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Ujjwal Arookutty, Alappuzha, Kerala
HelpingBrainz.Org in association with Disha Global, Kochi conducted “Ujjwal -a day with chotus” for 30+ underprivileged kids at Manam Memorial Nursery School (run by NSS Karyogam), located at Arookutty, Alapuzha. The school which provides quality education to the kids from below poverty line families of Arookutty, is located near the banks of the backwaters.
The event consisted of Paint Your Dreams painting competition, distribution of school stationery items, music and talk shows. The school stationery items were sponsored by HelpingBrainz.Org.
The event was orchestrated by Kirthi Nair (Kerala Chapter Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org) and Dr.Ullas Kalappura (Social Development Consultant, HelpingBrainz.Org). People who contributed and participated in the successful completion of the events were Dr. Mohan B.Menon (Former Assistant Vice Chancellor, Wasawan National Open University, Penang Malaysia), Dr.Rathi Menon (Retired Professor and HoD, St.Xaviers College, Aluwa), S.Gopinathan Nair (NSS Karayogam President, Arookutty), Ravindranathan Nair (NSS Karayogam Treasurer, Arookutty), Ishack Rahman (Department of Mechanical Engineering, CUSAT, Ernakulam), Devika B. Hemant (Model Engineering College, Thrikakkara), Geetha Sivadas and Mini Mohan (Teachers at Manam Memorial School, Arookutty), and Yedhukrishna Menon ( Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
Team HelpingBrainz.Org’s Kerala Chapter invites applications from volunteers who can teach /and provide vocational training for the kids, interested can send their profiles to help@helpingbrainz.org
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Ujjwal Vikas Puri 2016
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In the process of empowering the powerful tomorrow, HelpingBrainz.Org conducted Ujjwal at the F-Block slums of Vikas Puri, New Delhi. 49 kids aged between 4 to 18 participated in Ujjwal Vikas Puri, which comprised of Paint Your Dreams competition, Motivational Talk shows, Dental Camps, Distribution of School Stationary items, Food distribution and ‘Dance & Music’ by the children from the F-Block slums. Parents (mainly mothers) were counselled by Shubhangi Sharma and team on ‘women-empowerment’ and ‘girl child education’.
The event was orchestrated by Shalini Sharma and Navotsana Shubhangi Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org). The school stationary items were sponsored by Shalini Sharma and the prizes were sponsored by Rahul Arora and Neha Agarwal from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. The dental camp was conducted by Dr. Nidhi Garg.
Going forward, from May 1st HelpingBrainz.Org would be teaching these children on their weekends. Special teaching programmes for the mothers will also kick off from May 1st 2016.
People who participated were: Shri. Shyam Sunder Agarwal, Neha Agarwal (Volunteer, HelpingBrainz.Org), Dr. Nidhi Garg, Shalini Sharma and Navotsana Shubhangi Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava and Athulya Rajan (Women Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Vivek Vaid (Internal Auditor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Bishen (Public Relations, HelpingBrainz.Org) and YedhuKrishna Menon ( Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
We also take this opportunity to request nominations from students/residents/
To view the beautiful pics please click here (P.C : Athulya Rajan and Neha Agarwal)
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” – Bill Gates
Shiksha Pariksha Abhiyaan – NVS Gijhore, Noida
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Child Empowerment Team in their process of creating and empowering rural children, conducted an educational counselling at programme at NVS Gijhore, Noida.
The audience mainly consisted of underpriviledged children from Gijhore and nearby area.
Event’s were orchestrated by Somi Shukla and Vikas Jain , and was conducted in coordination with HCLT Foundations.
“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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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)
A day with the destitute, the abandoned and the age old
Today, as we unfolded one more chapter of our precious life; we understood that we / as well as our so called problems are nothing infront of those who live in silence between the concrete walls of Jivodaya Ashralaya (or Jeevodaya Ashralaya). They had a life, which was torn into bits by someone/ or some phenomenon, and in the process of the collating back the bits, they lost their race. Today they are abandoned, and they too live happily by crying, screaming, talking and dreaming about their undefined lives with the Godly nuns (Sisters) of the Jivodaya Ashralaya. Though their smiles which appeared in gloomy faces, after seeing us, made our eyes wet; we stood stubborn infront of the undefined truth of the life.
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Team, along with few like-minded individuals facilitated a visit to Jivodaya Ashralaya, a home for the destitute and the abandoned; which is located in Shiv Vihar, Vikas Nagar, New Delhi on 9th of January – 2016. The Visit was orchestrated by Jyoti Suchye (Project Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Team) wherein the people who donated were: Dayal Singh (Lunch), Bikram Chatterji (Lunch), Shabbir Hussain (Lunch), Neeraj Gaur (Bedsheets and Sweaters) and Geeta Walia (Sweaters). The Lunch was prepared by Shri. Ramachandran Sir and his team from Sree Dharmasastha Sewa Samithi, Hastsal.
Jivodaya Ashralaya presently houses around 68 abandoned ladies at their destitute and the abandoned home located around 20mins away from Uttam Nagar East Metro Station.
The people who volunteered for the event were: Manishree Gupta, Geeta Walia, Shabbir Hussain, Nikhil Jain, Dr.Nidhi Garg, Dalip Kumar, Praveen and Hitesh. From HelpingBrainz.Org we had Pratik Bishen (Public Relations Team, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gitanshu Khurana (Community Development Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Athulya Rajan (Women Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Nancy Jain (Child Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org) and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
HelpingBrainz.Org humbly thank everyone who made a difference today.
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Ujjwal Kurukshetra 2015
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead.
HelpingBrainz.Org, in its process of child empowerment, conducted “Ujjwal – a day with chotus” for the 200+ underpriviledged kids on 21st November, 2015 at Vatsalya Vaatika, Brahma Colony, Kurukshetra. Swami Hariom Dasji, the founder of Vatsalya Vaatika, houses and provides education to around 200+ underpriviledged kids in his self-built ashram at Brahma Colony Kurukshetra. All the Kids are basically from the various underpriviledged sections of the society.
The programme was inaugurated by Swami Hariom Dasji, Dr. Inder Talwar, Dr. Bala Prasad and YedhuKrishna Menon(Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org) and consisted of
- -Paint your dreams painting competition,
- -Music and Dance Performances,
- -Donations of School Stationary items and food items,
- -Quiz competitions,
- -Motivational speeches and Movie Shows.
The prize distribution ceremony was inaugurated by Shri.Subhash Sudha , MLA Thanesar – Kurukshetra. Mr. Subhash Sudha also spoke about the development initiatives he has taken on child empowerment in Kurukshetra.
Entire event was spearheaded by Manjeet Grewal , Chapter Leader – HelpingBrainz in Kurukshetra and the Child Empowerment Team, HelpingBrainz.Org. The School Stationary Items and the Food Items were sponsored byNeeraj Shukla & Team, Neha Agarwal & Team and Varsha Khatri both from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. Music4Charity, was performed by Madusara Liyanage and Kamal Nanda, students from NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana and Kurukshetra University respectively.
The people who volunteered and contributed were Dr. Anurekha Sharma (Professor), Anu Rawal ( Asmi) (Professor), Avinash, Ananya, Athulya Chandra, Amulya Prasad, Jagriti, Manvi and Sachin (Students from Kurukshetra University), Avnish, Anirudh Dhiman, Varun Rao and Rupinder Pathak (Students from NIT Kurukshetra). From HelpingBrainz.Org we had Ravi Prakash Yadav and Shalini Sharma (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen (Manager, Social Business Development, HelpingBrainz.Org), Neha Agarwal and Sanjeev Verma (Volunteers,HelpingBrainz.Org) and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder,HelpingBrainz.Org).
After this event, the total outreach of children whom HelpingBrainz.Org have helped becomes 6500+.
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Visit by REborn Riders to Sai Sahara Old Age Home : Event Facilitated by HelpingBrainz.Org
“Hope and future”, writes the Pope, “presuppose memory. The memory of the elderly gives us the support we need to continue on our path. The future of society … is rooted in the elderly and the young: the latter because they have the strength and youth to carry history forward, and the former because they are the source of living memory. A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise”. – Pope Francis
HelpingBrainz.Org facilitated an Old Age Home Visit for REborn Riders, New Delhi at Sai Sahara Old Age Home, at Rajendra Place. REborn Riders donated Geysers , Sugar , Pulses , Apple , Dress Items for the Old Age people., Aashirwad Aata and Sanitary Items.
[ Helping Brainz.Org’s elderly care team led by Jyoti Suchye (a Sr.Software Engineer in Wipro, Delhi) 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 biweekly visits to retirement homes, daytime elder-care centers and old age homes]
This is the second consequtive event orchestrated by Helping Brainz in Sai Sahara Old Age Home, at Rajendra Place. Jyoti Suchye from HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Projects orchestrated the event wherein Arun Patel , Akash Doundiyal , Aman Sachdeva , Vikas Jamwal, Ankit Bhasin, Nitin Kamboj, Ranjan Halder , Daksh Verma , Dapinder Nahal, Nitin Khattar , Vivek Singh from REborn Riders donated/ and conducted the visit to the old age home.
Team HelpingBrainz.Org thank REborn Riders for being the ChangeMakers 🙂
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Projects has planned it’s next visit to Jeevodaya Ashralaya om January 9th, 2016 (Saturday) alongwith a team of friends based out of a Gurgaon based MNC.
Chaaya – Ek Nai Disha, Ek Nai Pechchan – at EFRAH Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony
“VanitaJyoti – A Session on Women Empowerment at EFRAH Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony”
HelpingBrainz.Org on Saturday, October 17th in association with #HCLT Foundations conducted “VanitaJyoti” [Women Empowerment Session] for the underpriviledged women from the slums of Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony, located in the South Eastern part of Delhi on the banks of river Yamuna, at #EFRAH’s Community Center.
This drive mainly aimed in cultivating women entrepreneurs and changemakers from the rural areas of Madanpur Khadar. The engineers behind this would be conducted sessions on
women entrepreneurship and education programmes
self-development programmes
support career exploration for girls programmes
socio-business consulting programmes
economic empowerment of women ideas
economic self-sufficiency programmes
Idea-to-Passion programmes (I2P)
take your daughters to school
capacity building and preparation of client for business development
how can a homemaker become an entrepreneur
The ladies who orchestrated the event were:-
– Shubhangi Srivastava, the Women Empowerment Leader from HelpingBrainz.Org started the event with few motivational sessions on women empowerment thereby connecting the audience with HelpingBrainz.Org’s Women Empowerment Campaigns.
Shubhangi, a second year Criminology and Forensics Science student from Amity University, mainly stressed on teaching the women ‘the art of fishing’.
– Jayanthi Iyengar from Eternal Energy, also an advisory panel member at HelpingBrainz.Org, conducted an experience sharing congress which mainly aimed in revolutionizing and empowering women with her experiences.
– Dr. Nidhi Garg, a young and energetic dentist from Delhi conducted a session ‘Oral hygiene and how to improve the dental health’.
What next?
– HelpingBrainz.Org has shortlisted women, who will be trained in Diya Making, Candle Making and Driving Ping Cabs, wherein in the subsequent weeks teams lead by Shubhangi Srivastava, Athulya Rajan, Neeraj Kumar Shukla and Pratik Bishen will be training the women on various cycles of product development, customer service, Basic English communications and marketing.
Also present were Sanjeev Verma (Volunteer,HelpingBrainz.Org), Manjeet Grewall ( Team Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org Kurukshetra ), Kousar Parveen, Nikhil Cliford , Suvra (EFRAH, Madanpur Khadar) and YedhuKrishna Menon ( Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org ).
Ujjwal 2015 Kottayam Medical College
“Child is father of the man” is an idiom originating from the poem “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth. We live in a world where people speak about child empowerment and education during elections or fund raising programmes to gain name or fame.
‘A child’s laughter is the light of the home’ is a very famous quote. On 10th of October 2015 Team HelpingBrainz.Orgspent some time with the gifted children from the cancer ward at a Government hospital in Kottayam Kerala, and their parents who are praying for the child’s laughter to always light their homes.
HelpingBrainz.Org Kerala Chapter conducted Ujjwal 2015 for 17 kids from the Cancer Ward, Kottayam Medical College. This is the first event conducted by HelpingBrainz.Org in Kerala. The event consisted of drawing competitions, distribution of school stationary items and gifts, programmes by kids and interaction with parents.
Ujjwal 2015 was inaugurated by Malayalam Cine Star Pratish Nandan, who also talked about ‘Voluntarism in today’s youth in his inaugural speech’. Others who added colours and supported the Helping Brains were Dr.Sabitha P, Superintendent (ICH) , Dr.Jayaprakash RMO(ICH) and Mrs.Jaya (Headnurse – ICH).
The event was orchestrated by HelpingBrainz.Org Kerala Chapter Leader Kirthi Nair, supported by Divya Thampi Palaparambil (Internship Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org), Jayaraj Jaganadhan (Social Media Manager, HelpingBrainz.Org) and Dr.Ullas Kallapura (Social Development Consultant,HelpingBrainz.Org).
People who voluntarily contributed were Vaishak Thampi, Ashita Shajan, Ashish Shajan, Jesna Jose, Subin Kuriakose Onasseril, Vishnu Viswaath, Salish P S, Sai Kishore, Deepak Mohan, Akhil Nath and Dilna Vinu.