Volunesia – Blogs from KnowYourStar http://blog.knowyourstar.com THE HARVEST Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:58:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-KYS-logo-32x32.png Volunesia – Blogs from KnowYourStar http://blog.knowyourstar.com 32 32 Volunesia Diaries – Diving Into The Forgotten Joy Of Handwritten Letters With The Goodwill Tribe http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-letters/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-letters/#respond Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:15:06 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4668 Harshita, one of our beloved volunteers, shares her Volunesia experience! Bangalore was in a good mood that day. The weather was at its best; gloomy but blissful. I was on my way to meet the little wonders at Brindavan Tent School after quite a long […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-letters/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Taking The Kids On A Cinematic Journey [Video] http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-cinematic-journey/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-cinematic-journey/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:51:29 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4311 Our Chief Content Officer, Anjali, shares her thoughts on a special Saturday treat. Puja season is in full swing and though we’re all in a celebratory mood, it does put a damper on our Volunesia sessions. We’ve had quite a few holiday weekends in the […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-cinematic-journey/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – A Volunesian’s Musings Expressed In A Lovely Poem http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteer-poem/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteer-poem/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:38:48 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4304 Harshita Sheshgiri wrote this beautiful poem about her second experience at Volunesia where the kids modelled beautiful solar systems with clay after watching an animated video about the outer space! (This was first published on her Instagram profile.) — I saw her mould the clay […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteer-poem/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Riding The Time Machine To Childhood Every Saturday! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-time-machine/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-time-machine/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:15:26 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4287 This time, Vikram Kumar Muthusamy Chelvi (Viku) from Talent Quest of India joined us for Volunesia last Saturday and here he goes expressing his experience! As a TQI’an am always looking forward to see great things in people just as the name suggests – Talent […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-time-machine/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Apples, Balloons, Cakes And Dance – The ABCD Of Happiness! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-abcd/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-abcd/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:37:19 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4266 This time, Harshita, a first-time Volunesian, shares how her experience at Volunesia, which she attended without having slept properly the night before, turned into something she is glad she did not miss. I woke up in the morning not knowing my day was going to […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-abcd/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaires – When Volunteers Get An A+ In Community Volunesia http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteers/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteers/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:05:33 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4191 Our lovely Volunesian- Ketki Gupte gives you a peek into our Volunesia from last Saturday, where plan-and-execute took a backseat and we found ourselves tuning into the emergence instead! After a long tiring week of work, comes the Saturday morning, that I have looked forward […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-volunteers/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – A Beautiful Collaboration With Even Better Results http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-collaboration/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-collaboration/#respond Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:18:13 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4146 A glimpse behind-the-scenes of the transformation of the Brindavan Tent School. When we began our Volunesia sessions at the Brindavan Tent School, we weren’t entirely sure of the response we would receive from our volunteers. It was a big change from our usual gorgeous settings […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-collaboration/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – The Joy Of Forging Special Connections http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-special-connections/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-special-connections/#respond Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:04:24 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4121 Every week when we arrive at the Brindavan Tent School, we’re greeted by a row of cheerful faces – and I don’t just mean the kids! Now that we’ve been conducting Volunesia at the school for over a month, we can see the difference in […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-special-connections/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Moving From Controlled Chaos To Stillness http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-stillness/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-stillness/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:33:37 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=4066 This time, our lovely volunteer – Varsha shares her Volunesia experience with us. Enjoy the read, get a peek into all the ‘masti’ that happens every Saturday, and join us this Saturday! Volunesia at Brindavan Tent School last Saturday did not seem like a ‘volunteer’ […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-stillness/feed/ 1 Volunesia Diaries – Our Weekly Dose Of ‘All Things Beautiful’ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-beautiful/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-beautiful/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:02:59 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=3976 Sneha Shekhar, our volunteer and Volunesia Organising Committee member, shares her Volunesia experience from last Saturday by pouring her heart into words. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” This famous quote by J.M.Barrie pretty […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-beautiful/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Taking Management Lessons From First Graders! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-management/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-management/#respond Tue, 18 Jul 2017 05:26:45 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=3971 One of our dedicated volunteers, Sneha, wrote about our first Volunesia at Brindavan Tent School on her blog. We loved her post so much that we just had to share it with you all. Last Saturday, we had the chance to work with the students […]

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]]> http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-management/feed/ 0 Volunesia Diaries – Musings On The Journey So Far! http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-musings/ http://blog.knowyourstar.com/volunesia-diaries-musings/#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:03:23 +0000 http://blog.knowyourstar.com/?p=3941 This week, our Chief Content Officer, Anjali, shares what we’ve learnt over the last few weeks of conducting Volunesia at the Brindavan Tent School. It has been a month since Jaideep introduced us to the Brindavan Tent School. When we first visited the school, met […]

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