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#121 World Compliment Day at Sahara Old Age Home
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#120 New Year Eve celebrations at Jivodaya and Sai Sahara
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#119 Educational Counselling at Hamara Kartyav
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#118 Ujjwal – a Day with Chotus – Noida Sector 62
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#117 Helping Brainz Green VEINS at GBM, Dwarka
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#116 2019 Mother’s Day at Jeevodaya Ashralayaa
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#115 CrafTShaala 2019 – Kizhadoor, Thrissur (An empowerment session for the flood effected women)
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#114 VanitaJyoti Kochi 2019, A workshop on Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment.
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#113 New Year Celebrations with the grandmas and grandpas of Sai Sahara.
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#112 Phase#2 Clothes Donations Drive at West and Central Delhi, on New Year Eve.
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#111 Phase#1 Clothes Donations Drive at West and Central Delhi, on Christmas Eve.
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#110 Workshop on ‘being a leader’ at Government School in Badshahpur
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109# Creative-Crafts Making workshop by Mini Sajan at Annamanada.
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#108 VanitaJyoti – Annamanada
#118 Ujjwal – a Day with Chotus – Noida Sector 62
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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
To inculcate a ‘thought process’ among the children and to encourage them to dream Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Team in association with “Hamara Kartavay” (a Noida, Sector-62, based NGO founded by Mr.Dinesh Pandey) conducted “Ujjwal – day with Chotus” for 70+ underpriviledged children from the slums of Sector 62 Noida on this Sunday. Children aged between 6 to 14 attended the event. This is our first event with Hamara Kartavay, an NGO led by college going students.
Event started at 10:30 AM on Sunday morning, after the youngest kid lighted the lamp followed by School Stationery distributions, Paint Your Dreams painting competition, Music and Dance, Music4Charity, Dental Check-up, One team meal distributions and Prize distributions.
Schools Stationery items and one-team meal were sponsored by Anubhav Gupta, Akshay Shrivastava, Maj.Jiji Rajeev, Shivanshi Gupta and Team Helping Brainz.
Dr.Shweta Pandey, led the dental campaign for the children wherein Anurag and team from Maharaja Surajmal Institute, melancholically lead the Music4Charity event.
The 14 People who volunteered for the successful happening of the event are Kirti Kumari Tikyani, SatyamSrivastava, Vivek Vaid, Arun Dass, Dr.Shweta Yadav, Somnath Shukla, Alisha Verma, Shweta Tiwari, Lokendra, Srishti, Pratik Bishen, Harshit Gupta, Shivanshi Sharma, Amrit Singh and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
Helping Brainz observed that these 70+ children are gems, and they just need a push to excel in their life; and we’re highly obliged to Dinesh and his team for the tremendous handwork put forward to encourage and empower the children.
Helping Brainz will be conducting, Educational and Career Counselling Sessions, Sessions on Music, Theatre, and Art and Craft in the coming weeks through the TeachWithHelpingBrainz programme.
Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus, Ghaziabad
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“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up” – Pablo Picasso
To help children draw their dreams and to pave path towards development HelpingBrainz in association with the Seva Samarpan Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Ghaziabad (an under bridge school which educates around 200+ underprivileged children from various slums of Vivekanand Nagar Ghaziabad, since 1992. An initiative by Ms.Shalu) conducted Ujjwal-A Day With Chotus.
Under Ujjwal, we conducted Paint Your Dreams painting competition, Dental Check up Campaigns, Donation of school stationery items and One Time Meal, along with music and dance performances by the children.
As per our commitment towards the environment and to be a change that we want to see, we started the event by gifting a sapling to Ms.Shalu who’s the lady behind this wonderful institution.
The event was sponsored by Mayur Kochar, Natasha Jain, Jeet, Archana Srivastava, Gagandeep Kaur and Kundan Choudhury.
Next we plan to start with an educational and career counselling session for the children in the coming weeks.
The event was orchestrated by Kirti Tikyani and Madhup Modi (Women and Child Empowerment Leaders at HelpingBrainz). Others who contributed were Sandeep Gujjar (Elderly Care Projects Team), Anu Choudhary Deshwal and Ashish Kumar (Helping Brainz Team Members), Dr. Shweta Yadav (Our Dentist for a noble cause), Vishal Pandita , Vineeth M Sadanandan, Shambhavi (HelpingBrainz Volunteers) and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
This was our 97th Social Development Event and Our next target is to work for the underprivileged children from Sec 128 Noida.
Photo Credits: Vineeth M. Sadanandan.
Educational Counselling and Dental Campaigns at Anurag Foundation, Najafgarh
HelpingBrainz’s Child Empowerment Team beautifully led by Madhup Modi conducted an educational counselling and a dental campaign for the 100+ underprivileged children from Dharampura, Najafgarh, Delhi, India . The campaign was held at Anurag Foundation (our partners at work under this scope of engagement) led by Dr.Archana Jha. Educational Counselling session was effectively delivered by Vikas Jain, an Engineer who considers empowering children as his passion (a Helping Brain since 2014), and Dental Campaigns were led by Dr. Shweta Yadav and Dr.Abha (the passionate medical practitioners, who wish to see a disease free world). The event was orchestrated by Madhup Modi, Project Head – Child Empowerment Team, HelpingBrainz.
Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus – 2017-Sahibabad
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#OrphangeVisit
It’s hard to write about what Helping Brainz experienced today at Ramraj Seva Kendra (Orphanage), however in our journey to develop this nation – we turned a page with a certain level of satisfaction when WE made them feel that they are not alone in their lonely world of silence, sharing infinite amount love and happiness.
Helping Brainz conducted Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus at Ramraj Seva Kendra Orphanage, Sahibabad. As usual Ujjwal consisted of Paint Your Dreams painting competition, School Stationery and One Time Meal Distribution, Dental Campaigns, Healthcare Campaign, Game Shows and lots of happiness. Around 35 children from the Orphanage painted their dreams with Helping Brainz.
School stationery items were donated by Bhuwan Chandra and Team from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon; Meals were sponsored by Mrs. Monika Ghosh, Gagandeep Kaur and Dr.Renu Verma. Gifts were sponsored by Rajesh Kumar Ahuja. The best painter was awarded a special prize from Ramsons Locks.
People who contributed today were Bhuwan Chandra Pant , Vijay Kumar, Shahzad, Ankita from Ameriprise Financials Gurgaon; Mrs. Monika Ghosh. ; Dr.Abha Singh and Dr.Shweta Yadav (Dental Campaigns); and Mr.Rajesh Kumar Ahuja. From Helping Brainz we had Madhup Modi, Prateek Sudera and Vanshita Kumar (Event Organizers), along with Kirti Tikyani, Anup Shanker , Pratik Raj Bishen Sandeep Gujjar, Sanjeev Verma, Sugandha Sharma, and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
We thank everyone who made a difference today.
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Ujjwal – with the kids from Deepalaya, Gusbethi
#StraightFromTheHeart
Though we boast to be great planners, community service and nation building being a passion in each one of us – we do the same in the most relaxed manner, thus the plans to spend our weekends with the kids from Deepalaya and to make an Ujjwal out of it. Thanks to Mr.Madhusudhanan Menon from Deepalaya , who gave us a space to be a reason for their smile.
Helping Brainz in association with Deepalaya conducted “Ujjwal – a Day with Chotus” on June 10th 2017 Saturday which included Paint Your Dreams painting competition, distribution of school stationery items and one-time-meal (Lunch with the kids), counselling sessions (by Vikas Jain and Pradeep Ram) and health talk shows (by Kirti Tikyani ). Event was orchestrated by Madhup Modi and Yedhu Krishna Menon , and was sponsored by Mrs. Monika Ghosh.
As a step-2, in coming days we would be marching ahead with educational and career counselling sessions being instrumental in their educational empowerment.
Ujjwal Najafgarh – 2017
Helping Brainz in association with #AnuragFoundation (Organization led by Archana Jha), conducted “Ujjwal – a day with Chotus” for the 80 underprivileged children from the slums of Dharampura, Najafgarh at Anurag Foundation’s centre. Dharampura. The event consisted of Paint your dreams painting competition, distribution of school stationery items and one-time meal, movie shows, performances by students, and prize distributions.
The event was sponsored by Maitreyee Dasgupta, Gaurav Gupta and Tinu NY.
Around 80 children drew their dreams in the event, which was spearheaded and orchestrated by Madhup Modi and Pankaj Jha(Child Empowerment Leaders, Helping Brainz). The people who made a difference, for the wonderful happening of the event where Ainee Tanwir, Vanshita Kumar and Prateek Sudera (Interns, Helping Brainz), Sree Lakshmi , Sushmanjali Nuthalapati, Shipra Mathur and Elakshri Agarwal (Volunteers with Helping Brainz ) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, Helping Brainz).
As a plan-B, Helping Brainz will be launching dental health campaigns and educational counselling sessions for the children within next 28 days.
This was Helping Brainz’s 81st social and community development event. We alone can’t make a difference, those who want to make a difference can write to help@helpingbrainz.org
Ujjwal – Okhla – 2016
President A P J Abdul Kalam, while delivering the inaugural address at the 23rd India
International Trade Fair in New Delhi in November 2003 said, ‘The driving force for economic development in rural areas is providing urban amenities in rural areas and it’s the treasury of nation development’ and we at Helping Brainz thought of starting with ‘child education’.
As a step-one process, to empower the Children from the Slums of Okhla, Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Team conducted Ujjwal – Okhla – 2016, an event where around 140 underprivileged children from various parts of Okhla -1, participated and painted their dreams. They all were from Chiranji Lal Shiksha Samiti – Okhla Phase1, a school dedicated to child empowerment run by Shri. Bhavesh Kumar, a motivating personality in himself. This was also part of our Diwali Celebrations with the underpriviledged.
The event which was inaugurated by Dr. (Prof.) Jagtar Singh (Prof, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala; Professor-in-Charge, Bha Kahn Singh Nabha Library; President, IATLIS and SATKAL) and Prof. Rohtas Sharma (Principal, Directorate of Education School, Janak Puri, New Delhi), consisted of (a) Paint your dreams event, (b) school stationery distributions, (c) one time meal distribution, (c) music and dance show by children and (d) dental health check for all the children. Prof. Jagtar and Prof. Rohtas talked about ‘education’ and ‘child empowerment’; and strongly mentioned about its importance in the process of empowerment.
The entire event was orchestrated by Pankaj Jha, Sandeep Kumar and Navotsana Shubhangi Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, Helping Brainz), the school stationery items and the meals were sponsored by Maitreyee Dasgupta, Aayushi Dhiman and Ajit Mahapatra; prizes were sponsored by Neha Agarwal and Rahul Arora from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon; and dental health check campaigns were conducted by Dr. Nidhi Garg and Dr. Ieshita Misra.
Others who contributed their best to make this event happen were, Ritu Raj Ji (NGOsIndia), Ajit Mahapatra (Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon) and Prashant Bhaskar (Healtians), Ainee Tanwir (VP – Organizational Effectiveness), Rupak Kashyap (VP – Peace programmes, Helping Brainz), Vivek Vaid (Manager- Operations, Helping Brainz), Pratik Bishen (Manager – Marketing, Helping Brainz), Priyanka Dewadas (Manager – International Relations & Internships, Helping Brainz), and Yedhu Krishna Menon (Founder, Helping Brainz).
Now as a step – two, Helping Brainz will be conducting a series of teaching programmes led by Pankaj Jha, educational and career counselling sessions led by Vikas Jain and Somnath Shukla, followed by Peace Programmes led by Rupak Kashyap within next 3 months. This was the 71st event orchestrated by Helping Brainz in 220 Saturdays of community service, and the 32nd child empowerment project. Our next child empowerment event (Ujjwal Meerut 2016) will be held on Nov 12th in Partapur Village, Meerut for around 400+ underpriviledged children.
Ujjwal – A Day With Chotus at Sri Gurukul, Sec41, Noida
“I want to become a mermaid, that’s my aim” mentioned the 4 year old Vaishnavi and “Girls are killed in this country immediately after their birth and if they survive, they become a victim of all atrocities, thus I’ll work against the atrocities happening against the women community” voiced the 11 year old Manasi, who studies in 5th grade at Aghapur Village, Noida. Manasi’s mother irons clothes to make a living.
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” – Bill Gates
In a process to empower the underpriviledged children of the country and to provide a day of happiness HelpingBrainz.Org’s child empowerment team conducted “Ujjwal – a day with chotus” for the 70+ underpriviledged children at Sri Gurukul, Sec41, Noida. Sri Gurukul is an after school project started by Shrimati. Sangeeta Chatterjee at Sec41, Noida. “Ujjwal – a day with chotus” included ‘induction on volunteerism’, paint your dreams, motivational talks, dance shows, mono acts, donation of school stationary items, dental checkup camps, food donation drives, prize distributions, distribution of ‘HelpingBrainz.Org’s Community Service Certificates” etc. School stationary items were sponsored by HelpingBrainz.Org and Radha Ramachandran (from Bangalore), Gifts and Food items were sponsored by Rahul Arora, Neha Agarwal and Team from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. The events were orchestrated by Shalini Singh and Nancy Jain (Child Empowerment Leaders at HelpingBrainz.Org).
The people who added smiles and colours, were Sangeeta Chatterjee (Founder, Sri Gurukul), Balveen Singh , Brijbhan Chaurasia , Ananya Dutt, Soumya Srivastava, Kartik Vishwakarma and Shivam Mathur (all students from DR. KN Modi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Modinagar), Dr. Nidhi Garg and Dr. Ieshita Misra ( Doctors who led the Dental Check Up Camp ), Ishan and Ravi from #AmityUniversity, Noida.
From Helping Brainz we had Nikhil Jain, Priyanka Devadas and Sanjeev Verma (Volunteers, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shalini Singh and Nancy Nikhil Jain (Child Empowerment Leaders at HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen(Social Development Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shibin Varghese Madukkakuzhy (Social Development Consultant, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava (Women Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org) and Yedhukrishna YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
(By April 1st 2016, Helping Brainz will be starting teaching programmes at Sri Gurukul)
Behind D’Lenz : Nkihil Jain and Shibin Varghese Madukkakuzhy
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Ujjwal Kurukshetra 2015
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead.
HelpingBrainz.Org, in its process of child empowerment, conducted “Ujjwal – a day with chotus” for the 200+ underpriviledged kids on 21st November, 2015 at Vatsalya Vaatika, Brahma Colony, Kurukshetra. Swami Hariom Dasji, the founder of Vatsalya Vaatika, houses and provides education to around 200+ underpriviledged kids in his self-built ashram at Brahma Colony Kurukshetra. All the Kids are basically from the various underpriviledged sections of the society.
The programme was inaugurated by Swami Hariom Dasji, Dr. Inder Talwar, Dr. Bala Prasad and YedhuKrishna Menon(Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org) and consisted of
- -Paint your dreams painting competition,
- -Music and Dance Performances,
- -Donations of School Stationary items and food items,
- -Quiz competitions,
- -Motivational speeches and Movie Shows.
The prize distribution ceremony was inaugurated by Shri.Subhash Sudha , MLA Thanesar – Kurukshetra. Mr. Subhash Sudha also spoke about the development initiatives he has taken on child empowerment in Kurukshetra.
Entire event was spearheaded by Manjeet Grewal , Chapter Leader – HelpingBrainz in Kurukshetra and the Child Empowerment Team, HelpingBrainz.Org. The School Stationary Items and the Food Items were sponsored byNeeraj Shukla & Team, Neha Agarwal & Team and Varsha Khatri both from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. Music4Charity, was performed by Madusara Liyanage and Kamal Nanda, students from NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana and Kurukshetra University respectively.
The people who volunteered and contributed were Dr. Anurekha Sharma (Professor), Anu Rawal ( Asmi) (Professor), Avinash, Ananya, Athulya Chandra, Amulya Prasad, Jagriti, Manvi and Sachin (Students from Kurukshetra University), Avnish, Anirudh Dhiman, Varun Rao and Rupinder Pathak (Students from NIT Kurukshetra). From HelpingBrainz.Org we had Ravi Prakash Yadav and Shalini Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen (Manager, Social Business Development, HelpingBrainz.Org), Neha Agarwal and Sanjeev Verma (Volunteers,HelpingBrainz.Org) and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder,HelpingBrainz.Org).
After this event, the total outreach of children whom HelpingBrainz.Org have helped becomes 6500+.
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Ujjwal 2015 Kottayam Medical College
“Child is father of the man” is an idiom originating from the poem “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth. We live in a world where people speak about child empowerment and education during elections or fund raising programmes to gain name or fame.
‘A child’s laughter is the light of the home’ is a very famous quote. On 10th of October 2015 Team HelpingBrainz.Orgspent some time with the gifted children from the cancer ward at a Government hospital in Kottayam Kerala, and their parents who are praying for the child’s laughter to always light their homes.
HelpingBrainz.Org Kerala Chapter conducted Ujjwal 2015 for 17 kids from the Cancer Ward, Kottayam Medical College. This is the first event conducted by HelpingBrainz.Org in Kerala. The event consisted of drawing competitions, distribution of school stationary items and gifts, programmes by kids and interaction with parents.
Ujjwal 2015 was inaugurated by Malayalam Cine Star Pratish Nandan, who also talked about ‘Voluntarism in today’s youth in his inaugural speech’. Others who added colours and supported the Helping Brains were Dr.Sabitha P, Superintendent (ICH) , Dr.Jayaprakash RMO(ICH) and Mrs.Jaya (Headnurse – ICH).
The event was orchestrated by HelpingBrainz.Org Kerala Chapter Leader Kirthi Nair, supported by Divya Thampi Palaparambil (Internship Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Jayaraj Jaganadhan (Social Media Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org) and Dr.Ullas Kallapura (Social Development Consultant,HelpingBrainz.Org).
People who voluntarily contributed were Vaishak Thampi, Ashita Shajan, Ashish Shajan, Jesna Jose, Subin Kuriakose Onasseril, Vishnu Viswaath, Salish P S, Sai Kishore, Deepak Mohan, Akhil Nath and Dilna Vinu.
