Ananda Volunteering

Microsoft GIVE Month 2025 – Inclusive Volunteering with Vision Empower

November, 2025

From October to November 2025, Microsoft employees partnered with Vision Empower as part of Microsoft GIVE Month, contributing time, skills, and creativity toward inclusive STEM education. Volunteer Contributions Offline Volunteering: 189 tactile STEM diagrams created and quality-checked for school distribution.Online Volunteering: 218 accessible content pieces developed, including tactile descriptions and...
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Microsoft employees and Vision Empower team members collaborate during Microsoft GIVE Month 2025, creating tactile STEM diagrams and accessible digital content to strengthen inclusive learning opportunities for students with visual impairment.

Celebrating Kindness in Action with CSGI

September, 2025

As part of Kindness Month, CSGI organized a meaningful volunteer initiative at their office premises in WeWork, Embassy Tech Village, Bangalore. The event brought together over 100 passionate volunteers, all uniting for a single purpose—creating inclusive learning materials for students with visual impairment. Over the course of the program, volunteers successfully prepared 96 tactile...
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Ananda at CSGI, Bhubaneswar

July, 2025

(Image: The volunteers are standing in a group together with the tactile they have made in front of them, with smiles about their contributions to VE) Vision Empower organized a successful Ananda volunteering event in collaboration with CSGI in Bhubaneswar on 4th July 2025, bringing together a dedicated group of...
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The volunteers are standing in a group together with the tactile they have made in front of them, with smiles about their contributions to VE

Ananda at CSG International, Pune

December, 2024

(This Image shows happy Volunteers posing for a picture after making tactile boards for the students) On 4th December 2024, VE organized a successful Ananda volunteering event at CSGI, Pune, with 88 employees, including the leadership team, coming together to make a meaningful impact. The volunteers worked in teams to...
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Vision Empower Ananda Volunteers CSG International, Pune

Cognizant Volunteers Create Tactile Diagrams

May, 2024

On 9th May 2024, at the Ideal Beach Resort on ECR Road, Chennai afternoon, twelve volunteers from our supporter organisation Cognizant Foundation participated in a volunteering workshop to create tactile aids that would be used by children with visual impairment in understanding STEM concepts. The event began with an introduction to Vision...
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Cognizant Volunteers Create Tactile Diagrams

Wipro Volunteers Create Science Tactile Diagrams 

May, 2024

On 7th May 2024, Vision Empower organised a successful two-hour volunteering event with 29 volunteers from Wipro at IIIT Bangalore. During the event, the volunteers assisted in creating Science Tactile diagrams that will be used for the IRIS-Audio Label reader pilot program. The tactile diagrams were designed to be attractive...
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NKT College Students Create Tactile Learning Boards for Our Students

March, 2024

On March 20, 2024, the students of NKT College of Education in Chennai participated in a unique activity aimed at creating tactile learning boards. The task at hand was to craft two types of tactile: a world map with latitude and longitude, and a world physical map. These tactile creations...
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VE’s Ananda meets Microsoft’s Give!

October, 2023

Vision Empower collaborated with Microsoft India for a remarkable volunteering event on 4th October 2023. This event was conducted as part of celebrating the GIVE month at Microsoft, an initiative for the employees to contribute their time to support various charitable causes. This year, Vision Empower had the distinct honour...
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VE's Ananda meets Microsoft's Give

Microsoft Employees Volunteer with VE

March, 2023

Once again, our supporter Microsoft India decided to volunteer with Vision Empower. The two organisations teamed up to create DIY tactile diagrams for the students with visual impairment in Bangalore on the 2nd of March and in Hyderabad on the 3rd of March, 2023. 41 & 92  Microsoft employees volunteered in Bangalore and Hyderabad respectively to create tactile diagrams which will be used to help teach science concepts to children with visual impairment studying in special schools.

Microsoft Volunteers With VE

November, 2022

“Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mould the present into a future of which we can all be proud.” – Helen Dyer As part of celebrating the month of giving, our partner- Microsoft India decided to give Vision Empower one of the...
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Christ University Volunteers

April, 2021

Being students of social sciences, there is no better practice than service learning which facilitates learning through meaningful community service. Service learning is a pedagogy that aims to enable us students to enrich our learning by integrating our theoretical knowledge and practical skills. As part of our service learning program,...
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Sitara Team

September, 2020

Project Sitara Foundation is a student-led non-for-profit organisation working in the space of education. They aim to provide underprivileged children with meaningful education to help them become self-sufficient by inculcating 21st century skills in them. The Vision Empower team is elated to have passionate volunteers from Sitara! This energetic group...
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Hackathon – Inclusive – STEM Confluence 2020

September, 2020

IIITB volunteers were actively involved in the Confluence 2020 organized by I-STEM, VE, Vision Aid and XRCVC to highlight the need to develop awareness in the information technology industry and academia about the capabilities of visually impaired programmers and provide the necessary accommodations, so that they may not be denied...
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Science and Mathematics sessions

September, 2020

VE facilitators revised the Science and Math concepts from the student’s previous grade to reinforce their learning so that the children are prepared for school when it reopens. It is mostly an interactive session in which concepts are discussed with the students over a conference call or through an online...
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Story telling sessions

September, 2020

Stories play a vital role in the growth and development of children. They are a useful source of information and children appreciate that good reading skills and knowledge are important for success in their future lives. Reading helps children boost their confidence levels, cope with feelings, develop language skills and...
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Computational Thinking (CT) game sessions

September, 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has forced us to adapt to a new way of work and life, like many other businesses and educational institutes. Recognizing the need to continue the program, our VE facilitators who played the CT games with children by regularly visiting their schools through the academic year 2019-20,...
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Afterschool Help

September, 2020

Volunteers from Sitara – a group of bright young college goers passionate about societal needs – are helping students of Grade 10, who requested Vision Empower for help, after the school hours for Science and Mathematics concepts.