IIPM Cochin organizes a Blood Donation Camp

IIPM Cochin along with IMA Blood bank was able to host a blood donation camp on 13th March at our campus. The Indian Medical Association team came to IIPM campus by around 10.00 am with 3 member staff. The blood donation camp went off at a slow pace in the beginning but later on there was huge flow of donators coming in to the campus for donating their blood. There were almost 40 donors in total who came forward to save one life. We could see people from nearby shops and offices who came to donate their blood. Both faculties and students were active participants for the camp.

IIPM Cochin organizes a session on CSR

Mrs. Rashmi Deepak a social entrepreneur by profession, whose greatest passion is to teach children, was special guest. In 1995, as a youth representative from India at the World Summit of Children, held as part of the 50 anniversary celebrations of the UNITED NATIONS at San Francisco, USA, she met Reverend Desmond Tutu and UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali. This was her first exposure to the need of children all over the world for good education. Her aim was to combine her people skills with entrepreneurship, which led her to start a very unique Culture Cafe- Amaara - in the quaint suburbs of Maradu, Kochi. Amaara was a place where likeminded people were to have a place to meet, to share ideas, to inspire and get inspired. The students at IIPM, Cochin got an idea about what can be done from their side as part of the society. The session gave an overall outlook to the GIDF initiatives been done across India.

GIDF week at IIPM Cochin

“Creativity & Knowledge together plays an important role, Combination of both in an individual can make them reach at the top”. With initiatives being planned & executed by IIPM “with multiple goals to improve personality & vision of every student & to impart them multi-dimensional approach”. Preparing them to meet the challenges internal as well as external. These events also play a vital role to fill qualities like responsibilities, accountability, reliability & overall developmentgrowth &sustenance of these achieved standard. GIDF WEEK was organized at “ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT COCHIN” ( IIPM) from 24-sep-2012 to 29-sep-2012 in which the students had shown their keen interest in participating in the competitions. There were two competition held i.e. management quiz & debate competition. Students of IIPM participated in debate competition held on 25-sep-2012. The topic given to the teams was “SHOULD WOMENS HAVE FIFTY PERCENT RESERVATION IN ALL THE SECTORS”. The dream to achieve the trophy motivated the students & finally the TEAM- B of IIPM by Anandu S & Linto Mary Somson made them achieve their goal & stood first by leaving every one behind. Another event which was organized on Sep 26 2012, was the management quiz competition. In this competition there were six teams of student from different batches. This had questions related to world affairs. TEAM- D consist of ANANDU S. AND LINTO MARY SOMSON won the quiz competition followed by GISHNU N UNNI AND MATHEW who stood second in the quiz competition