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#170 – 14th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at Ambalika Institute of Professional Studies.
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#169 – 13th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at KVPF Kerala
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#168 – 12th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at SKIET Kurukshetra
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#167 – 11th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at PaGE, Ranchi and Hyderabad
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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
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#DelhiTurkmanGate – LockdownDonations
Team Helping Brainz donated groceries to a 8-membered family from Kali Masjid Area, Turkman Gate. These families were starving for the past few days and were in need of groceries.
Helping Brainz Lockdown Support team appreciates Pratik Bishen and Sneha Harsh for their coordination. Complete food kits were donated and we wished the families – Happy Eid. #Respect
ImportantDays
3rd March – World Wildlife Day
4th March – World Heritage Day
8th March – International Women’s Day
8th March – Ramakrishna Jayanti
10th March – CISF Raising Day
11th March – No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)
12th March – Mauritius Day
12th March – World Kidney Day
14th March – International Day
of Action for Rivers
14th
March – Albert Einstein’s Birthday
14th March – Pi Day (Pi is a Symbol in
Mathematics)
15th March – World Consumer Rights Day
15th March – World Consumer Day
16th March – National Vaccination/Immunization Day
18th March – Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20th March – International Day of Happiness
21st March – International Day of Elimination of Racial
Discrimination
20th March – World Sparrow Day
21st March – World Forestry Day
21st March – World Down syndrome Day
21st March – World Poetry Day
22nd March – World Water Day
23rd March – World Meteorological Day
24th March – World Tuberculosis Day (TB)
27th March – World Theatre Day
An article about Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Initiative “Paint Your Dreams” – Mathrubhumi
An article about Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Initiative “Paint Your Dreams” with a note on the visit to Rashtrapati Bhavan (to meet President RamNath Kovind) in Today’s #Mathrubhumi Newspaper (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Gulf and Thrissur editions). Special thanks to Acha, and T.J.Sreejith and Shaheed from Mathrubhumi for this brilliantly written article.
#121 World Compliment Day at Sahara Old Age Home
Helping Brainz in association with Sahara Old Age Home celebrated World Compliment Day at Sahara Old Age Home, Vasant Kunj on 1st March 2020. 10 grandmas and grandpas from Sahara Old Age home Vasant Kunj were present in the event. Sahara Old Age Home is located in Vasant Kunj and was founded by Mr.Arun Virk.
Grandmas and grandpas of Sahara Old Age Home Vasant Kunj
Unfortunately, when a grandma and grandpa is sent to an old age home by their children, to spend rest of their lives alone in the darkness, one of the few factors which befriends them in the rest of their lives is the instant-happiness provided by the voluntarily visits by some among us. Hence on March 1st, when the world celebrated World Compliment Day, we celebrated the same at Sahara Old Age Home with the grandmas and grandpas over there. As a compliment, our volunteers decorated the entire old age home including their rooms, played activities and games, conducted dental campaigns, and donated groceries. The event also included music and dance performances by Helping Brainz team members. As this also included the inauguration of a new old age home, we renamed the old age home as “Kushiyon Ka Ghar”.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young – Bill Gates
Event was planned and led by Akanksha Shukla and Muskan Aggarwal, dental campaigns were led by Dr.Shweta Yadav and Dr. Saloni Mishra, groceries were donated by Neeraj Shukla. People who volunteered for the successful happening of the event are Harshit Gupta, Arun Dass, Ajay Bhardwaj, Garima Bhardwaj and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
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#120 New Year Eve celebrations at Jivodaya and Sai Sahara
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When the beings of 21st century plans to be part of the materialistic society by finding a way to compete with themselves on a new year eve, Helping Brainz planned to give back to the society by celebrating the last few hours of 2019 with the needys of Jivodaya Ashralayam (67 sisters) and Sai Sahara Old Age Home (17 grandmas and grandpas) as we feel that the best way to find ourselves is to lose ourselves into the happiness of the needy.
Indeed the those special moments of happiness, for those who live their lives in darkness, cannot be materialistically evaluated, however needs to be felt by being a reason of their moment and existence.
Our visits included grocery donations, cake cutting and distribution of sweets and happiness. People who donated stuffs and Volunteered were, Anushree Menon, Geeta Sundaram, Sonya Gehlot, Vivek Vaid, Harshit Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Maj.Jiji Rajeev, Anuj Gupta, Dinesh Wadhwa, Aakash Sunil, Kirti Tikyani and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
We are obliged to the management of Jivodaya Ashralayam and Sai Sahara Old Age Home for giving the volunteers of Helping Brainz this opportunity. Visits like this gives us an opportunity to spread love and affection among ourselves and within near and dears, hence to cut down the people in old age homes and destitute homes; since old age shall happen to everyone.
#119 Educational Counselling at Hamara Kartyav
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“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
To make them a better human being of tomorrow, Helping Brainz’s educational counselling team conducted a session for the underprivileged children from various sections of Sector 62 Noida. 60+ children from various age groups participated in this event which was led by Vikas Jain from Helping Brainz. The event was performed in collaboration with Hamara Kartyav (an NGO based out of Noida Sec 62).
A counseling event at Helping Brainz is divided into two, educational counselling by Vikas Jain and a career counselling by Somnath Shukla.
An educational counselling session by Vikas Jain is our second level of cementing we do to make the ladder strong, for a child’s better tomorrow, after Ujjwal. He takes the children through a virtual ride on various topics, after interacting with each one of them, and then understanding their aims and dreams, taking notes from paint your dreams event. The session emphasises on (a) Learning techniques – how and what to learn (b) Counselling children to help them understand and overcome personal, social, societal,or behavioral problems affecting their learning processes.
After the educational counselling session, our focus is to perform a career counselling session in a week’s team wherein our career counselor will help the child counseled with career options.
Empowering a child’s future is equivalent to empowering a nation, as a child can be a pillar for a better tomorrow.
#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.
Status of Education in Uttar Pradesh
Status of education in Uttar Pradesh
(Source : Firstpost, ASER)
• A fourth of Uttar Pradesh’s (UP’s) 200 million people are aged between five and 14 years – India’s largest child population – but the state has the fewest teachers per student, the poorest transition rate from primary to upper primary school and amongst the lowest learning outcomes in the country.
• UP’s literacy rate of 69.72 percent is India’s eighth lowest in the country, according to Census 2011.
• Literacy rate rose 13.45 percentage points in UP over a decade from 2001, but there are wide regional disparities: In the north-eastern district of Shrawasti, the literacy rate is 49%, while in the best performing district, Ghaziabad (in north-western UP), it is 85%, according to this report.
• UP has the worst primary school pupil-teacher ratio in India
• India’s largest state by population has the worst pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) in India, with a teacher for every 39 students at the primary level, according to the Unified-District Information System for Education (U-DISE) Flash Statistics 2015-16. The all India average is 23:1.
• UP recorded an enrolment of 25.3 million primary students (including both private and government schools) in 2015-16, taught by 665,779 teachers (even including schools where primary, upper primary and secondary co-existed), according to government education data.
• At 30 students per teacher–as prescribed by the Right to Education Act (RTE)–at the primary level, the state should have 840,000 teachers but is short by 21%, or 176,000, according to our analysis.
• UP also reported the second-highest teacher absenteeism (31%) in rural public schools among 19 surveyed states in 2010, according to this 2014 study.UP spent Rs 13,102 per elementary school student, including both primary school students (grade I to V) and upper primary school students (grade VI to VIII), according to this commentary in the Economic and Political Weekly. This is higher than the all India spending of Rs 11,252 per student.55% of students in grade III could read a grade I text in 2014, compared to 50% students in 2006; in government schools, the proportion reduced from 24% in 2006 to 13% in 2010.In UP, few attend school regularly–on average, only 55% of children enrolled were present on the days the ASER team visited primary schools in 2014, according to ASERdata.
• According to this calculation by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, based on Census 2011 data: 624,000 children, or 8.4% of the five-14 age group.
#117 Helping Brainz Green VEINS at GBM, Dwarka
On the occasion of World Environment Day (though a week before the actual date), Helping Brainz, in association with GBM Public School, Dwarka conducted the 4th series of “Green Information Literacy Drive” as part of the Helping Brainz Green VEINS (Valuable and Ecofriendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability). After Aster Public School, Noida Extension, Government School, Sec128, Noida, Government School, Sec66, Gurugram, GBM Public School became the 4th school to implement Green VEINS.
Green VEINS, consists of “education and literacy programmes, talk shows, workshops, debates, and quiz competitions” which mainly focuses on environmental literacy and educational programmes among the younger generation, making them feel the need of greenery and motivating them to be green volunteers.
As per the day-1 schedule, Helping Brainz focused mainly on the Green Talk-show, which was conducted by Dr.Kiran Pandey, Program Director, Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi focusing mainly on the practical and daily use techniques for nature conservation and Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi); followed by spot-quiz, green slogan writing competition and tree plantations.
Winners were awarded with Green Pen (a pen with a seed on its tail-end). 40+ students and teachers from senior secondary sections of GBM Public School attended the event coordinated by Kirti Tikyani, Vikas Jain, Ashish Kumar, Parul Singh and Yedhu Krishna Menon from Helping Brainz. Priya Francis and Swati.B (Interns for a Social Impact from Delhi University) shall be working closely with GBM Public School for the implementations of Green VEINS projects in July’19.
Helping Brainz formed a green science club and also selected a team of 10 green volunteers from the school, who shall work towards the Green VEINS implementation.
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