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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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After this event, the total outreach of children whom HelpingBrainz.Org have helped becomes 6500+.

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