Clothes collection drive by Beyond Self NGO - Pune - November 20

If you have clothes, that you do not use anymore and would like to give them away to help people who really need them then this is your chance.
What you need to do is:
- Pack Clean selected clothes & take a count
- Head in to the 'Beyond Self' clothes drop off center on NIBM road(detailed address coming soon) on 20th Nov'11 to drop off your package.
- And go back home with peace in your mind & a feeling in your heart that you did a good deed to help the needy :)

Email	beyondself.ngo@gmail.com
Phone	9767454545

PLS NOTE COLLECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ONLY ON SUNDAY, 20th NOV'11.

As a 'Beyond Self' initiative to give old clothes to the underprivileged people of all ages we request you to pls spread the message and encourage people in your society, college or office to come forward & lend a helping hand.
To know more about us, like our page :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Self-NGO-Pune/166806013410904?sk=info

Location

	Hill Mist Harmony, F-1003 Nibm road,pune

 We reach out to all in the society as we create means to utilise extra food to feed the needy , which is instead usually dumped around the city.
Beyond self was born in the winter of 2010, with a tiny effort to collect food from social gatherings that was left unused and distributed amongst families of the poor around the city. So far we have served more than 500 people and hope to grow by leaps & bounds year on year.

Our Core team:
Founder: Madhu Thakur,
Co-founders: Mahesh Mulchandani, Sainath Shetty, Dhiraj Chhabria, Tanvi Saxena

Our Supporters:

- MSIHMCT ALUMNI Joins hand with us in extending our vision:
Maharashtra State Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology – Alumni (Government of Maharashtra & Charity Commission Approved) is one of the first alumni undertaking – a pioneer, so to speak -- in India which ranks at the number one position as far its reach, popularity and stature is concerned. The alumni is the brainchild of Maharashtra State Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology – Pune established in 1969.

- Panchsheel Foundation Powers the Project:
One of the finest NGOs in Pune nominated for India’s one of the Biggest Award in Delhi By Indian Express Group “ Indian Achievers Award “ working exclusively for the upliftment in the slum areas targeting Education,Legal,Medical,Sports,Mentoring Programmes from last 3 years.

- Bindra’s Hospitality Services Pvt Ltd:
They help us understand and learn the technicalities of food packaging and storage for successful distribution.


We all come together to adopt many families which we will nurture for a year(min) and will try to make considerate changes in their Lifestyle, Food Habits, Jobs, Counselling, and Career Guidance and so on.

And we hope the support will keep growing....

Volunteers needed 2 teach kids at sec-14 Airoli - LEAD Foundation

eligibility: knowledge of hindi/marathi and open heart! Interested?

LEAD Foundation

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Donate a Blanket this Winter @ Nareshwadi, Dhanu

About Nareshwadi

Nareshwadi is school of 500 children from underprivileged families attend Nareshwadi's schools and live on campus. Ninety percent of them come from the local Warli, Kokani, Katkari and Dodhi tribal communities. Many live in interior villages with no schooling available. The rest are children with
single or absent parents, or are from HIV-infected and -affected families.

Youth For People is just one of the facilitator to the school. School is run by Girivanvasi Educational Trust (GVET).

For more information on how to donate blankets call on +91-9833152162 or email dipesh.sitel@gmail.com.

Approximate cost of 1 blanket is Rs 150

How to get to Nareshwadi Learning Centre

By road. Take the Western Express Highway out of Mumbai. Continue on the National Highway number 8. About 20 kms North of Charoti Toll, turn to the left/west at Dundhalwadi, following the sign to Dahanu. 4 km after the turn off, you will see a stone compound wall on your right. You are at Nareshwadi!

By train. Take a suburban/express train from Churchgate, Mumbai Central, Dadar or Bandra stations to Dahanu Road Station. Then take a local bus or shared rickshaw and ask for Nareshwadi, near Dundhalwadi, 4 km off the Western Express Highway. Nareshwadi will be on your left.


About Youth For People

Youth for People - Touching Lives is a group of young and like-minded enthusiasts, who have been active since the 7/11 train bomb blast in Mumbai. They group has a passion and desire to give back to the society what they got from it – a respectful existence.

YFP believes that youth is blessed with the power to do anything and everything and is on a mission to mobilize the Youth energy towards the betterment of our society by serving the city through regular blood donations, supporting cancer patients and striving to solve problem of any
other nature faced by the needy.

www.youthforpeople.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=259090290803486

Dipesh Tank, Harshita Pande

Understanding the Desires and Choices of the Poor November 8, 2011

November 8, 2011 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

BSE Ltd., Convention Hall, Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers, Dalal Street, Mumbai Samachar Marg, Fort, Mumbai

Click for Directions

 

Asia Society Members: free; non-members: Rs. 200

RSVP required to: asiasociety@asiasociety.org.in


In their new book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, MIT Professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee ask questions like “Why do the poorest people in the Indian state of Maharashtra spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar?” and “Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?” Meanwhile, poverty continues to cripple India and other developing countries, and debates persist on who constitutes the poor and how they may be helped. How can we hope to alleviate poverty on a large and sustainable scale? How can a better understanding of poverty reshape policies and business models to improve their impact?
http://asiasociety.org/calendars/poor-economics-understanding-desires-and-choices-poor-0
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) 

Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

Emily Oster, Bryce Millett / India / 2010

From the abstract: "We find that introducing a new ITES center results in a 5.7% increase in number of children enrolled; these effects are extremely

Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India

Abhijit Banerjee, Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande, Felix Su / India / 2010

From the abstract: "Do informational de?cits on the part of voters sustain poor quality of governance in low income countries? We provide experimental evidence on the role of public disclosures on candidate quality and incumbent performance in enhancing electoral accountability

Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India

Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande / India / 2010

The authors examine the relationship between social restrictions and the ability to benefit from a business training; specifically, how religious community and its relative restrictions may impact women's benefits of the training program. The more highly restricted women in the Hindu community benefited from the training; the restricted women in the Muslim community did not.

Early-Life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India

David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal and Tom Vogl / India / 2010

Exploiting variation in malaria prevalence during India's eradication program, malaria exposure as children has modest effects on consumption for prime age men. Educational attainment is unaffected for men, and results are mixed for women.

Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India

Robert Jensen / India / 2010

A randomized evaluation of providing jobs in rural India: "we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian villages get jobs in the business process outsourcing industry. Girls in treatment villages were more likely to be in school and had greater measured BMI."

Financial access, precaution, and development: Theory and evidence from India

Scott Fulford / India / 2010

From the abstract: "Using consistent consumption data that cover a much longer time period than most studies, my empirical findings show that increased access to bank branches in rural India increased consumption initially, but consumption later fell, although the long term effect was still slightly positive."

Financial incentives and student achievement: Evidence from randomized trials

Roland Fryer / USA / 2010

From the abstract: "This paper describes a series of school-based randomized trials in over 250 urban schools designed to test the impact of ?nancial incentives on student achievement. In stark contrast to simple economic models, our results suggest that student incentives increase achievement when the rewards are given for inputs to the educational production function, but incentives tied to output are not effective."

Improving health care delivery in India

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo / India / 2010

From the abstract: "This essay brings together some recent evidence which highlights some of the difficulties that will have to be faced by any government that is serious about improving health-care for the poor."

Improving Immunisation Coverage in Rural India: Clustered Randomised Controlled Immunisation Campaigns With and Without Incentives

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Dhruva Kothari / India / 2010

A field experiment in rural India demonstrates that reliability of healthcare supply improves immunization rates, but only modestly. "Small incentives have large positive impacts on the uptake of immunisation services in resource poor areas and are more cost effective than purely improving supply."

Can Voters be Primed to Choose Better Legislators? Experimental Evidence from Rural India

Abhijit Banerjee, Donald Green, Jennifer Green, Rohini Pande / India / 2009

From the abstract: "We conducted field experiments in rural India to examine the responsiveness of voter preferences to priming about the relevance of ethnicity and politician quality for service delivery. We used vignette experiments to examine how voter preferences vary with information about politician quality. We nd strong evidence that ethnic preferences are malleable."

Do Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Rikhil Bhavani / India / 2009

The author examines a natural experiment in India "in which randomly chosen seats in local legislatures are set aside for women for one election at a time...The data suggest that reservations work in part by introducing into politics women who are able to win elections after reservations are withdrawn and by allowing parties to learn that women can win elections."

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India

Shawn Cole / India / 2009

From the abstract: "Studying banks in India, [the author] find[s] that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is signicant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in which the election is particularly close."

Food and nutrition in India: Facts and interpretations

Angus Deaton, Jean Dreze / India / 2009

Caloric intake has declined in India. Some argue this is due to reduced physical activity or improvements in the health environment. Yet anthropometric indicators still indicate under-nourishment in the population.

Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster / India / 2009

From the abstract: "The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental organization (NGO)." While nurses initially responded to incentives, collusion between nurses and supervisors eventually muted the impacts.

Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Seema Jayachandran, Ilyana Kuziemko / India / 2009

Repayment Frequency and Default in Microfinance: Evidence from India

Erica Field, Rohini Pande / India / 2008

From the abstract: "In this paper we use data from a field experiment which randomized client assignment to a weekly or monthly repayment schedule and find no significant effect of type of repayment schedule on client delinquency or default. Our findings suggest that, among micro-finance clients who are willing to borrow at either weekly or monthly repayment schedules, a more flexible schedule can significantly lower transaction costs without increasing client default."

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Kenneth Leonard / India, Indonesia, Tanzania, Paraguay / 2008

From the abstract: "This paper provides an overview of recent work on quality measurement of medical care and its correlates in four low and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay."

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures

Tarun Khanna / China, India / 2007

An examination of grass-roots business development and its effects of a macro scope on economic growth, both at the national and international levels.

Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande / India / 2007

From the abstract: "This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, aspects politician quality."

Money for nothing: The dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer / India / 2007

From the abstract: "The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' practice. Using medical vignettes, we evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, we observed the same doctors in their practice."

The Economic Lives of the Poor

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo / Global / 2007

From the abstract: "This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity ) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day)."

Pratham Annual Status of Education Report (2005): Final edition

Pratham / India / 2005

An overview of the Indian education system by Pratham, an NGO based in Mumbai.

Who Beats Corruption?

Jeffrey Sachs / Global / 2005

Foreign aid targeted at known development issues - for example, health concerns - would empower the poor to defend the rule of law in areas of corruption.