Great news! The IISER alumni community continues to contribute to YATN. Attached below is a mail from Mayank Chugh - about a fundraising event conducted in his institute to support YATN.
Dear Y.A.T.N. and associated members,
Greetings from old, pretty, crooked, and charming university town of Tübingen, Germany!
Some of you know that I tried supporting the activities of Y.A.T.N. here in Tübingen recently and those who are not aware of any such thing, here’s the deal: I organised a fund raising event for Y.A.T.N. along with two friends of mine, Christine Kiefer and Avin Ramaiya last month (May 14, 2016. Firstly, I would like to thank you for coordinating with me over the web to provide me all the information that I needed for the event. Secondly, I am delighted to tell you that the fund raising event had been a massive success! We managed to raise an amount of 800 Euro/60,000 INR.
Many congratulations!
Now let me tell you the underlying motivation and summarize the whole fund raising event.
Motivation:
Last year I was sitting with Christine Kiefer (one of the organisers; she is German by nationality) and we were discussing the way we have been raised in our respective countries. What stood striking out of our conversation was, the kind of education system that are present in two countries. In short, I described her how many under privileged children just do not get to see schools in their lifetime. I briefed her about our Y.A.T.N. group which was started by our seniors and my on-off involvement in it. We instantly came up with an idea of organising a fund raising event for Y.A.T.N.
Sometime during the beginning of this year, we sat down and tried to figure out a place and scale of the event. I went three rounds of presentation about Y.A.T.N. and discussions and convincing people who could provide us potential place for the event for free (Of course, I cannot rent a place here just like that and my institute does not work that flexibly as IISER M). Finally, we found a prospective place and we turned this event into a big open Indian charity party to the whole city.
Fund Raising Even/Indian Party:
The Indian party had various attractions. They are as follows:
1. Talk and discussion about the Y.A.T.N.
2. Cultural Program (Bharatanatyam dance performance, Rabindra Sangeet, and Gazals)
3. Bollywood-Electro Fusion DJ.
4. Indian Henna Tattoo counter.
5. Indian food and drinks.
6. Donation box.
As I mentioned, the party was open to the whole city without any entry ticket and more than 200 people showed up. It was crazy! Believe me, when I say this because it is not India here. We got a lot of appreciation from everyone because it was a great international crowd under one roof.
We primarily raised the funds via selling food and drinks that we prepared ourselves. We prepared a variety of food such as mix pakora, papadam, samosa, chutni, rice, channa masala. We prepared and sold mango-flavoured lassi as the prime drink.
It is unbelievable that 15 unknown people approached up after the party notice and volunteered for help in any possible chores.
A big thanks goes to the DJ, a friend of friend, who volunteered to DJ the whole night for us and he came all the way down to Tübingen from Dresden.
Once again, a big thanks to you guys for helping me out here.
Once again, congratulations!
Y.A.T.N. volunteers have been doing a commendable job. It is great that you guys have started new missions and have broken the dormancy of Y.A.T.N. blog. I would still request you to document everything and keep sharing information such as photos of the students who are attending school this year and other activities.
It was our pleasure and honour to organise this event for Y.A.T.N. and we are happy to support Y.A.T.N.
Best Regards,
Mayank, Christine and Avin
Greetings from old, pretty, crooked, and charming university town of Tübingen, Germany!
Some of you know that I tried supporting the activities of Y.A.T.N. here in Tübingen recently and those who are not aware of any such thing, here’s the deal: I organised a fund raising event for Y.A.T.N. along with two friends of mine, Christine Kiefer and Avin Ramaiya last month (May 14, 2016. Firstly, I would like to thank you for coordinating with me over the web to provide me all the information that I needed for the event. Secondly, I am delighted to tell you that the fund raising event had been a massive success! We managed to raise an amount of 800 Euro/60,000 INR.
Many congratulations!
Now let me tell you the underlying motivation and summarize the whole fund raising event.
Motivation:
Last year I was sitting with Christine Kiefer (one of the organisers; she is German by nationality) and we were discussing the way we have been raised in our respective countries. What stood striking out of our conversation was, the kind of education system that are present in two countries. In short, I described her how many under privileged children just do not get to see schools in their lifetime. I briefed her about our Y.A.T.N. group which was started by our seniors and my on-off involvement in it. We instantly came up with an idea of organising a fund raising event for Y.A.T.N.
Sometime during the beginning of this year, we sat down and tried to figure out a place and scale of the event. I went three rounds of presentation about Y.A.T.N. and discussions and convincing people who could provide us potential place for the event for free (Of course, I cannot rent a place here just like that and my institute does not work that flexibly as IISER M). Finally, we found a prospective place and we turned this event into a big open Indian charity party to the whole city.
Fund Raising Even/Indian Party:
The Indian party had various attractions. They are as follows:
1. Talk and discussion about the Y.A.T.N.
2. Cultural Program (Bharatanatyam dance performance, Rabindra Sangeet, and Gazals)
3. Bollywood-Electro Fusion DJ.
4. Indian Henna Tattoo counter.
5. Indian food and drinks.
6. Donation box.
As I mentioned, the party was open to the whole city without any entry ticket and more than 200 people showed up. It was crazy! Believe me, when I say this because it is not India here. We got a lot of appreciation from everyone because it was a great international crowd under one roof.
We primarily raised the funds via selling food and drinks that we prepared ourselves. We prepared a variety of food such as mix pakora, papadam, samosa, chutni, rice, channa masala. We prepared and sold mango-flavoured lassi as the prime drink.
It is unbelievable that 15 unknown people approached up after the party notice and volunteered for help in any possible chores.
A big thanks goes to the DJ, a friend of friend, who volunteered to DJ the whole night for us and he came all the way down to Tübingen from Dresden.
Once again, a big thanks to you guys for helping me out here.
Once again, congratulations!
Y.A.T.N. volunteers have been doing a commendable job. It is great that you guys have started new missions and have broken the dormancy of Y.A.T.N. blog. I would still request you to document everything and keep sharing information such as photos of the students who are attending school this year and other activities.
It was our pleasure and honour to organise this event for Y.A.T.N. and we are happy to support Y.A.T.N.
Best Regards,
Mayank, Christine and Avin
Pics from the event:
