Now it is time to take it to the next level! Are you ready for the roller coaster ride? Read on to know how…

Quoted below is the application release mail by Microsoft:

Hi,

As many of you are aware, we have collaborated with Yuva Unstoppable to enable you, our Student Partners, to make a positive social impact in the communities around you. The Yuva Unstoppable – Microsoft Digital Literacy Initiative is a social revolution that aims to bring together and empower people with technical competencies to impart the power of knowledge to the under-privileged strata of society.

Under this project, MSPs will lead groups (like Student Tech Clubs) towards social responsibility and help them become agents of positive change by teaching underprivileged students and enhancing English & Digital Literacy.

We encourage MSPs across India to contribute to the Digital Literacy drive:  http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/Citizenship/giving/programs/UP/digitalliteracy/default.mspx

The curriculum is currently available in various languages used in India like Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil & Urdu.

Here’s what Pratima Amonkar, Director Academia, Microsoft India has to say:

“I urge each one of you, our Student Partners, to impact the lives of those less fortunate than yourselves, with your biggest strength – your knowledge of technology. Transform India with the power of digital literacy!”

If you have the passion & commitment to make a difference in this area & would like to facilitate this initiative, use the attached template to send your application to yuvamsp@yuvaunstoppable.org by 20^th Aug 2010.

Regards,

MSP India Team

You can find the application in your @student-partners.com mailbox.

In case you havn’t received it yet, you can download the form here (skydrive), fill it up and mail it back to:

yuvamsp@yuvaunstoppable.org and studpart@microsoft.com

with “Yuva Unstoppable – Microsoft Digital Literacy initiative” (without quotes) in the subject line.

Hope you have an amazing journey with us.

What is Yuva MSP???

Starting to make a change:

Its just a question of 2 hours a week…

Its these 2 hours that can shape the nation and empower people.

Do you have it in you???

Just fill up your contact at : www.tinyurl.com/yuvamsptracker and get started!!!

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Combined Presentation you can share with fellow MSPs:

Today, I want to share one such story that happened with a close friend of mine.

I don’t want to name her… so lets call her Radha…

Place: Mumbai Airport

Time: 5:00 AM

Radha was waiting for the sun to rise so that she could catch a rick and reach home. Just when she was thinking of getting up to leave, there was some commotion. It was a foreign tourist at the focus of it. She was crying and talking to he airport authorities. On asking fellow passengers, she found that the tourist had lost all her money due to some reason and was left stranded at the airport with very less money, no food. Everyone was looking at the scene, but no one had the guts to come forward and help.

Minutes were passing… no one came to help. Then Radha took a decision. She went to the lady. Their eyes met. She could feel the helplessness. Radha lived alone and knew how it feels to be stranded at a place where you don’t know anyone. She fumbled for words, but none would come. She just took out some cash she had. But, she knew this was not enough. She had a pack of cookies in her handbag. She took it out and without saying anything, passed it to the tourist. Both were speechless. Radha could cry out for all she was feeling. She just put some money and walked away so that she wouldn’t cry out. While going out she looked back. She saw just two thing. The thankful eyes of the lady and a crowd that had come to help the lady. With her heart full of contentment, she walked out and called out: “Rickshaw!!”

Such gestures, small as they are, lead to a better world. Why can’t all of us be of this kind??

Why can’t people in this well-meaning society express care for an individual not known to them??

Shouldn’t we, as humans, be like Radha and show compassion towards fellow humans??

Now you will ask… how??

Its all upto you…

Give a smile to your driver today… thats kindness…

Give a hug to your mom…

Talk for 10 mins to a street kid…

Give a lift to an old uncle…

Give a hug to someone who looks sad…

All these are small acts of kindness that add up to build a better society…

So… aaj aap kisko khushi denge??