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ChaipeCharcha – Madanpur Khadar

March 29, 2015

<<ChaipeCharcha – Madanpur Khadar, 3/28/2015>>

“Behind every successful man, there is a strong, wise and hardworking woman” Really J?

What if the % of the above mentioned strong, wise and hardworking homo sapiens decrease, successful men’s % will ……..?

Huh!!

The present day human mentality against the noble and sincere, wrapped with shiny coverings (which is beautiful in appearance) however darkened at the core, would definitely decrease the development of the nation, since we won’t have women at all.

We don’t know how far we would be successful in this phenomenon of “re-programming the human mentality and empowering the women by making them understand their rights by imparting vibes of confidence”, we yesterday (3/28/2015) conducted “ChaipeCharcha” at Madanpur Khadar Village of South East Delhi. Madanpur Khadar is located at the banks of Kalindi River (or Yamuna), where we have a coterie of inhabitants or refugees from different parts of India. The population mainly consists of underpriviledged (BPL) families, where the women especially are home makers, and their husbands work as guards, drivers, fruit & vegetable vendors; however few (countable) children aim high to become designers, doctors, teachers and engineers, plus Airhostess 🙂

Women here are not educated beyond 8^th standard (on an average) and are married at a very young age. However the present day mothers have a urge to make their girls educated however don’t have opportunities (or rather they don’t know about them, though it’s hard for them to get it). Organizations like EFRAH and HCLT Foundation are doing their best to create a change in this juncture.

On 28^th March 2015, Helping Brainz in association with HCLT Foundations conducted “ChaipeCharcha” at EFRAH’s center in Madanpur Khadar area. Around 40+ women [60% homemakers (aged between 18-70) , 40% students (aged between 14-18)] were (a) educated and empowered about their rights, (b) enlightened about the opportunities (both educational and entrepreneurial). HelpingBrainz on May 2^nd 2015 would be conducting a Rural Educational Counselling Programme for the children and women, henceforth would be landing with numerous development initiatives (English Speaking, Educational Counselling, Health Check-Up camps, Entrepreneurship Programmes etc), which we would be implementing in the next 6 months. BHB Team-members Garima Kohli and Shubhangi Singhal educated the crowd about various health and hygiene standards, they also threw some light on woman’s diet and nutrition. From Team Helping Brainz we had Neeraj Shukla(Project Manager, Women Safety and Empowerment Campaigns) and Pratik Raj Bishen – a new bee in our family (Project Leader, Women Safety and Empowerment Campaigns), Ragini Singh (the youngest Helping Brainz however the dangerous) and Kumar Madhuraj (Project Leaders, CCRIDI Team) and Yedhu (speaker) 🙂

ChaipeCharcha – CRPF Camp, Dwarka 21/03/2015

March 23, 2015

“Can we soak their tears and heal the pain, and make them walk on the path of empowerment?”

When Delhi was praying during the auspicious morning hours of ‘Navratri’ and ‘Naoroz’, Helping Brainz was transferring the same energy and positivity to the ‘womanhood’, from CRPF Camp, Dwarka, in fact we conveyed our prayers in this way.

Helping Brainz conducted ‘Chaipecharcha’ for 50 women (approx.) of CRPF. The audience comprised of women who were wives, daughters and widows of CRPF Jawans. Today, women got an opportunity to express themselves. Helping Brainz did hold a 2 hours of fruitful discussion on the topics
– self motivation and empowerment
– discovering the Helping Brains in them
– healing & hearing
– encouraging communications
– women rights
– educational counseling
– women empowerment

Also, Preena Nair, a Manager in a Gurgaon based MNC conducted a 15 minutes experienced sharing congress. Gitanshu (Project Leader – CCRIDI), the event controller – successfully connected the dots, Ravi Prakash (Project Leader – Child Empowerment) collated the data co Yedhu, as usual was the speaker 🙂

Post this event, Helping Brainz would be supplying study materials to the young women IAS aspirants, conducting a 6 series of empowerment and educational programmes in a span of 6 months, coordinated by Mahima Sahney and Neeraj Shukla.

Special Thanks to Abhinav from HCLT Foundations and Leena from Sahyog connecting us with the needy.

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Child Empowerment by Helping Brainz Bihar Team

March 15, 2015

Bihar, the 13^th largest state in India is historically renowned state with powerful cultural heritage, educational importance, has the 6^th oldest Engineering college in India, and many more, however the present day situations, the havoc created by politics and corruption, non-compliance towards the legal system have shattered the image however there are human beings who want to walk on the path of Development.

Helping Brainz in Siwan, Patna conducted a day long event for the underprivileged children from Chowki – Hassan, Siwan – Bihar 10^th March 2015. Children are from financially weak backgrounds, wherein we found that they don’t have access to the basic amenities, school infrastructure, study materials, which the kids are supposed to have. A Kumar Madhuraj led event consisted of School Stationery donations, Paint Your Dreams Competition and Prize distributions. Kumar Madhuraj Solely sponsored all the donations.

Kumar Madhuraj works as the Project Leader in the CCRID Initiatives ( Corporate Community Rural and Institutional Development Initiatives)

Helping Brainz would be conducting educational and child empowerment sessions in Bihar.

Experience Sharing Congress at an American Multi National Company, Gurgaon

March 14, 2015

Experience is the best teacher, is it ?

Helping Brainz today conducted an ‘experience sharing congress’ at an American Multi National Company in Gurgaon. Today’s experience congress focused on women empowerment and the programme was conducted on the account of a Week Long International Women’s Day Celebrations held organized by the Women-Interest-Network of the Organization wherein 4 women from 4 different walks of life shared their stunning experiences on how they came out of the firewalls and became a changemaker, how they’re motivating 1000s around them to become a changemaker.

Women who stole the show were,

Saumya Kulreshtha, a changemaker, who empowers and motivates many through her blog and poetry skills and also who encourages people to ‘communicate their expressions’ (Saumya and Helping Brainz shares a common understanding to the common-public that ‘communication’ can even cure cancer, the most dreadful, so why can’t we use the same for human empowerment!)
Vimlesh Sharma Ma’am, the visionary gram pradhan of Nithari Village (who changed the design of Nithari),
Mona Chauhan, an entrepreneur, a leader, a changemaker who changed the life of 300+ underprivileged women of rural Noida, last however not the least,
Tulsi – just in Class 8th and a Bal Panchayat General Secretary, environmentalist, who cleaned MadanPur Khadar area, encourages 100s of young lads of Nithari to walk on the path of development.

Experience Sharing Congresses are a powerful tool Helping Brainz is conducting for the past 2 years for empowering women, re-programming and debugging human brains (human mentality).

Helping Brainz wants to thank everyone who contributed selflessly for this big, life changing happening! A women is the mother of all evolution, behind every happening we’ve a women, let’s respect this incarnation. Let’s be human to her.

I donate Love – Romania

January 21, 2015

The campaign ‘I Donate Love’ was held by Helping Brainz Romania chapter at Da Camel club Cluj on Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 18:00–23:00 in UTC+02.

The event was an initiative of team Helping Brainz (Romania) fully driven by Yaja Vergara Bonilla to spend some quality time with the lesser privileged children from Romania and create a meaningful connection with them while enjoying together an original Christmas dinner ( which included delicacies from India cuisine) . The Moto, “Because nobody buys Christmas memories with pocket change” itself explained the spirit of the team.

The main objective of the event was to spread one of Helping Brainz’s statements,”We believe that Social work is more than Philanthropy, Sympathy, Empathy and Donations,” followed by the other objectives like, to promote a multicultural atmosphere where a significant number of people from different nationalities, specially from non EU countries, as Latin-American, African, Indian, and Arabic communities living in Cluj Napoca can exchange ideas and share their companionship. To create a meaningful connection between the children and the participants. To help the children improve the art skills and stimulate their creativity. To show the participants and specially the children, the reality of the other kids in India live and what Helping Brainz Organization do in order to promote the child empowerment and lastly, to collect a voluntary economic contribution aimed to support the activity of the beneficiary institution.

The evening opened with an Indian dance performance, followed by an Ice breaker activity between the participants and welcome words. This was further followed by a video presentation of the rapport of Helping Brainz activities on child empowerment. It was a short video about Team HelpingBrainz’s message about the issues related to a lot of less privileged children and also a special message from the Indian children including a few words in Romanian for Romanian kids.

The above warming events were followed by the painting competition called “Let’s encourage each other” drawing contest. The contest’s objective was to motivate the children to draw and paint together, with the young immigrants and participants in general, something related to their future goals and were further taught the importance of dreams. Teams were made in such an order that the participants could interact as much as possible with the kids and help them draw and also all the teams had people from different nationalities along with a Romanian speaker so that the team could share much on culture also. After the Price awarding ceremony for the first and second places, in which the judges selected two best paintings and the two prize winners had to explain their drawings, gifts were exchanged, and everybody went for the Christmas dinner.

At the end of the evening, a voluntary amount of money was asked from the participants. The event ended with the words of gratitude and a vote of thanks.

A video for the event was also made which can further be used for encouraging Indian kids in future children empowerment events that are organized by Helping Brainz.

Ujjwal reaches to 4200+ kids !

December 21, 2014

Do you need to be an organisation to do social work ?
Do you need to certified as a social work to embark smile on the kids face ?
Well, for us (‪#‎helpingbrainz‬) these lines stands out of scope. We’re not an organization however we work in an organized manner by being a team of good friends with a good moving Facebook page (Facebook.com/helpingbrainz).

Yesterday [ 20/12/2014 ] we reached to 500+ underprivileged of Nithari, Noida and helped them in painting their dreams. Also distributed School Stationeries, Food and colours. The event was inaugurated by the Gram pradhan Shrimati.Vimlesh Sharmaji, preceded by a health check up camp by BHBteam (Apollo Hospitals)- an event coordinated Pallab Doley from AIESEC Delhi University, food donations by Priya Gupta Ma’am, and then it was all Helping Brainz and kids.

As usual Yedhukrishna Menon, conveyed the message of cleanliness and happy growing to the children, we together cleaned the schools snd played together.
After this event, our total outreach becomes 4200+ kids, more to go.

Thanks to all, I can’t make it limited to some, however there were 100s who contributed to their smiles. Thanks again – we can’t buy their happiness, can’t define, we can just give,we are just propelling what our parents and teachers taught us, we just do what we can and that’s what is required to develop a nation. We don’t define help and neither work to bear fruits.

Mentioning MadhusudhananMenon Ambika P Menon Anan Dhu Krishna Menon Vineeth Psethu Preeja Nair Himani ChauhAn Ram Kumar Douglas Leaf Racionzer Dr.Rathi Menon Avy Johar Ashim Borpuzari Aachal Sharma Sahil Bansal Robert Shepherd Sally-Ann Bethea-Holt Milena Parteli Yaja Vergara Bonilla Sophia Rishil Nilofer Khan Ainee TanwirAayushi Singh Mini Singh Abhilasha Chaudhary Purnoor Khan(the magician who converted my ideas into a poster/image) Gitanshu Khurana Mohit Sukhija Rajeev Thakur Neeraj Shukla Shanu Kollam Sanjoy AbhinavRupak Kashyap Ankur Khandelwal Somi Shukla Shubhendu Mishra Rehan Aziz Durgesh Patel Utsav Anand Sujata Kapoor Ushank Singhal Ajit Mahapatra Pankaj Jha &
Mahima Sahney AND Swati Saini AND Maitreyee Dasgupta (the brave hearts who drew this event).
Special thanks to Vimlesh Sharma,Priya didi for sponsoring the one day meal, Pallab Doley from AIESEC DELHI University for arranging the health awareness camp, Amit Chitra for printing the posters, Shashank Tripathifor transporting the posters, Nitin Kumar and team for handling the event.
Thanks again,
Regards,
Yedhu – Founder,
Helping Brainz

Step-1 in empowering Nithari. Nithari we’re with you!

November 3, 2014

Step-1 in empowering Nithari. Nithari we’re with you!

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”- W.B. Yeats

Helping Brainz in it’s process to enlighten the world touched milestones by marking the 100th hour of weekend social work and covering 350+ students in one-go.

Helping Brainz on Saturday 18th October landed in the slum area of Nithari Village, Noida Sec 31 – which is still in the phase of development and conducted

– Paint Your Dreams for 350+ Children in 2 batches

– Food donation drive

– Free health check up camp with the help of IndusGulf Hospitals

– Donated School Stationeries to All the 350+ children

The children were from rural backgrounds, with their parents being daily wage workers .

We requested the children to maintain their surroundings, their school, their home and themselves clean. – this was the first message we delivered to the young crowd gathered.

I was motivated with the silence and humbleness they maintained to listen to our wordings, which surprised all the present teaching staff over there.

Hereafter, Helping Brainz would be working for the development of the children by facilitating more events, teaching programmes, devising activity based learning programmes, training the teachers programmes.

My sincere thanks to

-all kids for patiently cooperating with all of us,

– Poonam Ma’am and the entire teaching staff for coordinating with us,

– Ravi Bhargav, Doctors and the team from IndusGulf Hospitals, -all the Helping Brainz Social Development Consultants (Ashim Sir,Preeja Nair, Mahima Sahney, Neeraj Shukla, Himani Chauhan, Abhilasha Chaudhary and Sujata Kapoor),

-The young dynamic event coordinator Ms.Abhilasha Chaudhary -Rajeev and Ali, for capturing the moments (Image Courtesy)

-Ajit Mahapatra, Vallabh Kollegal, Sonam Chopra, Renu Rawat, Nikhil and Shailesh Singh for all their whole hearted Voluntarism,

-Abhinav Vikash & Nidhi Saxena(HCL) -Driver Fakru for transporting Us.

It’s a start – we have more to do – together!

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#A Tear that trickled when Margaret sang for the peace in India, China and the World!

August 13, 2014

Abstract : Helping Brainz in association with AIESEC Delhi University conducted “International Cultural Congress for Peace” at ASTER Public School, Noida.

How it happened : 8/13/2014 was a day of experiment in Yedhu Krishna Menon’s life. I’m a social worker, I help people in my own way, or in a way which was shown by my mother ,I’m just a facilitator.

Helping Brainz works for women, children, rural development, healthcare and now spreading “international peace”, a weekend mission by us from 2012.

When my senior friend and, our project leader for rural development projects – Ashim Sir called me and discussed about the collaboration of the interns for a nation development and international peace programme, I didn’t any clue. However, Prince and Ishita helped me to make it a ‘programme’, I never knew that this programme can create new definitions in my life for humanity.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Sir Albert Einstein

When the world is fighting each other to prove their domain power, thereby ending peace and popularizing negativity everywhere, we Helping Brainz are bravely offending such powers to spread positivity. As a mission one we started with International Cultural Congress for Peace, with 14 soldiers of peace from 4 different countries ( India, China, Equador and Kazakhstan ) volunteered for a noble mission of spreading peace.

Helping Brainz orchestrated a 1.5 hours experience sharing congress where volunteers from 4 different countries shared their culture, education, traditions, cuisines, government and their beliefs, wherein the audience comprised of children (dressed in white) and teachers of ASTER Public School, Noida.

The event started with presentations by ( in sequence ) :-

Marshell on Chinese Education,
Margaret on Chineese Culture,
Doris and Peter on Paper Cuttings and Embrodiary Science of China,
Peter Green’s ( from China ) Tai Ji Presentation,
Introduction to Kazakshtan by Farisa,
A Visit to Equador by Yaja,
Galloen’s Chineese Class

Well, the event ended by a beautiful prayer by Margaret Wong, which really wet my eyes, music doesn’t have a language, however we understood the meaning of humanity and we all prayed for peace.

I’m overwhelmed by the co-operation showcased by the students, teachers and other staff members.

A day with the students at CASP Camp – Madanpur Khadar.

April 19, 2014

A day with the students at CASP Camp – Madanpur Khadar.

Dec 14th , is a memorable day for all Helping Brainz team members [Yedhu Krishna Menon-Founder –Helping Brainz,Priyanka Mishra, Radhika Gupta, Preeja Nair, Prabhjoat Kaur and Arunima Pandey] and the crew from HCLT Foundations [Abhinav and team].

The day started with a Women Safety Discussion (awareness) and experience sharing congress led by Yedhu Krishna Menon , wherein the participants were mainly from HCL Technologies Ltd (attendance around 12+) and Helping Brainz , preceded by a 3 hour career counselling session for the students (attendance around 30+) from Madarpur Khadar gathered at the CASP Camp No.3.

Helping Brainz team members took sessions on :

Career Counselling ,
Women Safety,
Motivation ,
Gender Equality ,
Education for all,
Social and Community Development

Students took this opportunity to mingle about :

Career development,
Importance of education,
Promoting gender equality,
Promoting education among all,
Personal , domestic and Community Hygiene,
The Scope of Social and Communal development.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.– Nelson Mandela, this was an opportunity where we practically justified this quote and under the importance”- Team Helping Brainz

Women Safety Campaign at NSS- Dwarka on Dec’14 & the fight with the So called Society!

April 19, 2014

By Yedhu Krishna Menon, Founder – Helping Brainz

Our Gratitude!

Our Sincere thanks to My Physics Teacher from, Dwarka for arranging a venue for us to speak in Dwarka.

The Plot!

Dwarka, in West Delhi is turning to be the bronchi of Delhi (though not heart), as the population over here (as the list of Flats, Schools and MNCs) is increasing, greenery and safety of the city is becoming the highlighting issues.

We’re just a team of Weekend Social Workers and Entrepreneurs who activate their Social Cells during the weekend as on weekdays, we dedicate/donate our cells/energy for the corporates/schools/colleges [a majority of us are Corporate Citizens, Students, Professors and Teachers]. So, one can imagine the level of analysis we do in our weekends, I mean it’s not more than what all other registered social cells of the society do in the weekdays , however we’re proud to say that we’re making miracles- though we socialize only on weekends.

Meanwhile, we in our analysis we found that, Dwarka is becoming the epicenter of 2 big problems, which can rock-down the economic development of the country, they’re: Women Safety and Teen Suicide. To be honest, the entire Helping Brainz team knocked several doors in Dwarka to educate the beings of this growing city about the atrocities; however it was really surprising to see that no one is interested to deal with these social menaces. People here just want to limit this news to the newspapers they’re reading along with the daily tea. In this juncture My Physics Teacher gave us an opportunity to get into this webbed world, thus we had a Women Safety Campaign/Awareness Session on December 8th, 2013 at Dwarka [A venue where more than 100+ families gathered].

About the Event!

As the event was to educate my own mother tongue speaking community, I made few calls to my energy cells (Amma, Achan and Dr.Rathi Menon) and listened to my motivator Dr. Sunita Krishnan as usual. I was just standing next to My Physics Teacher waiting for my turn , it was then I was called by the President and Secretary of the local committee , for a one-2-one meeting , I was bit amazed and to be honest it was really flabbergasting to have an ad-hoc meeting 5mins before a session.

It wasn’t a meeting however , a complete questionnaire ( Screwing Session), wherein the President and Secretary of the local committee screwed me with several brain exploits – damaging all the positive contents I gathered from my energy cells and Dr. Sunita Krishnan. Though Rajeev Uncle, tried his level best to advocate me infront of them, or I must say infront of their electrifying questionnaires, they didn’t get convinced instead they asked me to CONVINCE THEM, IF I NEED TO PERFORM AN EVENT OVER THERE! – I thought, reality shows are better than them!

The questions asked by them:

For which political party are you doing the SOCIAL WORK?
Where are you getting the funds from?
What all are your benefits out of these?
What empowerment do you wanna bring in this society?
Why do you do social work?
Define Empowerment, An atrocity!

Huh! I felt as If my English teacher is asking me questions. Once while addressing an international crowd at TED-Mysore, Dr. Sunita Krishnan Said, and “My biggest challenge is the Society”. Now, I very well understand that, she was mentioning about this “SOCIETY”. I’m ashamed to say that, the President is a retired army Captain. I must call them illiterate literates, padhe likhe gavar, the roadblocks for the country’s development.

May be for us (HelpingBrainz) => we have our own definitions for Women Empowerment, however if it’s not matching with them, it’s not our CUP OF TEA.

Session- Delivery!

Helping Brainz never stops though mountains get erupted infront of them, me along with Anns Isaac and Radhika Gupta, went ahead with the event, and educated the people on Women Safety and Empowerment.

Yedhu Krishna Menon, from HelpingBrainz.In, started with Awareness Session preceded by Anns Isaac from JNU, Delhi (a resource person for Helping Brainz) who led the experience sharing congress.

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