iVolunteer
A classmate of mine from LIBA used to spend her week ends volunteering at the Crocodile Bank. Her room mate, who was working with a leading Bank, also used to volunteer there. And one fine day she (the room mate) decided to chuck her well paying corporate job and join the Crocodile Bank full time. This seemingly absurd decision made me introspect and ask myself existential questions like Who am I and What do I want to do. Of course, existential questions don’t have an answer, and I finally answered myself with a stiff shot of Vodka.
Volunteering is in some people’s mind set I guess. Some of them can, hats off to them. Most of the people like me just shrug and walk away. One of those who cares is Anusha Veluswamy, who left the metblog team a message about iVolunteer – a not-for-profit organization that promotes and facilitates volunteering in India. I checked their website and was impressed. The opprtunities for volunteering in Chennai are here. So do spread the word, something good might come out of it.
At last, something meaningful on this site…
//And one fine day she (the room mate) decided to chuck her well paying corporate job and join the Crocodile Bank full time. This seemingly absurd decision made me introspect and ask myself existential questions..//
You didn’t tell how much the jobs paid them. Tell me the pay, I will tell you whether the decision was absurd or not.
Anyway thanks for the links.
Guys,
I must say, the quality of Chennai metroblog has increased tremendously. Gats off to you folks for reviewing the blog and weaning unwanted elements who wrote crap for sometime. Carry on the good work.
Chenthil,
Nice post. Dissemination of valuable info like this adds to the appeal of this blog.
valuable post….the link provided was also quite helpful…..the problem is although we do have quite a lot of software proffessionals when it comes to finding information on the net…esp. about orphanages, homes for old and special people and for that matter any volunteering services was always a nightmare….it would be nice if more effort is put into this area….so that not only we are proud that we are technologically advanced but that technology is really helping our people, who are in need, in reaching out to people who have the minds and resources.