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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
#170 – 14th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at Ambalika Institute of Professional Studies.
Our 170th event for the community
With over 11,000 cases reported in 2020, Uttar Pradesh has replaced Karnataka as the state with the highest incidents of cybercrime, data from the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report has revealed. The scale, style and type of cyber-crimes has increased dramatically during the pandemic, with technology now allowing criminals to work from all over the world, and law enforcement agencies having to act quickly to keep up with them.
With the rapidly growing cyber-crimes and to talk about its prevention and reporting techniques and hence to make people aware, Delhi based no-to profit organization Helping Brainz and their National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness team led by Shraddha Khedkar virtually conducted a Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at Ambalika Institute of Professional Studies, Lucknow on February 12, 2022. This was Helping Brainz’s 14th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness event and their 170th project. Shraddha’s team at Helping Brainz is on a national mission to dedicate their Saturdays for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Security Career Counselling Sessions.
Lt. Cdr. Tejinder Kaur Bhullar (Retd. Navy Veteran)
Lt. Cdr. Tejinder Kaur Bhullar (Retd. Navy Veteran), experienced (17+ years) Human Resource and Operations Management Professional, inaugurated the virtual event and spoke about the importance of data security and why the awareness about the same is the need of the hour.
Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead
Renowned and experienced (33+ years) cyber security and project management professional, Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead presided over as the Guest Speaker. Prof. Chandra Sekhar briefed the audience about cyber security and how global players are highly concerned about the increase in cyber crimes and how the students can become instrumental in preventing the cyber crimes and spreading awareness about the same.
88 students and faculty members from Ambalika Institute of Professional Studies, attended the event.
Yedhu Krishna Menon, a Third-Party Risk Management and Cyber Security Professional, was the speaker and trainer of the event. During the event, Yedhu spoke about, Cyber Attacks and Attackers, Cyber Crimes, Counts and Stats, Types and Categories of Cyber Crimes, Online Gaming, Social Media Safety, discussed various case studies of Cyber Crimes, Cyber Crime prevention mechanisms, reporting structures (mechanisms, websites, phone numbers, email addresses) and Cyber Laws. Event was followed by a Quiz Competition to check the effectiveness of the understandings derived from the event. Session aimed at teaching students how to stay secure on the internet and keep their personal information secure. Students were also taught what to do if they ever fall victim to a cyber-crime.
Dr. Prajapati, (Principal, AIPS), Shraddha Khedkar (Project Manager, National Cyber Security and Legal Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz), Pooja Kulkarni Vaidya (Head of Branding and Advertising, Helping Brainz), Pallabi Bose (Project Manager, Pandemic and Disaster Management and Special Projects), Arushi Mathur (Helping Brainz Volunteer, National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Mission) and other faculty members, spoke and led the event from the front. Helping Brainz also takes this opportunity to thank, Prof. Aachal Sharma (Panel Member, Helping Brainz) for all her sincere coordinations and collaborations.
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#169 – 13th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at KVPF Kerala
Our 169th event for the community
As the world went ONLINE in 2020 onwards, the predators and criminals also started exploring online options to exploit and attack, everyone. Down the line in 2021, the counts of children and age-old who are being victims have increased tremendously. As per a report, the number of cyber crimes happening against the children has increased by 400% in 2020 as compared to 2021.
Hence, with the rapidly growing cyber-crimes and to talk about its prevention and reporting techniques and hence to make people aware, Delhi based no-to profit organization Helping Brainz through their National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness team by Shraddha Khedkar virtually conducted a Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at Kendriya Vidyalaya Parents Federation (KVPF, www.kvpf.in ), Kerala on January 30, 2022.
This was Helping Brainz’s 13th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness event and their 169th project. Shraddha’s team at Helping Brainz is on a national mission to dedicate their Saturdays for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Security Career Counselling Sessions.
In the 170 mins long event, around 100+ students, parents and federation members part of Kendriya Vidyalaya Parents Federation (KVPF), from various parts of Kerala attended the event.
Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead
Renowned Information Security and Project Management professional, Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead was the Guest Speaker for the event.
Yedhu Krishna Menon, a Third-Party Risk Management and Cyber Security Professional, was the speaker and trainer of the event. During the event, Yedhu spoke about, Cyber Attacks and Attackers, Cyber Crimes, Counts and Stats, Types and Categories of Cyber Crimes, Online Gaming, Social Media Safety, discussed various case studies of Cyber Crimes, Cyber Crime prevention mechanisms, reporting structures (mechanisms, websites, phone numbers, email addresses) and Cyber Laws. Event was followed by a Quiz Competition to check the effectiveness of the understandings derived from the event.
Adv. Biju Zacharias, (President, KVPF), Renjith A (General Secretary, KVPF), Fasa R.I (Secretary, KVPF), Amal Dev M.V. (Treasurer, KVPF), Shraddha Khedkar (Project Manager, National Cyber Security and Legal Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz), Pooja Kulkarni Vaidya (Head of Branding and Advertising, Helping Brainz), Pallabi Bose (Project Manager, Pandemic and Disaster Management and Special Projects), and other faculty members, spoke and led the event from the front.
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In the coming months, possibly in Q2 of 2022, Helping Brainz plans to host, sessions on Healthcare Awareness and Cyber-security career counselling in collaboration with KVPF, Kerala.
#168 – 12th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session, at SKIET Kurukshetra
Our 168th event for the community
With the rapidly growing cyber-crimes and to talk about its prevention and reporting techniques and hence to make people aware, renowned no-to profit organization Helping Brainz and their National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness team by Shraddha Khedkar virtually conducted a Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at SKIET, Kurukshetra, Haryana on January 29, 2022. This was Helping Brainz’s 12th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness event and their 168th project. This was the second, Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session which was conducted at SKIET in 2022. Shraddha’s team at Helping Brainz is in a national mission to dedicate their Saturdays for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Security Career Counselling Sessions. Around 70+ students and faculty members from SKIET, Kurukshetra attended the event.
Lt. Cdr. Prafull Mishra (Retd.)
Lt. Cdr. Prafull Mishra (Retd.), our esteemed Chief Guest, inaugurated the event.
Prof. (Dr.). M. Chandra Sekhar
Prof. M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead was the Guest Speaker for the event.
Yedhu Krishna Menon, a Third-Party Risk Management and Cyber Security Professional, was the speaker and trainer of the event. During the event, Yedhu spoke about, Cyber Attacks and Attackers, Cyber Crimes, Counts and Stats, Types and Categories of Cyber Crimes, Online Gaming, Social Media Safety, discussed various case studies of Cyber Crimes, Cyber Crime prevention mechanisms, reporting structures (mechanisms, websites, phone numbers, email addresses) and Cyber Laws. Event was followed by a Quiz Competition to check the effectiveness of the understandings derived from the event.
Prof. (Dr.). Durga Das Sharma (Director, SKIET), Prof. (Dr.). Akhilesh Bhardwaj (Academic Coordinator and Professor, Computer Science Department), Shraddha Khedkar (Project Manager, National Cyber Security and Legal Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz), Pooja Kulkarni Vaidya (Head of Branding and Advertising, Helping Brainz), Pallabi Bose (Project Manager, Pandemic and Disaster Management and Special Projects), and other faculty members, spoke and led the event from the front.
Event Report by Shraddha Khedkar, National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz
#167 – 11th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at PaGE, Ranchi and Hyderabad
Our 167th event for the community
On January 15th and 16th Helping Brainz concluded their 11th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session for 45+ students (girls) from PaGE (Ranchi and Hyderabad).
In the 21st century, security and cyber security has become one of the most important parts of our daily lives, as well as at colleges, universities, schools and other educational institutes across the world. From social networking sites to big retailers, businesses are under constant threat from cyber crimes and cyber attacks. This can lead to all kinds of problems which affect both the company or school and its users and customers.
The advent of the digital age has resulted in major changes in how we function as individuals, communities, and nations. In this interconnected world, there are numerous cyber threats to our safety and security. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that we remain aware of our surroundings to ensure that no one can breach our security or cause us harm in any way through the Internet and other computer-based systems.
PaGE stands for Pathways for Girl’s Education is an excellent initiative by Haasini Sai Sri Gurram. The girls (who were mainly from 11-18 age group) were very much enthusiastic and inquisitive, hence we had one of my best session when it comes to interactive-learnings. Few connected with us offline as well, as they want to learn Cybersecurity. We feel we are very much blessed if we are able to create this inquisitiveness. For the first time, we conducted a two-day session on Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness to increase and balance the interactions and we are glad that it was super successful (we measured that success through the effectiveness check that we do towards the end )
Wholehearted thanks to Sneha Harsh for connecting us with Haasini, YUWA and PaGE. Special thanks to Prof. M. Chandrasekhar Sir for setting the base.
This was Helping Brainz’s 11th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness event and their 167th project. Shraddha’s team at Helping Brainz is on a national mission to dedicate their Saturdays for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Security Career Counselling Sessions.
Haasini Sai (Founder, PaGE), Sneha Harsh (Senior Strategic Development Manager, Helping Brainz), Shraddha Khedkar (Project Manager, National Cyber Security and Legal Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz), Pooja Kulkarni Vaidya (Head of Branding and Advertising, Helping Brainz), Pallabi Bose (Project Manager, Pandemic and Disaster Management and Special Projects), and other faculty members, spoke and led the event from the front.
#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.
#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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#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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Team Helping Brainz.
