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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
#116 2019 Mother’s Day at Jeevodaya Ashralayaa
Helping Brainz celebrated the 2019’s Mother’s Day with the mothers and sisters of Jeevodaya Ashralaya.
Once they lived a beautiful life with lot of people around to talk and mingle, freedom to fly around however today as life played its part, they are in between the walls, talking to the them, lonely travelling the rest of the journey. They are living the actual truth, which knowingly no one actually wants to think about, though it can happen to anyone. Hence we thought of spending our Mother’s Day with our mothers and sisters with some hugs, music and good food making them feel that they’re not alone in their journey. Event started off with a cake cutting ceremony where all mothers from Jeevodaya and Helping Brainz participated, followed by music and dance, and a delicious lunch.
Events which added a different flavour:
- Dental Check up campaign by Dr.Shweta Yadav, who ensured that all mothers and sisters are dentally strong.
- Music4Charity event was carried out by Raagveda and their crew members (Cherry Maskara, Nikhil Mishra and Yogesh Malhotra) who melodiated the moment and also energised few of the Jeevodaya Ashralaya’s inmates to open up melancholicaly (few of the inmates did sang along with the band).
- Dance performances were orchestrated by Sahana (Class 8, Indira Ideal School, Janak Puri), Tishya Laskar (Class 8, ITL Public School, Dwarka), Debangana Laskar (Class 9, Maxfort School, Dwarka) and Priydarshini Khaskel (Sahana and team are performing for the 2nd consecutive year at Helping Brainz Mother’s Day celebrations at Jeevodaya Ashralaya).
Donations:
- Grocery and Household Materials were donated by Vikas Vaid, Vivek Vaid, Dr.Shweta Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Geeta Sundaram, Maj.Jiji Rajeev, Meenakshi Paswan and Vinny Bhatia.
- The one time meal was sponsored by Poulami and was prepared by Sri Dharmashastra Sewa Samiti, Hastsal-Vikas Puri.
Event Management and Volunteering:
• Event was designed, managed and orchestrated by Helping Brainz’s ElderlyCare Projects team and our volunteers mainly included, Ambika P.Menon, Kirti Tikyani, P.Balachandran, Geeta Sundaram, Poulami Laskar, Maj.Jiji Rajeev, Harshit Gupta, Dr.Shweta Yadav, Pragya Agarwal, Sunil Kumar, Abin Lakhanpal, Ashish Kumar, Meenakshi Paswan, Rajeev Kumar Kaimal and Anmoljot Kaur.
Life can take any unexpected turn, so respect and enjoy with whatever you have, and make others happy, as the memories shall only remain in the world.
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An article about Helping Brainz on “the Women Empowerment Initiatives we have conducted post The Kerala Floods” – The New Indian Express.
An article about Helping Brainz on “the Women Empowerment Initiatives we have conducted post The Kerala Floods” The New Indian Express. Post the flood, the conditions of the underprivileged communities were in a bad situation wherein Helping Brainz in collaboration with Lakshmi Sreenath led Herbal Sutra, conducted 5 women empowerment and entrepreneurship campaigns in various villages in the banks of Chalakudy River, which was badly affected in Kerala Floods 2018. The ‘learn and earn’ sessions mainly aimed in providing the women with an opportunity to think and create a medium for their livelihood.
#115 CrafTShaala 2019 – Kizhadoor, Thrissur (An empowerment session for the flood effected women)
In our continuous effort to empower and educate the women from the flood affected regions of Kerala (with various learn and earn programmes) we hosted our 4th workshop in Kizhadoor from the Southern Thrissur [a panchayat near approximately 4KMs from Chalakudy River (which badly overflew in Kerala floods)]. Around 20+ women from this region participated in the workshop, which lasted for 2 hours, and was mainly based on ‘making crafts and dolls from used waste materials’.
The workshop was conducted by Vijitha Retheesh, a Guinness Book of Records holder, from Kochi, Kerala; who came forward passionately to give back to the underprivileged communities with what she can.
Workshop was orchestrated by the Helping Brainz Kerala Volunteer, Sindhu Shibu, a working professional who dedicates her weekends for the community development. Post this event the total count of women, who got educated through various workshops conducted by Helping Brainz, becomes 100+.
Team Helping Brainz, thank Vijitha and Sindhu for their dedication for the community development.
#114 VanitaJyoti Kochi 2019, A workshop on Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment.
As part of Helping Brainz’s Kerala rebuilding mission, we conducted our 3rd workshop at Madhavan Nair Foundation, Edapally, Kochi where around 26+ flood affected women from the Glass Colony and nearby areas were trained on Soap and Detergent making by Lakshmi Sreenath, founder, Herbal Sutras.
Kerala witnessed one of the worst natural calamity, where as many as 845,000 people were sheltered at 3,700 camps wherein people in some areas were trapped in their homes without food, water and electricity for good number of days. State suffered a loss of 195.12 billion rupees ($2.8 billion), according to a Twitter post by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
The event was sponsored by Dr.Suchitra Ramanandam from Kochi, Kerala, facilitated by Lakshmi Sreenath from Herbal Sutras and coordinated by Helping Brainz.
Sindhu Shibu from Helping Brainz Kerala Team volunteered for the successful happening of the event.
#113 New Year Celebrations with the grandmas and grandpas of Sai Sahara.
It’s a tradition at Helping Brainz to celebrate the New Year Eve with the grandmas and grandpas of a selected old age home, as we feel it is meaningful to end the year, and celebrate the year’s ending with the homeless and the orphaned, wherein we celebrated the 2018 eve at Sai Sahara OLD Age Home at Rajendra Place, New Delhi. We were happy to see many like minded individuals volunteering for the concept. Materials (heating pads, groceries and medicines) were donated by Deepak Kumar Jha, Kirti Kumari Tikyani, Vivek Vaid, Vachaspati Mishra, Shanaya Mishra, CA Tarun Kumar and Soumya Sahadevan.
Note: From this event we’ve stopped posting photographs on social media shot at old age homes, until required/requested.
#112 Phase#2 Clothes Donations Drive at West and Central Delhi, on New Year Eve.
Helping Brainz in association with few like minded Delhites conducted the phase#2 of the clothe donation drive at Noida and South Delhi regions of Delhi NCR.
The drive started at 1030pm from Mayur Vihar, stretching to various sectors of Noida, Hauz Khaz, AIIMS, Green Park, and ended at New Delhi Railway Station; donating clothes to nearly 40+ children and adults.
People who volunteered for the successful happening of the event were Dr.Sanjay Kumar Deb, Abin Sharma, Vishal Pandita, Vivek Vaid and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
Those who donated the clothes and biscuits and Biscuits were Niharika Manchanda, Vinny Bhatia, Dr.Sanjay Kumar Deb, Deepansha, Khushi and employees of RJ CORP, Sector 44, Gurgaon.
We thank everyone who helped the homeless with some warmth.
#111 Phase#1 Clothes Donations Drive at West and Central Delhi, on Christmas Eve.
By being a Secret Santa, We found a perfect way of celebrating Christmas, for the underprivileged in Delhi NCR.
With the mercury dropping to one of the lowest in the recent years, the conditions of kids and the age old sleeping on road-pavements have badly deteriorated. Under this scenario, Helping Brainz in association with few like minded Delhites completed the first phase of Winter Clothes Donations for West and Central Delhi regions wherein we donated winter clothes, tea and biscuits to more than 40 children and adults.
Clothes were donated by Sushil Kumar, Neha Garg, Ritu, A.S.Menon, A.J.K Menon, Mrs Vijaya Menon, Anil Kumar, Vikas Jain, Geeta Sundaram, Neha Kalra, Vineeth M.Sadanandan and Shankar. Tea and biscuits were donated by Geeta Sundaram and A.S. Menon.
The donation drive happened between 10:30 PM till 1:00 AM and were beautifully coordinated by Ambika P.Menon, Kirti Kumari Tikyani, Vikas Jain, Anil Kumar and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
Our Phase#2 is aimed to cover, Noida, South Delhi and Gurgaon.
#110 Workshop on ‘being a leader’ at Government School in Badshahpur
A leader needs to be believer first, so as to make a change happen. As part our Gurugram Transformation programme Helping Brainz’s Green and Blue VEINS team conducted a workshop cum experience sharing congress for the higher secondary students of Government School at Badshahpur.
Event included talk shows by Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi), and workshops by Arushi Mathur, Garima Bhardwaj and Vivek Vaid (from Helping Brainz’s Green And Blue VEINS Team) on (a) Role of students in Gurgaon Transformation (b) Environmental Sustainability and Water Conservation (c) How to be a good speaker
(d) Nurturing theatrical skills for effective communications and (d) Personality Development.
From the second week of January the students from Government School in Badshahpur, will be trained in Street Plays and Youth Parliament sessions. For volunteering in Gurgaon Transformation programmes please logon to helpingbrainz.org/gi
109# Creative-Crafts Making workshop by Mini Sajan at Annamanada.
Kerala floods were one of the worst natural calamities, which India witnessed in this century leaving hundreds of the Kerallites homeless and jobless. Under this juncture, Helping Brainz a Delhi based no-to profit organization aims in conducting a series of skill-set development workshops of the underpriviledged and flood affected people from Kerala.
Today’s workshop aimed in educating the underpriviledged women from the flood affected regions of Annamanada (a southern town in Thrissur district, on the banks of the Chalakudy river) the art of creative-crafts making from used materials.
Majority of the women, whom we addressed today witnessed the most scariest moments during the Kerala floods, a moment where they saw all their investments being taken away in the blink of an eye.
The workshop was led by Mini Sajan (an IT Test Manager at SmartCity, Kochi), where around 40+ women participated.
The programme was orchestrated by Helping Brainz Kerala Team in association with Annamanada Grama Panchayat. The people who volunteered for the successful happening of the event were Shibu Aravindakashan, Sindhu Shibu, Nidhi P.Menon, Vyshnavy S., Rahul Ramesh and Ajay Krishnan.
#108 VanitaJyoti – Annamanada
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#108 VanitaJyoti – Workshop on the art of soap and detergent making for the Kerala flood affected women
HelpingBrainz in association with Herbal Sutras and Annamanada Grama Panchayat conducted a workshop on Soap and Detergent making for the flood affected women from Annamanada, Southern Thrissur. 35 women from Annamanada participated in the event, which was inaugurated by Panchayat Member P.O. Poulose, Community Development Society Chairperson Shini Sudhakaran, and Local KPMS Committee Member Raju.
The 2-hour workshop was led by Lakshmi Sreenath, Founder Herbal Sutras who taught the art of herbal soap and detergent making and provided the women with learning manuals (with 6 different formulations of soap making) and precautionary kits. Event was orchestrated and led by @Sindhu Shibu and Nidhi P. Menon (from Helping Brainz Kerala). Prasanth Venugopal, Shibu, Rahul Menon, Madhav Menon, Aavyukt Menon and Geeta Prakash volunteered for the beautiful happening of the event.
This was our maiden event in scope of rebuilding Kerala and we’re overwhelmed to see the wholehearted participation from everyone who participated in the event, especially those who attended the event to learn a way of earning, as many of them are still housed in the Panchayat offices as they lost their houses during the floods.
In the coming days, Helping Brainz in Kerala will be conducting similar kind of workshops for the flood affected beings, thereby making them able to enough to start a way of earning.
