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What is OVBI Mission • NGO lauched in 2013 by NRIs to reconnect Indians worldwide to their culture, heritage, and engage in social projects, work with Indian Government Bring national issues to forefront – beyond regional and communal differences • Thousands of NRIs in over 7 countries Reconnect NRIs with their roots and heritage. Engage NRIs with social projects in India • Over hundred thousand volunteers in India Build a Better India that is culturally rooted, economically advanced Mobilize our large pool of volunteers in India to help with various nation building projects 2

Pride of India • • • Basin of wealth that ignited rise of Orient, Arab & Western nations (Trade route to west) 10 th largest GDP Largest Democracy in World with third largest Army in World Birthplace of great scientific wisdom, medical, technological discoveries via evolved intellect and cognition Birthplace of Oldest of civilizations – the only one that exists till date Individualized skilled labor leading to collective prosperity Dharma (Life style) System allowed for diversity, no scope for large scale unsustainable business, greed, corruption or aspirations removed from nature Complete knowledge of psychosomatic human system - Land of Spirituality Unity in Diversity-1000 dialects, 30+ languages 3

VBI Launch 2013: ‘YOU OWN INDIA’ – Sri “Give one hour to the nation. The country has problems because good people are apathetic. Youth and citizens must take charge and volunteer for Better India” (tinyurl. com/vbilaunch) 4

VBI Resources 1000 Projects • 200 K youth volunteers • Volunteer base in 40, 212 villages • Social media/ blogger & tweeter groups in many cities • Youth representation in a large number of colleges and universities • National database of candidates for elections • • • • Voter Awareness and registration Women Safety Empowerment Dignity Farmer Rural Development 300 K voters registered Pure Water for villages Reforestation - 300 k saplings planted Organic farming training for farmers Train farmers on zero-budget farming Light a Lamp – Village electrification Vocational training – Empowering women & youth Child education De-addiction Medical camps Blood donation Legal Services 1 Million positive pledges 5

PROJECTS Rain water Harvesting achieved with 24% of Govt. estimate in Mumbai More Projects: Make Plastic bags banned by Law World Environment Day Free Medical Camps, Women’s safety campaigns 6

PROJECTS Uttarakhand Floods: Relief Work in Action VBI volunteers in action within 24 hours, efforts highly applauded by army and paramilitary forces. Hundreds of dedicated volunteers reaching out to provide food, medical camps, 13 supplies to villages cut off due to broken roads.

PROJECTS State of the Art: Voter Registration Portal • Developed by some of the brightest Indian talent from Google, Oracle, Stanford and startups in the Silicon Valley • Used by NASCOMM , CELL and FICCI to reach out to a number of companies Used by volunteers in many states • • Won accolades from former election commissioner Dr. Quereshi in his book “An Undocumented Wonder : The Making of the Great Indian Election” • www. indiavoting. org • Awards and recognition from Govt of India and US.

OVBI Educational initiatives • Educational Portal knowourindia. org for Indians worldwide • Learn India’s history, culture and heritage ; Increase Indian Pride • Online seminars of Untold history of India, Geopolitics, Current Affairs, Media, Yoga series - watched by thousands worldwide • Classes to learn Sanskrit, Vedic Mathematics • Event showcasing contributions by Indian mathematician Bhaskara-II

OVBI Volunteers across US conducted many street awareness programs, education drives

• OVBI Provides Forum for Indian leaders Online seminars attended by thousands worldwide • NRI Cultural Events Diwali, Dandia, Republic Day

Project Surajya : School of Good Governance • Raise awareness about Good Governance and Public Policy in India. • 10 Annual Scholarships to deserving students • Inspire youth to pick careers in good governance • facebook. com/ SSusurajya

Women’s Wing OVBI – Empower women to be self-sufficient, emotionally strong – Tackle women issues in US • Domestic violence, abuse – Partner with other women organizations – Work one on one with women in different states • Provide language, communications support • Connect women with lawyers providing probono service – If you are interested, join us at overseasvbi. org

Other OVBI Projects • Adopt a Village Program • • – Make model villages and support rural development Project Ujaas – Donated thousands of Solar Lamps to rural homes I Fly for Better India – OVBI members flew to vote & help in 2014 elections Project Udaan – Education for girls at-risk for human trafficking. Artificial Intelligence powered Bogus Voter Roll Cleanup Software – Transliteration technology to convert voter rolls from local Indian languages to English – Machine learning algorithms to clean up bogus voter entries – Identifies mass voter roll deletions as soon it happens instead of surprises on election day

Most successful immigration group, Indians, join hands for better India.

OVBI co-lead Govt Events Prime Minister Modiji’s NY visit: Largest Partner Organization • 1300 youths • Handled PR/ Media work for the event MP CM Shivraj Singh Event • Core Event organizer • Got potential investors and experts in Healthcare/ Solar energy/ Cloud computing/ Skill development/ Single technology deck to lock different electronic equipments /. Meet with govt officials

Udaan: Help At-risk children get educated

Yoga Day (21 st June) • Timeline – Dec 2011 Yoga Summit AOL Bangalore Sri and Baba Ramdev gave a call to the UN to declare June 21 as World Yoga Day: There is World Toilet Day no Yoga Day – 2014 PM Modi address UN for Yoga Day • Indian Embassy Washington DC – – – Historic 177 countries passed without vote Dec 2014 Many countries want yoga Day to promote ongoing practice of Yoga Curtain Raiser event with Sri AOL, OVBI listed amongst Friends of Yoga partners • Yoga Global – world aware of many benefits – Rejuvenate body, mind, spirit – Yoga for peace and conflict resolution – Yoga mental, emotional health in Disaster Relief

Yoga a Global Phenomenon

Organized Yoga Day in 100 cities in US – intyogaday. com

Large number of Yoga Day partners / Friends of Yoga

How can we Better India - Involve our Collective Strength over a collaborative Structured platform Become a Volunteer for Better India • Enroll on overseasvbi. org website as member - its FREE Take up a project • • Make contact with Corporations, Universities & Organizations • Make OVBI chapter in your area • Create network of influential NRIs • Re-connect Indians with their culture and heritage Model Village Fundraising girl child education Education programs IT support ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ – Gandhi