Idea Bank



Education
  • Kali-Nali: Teaching kids of labourers at construction sites
  • Utsah: Educating differently-abled students
  • Increasing computational power (mathematics) of school children
  • Digital education (teaching internet and computer skills), including E2-Learning
  • Jeevan Jyoti Project: Educating mentally handicapped students
  • Reducing illiteracy
  • Helpline or tutoring for exam goers
  • Collecting books for donating to schools or creating free library
  • Teaching English speaking skills

Children and Youth
  • Play groups for village children
  • Youth clubs in schools
  • Education: computer, English, reading, finance/business
  • Homework club or help with homework
  • Sports teams in village
  • Teaching traditional folk songs and dances
  • Preventing child labour

Environment
  • Renovation or cleaning of parks
  • Community clean-up
  • Making your college campus plastic-free
  • Removal of harmful weeds
  • Water quality assessment
  • Installing ballcock mechanism in water tanks to prevent overflow
  • Composting
  • Build a garden
  • Water conservation
  • Planting trees
  • Eco-club in schools
  • Re-using and recycling

Technology
  • Digital education (how to use computer and internet, basic skills)
  • Building an app or website
  • Electronic Security System
  • Create a helpline
  • Teaching how to fix home appliances
  • Build your own technology to solve a problem!

Philanthropy
  • Collecting clothing for the poor
  • Teaching skills for help to get a job
  • Organizing events and festivals for holidays in villages or slums
  • Painting/fixing houses or public property
  • Providing a "helping hand" for the elderly
  • Bus passes for senior citizens

Agriculture
  • Addressing soil fertility issues
  • Addressing plant disease issues
  • Teaching basic home gardening skills
  • Soil health cards for farmers
  • Participatory seed production
  • Seed bank (people sharing seeds, can put extra seeds in and take out other seeds)
  • Mushroom cultivation
  • Providing marketing and business skills to farmers
  • Help to build linkages between farmers and development agencies
  • Promotion of local agriculture industries and businesses
  • Common and barren land development
  • Animal health camps
  • Crop health camp
  • Conducting PTD (Participatory Technology Development)
  • Natural pesticide alternatives

Art and Sport
  • Teaching handicrafts for women to sell
  • Art, music, or sport program in poor or rural schools
  • Create sport teams or competitions where there are none
  • Organize art or music class

Safety
  • Addressing road safety issues
  • Helmet and seatbelt awareness
  • Bus schedule on bus stops
  • Install solar lights in dangerous-when-dark areas
  • Bus stand or sidewalk renovation
  • Helpline
  • Emission testing
  • Awareness about emergency numbers
  • Self-defense class for women and girls
  • High beam stickers
  • Installing security systems
  • "Neighbourhood Watch" neighbourhood safety programs

Health
  • Educating about Vitamin A dosage sponsored by government in slum areas
  • Blood Line
  • Nail clipping for poor children
  • Eye care treatment for senior citizens
  • Medicine bank
  • Awareness and registration for organ and eye donation
  • Counselling services in areas of natural disaster (flooding, etc.)
  • Sanitation: construction of toilets, ensuring cleanliness, public health testing
  • Teaching yoga and meditation
  • Healthy eating
  • Promotion of medicinal plants
  • Free health clinic




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