Grass Routes Day Zero Schedule - 2009

2009 Summer Edition: “Day Zero” Schedule About Grassroutes Grassroutes is a Fellowship Program which funds youth to go on road-trips for social change. Traveling across India, meeting change-makers, working with social ventures, learning developmental issues, living on less than $1 a day, these youth return with stories of social change; and the program enables them to use these stories to drive campaigns and become change agents themselves. An initiative of a non-profit for-impact society Youth Factor, and run by 20-odd year olds just out of college, Grassroutes aims to be a novel social venture driving youth to social action in India. The Grassroutes mantra is to use travel as a means to enable youth to be change agents.

“Day Zero” Details Grassroutes Fellows go through a month-long orientation process prior to them embarking on their road-trips. This intensive online process is designed to impart a working knowledge of the state of the developmental sector in India – challenges, case studies, tools, success stories, resource bases et al. The process culminates with the Fellows gathering at one location for a 2-day set of sessions, called “Day Zero” which includes talks by Grassroutes advisors and exceptional speakers as a final round of perspective building before they set out on their road-trips. Date: 13 & 14 June 2009 Time: 0900 – 1900 hrs (on both days) Venue: NSR-GIV Center, IIM-Bangalore.

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Schedule: Day 1 – 13 June 2009 Time

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09:00

Introductions

09:15

The yofa.org story and the Grassroutes concept

Speaker

Keerthi Kiran K

Keerthi delivers the commencement speech introducing Co-founder, yofa.org yofa.org as a youth venture and the philosophy behind Grassroutes 10:00

Grassroutes 2008: Backstory

Goutam Ullas Mahapatra

Goutam talks about the social impact that Grassroutes Co-founder, yofa.org achieved in its very first pilot edition during the winter of 2008. Includes screening of videos from the road-trips 10:45

Chai!

11:00

Team Presentations

2009 Fellows

2009 Fellows discuss their road-trip plans, their expectations and goals from the program 13:00

Lunch

14:00

Road-trip stories

Abhishek Nayak Nakul Jamadagni

2008 Fellows share the stories they bring from their road-trips, and tips to enhance the new Fellows’ Grassroutes 2008 Fellows experiences 14:45

First Aid 101

Husain Poonawala

2009 Fellow and doctor Husain talks about basic health Grassroutes 2009 Fellow precautions and first aid techniques for the new Fellows Doctor to help them during their road-trips

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15:00

The lost art of story-telling

Abhilash Ravishankar

Abhilash talks about the different tools and Co-founder, yofa.org communication channels that social activists can use to tell compelling stories, on which they can drive strong social campaigns 15:45

Chai!

16:00

Take 5! – Film-Making Workshop

Raghunandan K Hrish Thota

The folks from Flaunge, the media partner of Grassroutes, deliver a crash course in the art of Founders, Flaunge capturing great moments, film-making with special Organizers, Bangalore Roof Top focus on documentaries Film Festival 18:00

Off to the Grassroutes Party

Schedule: Day 2 – 14 June 2009 Time

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Speaker

09:00

Being a change-maker

Vishal Talreja

Vishal talks about his story of starting Dream A Founder, Dream A Dream Dream Foundation in 1999 as a 20-odd year old Ashoka Fellow Investment Banker and growing it to what it is today, with special focus on how the journey of change has changed him from within 10:45

Chai!

11:00

One Billion Votes: The Story

Jasmine Shah

Jasmine talks about creating and successfully Founder, Jaago Re! running Jaago Re! One Billion Votes Campaign, one of India’s largest success stories in using new media to rope in India’s educated urban population to participate in democracy

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13:00

Lunch

14:00

My Motorcycle Diaries

C S Sharada Prasad

Sharada tells us stories from his journey from Traveler for change Kanyakumari to Kashmir on his Thunderbird – 28 Manager, India Water Portal states, 19000 km, 75 days to study the water problems India faces 15:45

Chai!

16:00

The Pink Chaddi Campaign

Nithin

Nithin shares the story of a group of youth creating Member, Nirbhaya Karnataka and running The Pink Chaddi Campaign, one of Activist, The Pink Chaddi Campaign India’s largest social campaigns against attacks on women 18:00

Road-trip Kickoff

Sonali Gupta

Sonali comperes an informal chat between all Program Co-ordinator, Grassroutes Fellows, the Grassroutes team, advisors and speakers before the Fellows set out on their roadtrips

Contact For any queries, contact Abhilash Ravishankar [email protected] +91 98866 32987 Keerthi Kiran K [email protected] +91 90083 02973

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