Activities of Community Welfare Cell
Projects with NGOs
We primarily collaborate with NGOs like Pratisandhi, which work to create awareness about sex education and work on some social welfare projects related to sex education, health and hygiene, or any other general social issues faced by the community. We also collaborate with them and call volunteers from campus for the local NGOs nearby, especially during breaks, to increase social work and volunteerism on campus.
VYLC(Vivekananda Youth Leadership Convention)
Evirothon’16
Evirothon’16 was conducted to raise awareness for a cleaner, greener environment as a part of campus wellness enhancement initiative by Prakriti. We conducted this event in order to raise awareness among IITK community about the environmental changes appearing around us and to encourage people to consume eco-friendly product and use resources more consciously and together thrive for pollution free surrounding. The Marathon was a 5km run which began around 04:00 pm, on 3rd Jan, 2016. Prize were distributed to top three position holder in both the categories namely, Boys and Girls. Refreshments were also given to all the participants. The event was flagged off by DOSA sir and prizes were distributed by Dr. Abhas singh
Prayas Athletics Meet
PRAYAS organized Athletics Meet for the first time. At first kids were given basic training for 10 days. Then they were divided in 3 pools and final competitions were held in PE Ground on 21 June 2015. Kids received certificates for excellent performance.
Rakshabandhan Celebration
Rakshabandhan was celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm on 29th of August in PRAYAS. Along with the celebration sweets were also distributed among kids.
Annual Function
PRAYAS organized its 14th Annual Function on 27th September 2015. The event witnessed a large number of audience. There were dances, drama, music, fine arts events. Theme of this year was “I COUNT”. (To give message to everyone that person is important.)
Diwali Celebration
PRAYAS celebrated the festival of DIWALI on 9th November 2015. The New-Sac was decorated with candles and lamps by kids. Several Rangoli were also made for decoration. Aarti was organized and sweets were distributed among kids.
Christmas & New Year Celebration
To fuel up the start of new semester with enthusiasm and fun kids celebrated Christmas and New-Year on 1st January. PRAYAS room was decorated with ribbons and balloons. Kids dressed as Santa distributed chocolates and toffies to all kids. Afterwards, kids enjoyed playing Antakshari.
UDAAN
UDAAN is intra PRAYAS cultural competitions mainly focused on oration skills, creative writing, fine arts, quiz etc. Third edition of UDAAN was organized from 22nd January 2016 to 24th January 2016. Various events were organized in which kids and volunteers participated and enjoyed. All the winners were awarded with various prizes according to their interests to nurture their curiosity and intellect.
Paper craft workshop
Paper-craft workshop was organized on 17th February 2016. Kids tried their hands on making various things of paper like jewelry box, paper jewelry etc.
Blood Donation Camps
Raktarpan organised 3 major and 3 hall level blood donation camps in the last two semester, as mentioned in the following table. We will be having more camps in the coming month. Helpline Requests: We have handled around 90 helpline requests from various hospitals in Kanpur, and helped the requestors with donor cards or donors, as the case may be. Awareness Sessions: 3rd March- Education Department, Kanpur University This session took place before an audience of around 70 people in KU.
Open House Session
An intense discussion took place on how the wing should develop- Should Unmukt talk about diversity in general or focus on Gender and Sexual Diversity. After a long series of arguments. It was concluded that Unmukt should focus on gender and sexual diversity. It was also decided that there should be a short session from Team Unmukt during Orientation programme.
Organising Competitions and Workshops for Campus Community
Social Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition: In this students have to develop and pitch their social entrepreneurship ideas that aim to address societal challenges while also being financially sustainable.
Prayas Premier League
Prayas Premier League (PPL) is a cricket series organized in summers for the kids as well as the volunteers. Apart from teaching teamwork and help achieve goals. Playing a sport makes one learn accountability, dedication and leadership. Hence it becomes important to organize such events. PPL 2015 was conducted with the same spirit from 21May 2015-2 June 2015. There were five teams comprising of the kids and the volunteers. PPL concluded successfully with 12 matches.
Cloth Donation
For the past few years, we have been trying our best to distribute clothes during winter (blankets and basic winter garments) to the needy and homeless people in Kanpur city and villages around Kanpur. We plan to raise funds to distribute 'kambals', 'woollen caps', and 'socks' to as many people in the city, railway station, and villages as we can within our capacity.