Monday, July 28, 2008

Starting The workshop!

So this Tuesday i will be starting a new workshop for beginners. I will be tutoring them in basics of Microsoft word and logging in on to the employment blog.

Meha

Friday, July 25, 2008

Working With the Clients:

I am currently working with some clients who have minimal education and my role is to search job opportunities for them keeping in mind their background and skills.
Also I have been talking to other hiering agencies for their contacts to update the weblog.

Next to do is: Sit with the client for one to one talk about the kind of job they are willing to do. Also boosting their self esteem, these people have gone through a lot in their life and some of them are not willing to work at all. So I need to talk to them and help them find their lost hope.

Also in my agenda is to start the workshop for teaching -basics of Microsoft Word and Internet. Which would enable them to build a strong resume and post it on to the blog.

--Meha

Monday, July 21, 2008

Updates on my thesis: 07/21/08

Currently I am working as a volunteer at Jennie Clarke Residence in NYC . It is amazing to see how these shelters are working to make life easy for families living there.
After seeing the struggle these people were facing with employment search for the residents I thought it would be great to conduct some workshops teaching them how to use Microsoft word that would help them in building resume.
I also wanted to create a place where they could go and have links to employment options. Considering the fact that most of them are not so Internet savvy I thought of building a simple weblog on word press and pass on the common user name and password to all the users. This would serve as a resource for all the career opportunities that they can look into.

Link to the weblog that I created is:
http://jennieclarke.wordpress.com/

Feel free to put in some other sites and links of companies you feel require people with minimum technical skills but are willing to put in their best to learn new things.
That will really help.

Meha

Basic Idea--- " Help Them to Help Themselves "

“You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.”


-Adam Cooper and Bill Collage
My project for mini-thesis deals with the same concept , I believe that every person has a right to basic living standards like sanitation , clean water and adequate housing. And I also believe that the only thing that can help in achieveing it is education and the new technologies.

But have we really reached our goals , are the new technologies really helping people around the globe. With the kind of technologies that we have today and the mass of educated people that are in the world we should have eradicated most of the problem’s , but have we?

Statistical data shows:- Half the world’s population lives on two dollars a day,and 800 million people are malnourished in developing countries.1.3 billion people who have no clean water.

- Two billion people have no sanitation.
- Two billion have no electricity.

Now the question is why are we still at the starting line , why haven’t we seen any improvements , why half of the worlds population is still under poverty line and has no external help.

The answer is education, I strongly believe education and knowledge can bring serious change in the society. All we have to do is pass it on. Help them to understand the new technologies and let them then pass on the flame of knowledge to others

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