Arunima participated as an undergraduate student from Bangladesh at the prestigious human rights conference in New York City from October 14-19 2018. She represented the University of Oregon and engaged in critical discussions with immigration lawyers, United Nations officials, human rights researchers and practitioners from all over the world to implement different strategies for community development.

“The Oxford Consortium for Human Rights hosts teaching and research workshops on human rights, global conflict, humanitarian aid, and peace building, aimed at understanding and developing constructive solutions to the problems of today. “ - https://www.oxfordconsortium.org/

"Empowering Youth through collaborative learning with 'Our Rivers, Our World'" is a project organized by the YES Alumni Bangladesh to celebrate Global Youth Service Day 2014. The project was sponsored by iEARN- USA and supported by iEARN- BD.
Arunima played the major role in the implementation and completion of this project. She was the principal investigator of the project which received a fund of $2000. After approval she administered the entirety of the project, conducted workshops and outreach to various schools and organizations all over Bangladesh.

Arunima implemented and conducted a followup project of Youth TechCamp Bangladesh 2012. She designed a two-day workshop with the help of the YES Alumni Bangladesh about social activism through technology and web resources for students from grade 8-12. This workshop allowed students to learn about effective strategies to implement constructive social activism through social media tools, citizen journalism and video storytelling. The participants met students from Smallfoot Elementary school, a nonprofit school focused on helping 12 individual students from an under developed area in Dhaka, Bangladesh to access free quality education. The participants were given a task to create a social media/ promotion campaign to support the project; and sustain it within their individual communities.

The FAO-UN is working on food safety in Bangladesh and one of their celebrations of Global Hand Washing day 2013 was assigned to the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) alumni association this year. Since October 15, the Global Hand-Washing day, falls during the holidays for religious festivals, it was observed fairly ahead of time. On October 6 & 7, YES alumni Bangladesh members covered nine different schools by observing part of the days with little children.

The target audience of the event were students of grades 3 to 5. Preparing material for this category students was a tough task. However, there were half an hour long sessions conducted by the alumni groups. These sessions included interactive ways of creating awareness of hand washing techniques. Powerpoint presentations, images, short video clips and short speeches were the tools used during each session. All the students from each of the schools were very much attentive and cooperated the presenters accordingly. Students were asked different questions in order to check their knowledge about hygiene. A significant number of students had ideas about the necessity of washing hands. Students were confident enough to come forward and speak in front the crowd about their ways of washing hands.

Powerpoint presentation was basically used for creating understanding of dangers of not washing hands properly and also the positives of keeping hands clean. After learning the proper techniques of washing hands, students took pledge that they will always wash their hands properly. A total number of 900(approx.) students were reached in two days.