Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteerPankhudi was founded in April 2005 by Shahzad Wakeel, who had then just passed out of IIT Mumbai. The foundation started as an Orkut community comprising young professionals with day jobs who were keen to contribute to society’s well-being. Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteer. Volunteers with the foundation in other cities work towards the education and health of street children and children living in slums.
Most volunteers with the foundation learnt of its existence through friends already working with it, or have chanced upon its website (www.pankhudifoundation.org). Volunteers in a particular city are encouraged to keep in touch via group mail or email. If a volunteer shifts to another city where Pankhudi is present, she just has to send an email to pr @ pankhudifoundation.org and she will be put in touch with local workers.
If you want to volunteer
Volunteers can teach, organize activities for the children, contribute towards the Pankhudi newsletter, or just choose to help during collection drives such as the recent Bihar flood relief drive. Pankhudi invites volunteers in seven different cities (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkotta and Chennai) to teach and work on health care drives in slums. For those who want to make contributions in kind to SRMAB, the school needs computers, headphones, sports equipment and tape recorders. They can teach or organize activities for the children.
Full article at Live Mint - Wall Street Journal.
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