Youth Venture

February 8, 2008 - 4:27pm — YV_Jen

Enter the GenV.net Feb-March Video Challenge for Chance to win an IPOD!

GenV.net Video Challenge

It is time for a HUGE prize contest, 8GB iPod Touch HUGE, and this SPECIAL 2-MONTH CONTEST will require you to get your hands dirty (just a little). It’ll be super fun, though… we promise!

Youth Venture, along with its partners Hill & Knowlton, Staples, and Starbucks, presents Road Trip America, the last leg of Youth Venture’s Dream It. Do It. World Tour. Kyle Taylor and GenV.net’s very own Malena will kick off the road trip on Feb. 10th. They will embark on a 40-day road trip covering 7,373 miles through 32 US states and 3 Canadian Provinces, with stops in San Francisco, Seattle, St. Paul, Dallas, Montreal and more, documenting all of YOUR contributions to YOUR community each stop of the way before they arrive in Youth Venture’s headquarters.

So what does YV Digital want from you?? VIDEOS!!!! Kyle and Malena cannot go to every city in North America, so why don’t you tell them what they’d be missing if they skipped your town! Tell them and the world why everyone should stop by your town! Is it because your team just built the coolest community garden for the homeless in your area? Is it because of the little steak house around the corner that serves the juiciest slab of beef known to man? Whatever it is, capture it in a short 2-3 minute video and submit it by March 19th for your chance to win an 8GB iPod Touch! (one-time only!!!)

Here is how you do it:

1. Grab your camcorder. If you don’t have one, borrow one!
2. Videotape your message to the world about your venture team and your town (2-3 minutes only).
3. Upload it to YouTube.com. It’s very easy to create one if you don’t already have one.
4. Upload it to the video section on your GenV.net member profile.
5. Send the link to your video on GenV.net to YV_Jen in a private message by March 19th.
6. Voting begins March 19th and ends March 31st.

So mark your calendars! This is NOT your ordinary GenV.net contest. This video challenge is a SPECIAL TWO MONTH contest! All video entries must be received by March 19th!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Questions? Comments? Contact YV_Jen.

*Youth Venture reserves the right to disqualify any individual if his/her entry is deemed inappropriate.

January 21, 2008 - 8:52pm — tovipin

YV Venture Ideas

Shailaja Kasare and Manisha Adhar are working on encouraging young girls in their respective communities to take up academic and vocational guidance courses. They held a day long program recently to take the girls in their communities for a fun day out. After a morning of exploring the woods and games, they had an expert address them on different options for girls who have dropped out from schools.

Name: Tayappa
Venture Name: ‘The Garbage Program.’
Venture Description: Tayappa is creating awareness about the importance of keeping the community clean with the help of street plays and posters at popular festivals. Being a slum dweller and seeing tons of garbage around his place everyday he wants to educate people about the effects of non-scientific methods of disposing garbage and mobilize and educate the community to embrace modern methods of garbage segregation and disposal.

Name: Ramesh Joshi
Venture Name: ‘Ashayein.’
Venture Description: Ramesh wants the children who are leaving on the streets near his home to have access to basic education.He strongly believes that lack of education is the root cause of all problems. He conducts classes with the children twice a week and also encourages them to explore their other talents and skills.

Name: Ansari Masrud Sanjurali
Venture Name: ’Aashiyana.’
Venture Description: Masrud wants to build a youth group in Mankhud to work with social issues in and around his area. Mankhud, being a newly rehabilitated place, he believes that a youth group will help bring the people in the community together and also help people in settling down to theri new homes faster. This he also believes will be a strong deterent to the increasing levels of crimes in Mankhud.

Name: Geeta Koli
Venture Name: ‘Girl’s Education.’
Venture Description: The community where Geeta stays believes that there is no need to send the girl child to school as their destiny is to marry and taking care of the house. Geeta’s mission is to transform this attitude. Being the only girl in her community to have gone to school,she believes that educating a girl is equivalent to educating the whole family, thus benefiting all.

Name: Sumit Gade
Venture Name: ‘Pragati.’
Venture Description: Summit wishes to work with young children admitted in hospitals, engaging them in games and activites and thus helping them to deal with their illness with a smile.He believes that the childrens hospitals need to be made fun and child friendly.Using puppet shows and songs, he wants to make sure the kids enjoy their stay in hospitals, eat medicines without throwing tantrums and go home back smiling.

Name: Ashok Rathod
Venture Name: ‘Magic star.’
Venture Description: Ashok Rathod, is building an activity group in his community, where people can share their problems, express opinions on various issues, etc; through their common passion- football. As most of the people living in his community come from difficult backgrounds, he wants to build a community spirit around it. He wants to use football to build rapport and encourgage children in his community to go to school

Name: Vijay Johare
Venture Name: Jagriti
Venture Description: Vijay wants to work with young people and their families encouraging them and the key players in their life to look at education not as an option, but as a necessity. He started by undertaking a survey to understand how many children in his community go to school and is currently work with parents, and in particular mothers, to ensure all children in his community attend school.

January 20, 2008 - 4:22am — tovipin

Mumbai Marathon

Join us in supporting our 1st batch of YV venturers as they run in the Mumbai Marathon for creating awareness around the idea of young people leading social change.

Send the link below out to your generous friends, members of your family etc who you believe would like to help these 20 young people follow their dreams!

http://www.giveindia.org/give/pledgepage/YouthVenture

Thanks!

~*~UPDATE~*~

Here are pictures taken from the Mumbai Marathon: