition Drink and providing them with dress

Having the taste of such social activities all though were not directly reported to UN we had a satisfaction that we are doing something towards MDGs and we took a courageous step to organize a Conference on MDGs to bring further interested people together. And first official Conference of UniGloW was successfully organized on 24 September 2012... and now as team we wanted to take it forward as an internal project  relating to United Nations MDGs….and this was the inspiration for me to get involved in projects related to social enterprising in University of Leicester

 What happened after that…look for f updates in the blog …Thanks of giving you valuable time reading

The Motivation to take Extra Curricular Activities

Inspiration to for a Social Enterprise and United Nations society

One of the great enjoyments and learning during my time in Leicester is though the United Nations Society and social enterprise projects I am involved. During the year I got various Awards Such as “Most Media Appreciated Delegate” in the very first International   Model United Nations conference at Nottingham University  and  “Best Delegate” in the latest  Kingston Model United Nations Conference  at London. This is what is seen outside the tip of the iceberg … as achievement, but the most interesting bit what is lying inside and   how I got the passion toward United Nations..

Well it all started with a random face book post saying “Applications open for the Youth Conference on United Nations Millennium Development Goals”. As usual it took me the applications link with the form capturing the basic details as last came a crucial part was I have to write a short essay on motivation to attend it… Gosh….It took me 15 days to write a short essay not exceeding 500 words… Well the effort paid off...

I got reply saying “Dear Ramkumar, Congratulation  ...You are selected among the 200  talented youths internationally to attend the conference on United Nation Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs)

All though this was moment to celebrate it made me serious as now I have responsibility for the trust entitled on me.

Visa- Rejected Boon or Bane,

At last ..those day when I didn’t have any experience of Travel outside the country…find the right procedure to apply for visa took around   1 week with just 7 days left for the conference ..Somehow visa was processed few days before the conference and reply was a rejection message due to lack of funds in my bank account. Now this should be a moment to feel sad …but I did not want to cloud my eyes which may lead to missing further opportunities.. .Now I have already done a good amount of research about UN MDGs all though could not attend the conference the preparation made was worth it. And kept a little feeling that something should be done…I would say this feeling was programming the subconscious mind. As the opportunity in the plate was missed It derived further to go deeper and dig all the other opportunities in similar lines. No wonder I found that every thigh happens for something good.

When I heard about Leicester Award and societies these previous activities triggered at the back of my mind I wanted to take the maximum benefit from it …This was the motivations behind to take up that extra mile on top my course to get involved in United Nations Society. We had may simulations of real UN on real issues. Well we made debates drafter resolutions but something was lacking …yes the there were actions coming out after our Debates and discussion. Then looked back at my previous initiative toward a project to have a platform to link the UN objectives and actions at the grass root level  this led to a project with social enterprising model…Thanks to career guided tailored to enterprising that cleared some of the blocks which were in plan… What did this really do ?.. …yes made me effective…want to know more about it…read the next blog…