The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) is looking for volunteers to help us with the following:

1. We are upgarding our website from Joomla 1.5.19 to 2.5.2 and we need either - a smart way of migrating articles to the new version OR volunteers to do it manually under our supervision (4 volunteers could finish it in 7 days, if they gave 2 hours every day.  With this, you can proudly say to your children and grandchildren that you helped create the new website of TISA.

2. National Get Together (NGT) : We need volunteers to work with Rajesh (hyderabad) and Dinesh (Banglore)- for reaching out to IPWS all over India, through phone calls, emails, personal visit; for promoting the event on various forums like Orkut, Facebook etc- by writing in various columns and channels (message to Editors/ moderators) etc etc.The successful volunteers will be featured on our channels (blog and website) under the column: "Best Volunteer of the Year". They will also get free counselling from sachin, whenever they need it.

So what are you waiting for ? Drop an email to info [at] stammer.in and start contributing.  Still not able to decide, then check this

An article JP wrote for People Matters (a HR organization in India) for their April Edition : http://peoplematters.in/articles/focus-areas-13/a-little-help

Do check it out and please leave comments

Here is the report for the recently conlcuded First National conference of the Indian Stammering Association. You can send your feedback at info"at"stammer.in

Thanks Raja. Your NC report has overtaken TISA's text report by many days!!

Hailing from the land of beautiful beaches - Goa, Harish Usgaonker is a Software Engineer working in an IT organization in Goa. The kid who was punished in the 6th standard for being the most talkative student in class, turned into a quiet and shy boy as he progressed into college. The initial college days of higher secondary studies began with high expectations and a lot of bullying by friends.

PFB the expenses and collections details for the first national conference of TISA, held at IHS, Bhubnaeswar from 28th December 2011 to 1st January 2012. If you find any error, please mail us at info"at"stammer.in :