Volunteers are an integral part of ANEWs operations. They have always lent their time and energy whenever needed. We have interns from city colleges specializing in social work, volunteering at ANEW. They take up some of our administrative load during their term with us. Some volunteers, contribute their time for a particular project for a specific period of time, especially during summer, when we have more number of girls enrolled. There are others, highly dependable volunteers, who have committed their time unconditionally to our organization, for the past few years. They have been acknowledged here.
An Ex-committee member, Sumalini is a post graduate in Child Development and Family Relationships. Currently she is a freelance Soft skills and Communication trainer specializing in Voice and Accent Neutralization. She is in charge of coordination and smooth running of Spoken English classes at ANEW. She also helps with social media initiatives and is always dependable to play different roles as a volunteer whenever help is needed.
A consultant and language trainer with several corporate bodies including the British Council has been with the organization for several years as a committed volunteer. She has been helping ANEW with spoken English classes. Her classes make a lot of difference to the lives of the trainees at ANEW, raising their self esteem and giving them the confidence to face the work environment.
She takes her job as a spoken English teacher seriously and is a very sincere teacher. She constantly improvises her syllabus and teaching methodology in order to reach out to her batch of girls, which includes women who have had very basic education. Her patience and a gentle demeanor have made her one of the valuable assets at ANEW.