About Us

We have a Vision a Mission Initiatives Projects a Dream

About us

i-Help, a student-run initiative, is an organization of dedicated, like-minded, and hardworking individuals who believe that education is the greatest weapon against all evils of society. It’s with this spirit that we associate with various schools and NGOs to assist them with resourceful manpower which has a background from all three streams (Science, Commerce & Arts), to educate, motivate and inculcate the desire to study among those who have been unfortunate enough not to reap the benefits of education. Our primary cause is education of underprivileged children, since we believe that education is the key to overall development of an individual.

Our Mission

Our Vision

We wish to educate, encourage, motivate, inspire & lead the underprivileged children of Madhya Pradesh to pursue higher education which will stabilise their economic well-being to a large extent.

Our Mission 2020

We envision to bridge the teaching-learning gap and help underprivileged kids unearth their hidden potentials. We are committed to inspire the kids to nurture their interests and develop their will to contribute to nation-building in their own capacity.

Founding Members

We wanted to do one thing, and do that really well.

Harshvardhan

First Coordinator, Co-Founder

Ira

Co-Founder

Mani

Co-Founder

Gautami

Co-Founder

Initiatives

i-Help strives to empower children through education and knowledge. Apart from our classroom interactions, we continuously try to improve their welfare by conducting career counselling sessions, hygiene and cleanliness drives, and social awareness programmes.

Weekly Visit

The volunteers of i-Help visit nearby government schools in Indore every week, teaching them elementary Mathematics and English. The grades taught are from class 4 to 8. The modules used for teaching are specially designed to help the students in their classrooms as well as prepare for the NMMS examination.

NMMS Visit

To help meritorious students achieve their dreams, i-Help came up with an innovative idea to impart additional knowledge, which would be useful for competitive exams. Students are given specialised exam modules to help them prepare for the National Means cum Merit Scholarship Examination (NMMS) conducted annually by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Vidyadaan

The Vidya Daan project was one of our large scale initiatives that covered 9226 in 8 districts all over Indore. i-Help and its volunteers were under the immediate direction of the Divisional Commissioner, who founded the Vidya Daan initiative and saw that our efforts deemed fruitful to all the schools and it’s students.

Kashmir Flood Relief (2014)

i-Help volunteers collected around Rs 25,000 for the Kashmir flood victims. through various activities that included conducting Nukkad Natak in Chappan Market in Indore, running a juice and snack store, making diyas and selling them to the IIM Indore community.

Re-Creational Activities

We also believe in giving the students a holistic development. We conduct various annual events, such as the Cultural Day, to showcase their talents, Uthaan - a sports day of fun-filled activities. We also hold career counselling workshops, vocational training days, donation drives for the schools, and other interactive sessions with the children.

Chennai Flood Relief (2015)

To collect money for the Chennai flood victims, the i-Help team kept donation boxes in various hostels of the campus. Students were encouraged to donate money, and the amount of around Rs 11,000 was collected and given to the Chennai flood victims.

Projects

The team over the years have undertaken several projects to improve the teaching pedagogies such as the

Impact Study
Study on Student Retention
Impact of Personalised Teaching
Gaurdian Engagement Programme
Study on Volunteer Scheduling
Vidyadaan Project

What is NMMS?

National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship is a scholarship exam of the Central government for class 8 students. This scheme targets to award the students of the economically weaker section with scholarships to encourage them to pursue higher studies. We prepare the students for the exam and earn scholarships.

Over the years, we have improved our selections in the exam and we wish to expand to other exams too.

How we train them

Achievements

SEARCH FOR JUGAAD (2017)

i-Help won 'Search For Jugaad' organised by The Walking School Bus (TWSB), an International organization formed with the aim of providing access to Education, basic Nutrition and well-designed curriculum to children. We received a prize money of $1000 USD for winning the competition.

RASPBERRY PI PROJECT (2019)

The team has developed a device similar to a Google Home device to make advanced computer assisted pedagogy accessible to government schools in the rural areas. The device responds to a command followed by a question. This project gained recognition from the SDM and SDO, Rau – Sri. Anshul Gupta

NMMS Scholarship

Building upon the efforts of the previous teams, we are pleased to announce the selection of four students in the NMMS exam in 2019. The team in the past 3 years have enabled students to win a scholarship of more than 3.5 lac cumulatively. Along with the monetary benefits, a sincerity towards education is inculcated in the process.