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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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#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.
#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram Day 1 events
#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram
In our mission to empower the rural Gurugram and to make them sustainable, HelpingBrainz choose first to educate the young population of Gurugram on ‘environmental sustainability and nature conservation’. As a step-1, we spent a day with the senior secondary students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 67, Badshahpur, Gurugram. The 3+ hours event named ‘Green and Blue VEINS’ (VEINS stands for Valuable and EcoFriendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability) were mainly spent on various aspects for Green Information Literacy drives.
Events included: talk-shows were led by Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi) and Kopal Verma, (a Research Scholar from School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, Delhi) and Workshop on how to use re-usable plastic flower-pots by Fatima (M.Sc Final Year, Amity University )and Arun John (Working professional), and Green Quiz by Abin Sharma (Working professional), all Helping Brainz Green VEINS team members. Others who supported and volunteered the successful happening of the event were Surbhi Dhingra, Vivek Vaid and Yedhu Krishna Menon. Event was orchestrated by Kirti Kumari Tikyani. All prize winners were awarded with saplings.
Event focused on making students responsible for environment. In the coming week(s), we plan for Green Parliament and Debates, Street plays on event focused on making students responsible for ‘water depletion and general population’, and water walks. The school has agreed to make Helping Brainz activities a part of internal assessments and environmental projects.
Ujjwal – A Day with Chotus Noida Sec 127
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Pim Pom
In our wholehearted mission to empower and educate the kids from the rural Noida, we conducted “Ujjwal a day with chotus” for the 60+ underprivileged children from various parts of Bhaktavarpur, Sector 127, Noida. Children painted their dreams, we distributed school stationery items and one time meal, played games and music, checked their dental-health, chit-chatted and pulled the cheeks, and did an overall pim-pom.
The day with chotus was planned and orchestrated by Sandeep Kumar Gujjar and Anu Deswal Choudhary. Meals and sweets were sponsored by Geeta Sundaram, Monika Ghosh and Priya Bhardwaj, School Stationery items were sponsored by Naina Jain and Nidhi P. Menon, Gifts were gifted by Bhuwan Pant and Volunteers from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. Dental campaigns were led by Anarga Mohan.
People who made a difference were Bhuwan Pant, Shabbir Barodawala, Asha Bansal, Nutan Pratishat, Shipra Tiwari, Lata Bisht, Akshey Agarwal, Riyaj Uddin and Sahil Malhotra from Ameriprise Financials; Dr. Sanjay Kumar Deb, Monika Ghosh, Naina Jain, Sugandha Sharma, Kirti Tikyani, Nidhi P.Menon, Anargha Mohan, Avinash, Sandeep Kumar Gujjar, Arun Dass, Avin Lakhenpal, Vineeth M.Sadanandan, Roshni Nipane, Pratik Bishen, Vishal Pandita, Shreya Ghalawat, Virender Singh, Fatima Jabeen, Subhash Chandra and Yedhu Krishna Menon, from Helping Brainz.
Our next missions for Chotus: Educational Counselling (on Apr 28th), Career Counselling (on May 5th) and Go Green Campaign (May 12th).
Celebrated International Women’s day on March 8th at Jeevodaya Ashralaya, Vikas Nagar,
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Women’s day with mothers and sisters from Jeevodaya Ashralaya
Though the world celebrated International Women’s day on March 8th in their own way, we still believe that we don’t need a day to showcase our respect for the womanhood. In this juncture Delhi based weekend volunteer group HelpingBrainz thought of lighting lamps in the darkened lives of few mothers and sisters (around 66) from Jeevodaya Ashralaya, Vikas nagar, New Delhi. Jeevodaya is a home for abandoned, destitute and orphaned mothers and sisters, based in West Delhi.
The main idea behind this event was to tell the world that even the abandoned and destitute women has their right towards womanhood, and the society needs to accept them as one among themselves. The daylong event was orchestrated by Shipra Mathur (the young Women Empowerment Leader from Helping Brainz), supported by talk shows by Seema Ji (Seema is an inhabitant at Jeevodaya, who researched and prepared an excellent and informative talk show about ‘women’s day’), #Bharatanatyamperformances by Tishya Laskar, ITL Public School, Dwarka and Sahana Iyer, Indira Ideal School, Dwarka (both are Class 6th students), Musical (instrumental) performances by Tishya, Lunch sponsored by Monika Ghoshand Gopikaa Vaidya (deliciously prepared by Shri Dharamsastha Ayyappa Pooja Samiti, Hastsal, Vikas Puri), Sweets and clothes sponsored by Dipansha [a class 6th inspiration from Kerala School, Vikas Puri (Dipansha also collated clothes during our winter clothes donation drive) and special gifts (bedsheets, slippers and daily use groceries) by VEDMA, Vasundhara Enclave.
eople who volunteered were Ambika P Menon (Managing Trustee, Helping Brainz), Poulami Laskar, Geeta Sundaram, Monika Ghosh, Sree Lakshmi, Avin Lakhenpal, Arun John, Fatima Zabi, Virendra Kumar, Yedhu Krishna Menon and Murali Menon and volunteers from VEDMA, Vasundhara Enclave. We thank Sister Elizabeth and Sister Ramya for their support.
We are happy that we enlightened and voiced for their womanhood in a bit different manner from the orthodox ways of celebrating the same. It was our 103th dedication towards the community.
Green VEINS by Helping Brainz
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..Humbly dedicated to our mother earth.
Though green is the prime colour, being green has become something unachievable because of the self-centric manifestations by the 21st century breeds of homo sapiens. We cut trees to house the growing population, however we never plant them. We compete to burn crackers and effigies, however forgot about our own asthmatic parents and siblings. The social being in us, preach about proper drainage systems and sanitation however in our busy schedules we become the first to throw the garbage on the streets. Our mother advises us to take the jute-bag to buy vegetables and groceries, however we never practice it and still pay for the plastic bag. As we understand, honking creates noise pollution however during our day2day rushy journeys, we forgot about the noise population. Thus, it starts and ends at us.
“Green is the prime colour of the world , and that from which it’s loveliness arises” : Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
We require the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, first to be conducted in our mindsets.
Having all that said, Helping Brainz’s Green VEINS (Valuable and Eco-friendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability) team conducted a Green Information Literacy Drive (GILD) to educate and to make aware the young leaders of Aster Public School, Noida Extension about the importance of being green with the help of Green-Talks, Green-Quizzes, Green-Parliaments, Green-Workshops and Green-Plantations. Though this was completely an experiment, we were overwhelmed to see the wholehearted participation from the students from Aster.
In this wonderful green event we had Mrs. Kiran Pandey (Programme Director, Library and Information Management – Centre for Science and Environment) as our Chief Guest, and Mrs. Bindoo Gupta (Teacher, and Senior Educationist at Cambridge School, Delhi) as our Guest of Honour. The programmes were inauguared by Dr.Sharbari Banerjee (Principal, Aster Public School, Noida) and the school’s management officials. The entire event was orchestrated by Kirti Tikyani (Project Head, Helping Brainz Green VEINS).
Around 70 students from class 9th and class 11th participation in the green event. Students were divided into 4 groups, namely ‘Chipko Movement’, ‘Silent Valley’, ‘Jungle Bachao’ and ‘Bishnoi Movement’ wherein Jungle Bachao Andolan and Silent Valley won the Green-Quiz and Green-Parliaments respectively. Sree Lakshmi (our project manager for Information Literacy Drives) and a student from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University spoke about the importance of ‘greenery’ and Mrs. Monika Ghosh (Social Media Manager for the Online Go Green Movement), conducted a green-workshop on “Plastic Bottle Planters”. Event was followed by tree plantations by the students.
We’ve selected a team of 20 Helping Brainz Young Green Volunteers who will be visiting a rural school from Sec137 Noida, to conduct a GILD with a mission to educate the rural children about the importance of being green.
Helping Brainz Leaders who contributed a Saturday for the green happening were Kirti Kumari Tikyani, Monica Ghosh, Surbhi Dhingra, Avin Lakhenpal, Arun John, Neha Babu, Vineeth M Sadanandan, Sree Lakshmi and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
To know more about Helping Brainz Green Movement, please write to Kirti@helpingbrainz.org
Educational Counselling Sessions at Seva Samarpan Saraswati Vidya.
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. To show the children the right direction at the right time in the right way, our educational counsellors Vikas Jain and Somi Shukla at HelpingBrainz led the educational counselling sessions for 30+ underprivileged children of the senior secondary sections at Seva Samarpan Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Ghaziabad. Previously we conducted Ujjwal – a day with chotus where 200+ children were awarded with School Stationery items and one time meal. Our next aim will be to start the non formal education system under the Teachwithhelpingbrainz scheme.
Old Age Home Visit At Shashiraj Foundation Kabool Nagar, Shahdara
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Let’s respect our elders!
Life at an old age home, is something which we cannot define – as we are not into it however ‘why’ they, the framers of today’s generation, are in an old age home and what prompts their kids to send them to an old age home – is a question, HelpingBrainz is still hunting to find out..
We were moved into tears, when we saw “the 70+ year old grandma Mrs. Annie Robinson (name changed), was preserving all the biscuits for her grandchildren” whom she expects will visit her sometime soon. Our old age home visits are programmed just to stretch the wrinkles, share some love and happiness and to make the younger generation learn the importance of respecting elders – as they can also led in the same juncture very soon! The time moves fast!
“Their love was unconditional and unbiased,
why should they be deprived of love that they deserve?”
It was our (Helping Brainz’s) 100th event, and thereby we thought of celebrating it in “Shashiraj Foundation Old Age Home, Kabool Nagar, Shahdara”. The groceries were sponsored by Vidya Nandakumaran from Bangalore and Vivek Vaid, from Delhi. Others who contributed were Naina Jain, Anu Choudhary Deshwal, Neha Babu, Arun John, Fatima Zabi, Kirti Tikyani, Vineeth M Sadanandan, Vishal Pandita , Himanshu and Yedhu Krishna Menon. The entire event was beautifully orchestrated by Sandeep Gujjar (Project Head, Elderly Care Projects – Helping Brainz). As we have made it a trend to celebrate all our birtdays and anniversaries in an old age, we celebrated our team mate Kirti Tikyani’s birthday at the old age home.
Lets celebrate another 100 years with them, come join hands with us
Meerut – Winter Clothes Donations Drive 2018
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“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference – Aristotle”
HelpingBrainz Meerut Team conducted a cloth donation drive in the Meerut City and Railway Station premises on Saturday 13th January 2018. Our Meerut team entirely comprises of Engineering students from MIT, MIET and other adjacent engineering institutions. The collated around 112 clothes from the college students and nearby residents, and donated it to the needy on Saturday night. Event was led by Arpit Sharma (a second year computer science engineering student from MIT), and the young gentlemen who contributed were Mayank Sharma, Lokendra, Gaurav Kumar, MD.Zubair, Shyam Shankar, Gaurav and Paras Saxena.
Helping Brainz thanks all the young socially inclined engineers, India’s future lies in them.
December 31st with Grandmas and Grandpas of Sahara
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An old age home visit: When we plan the visit an old age home visit, we plan it with all enthusiasms however the heart beats with some sorrow when we are with them, seeing their ‘real’ situations. Helping Brainz’s Elderly Care Projects, beautifully led by Sandeep Gujjar and Meenakshi Paswan, has been successful in building meaningful relationships with elderly members of the community and broaden their own understanding of various elder-related issues by conducting monthly visits to retirement homes, daytime elder-care centers and old age homes.
HelpingBrainz celebrates an old age home visit, just to spread love and stretch the wrinkles. We feel blessed that we became instrumental in imparting love to some needy noble beings atleast for some hours.
We celebrated our December 31st eve with the grandmas and grandpas (around 10) of Sahara Old Age Home (led by Mr. Arun Virk), Fatehpur Beri, Chattarpur. Our celebrations including music, donations of grocery and daily use items, cake cutting, gifting of saplings, and lots of love. We were glad to see that the grandmas and grandpas, are living like a family, giving away all their sorrows.
Daily use (sanitary and and grocery items were gifted by Sunchit Shehrawat and Monika Ghosh, and Dental Campaigns were led by Dr. Shweta Yadav . People who volunteered were, Vineeth M Sadanandan , Ashish Kumar, Neha Babu, Meenakshi Paswan, Dr.Shweta Yadav, Anil Kumar , Nidhi P. Menon and Yedhu Krishna Menon.
Old Age is something which can happen to anyone, let’s respect our elders.
