The
School Kit Drive of Youth For Seva (YFS) Hyderabad aims at gifting 15,000
school kits this year to children studying in the under resourced schools in
urban slums, rural, and tribal areas.
The school kit comprises of a bag with 5 notebooks, pencil/pen, dictionary, water bottle and a year planner.
The school kit comprises of a bag with 5 notebooks, pencil/pen, dictionary, water bottle and a year planner.
Every year volunteers
of Youth For Seva (YFS) Hyderabad participate themselves in raising funds, packing
of school kits and later distributing them to the needy across the Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh states.
This ‘School Kit
Drive’ was driven by the full time coordinators from YFS team
by establishing contacts with old volunteers and spread awareness this activity.
They set up stalls at various renowned IT companies such as CA technologies, Thomson
Reuters, Oracle and many more in Hyderabad. Several activities were conducted to raise
funds to sponsor these school kits which cost at Rs. 400 each.
Under ‘Corporate
Packing’, the entire kit items were delivered directly to YFS’ partner
companies and employees (corporate volunteers) help in this activity. Some of
the companies packing happen at corporate campuses such as at Google, Wells
Fargo, and Deloitte.
The part-time
volunteers who comprises of working professionals, students, home makers, and
retired people assemble at a common location and pack the items as part of ‘Volunteer
Mobilized Packing’ activity.
This year, on
June 5, 2016, around 400 volunteers gathered and packed 8000 kits within 2
hours.
For distribution of school kits, YFS
volunteers along with full time coordinators personally visit the government
schools in and around Hyderabad as well as in districts. In rural areas, YFS
Hyderabad distributes the bags with the help of partner NGOs.
YFS believes that a helping hand from the
society will encourage the students in attaining education and arrest the
school dropout rates.
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