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A Session on Customer Service Management for Underprivileged Women

Helping Brainz conducted a session on “customer service and marketing management” for the underpriviledged women of Madanpur Khadar. The events were led by Pratik Bishen, the social business development manager in Helping Brainz, where he focused mainly on :-

  • creating an insight on effective customer service and marketing management;
  • identify ways to establish links between excellence in customer service and business practices and policies;
  • develop the skills and practices that are essential elements in customer service management
  • best practices for effective communication.

The 2 hour event was held at EFRAH’s center at Madanpur Khadar. The event was co-facilitated by Abhinav Vikash from HCLT Foundations. The presenter (Pratik Bishen), though being in his final year bachelors of business administration, got good experience in customer service management and training the freshers for the same.

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Helping Brainz has been working readily for the empowerment of the rural and underpriviledged women of Madanpur Khadar slums for the past 2 years. When it comes to women empowerment team’s led by Shubhangi Srivastava, Athulya Rajan and Neeraj Shukla mainly focuses on conducting

  • ‘Chaipecharchas – a day with full of informal discussions’,
  • ‘VanitaSaksharta – event based on Women Education, Counselling, Training Programmes (Classroom Teaching Programmes on weekends)
  • ‘VanitaJyoti’ – Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Programmes
  • ‘VanitaSuraksha’ – Women Safety Campaigns
  • ‘SahyogSanhita’ – Legal Aid Camps
  • Experience Sharing Congresses
  • Monthly Medical Camps – Chikitsa-Shivirs

Though the trio, doesn’t have any academic experience in social working for the women, they’ve been the best in empowering the women from the underpriviledged sections of the society.

Visit by REborn Riders to Sai Sahara Old Age Home : Event Facilitated by HelpingBrainz.Org

“Hope and future”, writes the Pope, “presuppose memory. The memory of the elderly gives us the support we need to continue on our path. The future of society … is rooted in the elderly and the young: the latter because they have the strength and youth to carry history forward, and the former because they are the source of living memory. A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise”. – Pope Francis

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HelpingBrainz.Org facilitated an Old Age Home Visit for REborn Riders, New Delhi at Sai Sahara Old Age Home, at Rajendra Place. REborn Riders donated Geysers , Sugar , Pulses , Apple , Dress Items for the Old Age people., Aashirwad Aata and Sanitary Items.

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[ Helping Brainz.Org’s elderly care team led by Jyoti Suchye (a Sr.Software Engineer in Wipro, Delhi) has been successful in building meaningful relationships with elderly members of the community and broaden their own understanding of various elder-related issues by conducting biweekly visits to retirement homes, daytime elder-care centers and old age homes]

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This is the second consequtive event orchestrated by Helping Brainz in Sai Sahara Old Age Home, at Rajendra Place. Jyoti Suchye from HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Projects orchestrated the event wherein Arun Patel , Akash Doundiyal , Aman Sachdeva , Vikas Jamwal, Ankit Bhasin, Nitin Kamboj, Ranjan Halder , Daksh Verma , Dapinder Nahal, Nitin Khattar , Vivek Singh from REborn Riders donated/ and conducted the visit to the old age home.

Team HelpingBrainz.Org thank REborn Riders for being the ChangeMakers 🙂

HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Projects has planned it’s next visit to Jeevodaya Ashralaya om January 9th, 2016 (Saturday) alongwith a team of friends based out of a Gurgaon based MNC.

HelpingBrainz.Org’s Old Age Home Visit on Teacher’s Day 5/9/15

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning”. Brad Henry

HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Team on September 5th celebrated Teacher’s day with the grandmas and grandpas of Sai Sahara Old Age Home, located in Rajendra Place.
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We at HelpingBrainz.Org and our supporting volunteers, were again stunned by the silence in dark; How can a person send their parents/or grandparents to an old age home, cage them between the darkened walls, make them exposed to visitors like us – we were troubled by millions of undefined questions which churned our clueless brains, a feeling of zero gravity surrounded us. Though we were allotted 2 hours by the authorities, we tried our level best to make them smile for a while thereby creating a small orifice of light in the darkened rooms. As an astonishing fact, according to a global survey, Indian youth has become the most vulnerable in sending in their parents to an old age home, given than we hosts or we’re the successors of the world’s oldest civilization which respects elders.

“Let’s together enlighten ourselves, charity begins at home”

Sai Sahara Old Age Home, houses around 14 grandmas and grandpas is located at Dushghara Village in the outskirts of Rajendra Place (around 4 KMs from the Metro Station). The daily activities and routines are taken care Rajeshwari Ma’am (a psychologists) and her colleagues. Image2

HelpingBrainz.Org and the supporting volunteers, donated clothes, bedsheets, fruits, grocery items and vegetables. A health checkup cum healing camp was conducted by Sanjay DebSir. People who volunteered and donated the stuffs were Sanjay Deb (Panel Member Helping Brainz), Muzaffar Yunus, Vibhesh Anand, Sapna Mittal and Shreya Prakash ( from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon), Satyam Verma (from IBM India), Navneet Chandel, Mehak Kochcher, Aman Verma, Sundaram Verma (all from Wipro, Delhi), Vishal Bhardwaj(from Tech Mahindra), Lakshmi Mishra (from Gargi College, Delhi), Shubhangi Chauhan (from Kalindi College, Delhi), Prachi Prakash ( Designer, Lowe Lintas) and Gurmilan Kaur (from Daily Post, Chandigarh)
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From HelpingBrainz.Org the entire was orchestrated by Jyoti Suchye and Hiba Siddiqui (Elderly Care Project Team Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shally Arora and Pratik Raj Bishen (Public Relations, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava ( Women Empowerment Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org), Surbhi Dhingra (Child Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Utsav Anand ( Team Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org Meerut), Sandee Gujjar (Blogger,HelpingBrainz.Org), Aanchal Suchyeand Sanjeev Verma ( Volunteers, HelpingBrainz.Org), and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).

Moreover Sept 5th being our Lord’s birthday, we found spreading smiles to the age old as a perfect means of praying 🙂

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Old Age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man, let’s respect our elders.

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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.

Udaan 2015

Udaan is a series of child empowerment event conducted by AIESEC in Delhi University every year. This year the event (which comprised: of painting competitions, dance and music shows, quizzes, talk shows) was held at University Conference hall at North Campus, Delhi University. The programme was coordinated by Eisha Hussain from AIESEC in Delhi University. The organizations which participated were CRY, Operation Asha, Deepalaya, Udyam, Lakshyam, HelpingBrainz.Org and Prajna Foundation.

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The painting competition, also known as “Balkalakaar” was conducted by Helping Brainz. Around 150+ kids from different NGOs participated in the event supported by 10 Helping Brainz team-members, wherein the kids were asked to paint their dreams. Kids were gifted Camlin Crayons and Pencils, which were donated by Athulya Rajan and her friends. The best ones awarded.

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People who volunteered were: Sanjeev Verma , Aanchal Suchye and Prakriti. And from Helping Brainz we had Sanjay Deb Sir (Panel Member, Helping Brainz), Pratik Raj Bishen (Business Development, Helping Brainz), Ravi Prakash Thë (Child Empowerment Team, Helping Brainz), Shubhangi Srivastavaand Athulya Rajan (Women Safety and Empowerment Team, Helping Brainz), Jyoti Suchye ( Elderly Care Projects, Helping Brainz), Gagan Walia and Shibin Varghese ( Environmental Care and Awareness Programmes, Helping Brainz), Rupak Kashyap and Ragini Singh ( International Peace Programmes, Helping Brainz), Sujata Kapoor andGitanshu Khurana ( Community Development Initiatives, Helping Brainz) andYedhuKrishna Menon.

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“Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them: A Day with Chotus” – at Madanpur Khadar

“I want to become India, because I love Hindustan”, this is what a seven year old mentioned; when he was asked what’s his ambition is! If anyone penetrates into the exact meaning of this one-liner by a seven year old Aslam from Madanpur Khadar, this may contain 100s of beautiful definitions, which may be a result of what Aslam saw from the day he came to his senses.

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Aslam, was one among 114 who painted their dreams in “Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them : A Day With Chotus” orchestrated by Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Team at EFRAH’s Center in Samosa Chowk, Madanpur Khadar Village, an event co-sponsored by HCL Foundations.

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“Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them: A Day with Chotus”, is a colourful event programmed by Helping Brainz, wherein a child is encouraged in dream, concrete their aim and ambitions.

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114 beautiful Chotus aged between 6 to 14, from the underprivileged section of Madanpur Khadar, painted their dreams and enjoyed their day on 6/20/2015 at a colourful event orchestrated by Helping Brainz, supported by HCL Foundations and facilitated by EFRAH.

Event consisted of:-
– Introduction to the process of dreaming,
– A session on concreting the path towards to the one’s ambition,
– Paint your Dreams – event,
– School Stationary Donations ( A notebook, Pencil, Sharpener, Eraser and a Camlin Crayon to each child )
– Distribution of Sweets and Food,
– A session on health awareness, and community hygiene by Dr. Renu Verma.

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Who don’t want to be with the kids, the people who volunteered where Dr.Renu Verma, Vibhesh Anand, Sanjeev Verma and Neha Agarwal from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon; Mohammed Danish, 1st year student, Department of Travel and Tourism from Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, Delhi; Hiba Siddiqui, an Intern with Helping Brainz (however 1st year student, Department of Psychology from Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, Delhi).

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From Helping Brainz we had, Ravi PrakasH ( Thë) Yadav and Ritesh Sachdeva (Event Coordinators, Ujjwal) – both Project Leaders from Child Empowerment CampaignsHelpingBrainz.Org; Rupak Kashyap (Vice President of International Peace Operations at HelpingBrainz.Org; Gagan Walia (Project Leader, Environment and Elderly Care Projects) and Yedhu (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).

Specially to mention: Rajeev Thakur , Ravi, Ritesh and Rupak – ‘the 4Rs’ where the real Changemakers of yesterday’s event.

Identity Drive at Nithari

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring, – a famous quote by  – Tila Tequila.
Though the sun was scorching at it’s best, at 41 degree Celsius, Helping Brainz team-members didn’t step back in their mission to create an identity for those who are even clueless about their date of birth/birth place.

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Helping Brainz in coordination with the gram panchayat Nithari, helped the government, on 31st May 2015, by visiting the darkened and untouched slums located in the outskirts of Nithari Village and sector 31 Noida, gathering information (personal information) from about 200 residents (majority of them residing in the slums). These people don’t possess any id proofs (no ration cards, Aadhar cards, voter id cards etc) nor do they have any clue about their date of birth, in a nutshell they don’t know anything about their identity. Collated information would be validated and transferred to the District Magistrate via Gram Pradhan Nithari Shri Vimlesh Sharma. Once it gets vetted by the DM, then we would be facilitating identity registration drive (Aadhar Card and Ration Card) in coordination with the BLOs of Noida, at Noida Sector 31 – Government School.

Why we did this campaign:
An identity proof speaks about a person’s identity. Majority of the people living in the underpriviledged areas of India, doesn’t have any identity proof to claim their identity and they became a tool for most of the illegal activities and social menaces sponsored by the priviledged class of the society, priviledged class which includes the political mafias, local goons etc . Also, some corrupted politicians use them while elections to enhance the count of votes by luring them with short-time money.
These people cannot even apply for a job without since they don’t have an identity proof, thus the self-development process becomes stagnant resulting in poverty and unemployment.
Who all contributed :

From Helping Brainz Sujata Kapoor, Vice President for Rural and Community Development Activities at Helping Brainz led the event, also present were Shubhangi Srivastava and Pratik Raj Bishen (Project Leader (s), Women Empowerment), Gitanshu Khurana (Project Leader, Rural and Community Development Activities), Rupak Kashyap (Vice President , International Peace Programmes), Ankur Khandelwal ( Vice President, Healthcare Awareness Campaigns), Tanveer Alam ( Rehan) ( Project Manager, Environment and Elderly Care Programmes), Shibin Varghese(Project Leader, Environment and Elderly Care Programmes) andYedhuKrishna Menon contributed voluntarily for the cause.
Shri Vimlesh Sharma ( Gram Pradhan Gautam Budh Nagar) and her associate Vikky Sharma facilitated the events.
Gaurav Srivastava and Akash Pandey, volunteered for the event.

Mother’s day with Grandmas and Grandpas of “Home for the Aged

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years”- Ausonius

It was 4 in the evening when we landed there, and our sole aim was just to make the wrinkles stretched and make them happy for the time we are there. An old home is a place, which leaves us clueless about the cruel mankind, who can even think of caging their Ma and Pa after a certain stage. I was touched by the warmth they transferred to us which comprised of a grandma’s and grandpa’s affection.

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“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man” – Leon Trotsky. If this is a phenomenon which every individual goes through, then why they enroll their parents in an old age home, how can one even think about the same? The love they grandmas and grandpas have, god, to be honest made me in tears.

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Let’s take a pledge that we won’t cage our parents to an old age home, common they are our parents, the one who made us walk, learn, dream, think – then how come ? The world is 360 degree round.
– “She was the richest woman of Delhi, and now she is with us at our old age home as a resident” – mentioned the SPOC over there. Well is it called life ?
– “The son even takes away the fruits and cash from the mother, after visiting her every Sunday” – What will you call this ?

 

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Ahh..No clue!
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Helping Brainz on May 10th Sunday, on the occasion of Mother’s day planned of spending the second half of the day with the mothers who were denied their motherly hood or caged by their kids. We visited an old home in Fatehpur Beri, Chattarpur on Sunday evening and spent few hours making them smile wholeheartedly, Helping Brainz team member and few volunteers played ‘antakshiri’, distributed juices, and fruits and spend time gossiping with the grandpas and grandmas of the old age home.
Gitanshu Khurana from Helping Brainz, is the man behind this idea. 🙂

The people who thought of spending mother’s day with the grandmas and grandpas where
Ashish Mathew, Vijay Singh , Arya Devi Aunty, Varun, Sonam Griyaghey , Pankaj Jha and from hamara #TeamHelpingBrainzwe had Swati Saini, Kumar Madhuraj , Ragini Singh, Gitanshu Khurana, Ravi Prakash, Shubhangi Srivastava, Pratik Raj Bishen, Ritesh Sachdewa (and his wife) and Yedhu 🙂

Helping Brainz would be working for “Home for the aged” hereafter!

Rural Educational Counselling – Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony

“Every child got the right to go to school, and India produces the best technologists and management professionals of world”.


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So, why we are facing a strong gap in the field of elementary education and educational counselling, or guiding our near ones towards the right path,why there isn’t a strong urge in the parents to send their children to a field which they are interested in.

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For answering these questions, to motivate the children to think and propagate and to encourage them to right the write, Helping Brainz in association with HCLT Foundations conducted a Rural educational counselling for more than 50 kids in the rural town of Madanpur Khadar, a city located in the outskirts of Delhi. Around 50+ children aged between 15 to 18 attended the counselling session. This is the second time Helping Brainz is conducting an event in a span of two months in the village of Madanpur Khadar.

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Learning through experiences, motivation towards education, educational counselling, educational system in India, what and where after 12th/10th, course details, vocational education, training and education through ITIs, vocational study centres, universities, colleges (government, public, private and deemed), government examinations, civil services where some of the major topics covered.

From Helping Brainz we had our Rural Educational Counselling expert Somi Shukla(Project Head, Rural Educational Counselling – Helping Brainz), the Event Manager, Pratik Raj Bishen (Project Leader, WSEC, Helping Brainz), our motion capturer Kumar Madhuraj (Project Leader, CCRIDI, Helping Brainz), Neeraj Shukla (Project Manager, WSEC, Helping Brainz), Gitanshu Khurana (Project Leader, CCRIDI, Helping Brainz) and Yedhu.

The event was conducted at EFRAH Center, Madanpur Khadar.

Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus at UnnatiKiRah, Pochanpur, Dwarka

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” – Gandhiji

Though we have touched more than 5000+ little hearts unofficially in our 32 months career (137 Saturdays of Community Service) , 4/18/2015 witnessed the most significant one when Team Helping Brainz in association with UnnatiKiRah ( A Dwarka, Delhi based NGO ) touched around 100 little hearts from the slums of Pochanpur Village, Dwarka, Sector 23. The kids and their parents make their livelihood by picking rags. Though kids study in the government schools (or in the MCD Schools) in the nearby areas, they spent time on rag picking, segregating the same etc.

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HelpingBrainz.Org in association with UnnatiKiRah conducted “Ujjwal- A Day with Chotus” which included:-
– Paint Your Dreams, painting competition;
– Recitations and dances by the little ones ;
– Distribution of School Stationary Items (A Notebook, Pencil, Sharpener, Eraser and Crayons each);
– One time meal programme;
– Health Awareness talks by BHB Team, Apollo Hospital.

What hence:-
– After 21 days we would be conducting the prize distribution programme,
– On the 45th day we would be launching the classroom network named ‘TeachWithHelpingBrainz’ programme,
– Renting a school which would be acting as post-school shelter for the children.

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We at HelpingBrainz are blessed with a team of volunteers and Helping Brains who are best when it comes to imparting affection and healing. The programme was orchestrated by Ravi Prakash ( Thë) (Project Leader, CEP-HelpingBrainz.Org), Supported by Pankaj Jha, Shubhangi Srivastava, Kumar Madhuraj (our motion capturer), Ragini Singh, Pratik Raj Bishen, Gitanshu Khurana ( all Project Leaders, Helping Brainz ).

We are really thankful to the entire UnnatiKiRah crew including the founding member Stella Ma’am who helped us in reaching out to the kids. We also take this opportunity to acknowledge the sincere efforts by Garima Kohli and Shubhangi Singhal (from BHB Team) who helped us in conducting the health-awareness sessions, Swati Saini, Ashish Adlakha and Shally Arora – the event sponsors, Sanjay Deb Sir – who even in his busy schedule made some time and paid a visit and helped us by being one among us, Ruchir Sajwan and Nikita from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon who volunteered to their best.

I am blessed to be a Helping Brainz. ‪#‎blessed2bahelpingbrain‬

— at Ujjwal – A Day With Chotus @ Palam Slums.