THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!

THE YP FOUNDATION (TYPF) BEGINS ITS INDUCTIONS THIS MONTH for young people who would like to volunteer and work with us in 2010.

DONATE YOUR TIME FOR A CAUSE – JOIN TYPF!

When: You can join us on either one of the 3 days:
July 31, 2010; August 7, 2010 & August 14, 2010

Time:
4.30p – 6.30p

Venue:
American Center, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi.

The YP Foundation is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance.

The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2002, we have worked over the last 8 years directly with 5,000 young people to set up over 200 projects in India, reaching out to 300,000 young people.

For more information:

Please call 011.46792244 or email at yp.volunteer.mangagement@gmail.com or log onto our website www.theypfoundation.org

If you feel strongly about addressing issues of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance, WHY WAIT?

Join The YP Foundation. Voice your opinions. Work and make a difference.

* If you’re interested, please RSVP and email us to confirm your attendance.

* Please carry any valid photo identification to the venue (sorry, security regulations!)

Who am I?

“The YP Foundation is a collective of 8 years of histories of young people who have lived and worked in Delhi and have engaged with different aspects of the city at different points and times. Seldom does one find an institution to work in, where the development of the people in the organization is paramount to the work it does.

- Pallavi Kaushal, 23 years old, Staff Member, The YP Foundation

Well, professionally, I am the Volunteer Manager at The YP Foundation (TYPF), personally, I can place myself as a young person living in Delhi, working in the development sector and attempting to decipher her own politics on issues and non-issues alike.

This June, I complete one-year of working with TYPF. The past 12 months have been anything but routine and mundane. That’s the thing about this organization, not a single day is the same, not a single conversation is the same and more than anything else, you’re not the same.

What is The YP Foundation? It’s a youth led and run non-profit in New Delhi, India that develops young people’s leadership skills to take action on issues that young people are passionate about. Founded in 2002, the organization supports young people between the ages of 13 and 28 to conceptualize and implement community based projects that challenge stereotypes, forge sustainable partnerships and promote the uninhibited expression of young people.

Let’s break that down. It’s a space where young people like me debate, get involved, get creative, explore new ideas, implement our convictions and claim a stake in processes of governance, mental health and sexual-reproductive rights. It’s a platform where we explore conventional and unconventional ideas of providing access to young people to the performing arts industry; it’s also a place where you are able to learn and hone your skills with filmmaking. Finally, it’s a process, where the means are as, if not more important, than the end, where we understand human rights and its relevance in our personal lives. It’s a place where having differing perspectives from your peers and colleagues are a GOOD thing.

Understanding how to work through the dissonance that emerges from so many young people working across multiple movements, finding solidarity and learning to work together, is a core part of what this organization does for and with young people.

The YP Foundation is all of the above and everything you want it to be. It’s a collective of 8 years of histories of young people who have lived in Delhi and have engaged with different aspects of the city and different points of times. Seldom does one find an institution to work in where the development of the people is paramount to the work it produces.

As the organization moves into a new year it’s looking for passionate and committed young professionals (read: young people between the ages of 13-28) to take forward the aspirations of young people who have worked for TYPF over the past 8 years

If you feel that this is the place for you, apply! If you know someone who you think should apply, let them know we are hiring. J We need your help to spread the word.

The YP Foundation is an organization that challenges who you are and questions your self-defined limits. The question is are you ready for the ride?

Pallavi Kaushal
Head – Volunteer Management System
The YP Foundation

To apply, download 3 forms, the Management Positions Profiles, the Programme Divisions Profiles that will tell you more about the positions available and the Staff Application Form that you need to submit to jobs@theypfoundation.org.

Click here to download a zip folder with all 3 documents

Just read Angarika’s post and clearly the team has been working oh-so-hard and are pretty much losing their minds

AND finally we are doing a fundraiser! Its so cool to think that we will have a concert and actually walk away with some money as opposed to having no money to pay the band,printers etc and dealing with the repercussions next year.

Also I just read Ila’s post and now i’m under pressure to write a decent and ENTHUSIASTIC blog. I really didn’t know this could be so stressful! {smirk}

The website is UP and its so so so cool. I can actually say the sentence- “why don’t you go look at our WEBSITE, all the information you need is up there”!! all hail Gaurav Vaz and everyone else who worked on it!

As for blending spectrum we have our lesson plans for December and Jan ready and have also come up with health care lesson plans which will hopefully be approved SOON. We are hopefully going to paint sarai. YES. ACTUALLY PAINT THE ENTIRE PLACE. and everyone on staff is invited to get down and dirty with us and the kids.   (still have to talk to Aman Biradari though). Blending spectrum is also working on the Nutrition challenge which is driving Pattie and Chandini up the wall! ALSO WE HAVE NEW VOLUNTEERS! whoopee! Volunteers and money make people in the YP very very happy.

So all in all i’m really excited about the event!The performers and the MONEY that we will hopefully make!! I am sure it will be really awesome! looking forward to it!