Toybank at NGO India 2012
What
seems to be the largest alliance and networking between the country’s CSR and
NGO communities, NGO India 2012 serves to deepen the understanding of key issue
in areas such as health, livelihood, environment, education, disaster response
and empowerment.
Toybankers-
Shweta Chari, Indranil, Deepa, Durga and Niraj – attended this year’s conference hosted at
the epicentre, Gurgaon, from the 16th till the 18th of
March.
The
event was supported by prominent institutions such as Guidestar India, Oxfam,
The National Trust and FICCI and hosted stalls from close to 150 NGOs and
foundations.NGO
India 2012 included a 2 day conference and on the last day, the NGOs put up
stalls and had an exhibition.
Indranil Mukherjee, who has always been very closely involved with Toybank , never expected the event to be on such a large scale. He was in-charge of the Toybank stall. It was his first experience and he enjoyed meeting other NGOs and learning about what they did. When asked about what he felt about the response to Toybanks stall, he said there was a large turnout and people liked the whole concept of Toybank. He also had a good time before the event working with other volunteers to make the items for the stall. Proud of being a Toybanker, Indranil thought the message of Toybank was well put forth and he is waiting for what next years NGO India has in store for him.
Indranil Mukherjee, who has always been very closely involved with Toybank , never expected the event to be on such a large scale. He was in-charge of the Toybank stall. It was his first experience and he enjoyed meeting other NGOs and learning about what they did. When asked about what he felt about the response to Toybanks stall, he said there was a large turnout and people liked the whole concept of Toybank. He also had a good time before the event working with other volunteers to make the items for the stall. Proud of being a Toybanker, Indranil thought the message of Toybank was well put forth and he is waiting for what next years NGO India has in store for him.
Along
with Indranil, Niraj Ramjiyani was at the event. When asked why he volunteered
for Toybank at the NGO India event, he said he would do anything for Toybank, even if it involved
going all the way to Delhi! He also was impressed by the volumes of people and
the number of NGOs present. He took a keen interest in going around and seeing
the other stalls, understanding the different challenges they were dealing with
and about their work.
While
the men were busy soft selling Toybank merchandise at the stall, Shweta Chari
and Deepa Kukreja were conference hopping. There were many talks worth attending. To mention a few, Nisha Agarwal, Chief
Executive Officer of Oxfam India, spoke
on the Role of NGOs in delivering Inclusive and Sustainable Development. She
emphasized on incorporating greater accountability and better utilization of
resources in routine functioning and encouraging effective integration of
people and social organizations to bridge the demand-supply gap in society.
Anita
Sharad, General Manager for Resource Mobilization at Child Rights and You
(CRY), addressed child rights through a holistic lens. She questioned what the
root cause of issues that restrain the rights of children were. Mobilizing
communities to work towards the progressive development of children and ensuring
actual implementation of relevant laws and policies that guarantee child rights,
is what Anita Sharad proposed. Anshu Gupta, the Founder-Director of GOONJ, gave an impressive opening remark.
Kudos to Guidestar and UBM for hosting such a lovely event!
We look forward to the next NGO India event in 2013! :-)
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