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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.
Some open feedback
Sunday Quiz (how much did you score?)
Sunday Quiz is a Free Online Quiz Competition hosted by Helping Brainz for general (knowledge) awareness, assess knowledge, and knowledge retention and sharing. A quiz competition also motivates anyone who wants to learn and empower, and in remembering facts. In each episode of Sunday Digest we share 10 questions.
Today’s Quiz
#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.
Team, Helping Brainz
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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.
#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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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.
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
