Colorss Foundation launches its new ‘Leadership Youth Program’ on its 5th Birthday

CYLP [Colorss Youth Leadership Program] is a project intended to develop knowledge, social, emotional and leadership skills among the youth to make them effective leaders of tomorrow.
This program will specifically intend to develop tomorrow’s leaders.

This program will focus to:

• Develop leadership qualities amongst the participants with the help of classroom training and fieldwork
• Develop social and emotional intelligence with help of executing real time the social change projects
• Coaching and mentoring them throughout the program
• Train the participant with necessary leadership qualities
• Teach them the required skills to execute the social change projects
• Provide them with the required training and development for the leadership youth program
• Provide opportunities to execute the project wherein he/she can apply the knowledge, skills and analytical thinking to make a difference at large

The participant would be trained and his/her leadership skills would be groomed. The participant will specifically work in the community and also interact with the society – corporate at large. The participant will work for minimum one year and towards the end of his tenure – he/she will have to train the new chosen leadership youth to take ahead the project started. The participant has to groom the new leader with the on-going work and gradually hand over the responsibilities to him/her. The new participants would be groomed by the members of Colorss as well.

• The project/program that the Youth leader will work upon would address the need of the society.
• The students, members and society at large should be engaged in the project

Who can apply?

This leadership youth program is open for youth in the age group of

• 14 years to 18 years
• 19 years to 25 years

The participant would be chosen through a selective application and interview process. He/she should give a commitment of minimum one year. This is to ensure that the participants are strongly motivated to be actively involved and in real sense can be a part of the leadership program. The students in age group 14 years to 18 years - the parents should sign the consent letter before the child applies for the program.

Projects currently available: [http://colorss.org/our-projects/] – for more details

1. Colors of Life
2. Project Enhance
3. Better Ergonomics: A study carried on musculoskeletal health among urban poor pupils in Western India by Colorss’ Foundation research division, Risachi, has been published in the International Journal of Management and Behavioural Sciences, IJMBS. Based on this research paper; the new project would focus on better ergonomics and awareness. [http://colorss.org/research-work/] – for more details
4.  Project Urja: [Vocational training program]

Duration of the Leadership program: 1 year – part time

Location

• Baroda
• Pune
• Ajmer
• Gurgaon [Proposed]
• Mumbai [Proposed]
• Bangalore [Proposed]

Take away

• Certificate
• Training in Leadership skills and live project experience
• Articles on blog and Facebook by the participants
• Paid CYLP program
• Networking
• Contribution to the society and connecting people together

Eligibility

• Attending High School/College in the city
• Applicant must demonstrate strong leadership capabilities and/or leadership potential
• Preference will be given to students from under served backgrounds 

Guidelines for application

• Completed application form
• The students in age group 14 years to 18 years - the parents should sign the consent letter before the child applies for the program.
• Short essay responses
• Two letter of recommendation
• Official transcript of High School / College
• Resume (One page)
• Essay Questions: Word limit form 14 to18 years 200 words for each answer and for 19 to 25 years 500 words.
• Why do you want to be part of Youth Leadership program by Colorss Foundation?
• What accomplishment of yours are you most proud of and why?
• Describe a difficult situation you faced and how did you handle it. Also, what did you learn from that situation?
• What are your future plans and how do you plan to achieve them?
• What do you hope to gain from this experience and how does this experience help you achieve future goals?

For Love,
Anand Koti

Clothes-Drive for a cause – A Colorss Foundation – Ranbaxy Initiative

Clothes - Drive for a cause – A Colorss Foundation – Ranbaxy Initiative

Colorss Foundation in partnership with Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited carried out a cloth donation drive in the corporate campus of Ranbaxy Gurgaon in February-March 2013. The initiative attracted a huge response from the employees of Ranbaxy who donated their old/new clothes, gifts, reading materials etc for a good cause. Colorss’ handed these items to the needy daily-wage labourers and their family members working at the construction sites across Gurgaon.

The clothing drive lasted for a month starting 11th February 2013, witnessing thousands of clothing items and toys being donated. The moral support and participation lent by the Ranbaxy employees towards the drive was exemplary. 

Cloth donation drive was carried out to offer help to the homeless/poor people who are in great immediate need. It was run with an effort to provide warmth and protection to those in need. It has tried to reach out to all those people who will benefit with the donated clothes.

Today evening 4^th April 2013; about 2700 clothes were distributed in 4 catchments of make-shift huts of daily wage workers who work at the construction site in Gurgaon. More than 500 families benefited through this distribution drive.

About Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited

Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, India's largest pharmaceutical company, is an integrated, research based, international pharmaceutical company producing a wide range of quality, affordable generic medicines, trusted by healthcare professionals and patients across geographies. Ranbaxy's continued focus on R&D has resulted in several approvals, in developed and emerging markets many of which incorporate proprietary Novel Drug Delivery Systems (NDDS) and technologies, developed at its own labs. The company has further strengthened its focus on generics research and is increasingly working on more complex and specialty areas. Ranbaxy serves its customers in over 150 countries and has an expanding international portfolio of affiliates, joint ventures and alliances, ground operations in 43 countries and manufacturing operations in 8 countries. Ranbaxy is a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group. Through strategic in-licensing opportunities and its hybrid business model with Daiichi Sankyo, a leading global pharma innovator headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Ranbaxy is introducing many innovator products in markets around the world, where it has a strong presence. This is in line with the company's commitment to increase penetration and improve access to medicines, across the globe. For more information, please visit: www.ranbaxy.com

For Love,