By Urvashi Nair | Director Marketing
Each year we look forward to young interns coming on board for a few weeks. Their enthusiasm and fresh ideas are always much appreciated. They never fail to form special bonds with our girls during the time that they spend at IIMPACT.
We are delighted to share below some Summer Intern Experiences from this year.
Ananya Gupta
In the past month we were joined by a talented young girl from Vasant Valley School. Her name is Ananya Gupta and she is 14 years. She decided to work with IIMPACT as she connected deeply with the cause of empowering the girl child through education. Ananya is a budding writer and has already published a book called “Life: Opening Eyes”. She says about her book “It is a book of poetry on various occurrences I encountered from being a preteen of 12 to a fussy teenager at 14”.
At IIMPACT, she visited a couple of learning centers and has penned her thoughts beautifully. Through the eyes of a girl the same age as many girls at our learning centers, we hope that the stories she writes will touch a cord with everyone. She shares her experience of being associated with IIMPACT:
“It was an absolute honor to be given the opportunity and privilege to visit some of the girls and young women at the IIMPACT centre in Nuh. To come to terms with the beliefs in our society, yet watch them turn flexible through education is an experience in itself. Interacting with these girls, who are so determined to learn with high aspirations, inspires me to help them achieve their goals. Hearing from them in their own words and emotions about their days work, their interests etc cannot be matched with any report read otherwise. I have only met them once, yet I feel attached to them and sympathize with their issues.
Being a girl myself, I feel proud to see, and help perpetuate a change in the mindset of our people as well as make these girls self sufficient and independent.
I am delighted to contribute to a noble and heartwarming cause so close to my heart. I look forward to visiting again and bonding with my 60 new friends.”
Ananya Indwar
Another young achiever to join us is Ananya Indwar. A student of The British School, she is just 15 years old but has many distinguished awards and achievements under her belt! She has won The Principal’s Award 2012-2013 and The Director’s Award for academic excellence in her school. A keen sportsperson,raveler, a high achiever in academics with a passion to serve the community, Ananya has joined IIMPACT as she was impressed with the work and felt that this was a cause close to her heart. She has had tremendous exposure to social philanthropy and has done a lot too. At IIMPACT she will be using her talent in Photography and making short films to take the IIMPACT story to a larger audience. She says about her first visit to an IIMPACT learning center:
“I genuinely never believed that my two visits to the villages would change me as much as it has done. Volunteering at IIMPACT has taught me that sometimes all we have to do is step out of the bubble we live in for reality to hit us. In Mewat, the little children touched all our hearts with the simplicity of their happiness and willingness to learn. They recited timetables, poems and stories all with infectious enthusiasm. What became increasingly apparent was their love of studying. At Alwar, all of us found ourselves with goose bumps as we heard the graduating girls talk about their dreams and aspirations. In those couple of hours, the penny dropped. I realized that we were all playing the same game of life at different levels. The girls were just like us, no different. At the sane tine, it was truly humbling to see how the girl-child project of IIMPACT had helped them develop, and given these talented girls an opportunity they otherwise would not have had. It was uplifting and liberating. It gave me a whole new perspective on the way I viewed myself and those around me; I have been sensitive to this cause for a long time, and this experience has strengthened my resolve and commitment to make a difference.
At IIMPACT, I hope to capture the inspiring lives of these girls through visual imagery, photographic portraits, videos and movies. I aspire to bring their stories back to big cities and show everyone what these girls desire, need and want.”
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