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Road-trips for Social Change www.grassroutes.in
2009 Summer Edition:
“
Day Zero
”
Schedule
 About Grassroutes
Grassroutes is a Fellowship Program which funds youth to go on road-trips for social change. Travelingacross India, meeting change-makers, working with social ventures, learning developmental issues, livingon less than $1 a day, these youth return with stories of social change; and the program enables them touse these stories to drive campaigns and become change agents themselves.An initiative of a non-profit for-impact societyYouth Factor,and run by 20-odd year olds just out of  college, Grassroutes aims to be a novel social venture driving youth to social action in India.The Grassroutes mantra is
to use travel as a means to enable youth to be change agents
.
“
Day Zero
”
Details
Grassroutes Fellows go through a month-long orientation process prior to them embarking on theirroad-trips. This intensive online process is designed to impart a working knowledge of the state of thedevelopmental sector in India
 – 
challenges, case studies, tools, success stories, resource bases et al. Theprocess culminates with the Fellows gathering at one location for a 2-day set of sessions, called
“
DayZero
”
which includes talks by Grassroutes advisors and exceptional speakers as a final round of perspective building before they set out on their road-trips.
Date
: 13 & 14 June 2009
Time
: 0900
 – 
1900 hrs (on both days)
Venue
: NSR-GIV Center, IIM-Bangalore.
 
 
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Road-trips for Social Change www.grassroutes.in
Schedule: Day 1
–
13 June 2009
Time Details Speaker09:00Introductions09:15The
yofa.org
story and the
Grassroutes
concept
Keerthi delivers the commencement speech introducingyofa.org as a youth venture and the philosophy behind Grassroutes
Keerthi Kiran K
Co-founder, yofa.org 
 
10:00Grassroutes 2008: Backstory
Goutam talks about the social impact that Grassroutesachieved in its very first pilot edition during the winter of 2008. Includes screening of videos from the road-trips
Goutam Ullas Mahapatra
Co-founder, yofa.org
 
 
10:45
Chai!
11:00Team Presentations
2009 Fellows discuss their road-trip plans, their expectations and goals from the program
2009 Fellows13:00
Lunch
14:00Road-trip stories
2008 Fellows share the stories they bring from their road-trips, and tips to enhance the new Fellows
’ 
 experiences
Abhishek NayakNakul Jamadagni
Grassroutes 2008 Fellows
14:45First Aid 101
2009 Fellow and doctor Husain talks about basic health precautions and first aid techniques for the new Fellowsto help them during their road-trips
Husain Poonawala
Grassroutes 2009 Fellow Doctor 
 
 
 
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Road-trips for Social Change www.grassroutes.in
15:00The lost art of story-telling
 Abhilash talks about the different tools and communication channels that social activists can use totell compelling stories, on which they can drive strongsocial campaigns
Abhilash Ravishankar
Co-founder, yofa.org
 
 
15:45
Chai!
16:00Take 5!
 –
Film-Making Workshop
The folks from Flaunge, the media partner of Grassroutes, deliver a crash course in the art of capturing great moments, film-making with special  focus on documentaries
Raghunandan KHrish Thota
Founders
 , 
Flaunge 
 
Organizers,Bangalore Roof Top
 
Film Festival  
18:00Off to the Grassroutes Party
Schedule: Day 2
–
14 June 2009
Time Details Speaker09:00Being a change-maker
Vishal talks about his story of starting Dream ADream Foundation in 1999 as a 20-odd year old Investment Banker and growing it to what it is today,with special focus on how the journey of change haschanged him from within
Vishal Talreja
Founder, Dream A Dream   Ashoka Fellow 
10:45
Chai!
11:00One Billion Votes: The Story
 Jasmine talks about creating and successfully running Jaago Re! One Billion Votes Campaign, oneof India
’ 
s largest success stories in using new mediato rope in India
’ 
s educated urban population to participate in democracy 
Jasmine Shah
Founder,  Jaago Re! 
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