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#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram Day 1 events

#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram

In our mission to empower the rural Gurugram and to make them sustainable, HelpingBrainz choose first to educate the young population of Gurugram on ‘environmental sustainability and nature conservation’. As a step-1, we spent a day with the senior secondary students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 67, Badshahpur, Gurugram. The 3+ hours event named ‘Green and Blue VEINS’ (VEINS stands for Valuable and EcoFriendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability) were mainly spent on various aspects for Green Information Literacy drives.

Events included: talk-shows were led by Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi) and Kopal Verma, (a Research Scholar from School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, Delhi) and Workshop on how to use re-usable plastic flower-pots by Fatima (M.Sc Final Year, Amity University )and Arun John (Working professional), and Green Quiz by Abin Sharma (Working professional), all Helping Brainz Green VEINS team members. Others who supported and volunteered the successful happening of the event were Surbhi Dhingra, Vivek Vaid and Yedhu Krishna Menon. Event was orchestrated by Kirti Kumari Tikyani. All prize winners were awarded with saplings.

Event focused on making students responsible for environment. In the coming week(s), we plan for Green Parliament and Debates, Street plays on event focused on making students responsible for ‘water depletion and general population’, and water walks. The school has agreed to make Helping Brainz activities a part of internal assessments and environmental projects.

Ujjwal Vikas Puri 2016

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow”  – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In the process of empowering the powerful tomorrow, HelpingBrainz.Org conducted Ujjwal at the F-Block slums of Vikas Puri, New Delhi. 49 kids aged between 4 to 18 participated in Ujjwal Vikas Puri, which comprised of Paint Your Dreams competition, Motivational Talk shows, Dental Camps, Distribution of School Stationary items, Food distribution and ‘Dance & Music’ by the children from the F-Block slums. Parents (mainly mothers) were counselled by Shubhangi Sharma and team on ‘women-empowerment’ and ‘girl child education’.HelpingBrainz.Org Ujjwal Vikas Puri 3

 

The event was orchestrated by Shalini Sharma and Navotsana Shubhangi Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org). The school stationary items were sponsored by Shalini Sharma and the prizes were sponsored by Rahul Arora and Neha Agarwal from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. The dental camp was conducted by Dr. Nidhi Garg.

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Going forward, from May 1st HelpingBrainz.Org would be teaching these children on their weekends. Special teaching programmes for the mothers will also kick off from May 1st 2016.

 

People who participated were: Shri. Shyam Sunder Agarwal, Neha Agarwal (Volunteer, HelpingBrainz.Org), Dr. Nidhi Garg, Shalini Sharma and Navotsana Shubhangi Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava and Athulya Rajan (Women Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vivek Vaid (Internal Auditor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Bishen (Public Relations, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon ( Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
HelpingBrainz.Org Ujjwal Vikas Puri 5We also take this opportunity to request nominations from students/residents/working professionals from Vikas Puri (& West Delhi) who wish to be a part Weekend Teaching Programmes. Interested folks can logon to www.helpingbrainz.org/gi and register as a ‘volunteer’ -or-send their nominations to help@helpingbrainz.org or call 9212840007 for any further help.

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To view the beautiful pics please click here (P.C : Athulya Rajan and Neha Agarwal)

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others”  – Bill Gates