Shyama V RamaniPosted in Services

FIN INTERNS / TRAINEES 2022

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (8)

January 15, 2022 – March 15, 2022

Top row left to right – Chandra Sekharan.S, Sabari Santosh S, Sivaraman Santhanam, and Swetha Ravichandran
Bottom row left to right – Shreyas Seshadri, Shrinaath M, Chockalingam Harisankar, and Srinathji M
These students worked with us on Digital literacy, Digital inequalities, coaching for project management with Rural Lab staff for the next few months, and the project faculty mentor from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad is Prof Amrita Kamalini Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor, Economic Environment and Policy. In terms of community outreach – they improved the digital literacy of our village rural lab members and the senior members of FIN. Here’s their introduction video in English!
What we really appreciate – our rural lab being located in Tamil Nadu – is that they also agreed to do a video of self-introduction for us in Tamil – Here it is! https://youtube/tZcFH7tVWvw

United World College (UWC) Maastricht International School (2)

Two school students Anna Matsuzawa and Anna, Saimi Hartikainen worked for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. They conducted  a survey on the problems faced by school students during periods and presented their results at the event.

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) (4)

Yadrishi Dixit, Elanagai Arivuchelvan, Joseph Zacarias, and Jerem Lee from UPES worked on four tracks: Digital Empathy, Research on Apps, Personality Development, and Workshops. Elanagai came up with the concept of “Webiz” for a workshop – a webinar with a quiz, which was a great success. As part of the preparation for the event, the interns also developed a presentation about the swachhta app.


School of Economics and Business, Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT (3)

Lotte Albers and Anneke Hasselmann were final year Bachelors students from the School of Economics and Business, Maastricht University, who joined us as interns. Nikhil MP  (Muraleedharan Pakkattil) from the Masters Program at UNU-MERIT was their supervisor. TThey made database on twitter user in the area of sanitation and water, which they analysed to identify the most popular and effective hashtags in the Twitter space. Additionally, worked on material on Kameswaram to update its Wikipedia page, and attempted a page on FIN itself as well. Finally, they combined this with writing their dissertation which drew upon the Indian context.  Their twitter database was excellent.


Engineers without Borders (EWB) Ireland (180)

“Where There Is No Engineer” (WTINE) is coordinated by Engineers without Borders Ireland and the Development Technology in the Community (DTC) Research Group in TU Dublin. This education initiative provides students with the opportunity to learn about design, teamwork, and communication through real, inspiring, sustainable, and cross-cultural development projects. By participating in the programme, students  can design creative solutions to real life development challenges. The programme ends with students submitting proposals in a nationwide competition that is jointly funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Bentley Systems, and the Arup Trust. Students had the opportunity to design a development solution for Kameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India in collaboration with Friend In Need India Trust (FIN). The collaboration with FIN focused on improving the design and user experience of ecosan toilets and the development of a Green Academy incorporating circular economy principles for architecture students.

 

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FIN INTERNS 2021

ALL THINGS DIGITAL!

FIN has started a series of theme based internships, which impact sustainability. The first to be rolled out in this series was the ‘ALL THINGS DIGITAL’ during June-July 2021. This internship was offered to a set of interns from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, Uttarakhand and also to earlier FIN interns interested in the topic.

The ‘ALL THINGS DIGITAL’ internship included four tracks:  Digital policy, Skilling for Digital world, Digital Empathy, and Digital Empowerment.

The internship aimed to make students more aware of the potential of our digitally transformed world and improve their research and science communication skills. It was also designed to help them build empathy and develop employer-valued skills such as effective teamwork and time management.

What did they get from the internship? Hear our interns :  Kirti Chandani (00:08-00:32) , Parag Samant (00:33-00:59), Kshitij Singh (01:00-01:35), Manav Bhatia (01:36-02:05),  Akshita Kapoor (02:06-02:40) and Abhishek Pathak (02:46-03:10).

 

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Jayashree J.

  • September 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021
  • Madras School of Social Work with specialisation in Community Development
  • Part of Academic Collaboration with Madras School of Social Work

“Daily interaction with feedback was extremely useful for learning and very motivating.”

Completed work –

  1. Testing of Emergency Helpline numbers in India with descriptive analysis
  2. Transform the analysis into user friendly format for ready recognition in a poster
  3. Quiz with Kameswaram staff to ascertain awareness and strengthen it
  4. Documentation of weekly progress of FIN Kameswaram staff
  5. Compilation of relevant news of the village supplied by the FIN Kameswaram staff
  6. Organisation of  Facebook posts of FIN Trust reporting on the activities and progress made of the team for its annual report
  7. Participation in a podcast
  8. Translated selected questions of World Toilet Day quiz from English to Tamil
  9. Social Media Post for World Toilet Day
  10. Research via internet of the Government Programme ‘Jal Shakthi Abhiyaan’  of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation
  11. Research via internet of the Government Programme ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’  of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation
  12. Documentation to answer given questions in power-point with translation into Tamil
  13. Compilation of database in excel base on relevant documents related to the above programs
  14. Poster for World Toilet Day.

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Mokshavathi

  • September 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021
  • Madras School of Social Work with specialisation in Community Development
  • Part of Academic Collaboration with Madras School of Social Work

“Challenging learnings were everyday’s take away.”

Completed work –

  1. Testing of Emergency Helpline numbers in India with descriptive analysis.
  2. Quiz with Kameswaram staff to ascertain awareness and strengthen it.
  3. Support Material for Spoken English Classes in the form of games for FIN Kameswaram team.
  4. Brochure for Spoken English Classes for FIN Kameswaram team.
  5. Participation in a podcast.
  6. Social Media Post for World Toilet Day.
  7. Powerpoint on what MSSW is and its different departments.

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Hirthikraj R

  • March 1, 2021 to August 20, 2021
  • Easwari engineering college, Chennai

“It was fascinating to learn first hand how development of a village is worked upon by an NGO like FIN. I am of a helping mentality and this showed me how a community can be helped”

Completed work –

  1. Documentation Support of Annual Toilet Review with analysis of performance
  2. Documentation support to transform information gathered by FIN staff into database
  3. Documentation support to copy edit information gathered by FIN staff into reports
  4. Translation of FIN reports from Tamil to English