IDIA Pune Chapter conducts an eye-opening sensitisation at an ashram near Pune
The following is an account by Atharv Joshi, who is a 3rd Year student at ILS Law college, Pune. He has been a part of the Pune Chapter of IDIA for a year. Here he relates his experience of conducting a sensitisation session in an ashram near Pune, Maharashtra. I joined IDIA’s newly formed […]
IDIA Jharkhand Chapter Conducts Sensitization Sessions for Over 1500 Students in Schools in Dhanbad
The IDIA Jharkhand Chapter is an offshoot of the IDIA Charitable Trust (IDIA), a non-profit organization working across the length and breadth of India, which aims to empower underprivileged children by giving them access to quality legal education. The Chapter is overseen by IDIA Director Arnab Roy and headed by Team Leader Afsar Raza. Currently, […]
IDIA Kerala Chapter Conducts Sensitisation at a Girls’ School in Venganoor
I am Shinto Matthew Abraham, and I studied in NUALS Kochi. I am an IDIA Scholar, and I was also a volunteer with the IDIA Kerala Chapter. One of the core activities of the IDIA state chapters is to organise sensitisation sessions for students from underprivileged backgrounds. IDIA Kerala chapter organises sensitisation drives among school […]
In the Backdrop of a Heritage Site, IDIA Reaches Out to a Minority Institution | Sensitisation Stories
IDIA visits New Horizon School, an unaided minority institution in the backdrop of the Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi. The team had an exciting Sensitisation workshop, and conducted the aptitude test which garnered the interest of many students in law when none of them had considered law as a career option before. IDIA’s mission is to reach more and more communities to ensure greater availability of legal resources, and for a more diverse legal profession.
IDIA – Look Back 2016
2016 was our biggest year yet. We want to thank everyone who made it possible. Here’s a look back at the year!
IDIA Mumbai Starts the Sensitisation Season with a Novel Approach to Sensitisations
Keeping up with its efforts to sensitise students about law as a career, the IDIA Mumbai chapter started its sensitisations for the present academic year with two back-to-back sensitisations. The first sensitisation was conducted at the Hume High School, Mumbai on 24th August 2016, and the second at the Chandrabhan Sharma College, Powai on 27th August 2016.
Starting a new culture, the IDIA team was accompanied by professionals from the legal field, who could share their experiences of law school, and law as a career with the school students. Ms. Khushnaaz, Mr. Sanjeev and Ms. Asmita Roy from the legal team of Mahindra & Mahindra, and Ms. Aditi Rani from Advaya Legal joined the student volunteers from IDIA Mumbai chapter for the sensitisations.