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​Let’s empower with Helping Brainz 

We’re a weekend volunteer group based out of Delhi operating in 6 other cities of India, potentially working for nation development. We encompass this by dedicating our Saturday’s for Women and Child Empowerment, Elderly Care, Village Development, PEACE, Blood Donations, Health Information Literacy Drives and Educational Counselling Sessions.

Helpng Brainz believes in sharing their knowledge for community development, as knowledge increases on sharing. Today after completing 260 Saturdays of Community Service, our outreach has increased to 8000+ people, with the help of 88 community development events, 500+ volunteers, 40+ coremembers, 30+ partners and 18+ interns. Majority of our teammates are Corporate professionals, and students who wholeheartedly dedicate their weekends for community service.  Our works has been appreciated by UNESCO and various Indian organizations and we very much work on the path shown by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

You can develop yourself and the nation, in your own way, that is where Helping Brainz is gonna support you and that is how we work 🙂

To be a part as a team member (changemaker) or a volunteer (friend) logon to www.helpingbrainz.org/gi or email to either Ainee.Tanwir@HelpingBrainz.Org -or Vivek.Vaid@HelpingBrainz.Org or call 9711189900 (between 7:00pm – 9:00pm).

Be the change you want to see. See you on the road towards development ?

Lunch with Mothers and Sisters of Jeevodaya Ashralaya. 

#Love #Happiness #Smile

Love! We always get mesmerized by the language of love they speak!

Happiness! Their happiness makes our inner consciousness enlightened!

Smile! We feel blessed for becoming an instrument to make a smile happen, which appears like a zephyr in the life’s darkness they’re being through.

Helping Brainz spend their last weekend with the Mothers and Sisters of Jeevodaya Ashralaya by being advocates of love, happiness and lots of smile.

Meenakshi Paswan, Remya, Dr. Shweta Yadav  and Vivek Vaid and Vivek Vaid  sponsored a delicious lunch prepared with Shri Dharmasastha Ayyappa Pooja Samiti Hastsal. Sreelakshmi, Shipra Mathur  Shivasni Bhatt Meenakshi Paswan, Vandana, Jitendra Kushwaha and Yedhu Krishna Menon  volunteered for the event.   We thank Shri Dharmasastha Ayyappa Pooja Samiti Hastsal and Jeevodaya Ashralaya for this opportunity.

Our sapling is 5 years old.  We turned 5!

We planted a sapling in August 2012. In the beginning people showed the same attitude which a common man shows to a young plant, however the gardeners never stopped watering it though the people had different notions. As the days passed, became months and years, and we kept on chanting the positive deeds of being a gardener and being alas an environmentalist, people started becoming gardeners and they stayed practicing this hobby. Today after 5 years our sapling is a herb!

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards making HelpingBrainz a herb. We celebrated our 5th Anniversary on August 5th 2017 at Deepalaya School, Kalkaji.

Yedhu Krishna Menon, Founder of HelpingBrainz talked about the journey, year 2016 and about the plans for 2017-18.  The people who graced the occasion were  Ambika P Menon (Managing Trustee, HelpingBrainz), Dr. Sanjay Kumar Deb  (Senior Development Advisory Council Member, HelpingBrainz),Somi Shukla  (Senior Team Member, Counselor, HelpingBrainz), Kirti Tikyani and Aayushi Gupta ( Women Empowerment Project Managers, HelpingBrainz), Pradeep Ram (Village Development Projects Head, HelpingBrainz), Amarjeet Barnwal (Village Development Projects Manager, HelpingBrainz), Arpit Sharma ( Database Management and Website Manager, HelpingBrainz), Kumar Abhishek  (PEACE Operations Manager, HelpingBrainz), Vanshita Kumar and Prateek Sudera (Social Media Managers, HelpingBrainz), Sreelakshmi, Shipra Mathur and Shivasni Bhatt (MIL Program Leaders, HelpingBrainz) and Vineeth P. Sethu

People discussed their development plans and ideas, feedbacks and improvement areas and we concluded with a cake cutting ceremony.

Thanks to Deepalaya and
Sakhi Sir for the space  🙂

Helping Brainz turns 5!

We’re 5 years old.. Nostalgia, the long five years. Pains, struggles, fights, happiness, achievements and what not : however today we stand as a respectful brand in the society. People trusts us. We showed the public that community service stands more than what we call philanthropy, showing empathy and sympathy and giving donations. Thanks to everyone who stood, is standing and will stand with us. We all believe and trust each other and this positivity makes outreaches happy and that makes us *Helping Brainz*

Today also being my dad’s birthday, I wish to say one line he told me when he came to know about Helping Brainz (after two years of start), *we rise by lifting others*.

Thank you 🙂

Yedhu Krishna Menon, HelpingBrainz

​Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus – 2017-Sahibabad

#StraightFromHelpingBrainz

#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.

🙂

​Old Age Home Visit by Helping Brainz Meerut

#WithTearsOfHappiness

Imbibing respect for the old age among the youth is one of the key aspect Helping Brainz focuses on. Young Helping Brainz mates from the engineering colleges of Meerut conducted an old age home visit near Shopprix Mall, #Meerut on Father’s day. Well it’s a Helping Brainz culture to celebrate the ‘days’ with the abandoned and orphaned.

Our teammates from Meerut spent an entire day ”stretching the wrinkles”, “cooking food for them”, “sharing and hearing stories” and “making a difference”. A Dental Campaign was orchestrated along with the same.

People who contributed were  @Harshit Gupta, Eklavya Agarwal, Utsav Anand, Mansi Gupta, Prakriti Jain and Satyam Kumar.

Father’s Day Celebrations at SaiSahara Old Age Home

#AnotherMystery

Our grandparents come and stay with us, and we definitely feel the affection. Think about those grandmas and grandpas who really want to be with their grandchildren however are caged within the walls of an old age home, with no one to share and care for them. Well old age homes and the people who cage them are still a mystery!

HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care team to show its commitment towards the senior citizens of the country and in its mission to improve the lives of the elderly by providing companionship visited Sai Sahara Old Age home located near Rajendra Place metro station.

We together watched a cricket match, shared gossips, had tea, clicked photographs and donated few vegetables. Thanks to Dr.Rajeshwari for this opportunity. People who contributed were Pratee Sudera, Gitanshu Khurana , @Kirti Tikyani, Vanshita Kumar, Parul and Yedhu Krishna Menon .

#FathersDayWithHelpingBrainz

​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

 

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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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