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Teach for India Fellowship: Application Deadline October 10

What is Teach for India?

Teach For India is a nationwide movement of outstanding college graduates and young professionals who will commit two-years to teach full-time in under resourced schools and who will become lifelong leaders working from within various sectors toward the pursuit of equity in education.

You can watch our short-film here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAujZ4PoFFM. We are part of the Teach For All global network (http://teachforallnetwork.org/)

Who are we looking for?

Young professionals working full time and students in their final year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree are encouraged to apply. Fellows will be compensated during their 2 year committment. Please visit the following link to learn about your financial support options http://www.teachforindia.org/financial-support.php.

Our current Fellows are graduates and professionals from the a variety of schools and companies in India and abroad. This includes IIT, IIM, St. Stephens College, BITS Pilani, Symbiosis, Sophia College, ICICI Bank, NMIMS, Citigroup, Thermax, Harvard (USA), Ernst and Young, Accenture amongst many others.

Why should YOU do it?

The generation today does not want to wait till tomorrow to contribute to a better, more progressive and brighter India. You can make an immediate difference today by directly educating the minds of tomorrow. You can redefine teaching and bring students from low-income backgrounds to achieve at a level similar to their wealthier peers.

You can build outstanding leadership skills in these two years through our teaching methods, our training models and the community project that you will manage. Your direct involvement at a grassroots level will empower you to consider long-term systemic impact of your decisions in your academic or professional career after the fellowship. But most importantly, you will build patience, perseverance, planning and organizational skills while gaining humility and maturity – all integral skills to be part of the upcoming generation of our nation’s leaders. And you can achieve all this without sacrificing your career or your long-term plans.

How does Teach for India fit into your long-term plans?

Your contribution to Teach for India is important to us and we aim to create meaningful opportunities for the TFI alum. We will assist in placing TFI alum in positions and jobs that will enable them to be on a leadership track. You can apply for a job or a post-graduate program and secure a 2 year deferral (so that they hold the position for you until you complete the Fellowship) or you can take advantage of our tie-ups to secure a job or a higher education placement at the end of your Fellowship.

To complement your experience and prepare you for life after your two years as a fellow, Teach for India has support systems in place that assist you with career placement, soft skills for further education and alumni support. Click here to learn more about support and partnerships http://www.teachforindia.org/opportunities.php

At Teach for India, you will be part of alumni that consists of graduates and professionals from a strong network of colleges, universities and companies across not only India but also worldwide through our association with Teach for America (USA), Teach First (UK) and several other organizations part of the Teach For All network (http://teachforallnetwork.org/)

The best way to picture your future sometimes is to look at what “Teach For” alumni are already doing. Below is a listing of the institutions that Teach For America and Teach First alumni are part of and their profile distribution.

The Institutions

Accenture, Allen & Overy, Amnesty International, Bank Street College of Education, BT, Columbia University, Conservative Party, D.E.G.W, Deloitte, DSCF, Duke University, EMI, Foreign & Commonwealth office, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Georgetown University, GlaxoSmithKline, Harvard University, HSBC, IBM, Institute of Education, Johns Hopkins University, JP Morgan, KPMG, McKinsey, NM Rothschild & Sons , Northwestern University, NSPCC, PWC, Sainsburys, Stanford University, Teach For India, University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania amongst others.

The Distribution Profile for Teach For America

500 working on Capitol Hill or in politics and/or advocacy, including 31 elected officials

357 principals

30 superintendent/district/charter leaders

9 Aspen Institute - NewSchools’ Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education

6 founders of public charter school networks

6 alumni launching new social ventures focused on expanding educational opportunity and promoting equity

5 Rhodes Scholars

5 superintendents/chancellors of traditional public school districts

3 Coro Fellows in Public Affairs

3 Fulbright Scholars

3 Presidential Management Fellows

2 Broad Residents in Urban Education

2 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal and recognized as “America’s Best Leaders” by Newsweek Magazine in 2008

APPLY TODAY

Submit an Online Applications on www.teachforindia.org by our first Application Deadline – October 10th 2010. For more information, please get in touch with us at apply@teachforindia.org

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Assistant Development Managers required at Digital Green

Digital Green (DG) is a national NGO that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India through digital video. Working in close partnership with NGOs in each geographical area, the system improves the efficiency of extension programs by delivering targeted content to a wider audience enabling farmers to better manage their farming operations with reduced field support. Based on its highly successful pilot research project supported by Microsoft Research, Digital Green is currently involved in scaling up its operations in different parts of the country. This scale up of Digital Green operations is supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Digital Green is inviting applications from development professionals for the positions of Assistant Development Managers (ADMs) to manage its front end operations. Reporting to Regional Development Managers, ADMs will engage with stakeholders at the village level and collaborate with NGO partners to develop and disseminate good farming practices using information, communication and technology (ICT) resulting in better farm yield and livelihood for the small and marginal farmers.

Key Responsibilities:

* Nurture and strengthen partnership with area specific NGOs and community groups

* Identify suitable farming practices and develop content for video production

* Using ICT, disseminate good practices among the farmers and motivate them to adopt new practices

* Using Digital Green project management system, monitor project activities and report on activities, milestones and accomplishments in a timely fashion

* Identify concerns, issues and problems promptly, address and report them

o Liaise with partners and technical advisors

o Process necessary project approval and contractual documentation, ensuring any necessary ethical review

Qualifications and skills:

* Graduate degree in agriculture or related discipline with experience in project management for a national or international NGO in an administrative role

* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, including report writing, skills.

* Demonstrated ability to manage data

* Flexible, detail-oriented, organized, adaptable to changing priorities and ability to take the initiative and to meet strict deadlines

* Excellent computer skills using MS Office (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and familiarity with the Internet

* Experience organizing meetings and/or workshops

* Ability to work within a team situation and with minimum supervision

* Demonstrated interest and passion about agriculture and livelihood issues

Digital Green offers highly dynamic and enabling work environment, and provides competitive compensation based on experience and background. Interested candidates should visit www.digitalgreen.org to learn more about Digital Green and submit their application with a cover note, current CV and at least three references to jobs@digitalgreen.org. If you are student, you can apply for an internship position

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Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All

Online Competition titled Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All

Early Entry Participation Closes on September 29th, 2010. US$1000 to be won as early entry cash prize.

Ashoka’s Changemakers and Omidyar Network together have launched an online competition titled Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All, to present a unique opportunity in the field of property rights and to identify and support the leaders working in this sphere.

We invite entries for this competition from organizations and individuals who employ a range of approaches in the area of property rights, including those who work to provide land to the landless, help to formalize and document property rights for those who lack established rights to land and other assets, or work on legal education to help people understand and benefit from the laws that protect these assets. The top three winners stand to win US $50,000 cash prizes, global visibility and the chance for further investment.

Early Entry Participation stands entrants with a chance to win US$1000 as cash prize and the deadline for submission under this category is September 29th, 2010. However, deadline for final submission is November 3, 2010.

For further information on the competition and to participate online, please visit: www.changemakers.com/property-rights. For queries, clarifications and assistance, please contact Indrani Sharma at changemakers.onlinecompetitions@gmail.com or call / SMS +91 9911355522.

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Micro Finance In India

Here is a list of Micro Finance Institutions or Micro Finance Agencies:

www.popcouncil.org
www.omidyar.net
www.questia.com
www.gysd.net
www.bwtp.org
www.cgap.org
www.fdc.org.au
www.ifpri.org
www.ngomanager.org
www.birdindia.com
www.microcredidsummit.org
www.empowerpoor.org
www.csmworld.org
www.rmk.nic.in
www.enterweb.org
www.tve.org
www.fao.org
www.microlinks.org
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www.ifc.org
www.climatecentre.org
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Volunteer in Vietnam with VFCD

Volunteer for Community Development and Environment Education (VFCD) is a non-government, non-profit volunteering organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam. VFCD was established under the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) and all activities and operations are directed by the principles, purposes and regulations of VACNE. VFCD works in close partnership with UNESCO Vietnam.

Our Mission

To set up International Voluntary Projects that develops communities and promotes conservation of the natural environment. Our programs and projects provides a volunteer service that creates opportunities for people from all over the world, giving them the chance to change their lives and the lives of the people they help.

We are also setting up sustainable community development projects to protect the environment and to provide basic education and life skills for vulnerable group

VFCD PROGRAM 2010

The projects we offer can be undertaken on either a short or long term basis and focus on traditional education, environment education and community development. There are numerous projects for volunteers at VFCD both in urban and rural areas. Urban based volunteers have the option to travel to rural areas on the weekends to promote cultural exchange and live with local people. We also have tailor-made internship programs to suit the volunteer’s interests and skills.

English Teaching Program

Project Aim: Place qualified Native English speakers into regional schools, colleges and universities in local towns and Hanoi capital. Tutors will assist with the development of student’s English language learning. You will have the chance to teach and experience the real Vietnam and other provincial cities and towns.

Project Duration: Positions will be for 3 – 12 months. The minimum placement will be for 3 months. Applicants requesting long term placements will be favorably considered.

Volunteer for Disadvantaged Children

A large disparity in income among urban and rural areas means the number of free immigrants (including children) from rural to urban areas in Vietnam will be increasing. Ecological environment destruction often leads to disaster loss (prolonged drought, floods ...) making the lives of farmers become more impoverished and unstable. The shortage of jobs, low incomes and many other objective reasons create groups of orphans, and illiterate hobo living…The children find it very difficult to get the opportunity to access quality education that can change lives

Children who have had a rough start in life can tend to grow up bitter against the world and manifest counter-social behavior, but if they are shown love and concern in their formative years, then that memory of love actually helps them to contribute positively to society in their later years. That is why VFCD is cooperating with a Hanoi school to carry out a program called: “Creating quality, equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged children”. Together we are trying to create opportunities for these disadvantaged children to enjoy the same educational/recreational activities that their peers from the better socio-economic strata get to regularly partake of. It is different from the established special schools for only disadvantaged children

The program will not only give them a formal education program but also expand their horizons, teach them new skills like art, craft, music, English, and dance will help them to integrate into the community.

Volunteer for Street Children

The Centre for Street and Abandoned Children is a governmental project of the local Committee for Children and Mothers Protection.

Local and international volunteers are needed provide orphaned and street children with a basic education. This will be done through educational games and activities created by the volunteer. This centre works with children who are forced at a young age to earn a living by collecting rubbish, begging, polishing shoes, working in handicraft factories and other like activities. Currently the centre houses seventy students and holds three daily classes, two in the morning, and one in the afternoon. As a result, the students are not receiving a full curriculum and the schools staffs are over worked. Volunteers are desperately needed to act as teachers assistants and organize educational games and activities for the students. This project needs local and international volunteers to work cooperatively to create educational programs which include both Vietnamese and English subjects.

VFCD wishes to improve the level of education and access to knowledge for the students in the hope that they can lead better lives and be well integrated into the community. This centre is the only hope that they may have for a more fulfilling life.

Volunteer for Ethnic Minority Youth in Sapa

The Sapa district is very close to the border with China. The Hoang Lien Son range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam’s highest peak, Fansipan Mountain at 3,142m above sea level, and a vast area covered by thick forest, which is very rich in wildlife. The township of Sapa lies on a hill station at the attitude of about 1,600m and was built by the French into a famous summer resort with some one hundred colonial villas which was well-known as “ Tonkin’s Alps”. The complicated terrain of Sapa including the steeped high mountains with sharp cuts and large valleys, many streams of water in combination with sloped terraced paddies form magnificent scenery.

Sapa is also an ideal environment for a great diversity of ethnic minority people. For nearly two decades in an attempt to turn Sapa into one of the country’s premier tourist destination, the local ethnic people have experienced great changes, many of them negative, like ethnic minority children who left school to work for the tourist dollar from an early age, initially selling crafts to tourists or trying to become a tour guide. It is difficult life for these children without an education. An informal educational centre has now been set up by VFCD to help them improve their current situation and hopes for the future through learning how to read and write in Vietnamese and English. They also learn Math, Art, and other life skills such as how to make handicrafts, or other ways to support themselves.

At the moment VFCD hosting a center for community studying in Sapa town, our students are minority youth from Sapa and the surrounding villages. Some of them already work as tour guides; others make a living through selling handicrafts in the streets of Sapa. Most of the students have very little schooling, and some do not know how to read and write. It is crucial for their future that they learn these skills. All the students have expressed their happiness and gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the centre

Currently, both Vietnamese and international volunteers teach oral and written Vietnamese and English. Classes take place every afternoon and evening. We feel that it is very important for local youth to know these languages, being crucial for them to make the most of limited job opportunities in Sapa. It is our hope that this program will help the local youth to adapt to a more confident and healthy lifestyle and that they will make better use of the opportunities available to them.

The program is great opportunity to make a difference and discovery one of one of the most wonderful places in Asia and is a magical combination of landscapes, ethnic cultures and bracing mountain air.

Work camp in Sapa (North-West of Vietnam)

This unique program is an opportunity for volunteers to share experiences with a local community development group. The program brings participants a meaningful education program combined with ecological tourism, helping to improve the living standard of the local ethnic minority groups and developing unique cultural exchange.

Project Background: The hill-tribe groups of Vietnam are a collection of diverse, exotic communities. Despite the natural beauty of their environment they have some of the lowest standards of living, health and education in the country. Many young people from these communities do not attend school and begin working at a very young age.

Project Goals: Work with local ethnic minority groups to develop English language skills, improve life skills in multi-cultural environment, and help improve the interactions of local communities with the tourists on whom they depend. During the work camp volunteers will have many chances to make contact with local people, discover their culture, as well as help the community preserve their unique living environment.

Your Role as a Volunteer

Provide conversational English lessons to local youth to help broaden the children’s knowledge and help improve their education and studying conditions

Assist villagers to improve their language and communication skills and to develop more effective techniques to approach and sell their products to tourists.

Assist with setting up and improving local home stay projects. Provide advice on food safety, cleanliness and other factors that may make the home stays more appealing to tourists.

Guide locals and tourists to throw waste in the right place and to protect the environment and wildlife. Work with the local community to educate and raise the people’s consciousness about natural forest protection.

Participate in tree planting projects to help regenerate the natural environment.

Help people harvest crops and perform other everyday tasks unique to village life.

Note: Interaction among individuals or small groups.

HOW TO JOIN

To join a project you need to choose one from our latest project list or our website, www.vfcd.org the website will contain the most up-to-date information about project availability, but if you would like to receive a paper copy please contact us. once you have chosen which projects you are interested in, send us an application form, accompanied by the appropriate fee and we will start the placement process.

• Step 1- Choose a project from our latest project list on our website.

• Step 2- Send us the completed volunteer CV form -color photo must be inserted in résumé and submitted electronically. A photocopy of the passport, Documents are to be sent tovfcd.org@gmail.com

• Step 3- When we receive your application, we will notify you immediately. Please give us 1-3 weeks to process your application and match your placement. We will send you a notify of preliminary acceptance and a pre-departure booklet within 1-3 weeks

• Step 4 -Once you receive your project from VFCD, you should begin preparing for travel by obtaining all necessary documents (passport, visa) and meeting immunization requirements

• Step 5- Make your travel arrangements and other practical arrangements.

• Step 6- Go and enjoy your project our staff will pick you up at the airport and take you to Volunteers house of us and your beginning.

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Scholarships for Study at Cambridge University

In October 2000 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $210 million to the University of Cambridge, establishing the Gates Cambridge Trust. The Trust awards Gates Cambridge Scholarships, prestigious international scholarships that enable outstanding graduates from outside the UK to study at Cambridge.

Gates Cambridge Scholarships are full-cost awards for graduate study and research in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.

Deadline: 1 Dec

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