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Swachta Vriksharopan Abhiyan ( Cleanliness Drive) – Nithari – April 11 2015
We cleaned the Government School in Nithari on April 11, 2015
- FLASHBACK!
On 5th April Sunday afternoon, when I visited to Nithari Village, to supervise an educational counselling, conducted by Somi (Project Head, Internal Learning and Educational Counselling, HelpingBrainz.Org), me and Vimlesh Aunty walked through the silent verandahs of the lonely government school of Nithari, feeling the naturalism where the underpriviledged children undergo their elementary education, feeling disappointed after seeing the stagnant drainage systems and mosquito generating ponds, uncleansed classrooms/assembly ground/gardens, which the so called government ‘servants’ are not interested to clean upon.
I felt the helplessness of a child to express his right for sanitation, cleanliness and hygiene in the silent school. ‘How can a child study in such an environment’? I witnessed a lady village head’s urge for clean environment, however also understood the lack of cooperation of the government officials.
When I heard Vimlesh Aunty, requesting someone to clean the school, I stopped her and said ‘HelpingBrainz will clean this school for you’, I mentioned to her that, ‘it’s my wish to have my little siblings learn in a clean environment, though their teachers to be honest don’t want’.
- THE GAMES HERE!
I immediately telephoned, my friend Swati (VP, Environmental & Elderly Care Projects – HelpingBrainz.Org) – to design the programme, Abhinav Vikash (Abhinav works for HCLT Foundations, he’s one whose heart beats for the community equally) and Purnoor (Our designing spearhead) and we fixed the event (Cleanliness Drive) in 10 mins, and gave heartwarming confirmation to the village-head to support her in this mission to clean the school.
CLEANLINESS DRIVE ON 11TH April 2015 at 12:30 PM, at Government School Nithari
We took brooms, yes we all took brooms, spades etc with a mission to clean the school.
- The entire school premise was swept and garbage transported to a dumping ground,
- The school garden was cleaned,
- The school verandahs was washed,
- The drainage systems was opened and stagnant mud was removed,
- The school’s water pumping system was cleaned,
- After all created an awareness of cleanliness among the children.
Who all joined hands for this noble cause:-
- A team of wonderful children from Government of School, who will be awarded with “Certificate of Participation” by HelpingBrainz.Org
- Vimlesh Sharma, Gram Pradhan Nithari
- Ajit Mahapatra, Swati Saini, Shally Arora, Kumar Madhuraj, Gitanshu Khurana, Pankaj Jha and Yedhu from HelpingBrainz.Org
- Abhinav Vikash, Arvind Kumar Singh, Safder Wahab from HCL
- Sohanveer Tyagi from The-Change Team
Our sincere thanks to Vimlesh Aunty, Children of the School, Volunteers, Purnoor for the designs and Vineeth (for masks and gloves)
Some Artifacts
- A tree-plantation campaign would happen shortly in the school!
- Org, HCLT Foundations and would be together distributing dustbins to all the residents of the village and making it compulsory for them to throw the garbage in the bins, thereby ensuring cleanliness.
Rural Educational counselling – Nithari April’15
An educated man can #makeadifference.
To bridge two inhabited lands, we need a capable architect, however we need a coterie of educated human beings to traverse a country from darkness to enlightenment.
With a mission to enlighten this country, by empowering the rural population, HelpingBrainz launched the Rural Educational Counselling, a programme aimed to cater knowledge about various courses, employment opportunities, short time courses, certification programmes, government’s educational establishments. Around 20 smart ladies ages between 15 to 60 attended the programme held at the panchayat bhawan, Nithari. Nithari gram pradhan Shri Vimlesh Sharma inaugurated the event.
From Helping Brainz we had our smart kids on field, Kumar Madhuraj – the helping brain who managed the event, Shubhangi Srivastava, the youngest among us however a born change maker, and the one and all Somi Shukla, the man behind the event and YedhuKrishna Menon
Next Sunday afternoon we would have the second part of the event.
ChaipeCharcha – CRPF Camp, Dwarka 21/03/2015
“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
Bihar, the 13th largest state in India is historically renowned state with powerful cultural heritage, educational importance, has the 6th 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 10th 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
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.
10 Legal Rights every women should know
Knowing the times that we are in, we give you, yet again, an overview of some important legal rights for women that every one must be aware of.
1 Free legal aid
Exercise your right to free legal aid. Often, women go to the police station unaccompanied by a lawyer to get their statement recorded, and they stand the risk of being misquoted or their statement being tampered with. The police may also treat the entire episode lightly and not lodge an FIR. So, it is necessary to have a lawyer with you while you lodge the FIR. “According to a Delhi High Court ruling, whenever a rape is reported, the SHO has to bring this to the notice of the Delhi Legal Services Authority. The legal body then arranges for a lawyer for the victim,” says Saumya Bhaumik, women rights lawyer.
2 Right to privacy while recording statement
Under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, a woman who has been raped can record her statement before the district magistrate when the case is under trial, and no one else needs to be present. Alternatively, she can record the statement with only one police officer and woman constable in a convenient place that is not crowded and does not provide any possibility of the statement being overheard by a fourth person. The cops have to, by law, upkeep the woman’s right to privacy. It’s important for the person to feel comfortable and not be under any kind of stress while narrating the incident.
3 Time doesn’t matter
The police cannot refuse to register an FIR even if a considerable period of time has elapsed since the incident of rape or molestation took place. If the police tells you that they can’t lodge your FIR since you didn’t report it earlier, do not concede. “Rape is a horrifying incident for any woman, so it’s natural for her to go into shock and not want to report it immediately. She may also fear for her safety and the reputation and dignity of her family. For this reason, the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must register an FIR even if there has been a gap between the report and the occurrence of the incident,” says Tariq Abeed, advocate, Supreme Court.
4 Email to the rescue
According to the guidelines issued by the Delhi Police, a woman has the privilege of lodging a complaint via email or registered post. If, for some reason, a woman can’t go to the police station, she can send a written complaint through an email or registered post addressed to a senior police officer of the level of Deputy Commissioner or Commissioner of Police. The officer then directs the SHO of the police station, of the area where the incident occurred, to conduct proper verification of the complainant and lodge an FIR. The police can then come over to the residence of the victim to take her statement.
5 Cops can’t say no
Arape victim can register her police complaint from any police station under the Zero FIR ruling by Supreme Court. “Sometimes, the police station under which the incident occurs refuses to register the victim’s complaint in order to keep clear of responsibility, and tries sending the victim to another police station. In such cases, she has the right to lodge an FIR at any police station in the city under the Zero FIR ruling. The senior officer will then direct the SHO of the concerned police station to lodge the FIR,” says Abeed. This is a Supreme Court ruling that not many women are aware of, so don’t let the SHO of a police station send you away saying it “doesn’t come under his area”.
6 No arrests after sunset
According to a Supreme Court ruling, a woman cannot be arrested after sunset and before sunrise. There are many cases of women being harassed by the police at wee hours, but all this can be avoided if you exercise the right of being present in the police station only during daytime. “Even if there is a woman constable accompanying the officers, the police can’t arrest a woman at night. In case the woman has committed a serious crime, the police has to get it in writing from the magistrate explaining why the arrest is necessary during the night,” says Bhaumik.
7 You can’t be called to the police station
Women cannot be called to the police station for interrogation under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code. This law provides Indian women the right of not being physically present at the police station for interrogation. “The police can interrogate a woman at her residence in the presence of a woman constable and family members or friends,” says Abeed. So, the next time you’re called to the police station for queries or interrogation when you have faced any kind of harassment, quote this guideline of the Supreme Court to exercise your right and remind the cops about it.
8 Protect your identity
Under no circumstances can the identity of a rape victim be revealed. Neither the police nor media can make known the name of the victim in public. Section 228-A of the Indian Penal Code makes the disclosure of a victim’s identity a punishable offense. Printing or publishing the name or any matter which may make known the identity of a woman against whom an offense has been committed is punishable. This is done to prevent social victimisation or ostracism of the victim of a sexual offense. Even while a judgment is in progress at the high court or a lower court, the name of the victim is not indicated, she is only described as ‘victim’ in the judgment.
9 The doctor can’t decide
Acase of rape can’t be dismissed even if the doctor says rape had not taken place. A victim of rape needs to be medically examined as per Section 164 A of the Criminal Procedure Code, and only the report can act as proof. “A woman has the right to have a copy of the medical report from the doctor. Rape is crime and not a medical condition. It is a legal term and not a diagnosis to be made by the medical officer treating the victim. The only statement that can be made by the medical officer is that there is evidence of recent sexual activity. Whether the rape has occurred or not is a legal conclusion and the doctor can’t decide on this,” explains Bhaumik.
10 Employers must protect
It is the duty of every employer to create a Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee within the organisation for redressal of such complaints. According to a guideline issued by the Supreme Court, it is mandatory for all firms, public and private, to set up these committees to resolve matters of sexual harassment. It is also necessary that the committee be headed by a woman and comprise 50% women as members. Also, one of the members should be from a women’s welfare group.
Source : Hindustan Times
Nithari case overview
The most gruesome serial killings in India. Remains of over 20 kids dug up from a house of Noida. Of the 19 Nithari cases of abduction, rape and murder, the CBI filed chargesheets in 16 cases, which shocked the nation with the brutality and hints of cannibalism. Moninder Singh Pandher, an industrialist who owns a factory, studied in Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and St. Stephens College, Delhi. Both of these are elite institutions. This proves that serial killers have no class, creed or caste. The only thing they have in common is that they are mentally sick (not necessarily mentally ill.) The case was classified as “rarest of rare”. Kids were dismembered, raped and cooked in the house in the kitchen and the bones and flesh were strewn around his garden and bunglow. On 12 Feb 2009, both the accused Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli were found guilty of their crimes, by a special sessions court in Ghaziabad – By Nilofer Khan.