Karuvi foundation helps for the Youth Empowerment and Skill Development

Empowerment of youth is a process through which they  experience a sense of control over their lives, making choices and making informed decisions. Younger people feel they are experiencing an empowerment process when they feel listened to, understood and feel they can make decisions for themselves thus having control over their own lives. As the term suggests, youth empowerment means acquiring power, when we talk about power we do not mean the exercise of one dominion over the other, rather we are talking about all those ways in which they manage to exert an influence on the other, therefore of a increased influence in social relationships at all levels of these relationships, from those of a couple to those between a person and a group.

What actually is Skill Development and what are the impacts it creates among youth?

Faced with the profound changes that, in recent decades, have affected the labor market, how can we help people - and above all young people - to relate, in the best possible way, with this context, inter alia in continuous and fast transformation?

From many quarters it is suggested to also acquire "transversal skills" - to be continuously strengthened - and to combine them at best with one's own technical skills. In general, technical skills (also called hard skills) are those necessary to carry out a certain activity or profession; the basic theoretical technical skills are acquired in a path of education and / or professional training, while their operational deepening takes place through practical experience in the workplace (internships, traineeships, actual work).

The transversal skills (soft skills) represent, instead, personal knowledge, skills and qualities that characterize the way of being of each person in the study, at work and in daily life. Precisely for this reason they are called "transversal", because they do not refer to technical areas or specific knowledge of a subject of study, but they call into question all those aspects of the personality and knowledge that everyone uses every day in different contexts.

Cross-cutting skills emerge when making decisions, when trying to get out of a difficult situation, when trying to change things you don't like, when you are with others, every time you have to learn something new. They are, for example, the ability to communicate one's thoughts well to others, to relate correctly to people respecting their different roles, to work in a group, to be flexible, to be proactive. Karuvi foundation have dealt with the topic of both transversal and technical skills, calling them in various ways; this section of the guide will refer to those identified within, but it is possible to find a more comprehensive picture of the various definitions in part of the guide dedicated to this theme.

Karuvi foundation is always forward for taking actions to strengthen the key technical and professional skills of the unemployed youth and also for the young people with disabilities. Our Karuvi Foundation's Youth Strategical goal is improved in terms of accessibility, visibility and impact to ensure better participation of young people. To many of us the concept of Transversal and Technical Skills is still quite unknown, although they are considered indispensable in world. The list of these skills is long and includes social and communication skills, emotional intelligence and problem solving, adaptability, intercultural work and job specific skills that are merely hard skills.
Unfortunately, it is not easy for schools or media to offer them the right space to develop these skills: if in schools, teachers have an obligation to complete programs and prepare students for exams and often there is no time to explore these life skills.

We, the Karuvi foundation, precisely for this reason, do this wonderful task through Mr. J. Gokulnath. B.E., who is an exceptional entrepreneurial engineering  pro. He helps children who are in need of the opportunity to get to know and develop transversal skills which may not have been sufficiently studied in school.

He helps young people to enlighten themselves with the transversal and technical skills and also guiding them to choose the exact platform to leap to the very heights. Mostly, youth who are living in under developed parts of the state i.e., young people living in slums, unschooled, discontinued, orphanages, rehabilitation centers. He is also helping youth with physical disabilities to learn the comprehensive stock of knowledge to work in a corporate milieu.

For more information, please drop a line to: info@karuvifoundation.in

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Happiness is not found in money, but over time

Since childhood we are led to believe that money makes happiness. We pour our desire to feel good about objects, as if they were actually the origin of well-being. We grow up convinced that things make us happy and consequently we become obsessed with money. Because without money, we cannot buy all those objects that we see everywhere: on television, on social networks, in newspapers, on famous and smiling people.

From an early age, we are convinced that money is the most precious asset. Not only do we begin to judge others by this parameter (the more you have, the more you are worth), but we make money our obsession.

For many, their formula for Happiness = money + things - which is a dreadful truth

The problem is that sooner or later we all find ourselves at a point in our life where money counts for absolutely nothing. And when we get there, we realize that there is a much more precious asset.

Death and the importance of time

There is nothing more democratic than death. At that moment, your bank account and the items you have accumulated are worth absolutely nothing. Each of us takes different life paths, but at that point we are all the same.

And with almost absolute certainty, I can say that any person about to die thinks that the most important asset is not money, but time. If he could, he would give away everything he owns to have more time.

Money can be accumulated and can be lost. You can became richer or poorer. The objects are bought, broken and thrown away. They can be owned by someone who is looking for it. You can always find a way to increase your money or assets, but there is no way to increase your time.

Seems obvious, doesn't it?

Yet it is not. Think about it: from an early age we are stimulated to chase many things, but not time.
We are told to study to get a good job, which allows us to buy a large house and a powerful car. When we become adults, that instinct is still inside us, stronger than ever, in fact we do not choose the job that we like and reward most, but the one that pays best.

The false myth that wants material wealth equal to happiness infects us as children and pushes us, as adults, to never say no in front of the opportunity to make money. Even when we don't need it. Even at the expense of our relationships, our passions and our health.

The more we work, the more euphoric we are, because we think of nothing but the money we will earn. But in reality it is an illusion. Perhaps the greatest illusion of our times.

As you pursue money, time passes inexorably

You work, you work and you work, chasing a wealth that will never be enough. Because if when you have zero the prospect of having 100 seems fantastic, when you finally have 100 you think it would be great to have 1,000. And when you reach 1,000 you ask yourself, "Why not get to a million?" In the meantime, time passes. Inexorable.

The days go by without leaving a trace. They are all bloody the same, because they are based on repetitive activities: every day you go to the office and always repeat the same actions. Day after day, decade after decade.

There are very lucky people who love their jobs. In them I have always seen a very rare happiness: that of taking up your time and making a living by doing what you love. The vast majority of humans, however, are not happy with their job.

The paradox of preferring money over time

Many wake up every morning with a bad mood and appear nervous in the office. When they understand that they are dissatisfied, they have only one possibility to get by: anesthetizing the mind. Making the mind impervious to those dangerous thoughts (one above all: "isn't it that I'm throwing my life away?") Is the only way to continue pursuing material gain. And that's what all institutions put in our heads from an early age: fatigue, renunciations, sufferings, the myth of "carrying the cross" are necessary characteristics to be rewarded (perhaps) tomorrow.

But the money you receive in return is unable to buy the lost time to be unhappy and unsatisfied. One of the greatest paradoxes of our times lies in the fixed thinking of millions of people when they are in the workplace:"I hope that time passes quickly today" Isn't it absurd? How can we hope that the only asset impossible to recover or buy will end quickly? It seems pure madness, yet when you are blinded by the idea of ​​making money, this reasoning also seems sensible. Unfortunately it is not. The idea that happiness is linked to money is based on another great illusion.

I didn't envy the money of the millionaires, but their time

Everyone envies millionaires, but for the wrong reason. We believe we admire their lives for the money they have in the bank, in reality it is not so: what we envy is the time they have available.

Do you know why you would like to be the millionaire on Instagram? Because he has the time to do what he wants.

Most people are forced to work at least five days a week, often eight hours a day. It is an exhausting activity, which lacks energy and keeps our dreams of happiness away. What really sets millionaires apart from everyone else is not luxury cars and villas with a swimming pool. Their most precious asset is not money, but the time they have to do what they want.

Learn to be like the weather

What I understood by meeting many madmen and dreamers on my way, is that the real purpose of life can never be simple monetary enrichment. What will make us smile, as an elderly, will be to look back without regrets but with a heart full of wonderful memories.

You cannot buy the awareness of having made sense of our journey on this earth. It's true: trying to have more free time isn't easy. But it is worth trying, because time passes inexorably. At the time, nothing matters about money, responsibilities, appearances, what others think is right.

And sometimes we too should be like the time: stop thinking about obligations, responsibilities and "what's right". Sometimes, simply, we should flow relentlessly towards our happiness.

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Kiddies cloud - a noble intervention program for kids from Karuvi foundation to help them to limelight their talent

"Mom, shall I make a frog from this paper", "Dad, I'll become a dancer", "Love of grandfather, what do you want to do when you grow up?", how much is it nice to fantasize about all the wonderful challenges that children will face to grow up and find their way?   

The point is how to find the right path for our child, the one in which he/ she succeeds best and is most talented. Because, if there is no doubt that every child has a particular and specific talent, it is not always easy to recognize it or help him to identify and strengthen it.

The psychologists and psychotherapists explains how to try to understand and how to encourage the passions of the little ones, so that, who knows, they don't really become a job: we adults know it well, doing your job with passion and love is among the most beautiful things of the world. Don't we want the same for our children?   

We, the Karuvi foundation is regularly conducting workshops in play schools/ schools for the pint sized ballerinas. The workshop includes arts, craft, music, dance, yoga and so on.

We issue workshop completion certificates, medal prizes have been distributed to them as a token of encouragement. Karuvi foundation is also conducting internal and external competitions concerning with their levels. When more than 50 children are participating we also organise free medical camps, dental camps for the chiildren a well as for the parents who do not find time in their busy schedule to keep them fit.

It would be a privileged if you join your hands with us to organizing such workshops. Your little ones are not only benefited by the workshops but the school too is benefited by all means.

                                               
Hope we can meet to promote our kids and schools to the very next level. Contact us, we will make them rock!

Email: amarnath@karuvifoundation.in

                                     

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Ramya's charming hands do a lot-Her story

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Do you think walking into the art gallery needs some activated superficial nerve of your brain to understand the bizzare scribblings? Nantwas.. There are some artwork that are meant for a layman too.

The above mentioned are the paintings that are related to that Byzantine work of art.. But, there are some piece of great work of painting that can be easily understood by normal eyes.

Mrs. V. Ramya Nagarajan

M.Sc (software), M.B.A (Finance)

Here we present an artist who recently conjoined with Karuvi foundation. Mrs. V. Ramya Nagarajan, M.Sc (software), M.B.A (Finance), worked at The Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS). She was into art for more than a decade. Initially painting was her enjoyable pastime that was turned into profession now!

   

Her paintings was characterized by its very solemn, almost austere images, but often not without a certain refinement and above all diversified on a regional basis, according to different influences. Her paintings proved more "advanced" than contemporary painting, achieving results of dynamism and drama still known in painting.

With the profound merits, which with Mrs. Ramya's showed that they exceeded the results of greater dimensions, with accentuated chromatic gradations, greater softness in the drafting (and therefore greater naturalism), and improved spatiality with the participating landscapes more to the compositions.

We pay our heartfelt gratitude to her for offering us some of her master pieces for our foundation as donation! 🙏

For Art enthuasists, we are proud to present her work of art for sale! We, welcome you to visit our gallery to own a marvelous piece of her art!

For more information please contact: info@karuvifoundation.in

~ ENTER GALLERY ~

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Karuvi foundation has expert in Arts and crafts

Arts and crafts generally need kids to obtain both hands in a particular manner, that can help them improve fine motor skills as well as bilateral coordination. Mrs. J. Anusuya, expertise in Arts & crafts, is very much interested to teach children, Arts and Crafts from recycleable waste materials.

She helps kids learn, play, do handicrafts, sing with them. She enjoys spending a small part of her time with children who sometimes want a little more attention. Regardless of whether kids read, play, do handicrafts or learn together - she enjoy her engagement and should be able to get started quickly, without bureaucracy, but well organized. That is why we strive - whether in a crawling room, in kindergarten or after-school care - for Mrs. Anusya to have the best possible framework conditions.

Not only she helps children, but also for the women living below poverty line, she gives the best training to produce homemade candles, dishwash liquids, fragrance agarbathies, all kinds of paper bags, pheonoil, and handwash santilizers. She also teaches textile painting, free hand drawing for those who are interested.

The best thing is our karuvi foundation enhances women empowerment by helping qualified women trainees to get loans from government to start their own businesses of what they have learnt in the campaigns conducted by us.

For more information please contact: info@karuvifoundation.in

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An athelete - a very active Sports team and child welfare head

Mrs. Sree Latha Devi, D.T.Ed., M.A. B.Ed., is an athelete and primary school teacher. Being having great enthusiasm to teach children the academics, teaching children how to sport, can sometimes be part of her. She had broaden her own horizons and get to know the wider world. She gained vast experience and work for disadvantaged groups in less developed areas.

She is very much passionate to teach kids Swimming, Running and Trekking and karuvi foundation is planning to conduct the classes regarding in the near future.

An active Sports volunteer

Through, karuvi foundation she become a volunteer trainer at schools and deprived regions such as slums in many parts of the city and in near future we are planning to expand it widely.  The children and adolescents look forward to a fresh wind from her and alternative training approaches.

For a voluntary service or volunteer work in the areas, you do not usually have to be a trained trainer, but you should have a good command of the respective sport and, above all, have fun teaching children and young people. She definitely fullfills this on the major part and is regularly volunteering herself for a good cause through our foundation.

In some schools there is no physical education due to a lack of teachers and scarce resources. As a volunteer, she can therefore get involved in various projects to give the little ones some exercise and variety in the sometimes monotonous everyday school life.

Team games in particular, promote team spirit, fitness training and fitness for the little ones and are a lot of fun for most of the students. Sometimes she take over the entire organization of physical education, since this is often not on the schedule.

Karuvi foundation is against child labour and child abuse and she plays the greater part. She is an active child welfare volunteer and the use of our facility is fetching the great benefits for children.

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Karuvi foundation - Our squad of life saving angels

Many people around the world are not as well as we are. Their everyday life is often characterized by illness due to a lack of medical care.

Our Medical Team Head - Dr. Mary Rini George with her team are always on duty to help the people who are in need. She and her team have done a real great service during the natural calameties we came across.

During the recent cyclones such as gaja and varadha their service is highly remarkable. Her team also participated in numerous medical camps conducted by Karuvi foundation, especially for senior citizens and children. Our medical camps reaches many places like slums, schools, rural areas etc. We have also lending our hands to the differently abled and visually challenged by donating equipments and devices that helps them to lead their daily life easily.

Without this life saving god send angels (Doctors) who support us, this would not be possible. Our doctors help people in their spare time on a voluntary basis. They step into the working grounds as a disciplined trail where their help is urgently needed.

For more information please contact: info@karuvifoundation.in

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Medical surgeons tied up with Karuvi foundation - a remarkable feat

Karuvi foundation have been recently tied up with 120 surgeons of various medical specialties whom are volunteered with us to serve the needy. Our foundation's Health care Team Head - Mr. Andrew plays a major role in the conglomeration of this great band of Medical surgeons. With this remarkable feat, Karuvi foundation visualises this as a stepping stone to steed forward for the greater heights.

The good news to share with the world is that, for the patients who are unable to pay the entire medical operation costs and seeks help through our foundation can get  discounts. This discount is applicable for any major operations in all hospitals around chennai. 

Below are the medical specialties our medical surgeons have been tied up with:

1.Cardiology (Heart Care)

2. Oncology (Cancer Care)

3. Neurology.

4. General surgery

5. Pediatric surgery

... and so on..

If anyone who are needy and struggling to fix up their medical operation to get done, can contact us. We are happy to help you! For more information please contact: info@karuvifoundation.in

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Digitization is an opportunity for a Non profit organization

For non-profit organizations, digitization is both an opportunity and a challenge. On the one hand, offer them digital technologies completely new possibilities, e.g. to promote civil society engagement with beneficiaries to interact, network worldwide and make their own work more effective and effective.

On the other hand Non profit organizations must change themselves profoundly if they take the opportunities of digitization for themselves want to use and adequately address social change. You shouldn't just deal with the (New) technologies change, but also be ready to change their own organizational structures and processes, their culture and working methods as well as their orientation and strategy are rigorously put to the test.

The present study examines awareness of the need for change as well as the ability to change in Non-profit sector with a view to digitization. She wants to show what support nonprofits need to better assess the opportunities of digitization and use them positively. This was done in the summer of 2017 more than 160 employees of non-profit organizations interviewed online and by phone.

Changes in the non-profit sector through digitization

• In the non-profit sector, digitization is often equated with the use of digital tools, especially in the area of Public relations (social medias) and for the completion of administrative tasks. The results of the survey show that the majority of the respondents (71%) will strongly or very strongly reduce their own organization in the coming years sees these changes affected.

• In our opinion, many respondents underestimate the importance of structural and procedural changes. Changes for your own organization that are triggered by digitalization. This includes the development of new ones Organizational forms in the non-profit sector, but also the way in which donor behavior or voluntary work Engagement will change in the coming years.

• Around 70% of those surveyed consider it possible to use digital tools to perform administrative tasks (such as membership or Donation management), which is very relevant for your organization. However, only a quarter of the Organizations well prepared for this development. There is obviously still a considerable need for action here.

• It is also very clear that around half of all organizations still have some catching up to do, volunteers over Coordinate digital channels better, use new fundraising channels for themselves, or their offers to beneficiaries to optimize the basis of impact analysis.

• Overall, the fundamental change caused by digitization should be in the overarching strategy of non-profits play an important role. Digitization is a relevant factor on the strategic agenda.

• It is striking that small and young organizations are much more active in tackling upcoming changes than they are
large and established. Here it makes sense to engage more in the exchange and learn from each other.

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