TASK

Colorss Foundation champions support of the disabled, the needy, and the disadvantaged. We foster mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

Colorss foundation has got different volunteer opportunity at this moment. Please email us at : emailcolorss@gmail.com

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Project Iris: This project is for the VI (visually impaired) a simple device that will help identify Indian Currency denomination. This project intends to break the stigma and discrimination faced by them, we aim to make them self sufficient and self reliant. This project works in two phases: Phase 1: Distribution of the device. Phase 2: Rehabilitation and inducing vocational training for the VI who are using the device.

Project Enhance: Project Enhance empowers the disabled, and facilitates their inclusion into mainstream life, by training participants in karate, while providing guidance for artistic expression. This program uses sports and the arts as tools to promote physical well-being while also improving mental health.

Colorss of Life: 'Colorss of Life' is an e-magazine with limited print distribution copies and pdf file for on line distribution. The children involved in the project will write, draw and provide contents. This activity will require them to learn a number of important life and career skills, not only the understanding of using technology and media to create something worthwhile, but also important skills of cooperation, teamwork, discipline, time management and perhaps above all, taking responsibility for their own work.

Newsletter: Colorss needs a newsletter that can give regular updates on the projects honor the volunteers for their support and provide a space for volunteers to voice their opinions, views and share their experiences.

Volunteer Opportunity

1. Psychologist for testing and analysis
1. Psychologists working in different areas are required for our ongoing projects. We are working with disabled as well able-bodied children of India. Psychologists are required for doing the analysis of the child. Carry out the needful testing and give us their valuable feedback.

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position as we need someone in post who can really get to know the children and their families and the other psychologists. We want online volunteers. If any volunteer is wiling to be on the project site it would be really nice.

Qualifications: We are looking for a psychologist, ideally with a background in educational and clinical or child psychology.

2. Child counselor
1. Child Counselors are required to address needs and problem of the child. Help us to carry out the needs assessment of the child and guide us as and when required

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position as we need someone in post who can really get to know the children and their families and the other psychologists. We want online volunteers. If any volunteer is wiling to be on the project site it would be really nice.

Qualifications: We are looking for a psychologist, ideally with a background in educational and clinical or child psychology.

3. Special Educator
1. Special Educator, who works with physical disabilities, mentally disabled, multiple disabilities and visually impaired are required to assist us on the ongoing projects.

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position as we need Volunteers involved in special care projects to be highly patient and motivated and sometimes need to be highly skilled). It is important to understand that these students learn at slower rates due to their disabilities and that they require much more time and care. But more importantly, you should be open-minded to the challenges that may arise from dealing with children and adults with disabilities. If any volunteer is wiling to be on the project site it would be really nice.

Qualifications: We are looking for a special educator working with children with disabilities.

4. Vocational trainer
1. Online vocational trainer is required to trainer our staff or volunteers who will directly at the site.

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position as we need Volunteers involved in organizing vocational training for children with disability. The trainer should be able to help us with developing different training programs based on needs assessments done by the psychologist. It is important to understand that these students learn at slower rates due to their disabilities and that they require much more time and care. But more importantly, you should be open-minded to the challenges that may arise from dealing with children and adults with disabilities. If any volunteer is wiling to be on the project site it would be really nice.

Qualifications: We are looking for a vocational trainer working with children with disabilities who is self motivated and loves to accept challenges.

5. Database manager – Initially we want to design the database program. Once it’s done we want a long term volunteer who can maintain and upgrade the system.
1. Database manager is required who can compile a program that can help us retrieve the entire data of a child. This database program will help us to maintain and check the development of any child in any of our projects.

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position as we need Volunteers who can design a database program that will help us have the entire record of the child with one click. This database would be installed at every site and should be updated universally. It should be secure and protected. This program needs to maintained and upgraded as and when required.

Qualifications: We are looking for programmer who can help us with this task.

6. Public Relation
1. Public Relation volunteer is required who can represent us on different occasions, be it a meeting with corporate or schools or organizations.

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position. The volunteer will be responsible to develop opportunities for positive public relations. Develop corporate tie-ups and help the organization achieve its aims and objective. The ideal candidate for this volunteer position is a one who is a current Public Relations Professional, or one with extensive background in PR, who is seeking an altruistic outlet for their talents. Having good connections within the local PR community is a plus but not essential

Qualifications: We are looking for volunteer who has appropriate qualification and should be articulate and have excellent writing skills.

7. Translator - English to Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi
1. Volunteers are required for translating documents from English to Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi language

Highlights: We are asking for a one year commitment to this position. However the translation job will be sparse. The volunteer will be responsible to translate organizations documents i.e its aims and objective, project details, questionnaire and similar things. As we work among poor and municipal school. Couple of documents we require in regional language.

Qualifications: We are looking for volunteer who has fluency in required languages along with excellent command over English language.

Please email at emailcolorss@gmail.com

The work shop was conducted for 15 visually impaired children of 8th grade who are residing at Pune Blind School hostel. These children are studying in the municipal school Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which is able bodied school. Inclusive education is happening however these VI children need attention to deal with this inclusion.

The workshop covered the following topics

Day one: Grooming and eating habits

Day two – day three covered up in day two: - Socially acceptable behavior / and Social Skills

The workshop was focused on teaching important skills required by a visually impaired child who is moving to higher secondary school. If these skills are practiced and enforced by teacher regularly then there would be a definite change in personality and will enhance better mental health.

Global and Regional messages
 Invest in youth leadership: Policies and programmes will be most effective if they involve young people meaningfully in all stages of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Governments must foster mentorship by initiating youth-adult partnerships, by building capacities for mentorship programmes, and by creating sustained spaces for youth participation. Furthermore, youth representatives must be chosen democratically by youth-led and youth-oriented organizations and networks. Advocating for (core) funding, mentorship and political will to support youth organizations and for greater partnership between young people and political leadership on STI’s, HIV and SRH, but it’s not just having a seat at the table –it is about making that opportunity legitimate, effective and representative for civil society participation.

 Address HIV in the context of other sexual and reproductive health needs: HIV does not occur in isolation. With HIV, young people often experience sexual assault, gender-based violence, maternal mortality, unsafe abortions and discrimination based on sexual orientation. Therefore, HIV must be seen and addressed not as an isolated problem, but in the context of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.

 The realities of young people’s lives must be taken into account in program and policy development, and implementation: It is crucial to acknowledge the specific needs of marginalized young people who experience an increased risk of HIV transmission. The experiences and expertise of young people living with HIV (YLHIV), young men who have sex with men (MSM), young injection drug users (IDU), and young sex workers must be respected and included in program and policy development to ensure that they are relevant and effective. In many parts of the world, injecting drug use is fuelling concentrated epidemics. Young IDU’s need access to youth friendly harm reduction programs that include needle and syringe exchanges, information about sexual health, HIV prevention, treatment (including substitution therapy), and support to protect themselves and their sexual partners. Young people living with HIV must have access to anti-retroviral treatment and complete health education with respect to HIV and AIDS, so they are able to manage opportunistic infections and maintain their personal well-being. All young people have rights to information, education, services, and support, which they do not lose as a result of their HIV status.

 Take positive steps to promote and protect young people’s rights: The violation of young people’s rights puts them at greater risk of harm. The key to reducing vulnerabilities lies in the promotion and protection of these rights. Young people have all human rights irrespective of their age, gender, race or other status. These rights include the full range of their sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to be free from violence and persecution/stigmatization, and the right to confidentiality. These rights must be guaranteed regardless of HIV status.

Regional and Local messages
 HIV is transmitted primarily through sex: Young people’s access to comprehensive, evidence-based sex education and HIV prevention programs that are safe, confidential, welcoming, and free from stigma and discrimination are imperative in responding to the HIV epidemic. Young people must also have access to youth-friendly services for testing, treatment, and care from trained providers in convenient and affordable locations. Sexual and reproductive health knowledge gives young people the tools they need to make educated decisions regarding their own health and to prevent HIV infection. HIV should be discussed from a young age by families, schools, and communities so that young people grow into adolescence with an understanding of the virus and the vulnerabilities particular to young people specific to gender, age, location, and sub-population.

 Make health services more accessible to young people: Stigma, discrimination and lack of awareness contribute to making health services inaccessible to young people. Awareness must be raised about these services, and their use must be promoted by messages in local languages and popular means of communication. Spaces for young people must be established at existing service centers. Respect for confidentiality and privacy must be ensured at these spaces. Ensure access to comprehensive sexuality education. The provision of evidence based HIV prevention and comprehensive sexuality education is the most effective and sustainable mode of prevention. The best available evidence shows that “abstinence only” programmes fail and actually cause more harm than good. Young people must have the information, knowledge, skills and commodities they need to protect themselves from infection and to lead healthy lives.

 Young people need a supportive and enabling environment with social norms that reinforce positive behaviors across generations: Local and global communities, governments, civil society, and young people themselves have a responsibility to make this environment a reality. Young people’s experiences are diverse and many find themselves in circumstances that greatly limit their ability to practice safer sexual behavior, even with access to sexual health information. Poverty, gender inequality, racial and ethnic discrimination, homophobia and transphobia, education inequality, homelessness, substance abuse, transactional sex, and sexual violence must be addressed in partnership with young people. Clear, comprehensive data on how HIV affects young people is needed. In all national censuses and health surveys, data must at the minimum be disaggregated by age, sex and sub-population. Such data, once available, will inform policies and programmes making them more effective.

Global, Regional and Local message
 Young people Most-at-risk: Young people constitute a significant percentage of most-at-risk populations in several countries. Interventions should specifically target vulnerable and most-risk groups of young people who are often at the centre of HIV transmission. Many young people are particularly at risk of becoming infected with HIV because of the situations in which they live, learn and earn; as a result of the behaviors they adopt, or are forced to adopt because of social, cultural or economic factors. Limited amount of focus is placed on young people most-at-risk, which is a factor which is contributing to their vulnerability to HIV. The three groups most at risk of becoming infected with HIV: young sex workers, young injecting drug users and young men who have sex with men. Many of these young people live on the fringes of society, and are unlikely to be reached by interventions implemented through schools, health services or the media.

 Young people have knowledge, skills, and creative energy to make an invaluable contribution to the HIV and AIDS response, and must be involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of HIV and AIDS programs and policies that affect their lives. Young people must have access to capacity building and leadership opportunities to facilitate their active contributions and be trained and empowered with skills to spread the information they have gained to their peers. This is particularly true for those young people most affected by the epidemic.

 Criminalization of HIV - The evidence shows that criminalization of behaviors and communities (most-at-risk population). Many governments persist in implementing policies which have no proven public health benefits (travel and residency restrictions for PLHIV, mandatory testing for migrants denial of health care for prisoners in direct violation of prisoners rights and an over-simplistic and ideological approach to while law and policy reform were often cited as solution, law and policy reform won’t work if it is not enforced or the enforcers are the perpetration of violence.

Tribute to the most important aspect of life ~ Balance ~

Having different meanings to the word Balance from the source http://www.elook.org/dictionary/balance.html

Definition:

1. [noun] a state of equilibrium

2. [noun] a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

3. [noun] equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

4. [noun] harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
Synonyms: proportion

5. [noun] equality of distribution
Synonyms: equilibrium, equipoise, counter

6. [noun] something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest

7. [noun] the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

8. [noun] (astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Libra
Synonyms: Libra, Balance

9. [noun] the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
Synonyms: Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales

10. [noun] (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Synonyms: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence

11. [noun] an equivalent counterbalancing weight
Synonyms: counterweight, countercounterpoise, equalizer, equaliser

12. [noun] a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
Synonyms: wheel

13. [verb] bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise

14. [verb] compute credits and debits of an account

15. [verb] hold or carry in equilibrium
Synonyms: poise

16. [verb] be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"


Different meanings in different settings. We actually need a Balance in Life, Balance at workplace, Balance at home and Balance within ourselves.. to move ahead with life and its objective.

I wish you all the balance in life.

All the best,
For Love
Anand

Please take sometime and vote/comment my entry..

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Project Enhance for Gamechangers
Change the game for women in Sport

Project Enhance: Studying karate involves the whole person; it concentrates the mind and conditions the physique. Integrating creative arts into the sessions allows Project Enhance to reinforce elements of karate training, further helping children develop and retain their skills.

Where the Martial Arts Meet the Creative Arts to Enhance Ability among Disability


Thanking you all in advance
For Love
Anand

Facing challenging situation in life....it was just a few moments back, when my prayers were heard and I came across these words of Rainer Maria Rilke ,' have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it,find yourself experiencing the answer some distant day.'

For Love
Anand

What I see is not what you see! What you see is not what I see!
What I hear is not what you hear! What you hear is not what I hear!

Though, everything is present here - in front of you - every moment - every second - its there.

We choose, to see - to hear! We want to see and hear more but ignorance, ego and pride blocks it!

Our perception is directly linked with our thought processes. Thought processes are guided by our ego and mind. Which is influenced, effected and affected by surroundings, peer group, social-professional group, environment, stress and many more factors that seems useless to us.

For success and being connected. To be able to feel nature every moment, to channelize proper use of ego and to be unaffected. It's essential to train mind and keep entire body aligned. Please spend time for yourself love yourself.

for love,
anand

www.colorss.net

The site goes LIVE - there are changes going on at the backhand. So more contents and pages to come.. Please have patience and trust! Finally we have made it go live as the delay had been very very very long.

www.colorss.net

This is a hearty congratulations to all of you and your dedication, who are with me.

Kindly: - Please remember that we are still working on the backhand. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

For Love,
Anand

Volunteer Opportunity

Colorss Foundation requires online volunteers who will research potential donors and may assist with the initial communication with donors either individual, organization or corporate. He/she is required to design proposals for the following projects: Iris, Enhance and Colors of Life.

The actual funding request will be submitted by Colorss Foundation.

The organization staff member is available for chat on gtalk or skype or yahoo.

OBJECTIVE

25% of world population of visually impaired are in India. Project Iris is a simple device that will help them a lot to make their life better. It's important at this moment for resource mobility. These projects will help mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

With the strong support for the online volunteers, the organization can take a step ahead to mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge on proposal writing, resource mobilization, community health outreach programming, international development especially with the developing countries, Knowledge on the UN millennium development goals is an added advantage.

Anyone interested to volunteer please email their resume to emailcolorss@gmail.com stating why you would like to apply for this post.

Volunteer Opportunity

TASK

Colorss Foundation champions support of the disabled, the needy, and the disadvantaged. We foster mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

The volunteers will research for organizations and schools working/supporting disabled projects. Provide us with useful resources and contacts. Help us develop a strategy that can help us with networking.

The organization staff member is available for chat on gtalk or skype or yahoo.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Project Iris: Currency denominator device for visually impaired people helps empower the visually impaired people and make them self-sufficient. 25% of world population of visually impaired is in India alone. This device needs to reach those 25% population so its important to network with organizations who work with them.

OBJECTIVE

25% of world population of visually impaired are in India. Project Iris is a simple device that will help them a lot to make their life better. It's important at this moment to network with blind school and organizations who work with them. These projects will help mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

With the strong support for the online volunteers, the organization can take a step ahead to mainstream integration of marginalized populations.

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge of resource mobilization, networking, community health outreach programming, international development especially with the developing countries.

Anyone interested to volunteer please email their resume to emailcolorss@gmail.com stating why you would like to apply for this post.

Hmmmmm yes yesterday was my birthday and it seems like from this year I would be celebrating my birthday for couple of days. LOL had been getting wishes so hmmm its a good idea to celebrate couple of days wow

Dear Colorss

Close your eyes for a minute and visualize the most amazing moment of your life...Everyone has got something or the other special moments in life which are very near to them. Lets remember all those special moments today this moment and thank god for giving us this opportunity.

Happy New Year

For Love,
Anand

31st Dec 2008 website launch has been delayed. Now we all can have a look of the website soon in the year 2009. Due to some unavoidable work pressure on the web designing team. It getting delayed.

Thanking you all and be curious to have a look at the new web site soon.

For Love,
Anand

Wishing you all a very happy new year from the entire team of Colorss.

In couple of days 2008 goes down and rises up 2009. Everyone hopes and looks ahead that new year brings lots of joy and happiness.

Best wishes to TIG who gave us the opportunity to reach so many people across.

Happy Holidays and Best wishes.

Love yourself and stay healthy,
For Love
Anand

Counting days

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1st Jan 2009 new website of Colorss would be launched.