Deshpande Fellowship Program : Orientation Program

Deshpande fellowship Orientation
It is the great pleasure to share with you all that the Deshpande Fellowship Program Cohort – II started.Orientation was for three days (20th Jan, 2009 to 22nd Jan, 2009). I am very happy.We are twenty two fellows in this cohort - II. Names are Ajay, Basavaraj, Beeralinga, Chandrashekhar, Chandru, Davalsaheb, Devadanam, Fathima, Gayatri, Hanamantha, Jagadeesh, Lakshmish, Latha, Lingaraj, Mahantesh, Malini, Meenakshi, Shambhulinga, Savita, Usha, Veeresh and myself yoginder.First day 20th JanuaryDay startedDeshpande Foundation’s with some icebreaking games by Taryn (Program Director). Mr. Naveen Jha director of the DCSE (Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship) and manages the India operations. He had introduced all the DF staff to us. He gave overview of DFP, reward system, DFP goals and reward scale. Then we papered poster about our self and then Program Manager Chinnababu had told about DFP policies. In the evening there was dinner with LEAD program volunteers before the dinner they presented their work.

Second day 21st January
Day started with icebreaking games by Taryn. It was fixed that we were to meet with sandbox fellows before that we pasted our chart on the library. Then three sandbox fellows (Rebecca Kline, Lesley Pories and Liza Fouksman) presented their work. Than the time was of Poster session and I shoed my Poster to seven people. Then we went to sub-jail Hubli it is a part of community service project there we presented two plays on social and health issue, song, jokes and mimicry. And in the last of that day we had dinner with sandbox fellows.