By SNV Sudhir
Youth feel that a participation certificate will be an ‘add
on’ to their Curriculum Vitae or resume and that it would land them in a plum
job. With more youth coming forward offering help, some voluntary
organaisations in the city are clearly under pressure to organize more service
oriented programmes every month.
Ken Foundation Society, which has been into conducting beach
clean up drives, heritage sites restoration, teaching classes to poor children
and other programmes has recently introduced 120 hr volunteer internship
programme.
“The response has been very good. Earlier we used to find it
very difficult to find people for the voluntary programmes but now the scene
has changed. They are coming forward asking us to conduct programmes regularly.
Normally, students spend 2 hours in a week to participate in voluntary
programmes. We issue participant certificates to them which they add it to
their accomplishments and resumes,” said Santosh P of Ken foundation.
The Foundation collects
one time fee of Rs 100 as registration amount to enroll for the volunteer
internship programme.
“When competing with freshers, there would be a significant
30 to 40 percent advantage that those who do a social internship would hold, as
they would come across as being more committed and inspired,” said, Kiran
Dasari, Vizag head of Adecco, a Swiss multinational human resource consulting
company.
Some students are also taking up the voluntary activity as a
recreation besides building up their resumes.
“Its fun to be part of such voluntary programmes and the
satisfaction we get is immense. The certificates issued by the NGOs helped some
of my seniors to get a job,” said Ram Vikas of MVGR engineering college.
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