Overview

FEPSI: Forum for Empowering People through Social Innovation and entertainment, VIT is an NGO well known for its activities in and around Vellore and is known to all as FEPSI-VIT. It is a very famous NGO and boasts of extreme working ability which attributes to its popularity which it has earned in a very short span of time. With a mere 6 years since its inception, FEPSI has earned a lot of respect for the work it does. The sincerity and the dedication of its members towards the theme of the club has been its impetus all along. WORK WE DO: FEPSI, in the basic level, has 3 projects currently working. PROJECT ULLAS, is the face of FEPSI. The sole aim of this project is empowerment beginning at the school level. As a part of this project, members of the club visit a school or orphanage and spend quality time with the children. Initially, the club visited karunalaya, an orphanage in Vellore. As of today they are visiting sacred hearts every weekend and are working at improving the life standards of the children. They teach the children on various aspects and also have fun time with them. Project SOCH, works with an ideology which believes in empowering today’s youth through the medium they are most comfortable with i.e. social media. The videography of various concurrent topics and the voice of youth sessions conducted by this project aims at giving a platform for the youth of today to voice out their opinions about the societal stigmas affecting the world. Project GLOBAL LEADERSHIP LABS, commonly known as GLL, works with an agenda of making leaders out of the people as leaders are the need of today’s society. This project conducts a semester long leadership programme which aims at giving a chance for the leaders within to arise from their previous selves. UPHAAR was yet another initiative undertaken by FEPSI which was a thanksgiving to all the Skilled and unskilled labour working in VIT to make our stay a happier one. Our motive in doing this was to inculcate the art of respecting the person for what he is and to respect the concept of dignity of labour. Not all good work gets acknowledged by the society, the ones truly helping out often stay inconspicuous and the deed often remains hidden. With the concept of “not working for recognition but for a good cause” in mind, FEPSI has undertaken MANNAT; a social helpline drive where the clothes collected from the students of VIT are distributed to the homeless people of Vellore along with medicines if required by them. The best part of this social drive is that it takes place with absolute zero publicity and thus fits into the term – a silent prayer.