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#77 5th International Cultural Congress for Peace

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace – Jimi Hendrix

To teach the next-gen leaders (students) the power of love, Helping Brainz in collaboration with ASTER Public School, Noida hosted the 5th International Cultural Congress for Peace at Aster’s Noida campus. The event was inaugurated by Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi (Chief Guest), Dr. (Prof) Sakhi John John (Guest of Honour), Dr. Sharbari Banarjee (Principal, ASTER Public School, Noida), and the delegates from various world nations (Afghanistan, Mauritius, Nepal and Ethiopia). Event consisted of peace talk shows and presentations by Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi (Peace and Education), Dr. (Prof) Sakhi John (Students and Peace, need for peace among students), Dr. Sanjay Kumar Deb (His experience on peace building programmes), Sree Lakshmi (who presented a paper on “Influence of Media on PEACE. Need for Media and Information Literacy”), Shipra Mathur and Sushmanjali (PEACE – Talk & Show), Kirti Tikyani(from Mauritius), Fitsum Taye F (from Ethiopia), Mrs. Iran Gul Saihoon (from Afghanistan), Komal Agrawal Agrawal (from Nepal), Rupak Kashyap (on his journey from a student to a PEACE Leader), and by Yedhu Krishna Menon (on why he thought about a peace education and awareness programme).

The event also witnessed performances by students from Aster who also quizzed through an interactive question and answer session with the presenters.

“My religion is humanity” – A strong impactful pledge made by Dr. (Prof.) Sakhi John.

International Cultural Congress for Peace is an educational programme conducted by Helping Brainz in the summers and the winters for the students studying in Indian-metros, in which ‘a foreigner or an international student /or an ex-pat’ conducts a virtual tour about his/her country with the help of an audio or video presentations, musical slide shows etc. This programme mainly gives an Indian student more outlook and in-depth understanding about various world nations and wherein by conducting such programmes we also aim in increasing the brotherly hood relations.

Around 100+ children from Aster participated in the event, which was spearheaded by Rupak Kashyap (VP, PEACE Operations, Helping Brainz) and Kumar AbhishekPEACE Leader, Helping Brainz). The people who made a difference, for the wonderful happening of the event where, Rupak Kashyap, Vani Saxena and Kumar Abhishek (PEACE Operations, Helping Brainz), Ainee Tanwir and Vivek Vaid (Organizational Effectiveness and Development Team), Madhup Modi (Child Empowerment Leader, Helping Brainz), Anup Shanker (Public Relations Manager, Helping Brainz), Vanshita Kumar and Prateek Sudera (Interns, Helping Brainz), Sugandha Vishal Vermai, Sanjeev Verma, Sree Lakshmi , Sushmanjali Nuthalapati, Shipra Mathur and Elakshri Agarwal (Volunteers with Helping Brainz ), Ashim Borpuzari (Development Council Member, Helping Brainz) and Yedhu Krishna Menon (Founder, Helping Brainz).

This was Helping Brainz’s 82nd social and community development event. The next to come is an educational and career counselling session for the children from Dharampura Slums (West Delhi).

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3rd-International Cultural Congress for Peace, Aster Public School, Noida Extension

3rd – International Cultural Congress for PEACE (Aster Public School, Noida Extension) by HelpingBrainz.Org‘s Peace Team.

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Majority of the Organizations who work for “peace”, only use this word for their TRP as in today’s world of community service the word “peace” provides a special USP for the brand image for the ‘so called peace organizations’. Having that said, when the world is revolving under the arms of intolerances, the presence of ‘the so called peace organizations’ can make a big difference however the big reason for we living under the black clouds of insecurity is that, the peace organizations are not doing what their basic KRAs are.
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For us the word ‘Peace’ doesn’t have any definitions. It’s a beautiful phenomenon which can be only felt through proper understanding, that’s why it’s hard to attain. As an orifice to peace, ‘the power of understanding’ becomes a key for increasing and strengthening relationships, globalizing a nation’s resources & traditions and for the overall development of the nation.

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HelpingBrainz.Org in it’s process of establishing peace, conducted “The 3rd International Cultural Congress for Peace” at Aster Public School, Noida Extension. At “International Cultural Congress for Peace” we mainly aim in teaching the young kids the real meaning of ‘unity in diversity’, wherein various nations participate and talk about their home-nations. This is an attempt by HelpingBrainz.Org to make the children understand, ‘how colourful the world is’ in the very grassroot level.

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In the 3rd International Cultural Congress for PEACE held at Aster, we had delegates from Japan, Ethiopia and Afghanistan and the events were inaugurated by Dr. Kishore Dere (Supreme Court Lawyer, Visiting Professor at Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi; India Society for International Law, Delhi and Amity University, Noida), Prabhakar Dwivedi (Security Professional, Kargil WAR Veteran) and Dr. Sharbari Banerjee (School Principal, Aster Public School, Noida Extension). Dr. Kishore mainly spoke about ‘peace education’, where Prabhakar Dwivedi shared his Kargil-WAR-experience.

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Rupak Kashyap, from HelpingBrainz.Org orchestrated the entire event.

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Miki Yokotsuka and Kiyomi Takano, Japan (visiting students studying at St.Stephen’s College, Delhi University however basically from Soka University of Japan) spoke about Japanese culture and taught the children how to make ‘origami’. Abbas Azimi, Abdul Saboor Khalil and Muafaq Royish from Afghanistan spoke about “The Peaceful Afghanistan” (Students from Jamia Milia Islamia however basically from Afghanistan), last however not the least Fitsum Taye Yeyissa, a PhD scholar from IIT Delhi’s Mechanical Engineering Department, mainly spoke about the globally unknown facts about his homeland “Ethiopia”.

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Students of Aster, prepared a wonderful music and dance show on “Colorful India”; Yedhukrishna Menon, talked about his experience of “founding HelpingBrainz.Org and designing the concept of International Cultural Congress for PEACE”; Rupak Kashyap, the Organizing Committee President mainly spoke about his experience as “a peace leader” at HelpingBrainz.Org; last however not the least Vikas Jain from HelpingBrainz.Org mainly talked about “Students & Peace”. The 3 hour show was anchored and moderated by Neha Agarwal and DrVasundhara Aggarwal

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Sushmeeta CB, and the teachers from Aster Public School, Noida coordinated the entire show from Aster’s end wherein the people who contributed and participated in the event were Ashim Borpuzari (Panel Member, HelpingBrainz.Org), Rupak Kashyap (Vice President “Peace Operations” and OCP – International Cultural Congress for Peace-2016), Neha Agarwal, Sanjeev Verma and Sanchit Gupta ( Volunteers, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gitanshu Khurana, Sandeep Gujjar, Dr.Vasundhara Agarwal (Social Development Consultants, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Bishen (Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vivek Vaid (Internal Auditor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vikas Jain (Educational Counsellor, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).


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We at HelpingBrainz.Org express our deepest gratitude towards the people who helped wholeheartedly in the background, to start with Dr. Rathi Menon (our most respected Panel Member), Ainee Tanwir (VP, Organizational Effectiveness – HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava (Project Manager, – HelpingBrainz.Org), and ShivAngi SrivAstava

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha

(image courtesy : Vikas Jain || For further images click here)

International Cultural Congress 4 Peace – Aster Public School

If somebody asked us what’s peace, we would say treating our fellow beings equally defines – what is called peace. Peace begins with a smile and Helping Brainz today witnessed and became the prime reason for the innocent smile of 100s of smart kids from Aster Public School, Noida.
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When the world is working hard to establish peace, Helping Brainz in association with Aster International school, Noida tried their bit to contribute thier best to the process of establishing peace. Helping Brainz conducted the International Cultural Congress for peace at Aster’s Noida campus. Helping Brainz interns from Egypt, Thailand and Brazil presented about their countries wherein Danish from Jamia Milia Islamia represented the SAARC nations.

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The 2 hours programme was inaugurated by Dr.Sharbari Banarjee, School principal. From Helping Brainz we had Ashim Borpuzari (General Secretary, Member of Governing Council, Helping Brainz), Rupak Kashyap (Vice President, International Peace Operations, Helping Brainz ), Pratik Pratik Raj Bishen ( Project Leader, Women Empowerment Campaigns, Helping Brainz), Hiba Siddiqui (Intern Helping Brainz).

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The complete event was orchestrated by Ashim Borpuzari, Rupak Kashyap, Pratik Bishen and Hiba Siddiqui.