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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
Women Empowerment Month 2022
March 8th marks the celebration of womanhood across the globe. Observing this year’s UN’s theme, let us together claim “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”
Gender inequality, in reality, is very diversified and complex and is present in different ways in different classes and fields. Women’s empowerment has been explicitly recognized over the past decade and it plays a key role in the country’s social and economic development.
From being celebrated as a goddess or mother to falling prey to practices like Sati, dowry, women have come a long way. We have seen women in different roles from being a President to a Prime Minister, from landing in Space to adorning the uniform and protecting the country, from representing the country and winning medals to leaving their families behind and saving lives. Be it any role as a President, Prime Minister, Astronaut, Army, Navy, Sports, Doctors, Lawyers, Corporates or anything women are creating history with their magic and have carved out a path for themselves. Even in this 21st century there still remain several issues that are prevalent even today and need to be addressed to stop forced prostitution, rape, domestic violence, sexual exploitation, eve-teasing, sexual harassment at workplaces, and acid attack.
Helping Brainz celebrates Womanhood and their spirit of selfless service in all its forms every day!
Under our Women Safety and Empowerment project “Chayya” we believe in empowering girls and women to become equal players and build a safe and secured future for themselves.
Helping Brainz shall be distributing one-time meals to the destitute women on March 12th and March 26th, in Delhi and West Bengal respectively.
Helping Brainz’s Healthcare Awareness Team shall be conducting Healthcare Awareness Sessions for girl-children from UP, Maharashtra, Telangana and Jharkhand.
Helping Brainz shall be conducting expert talks on POSH.
Helping Brainz shall be conducting educational and career counselling sessions for the underprivileged girls from UP, Maharashtra, Telangana and Jharkhand.
Helping Brainz’s Women Empowerment Team shall be conducting expert talks on Stress Management.
#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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#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.
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.
Inauguration and induction programs – Women Empowerment Cell at Dharampura Najafgarh.
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As part of our strong efforts to empower the women from the rural areas of Dharampura Najafgarh, HelpingBrainz in association with India Aids Foundation inaugurated the Women Empowerment Campaigns. The campaign was inaugurated by 8 ladies from 8 walks of life spreading and sharing their experience to the women encouraging and motivating to break their culture of silence and to become the change they want to see. Women who made a difference were Vinita Vasu (A renowned artist based in Delhi), Archana Srivastava (Founder, India AIDs and Anurag Foundation), Kirti Tikyani (Project Manager, Women Empowerment Campaigns at HelpingBrainz), Shipra Mathur (Women Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz), Monica Ghosh (Special Educator and a Senior Volunteer with HelpingBrainz), Shivasni Bhat (Peace Leader with HelpingBrainz), Riya Singh (SPOC, HelpingBrainz’s Women Empowerment Cell at Dharampura Najafgarh) and a mighty granny who is our power in Dharampura. Also present were the Pradhan of Dharampura, Madhup Modi (Projects Head Women and Child Empowerment Team) and Yedhu Krishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz).
Event started with the lamp lighting ceremony at Women Empowerment Cell, Dharampura followed by talks by the leaders on various life changing experiences and information sharing sessions on various projects and training sessions.
The classroom training sessions will start from 28-Oct-2017. People who are interested for teaching and training sessions, please contact Madhup.modi@helpingbrainz.org
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ChaipeCharcha – Dharampura, Najafgarh
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“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” —Melinda Gates
To become their voice, to increase their communication by committing to their voice, to practically implement what they voiced for, to make them feel that they are heard; HelpingBrainz’s Women Empowerment Team – Chhaya holded a 2-hour long #ChaipeCharcha with the 30+ underprivileged women from the various areas of Dharampura, Najafgarh. The activity was conducted in association with Anurag Foundation led by Archana Srivastava. The event was orchestrated by Madhup Modi and Kirti Tikyani, and others who shouldered their determination were Nidhi P. Menon , Shipra Mathur, Priyanka and Yedhu Krishna Menon
It was a tough 2 hours discussion where women between 17-65 participated and talked and debated about their hurdles, challenges and roadblocks and as a conclusion HelpingBrainz decided to conduct, Career Counselling sessions, Health Awareness Campaigns, Classroom trainings, Nurture Women Leaders, Training on Art and Craft, TeachWithHelpingBrainz programmes and set-up a library.
We alone cannot make a difference, thus require Changemakers, volunteers and interns to join hands with us, for further details please connect us at help@helpingbrainz.org
This was our 94th social development event.
“The International Women’s Day Celebrations – 2016”
“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” ―Malala Yousafzai
The theme for IWD-2016 is “Pledge for Parity”. HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Team in association with IWPG (International Women’s Peace Group) “Pledged for Parity” at NVS Public School, Sector 53 Gijhore, Noida.
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Team doesn’t just only celebrate women empowerment, and honour them on March 8th every year, however it’s year-long phenomenon, a continuous process; wherein we encourage people to begin the phenomenon of respecting women “from their homes”. The Women Empowerment Team in HelpingBrainz.Org led by Shubhangi Srivastava , Athulya Rajan , Athulya Chandra and Neeraj Shukla , spends their Saturdays in designing and executing projects related to Women education, Women empowerment, Health Care Camps, Legal Aid Camps and Entrepreneurships.
Painting Competition with “Women Empowerment as the theme”, Pledge-for-Parity, Congratulatory speech-thanking the womanhood, Guest lectures, Experience Sharing Congresses, Music shows were some of the key programmes orchestrated at 3 hours programme by the team led by Shubhangi Srivastava (Project Manager, Women Empowerment Team). 100+ children participated enthusiastically in the event, and Professionals and Teachers who participated in the experience sharing congress at the school where Manish Kumar (Principal, NVS Public School, Noida) Dr.(Prof). Manoranjan Mohanty (Distinguished Professor), Dr. Bidyut Mohanty (Head of Department, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Women’s Studies, Delhi), Suman Silwal from Samsara The World Academy, Vandana Sharma (Academic Programme Officer) from Amity University, , Chandreshwari Minhas (Assistant Professor) from Amity Law School, Hemalatha Jaganathan (Principal) from Navyug School – Moti Bagh, Swati Sahni and Rama Ranganathan (both teachers) from Navyug School – Moti Bagh, Neeru Tiwari (Teacher) from Jaypee School and Umair Yunus, Sumit Singh and Rishabh (students) from Amity University.
Others who helped in facilitating the events were Giyoung Kim and Janine Lee, Delegates from IWPG, South Korea; Soumya Srivastava, Shivam Mathur, Rishabh Rastogi, Pranay Jain, Shivangi Singh, Saurabh, Gaurav Gupta from KNMIET, Modinagar.
From HelpingBrainz.Org we had, Shubhangi Srivastava (Project Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gitanshu Khurana (Social Media Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Ragini Singh (Project Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vikas Jain (Education Counsellor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen (Public Relations Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vivek Vaid (Social Development Consultant, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gagan Walia (Internet Researcher, HelpingBrainz.Org), Sanjeev Verma (Volunteer, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
“Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” —Nancy Pelosi
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ChaipCharcha – Aghapur Village
Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. But limited access to credit, health care and education are among the many challenges they face, which are further aggravated by the global food and economic crises and climate change. Empowering them is key not only to the well-being of individuals, families and rural communities, but also to overall economic productivity, given women’s large presence in the agricultural workforce worldwide” – United Nations
In a major move towards the empowerment of the underpriviledged women, HelpingBrainz.Org’s women empowerment team “Chaaya” conducted a “Chaipecharcha” with the underpriviledged women of Aghapur Village in Noida. Around 10 women participated in the event which was spearheaded by Shubhangi Srivastava, the women empowerment leader (Project Manager, Chaaya) at HelpingBrainz.Org. She mainly pitched in various aspects of women empowerment, women education, entrepreneurship opportunities, ‘need for out of box thinking’ and women safety in today’s world.
The meeting was conducted in the H-Block park of Sector-41, Noida. The women here are more interested to study and to get educated, thus, Shubhangi and team will be designing teaching programmes and a team of corporate professionals will be teaching the women on weekends. The programme is supposed to start from the first Sunday of April 2016.
Others who made a change where Soumya Srivastava (Volunteer from Dr. KN Modi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Modinagar) and Pratik Raj Bishen ( Manager, Social Business Development – HelpingBrainz.Org)
Women Health Check-Up Camp – Madanpur Khadar
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. – #DalaiLama
“When will the doctors come again, since it was a relief to express them our problems, since even don’t have a good hospital in Madanpur Khadar” mentioned Lalita who is a home maker from the slums of Madanpur Khadar, whose husband works as a daily wage worker at the construction sites near Madanpur Khadar.
When Helping Brainz first landed in the slums of Madanpur Khadar, there were more than 10 social organizations which claims to have penetrated in the hearts of underpriviledged living there for the past 30 years, however the same area doesn’t have a government school, hospital/or a dispensary however got lot many NGOs who have given good publicity to their social work through the photographs they have taken at Madanpur Khadar, however to be very honest we haven’t seen any development there. We at Helping Brainz never claim that we are an NGO, however a group of friends who do community service, as it is a passion for more than 450+ volunteers which makes us Helping Brainz. We have conducted several child empowerment activities, educational counselings, women empowerment drives at Madanpur Khadar in the past 3 years to create atleast an iota amount of difference in the people.
For India to be still an underdeveloped nation, even after 60+ years of Independence, we feel women empowerment is still a common cause for this stagnancy. Where she’s safe, even people don’t bare a 4 year old. Is she ever taught on how to safeguard herself, are the culprit punished, no never. It’s a joke now. A girl in our country is educated for the sake of marriage, though this statement would create turmoils in many stomachs, this is an underlined fact. That being said, do we ever care about her ‘health’, since whenever we talk about the same, people say, “Oh, she can take care of herself, why should we bother all these”.
Oh! C’mon, she is a human being, she needs to be taken care. Empowerment starts when you have good health. If you good health, we’ll definitely have good thought process, which advances the pro-activeness, out of box thinking, end of the day this definitely helps in ‘empowerment’.
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Team conducted a health check-up camp at EFRAH, Madanpur Khadar. Around 54 underpriviledged women from the nearby areas participated in the Health Check Up campaign orchestrated by Helping Brainz at EFRAH, Madanpur Khadar in collaboration with HCLT Foundations. This is for the first Helping Brainz is landing in an area to conduct a health checkup camp without the help of a 3rd party organization, wherein we in past conducted drives with the help of hospitals like Indo-Gulf Hospital, BL Kapoor Hospital, Apollo BHB Hospital etc.
Doctors who dedicated their Saturdays with HelpingBrainz.Org where Dr.Sanjay Deb (Energy healing, Identification of imbalance of chakra and balancing aligning them), Dr. Nidhi Garg and Dr. Ieshita Mishra (led the dental check-up camps).
From HelpingBrainz.Org we had Shubhangi Srivastava, who led the entire event (Project Manager, Chayya- The Women Empowerment Campaign, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Pratik Raj Bishen (Manager, Public Relations Team, HelpingBrainz.Org), Kumar Madhurajj (Community Development Team, HelpingBrainz.Org), Sharad Goel (Volunteer, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org)
