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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)
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+.
For Photo Graphs click here 🙂
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.
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Old Age Home Visit on Teacher’s Day 5/9/15
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning”. Brad Henry
HelpingBrainz.Org’s Elderly Care Team on September 5th celebrated Teacher’s day with the grandmas and grandpas of Sai Sahara Old Age Home, located in Rajendra Place.
We at HelpingBrainz.Org and our supporting volunteers, were again stunned by the silence in dark; How can a person send their parents/or grandparents to an old age home, cage them between the darkened walls, make them exposed to visitors like us – we were troubled by millions of undefined questions which churned our clueless brains, a feeling of zero gravity surrounded us. Though we were allotted 2 hours by the authorities, we tried our level best to make them smile for a while thereby creating a small orifice of light in the darkened rooms. As an astonishing fact, according to a global survey, Indian youth has become the most vulnerable in sending in their parents to an old age home, given than we hosts or we’re the successors of the world’s oldest civilization which respects elders.
“Let’s together enlighten ourselves, charity begins at home”
Sai Sahara Old Age Home, houses around 14 grandmas and grandpas is located at Dushghara Village in the outskirts of Rajendra Place (around 4 KMs from the Metro Station). The daily activities and routines are taken care Rajeshwari Ma’am (a psychologists) and her colleagues.
HelpingBrainz.Org and the supporting volunteers, donated clothes, bedsheets, fruits, grocery items and vegetables. A health checkup cum healing camp was conducted by Sanjay DebSir. People who volunteered and donated the stuffs were Sanjay Deb (Panel Member Helping Brainz), Muzaffar Yunus, Vibhesh Anand, Sapna Mittal and Shreya Prakash ( from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon), Satyam Verma (from IBM India), Navneet Chandel, Mehak Kochcher, Aman Verma, Sundaram Verma (all from Wipro, Delhi), Vishal Bhardwaj(from Tech Mahindra), Lakshmi Mishra (from Gargi College, Delhi), Shubhangi Chauhan (from Kalindi College, Delhi), Prachi Prakash ( Designer, Lowe Lintas) and Gurmilan Kaur (from Daily Post, Chandigarh)
From HelpingBrainz.Org the entire was orchestrated by Jyoti Suchye and Hiba Siddiqui (Elderly Care Project Team Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shally Arora and Pratik Raj Bishen (Public Relations, HelpingBrainz.Org), Shubhangi Srivastava ( Women Empowerment Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org), Surbhi Dhingra (Child Empowerment Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Utsav Anand ( Team Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org Meerut), Sandee Gujjar (Blogger,HelpingBrainz.Org), Aanchal Suchyeand Sanjeev Verma ( Volunteers, HelpingBrainz.Org), and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
Moreover Sept 5th being our Lord’s birthday, we found spreading smiles to the age old as a perfect means of praying 🙂
Old Age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man, let’s respect our elders.
Ujjwal Partapur 2015
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune”. – Jim Rohn
The schools in Meerut lack basic amenities, wherein to highlight they doesn’t have electricity and toilets, how do you expect of empowering the rural India. According to DR. APJ Abdul Kalam, rural India is the reservoir of India’s prosperity?
In our process to empower the rural India, Helping Brainz conducted ‘Ujjwal Meerut 2015’ for different schools which teaches around 350+ underpriviledged children of Partapur Village (10 KM south west of Meerut, adjacent to Delhi Bypass), followed by a Women Empowerment Campaign for the underpriviledged women, with a promise of educating them in the near future.
Ujjwal – a day with Chotus, was conducted in two schools namely ‘Shubham Public School’ and ‘ Dr BR Ambedkar Public School’, and was inaugurated by the Member of Legislative Council of Partapur Village. The event witnessed around 350 children painting their dreams, supported by a man power of 45+ volunteers (Helping Brainz Team members, Volunteers from MIT, Meerut; MIET, Meerut and ‘Prayatna ek Koshish’ – Community Service Volunteers of Dr. KN Modi College of Engineering, Modinagar).
The event started with an Induction programme for the volunteers on ‘Students and Community Service’ byYedhuKrishna Menon ( Founder, Helping Brainz) and Sanjay Deb Deb ( Panel Member, Helping Brainz ), followed by Paint Your Dreams, Distribution of School Stationary Items, One time meal programme, Tree Plantations and Music4Charity – Musical Drama for the children. Meritorious and Prize winners were awarded Helping Brainz Certificates and Gifts. It beingHelpingBrainz.Org’s 3rd birthday, Helping Brainz conferred 8 of it’s Changemakers on the occasion, which was followed by a cake-cutting ceremony.
Action Plan for the coming months:-
– School Renovations and Creating Solar light panels (since the schools doesn’t have electricity connections)
– Implementing of Non-Formal Education by the Child Empowerment Team of Helping Brainz
– Women education programmes.
The entire event, including school stationaries and one item food, was sponsored by Neha Agarwal, Rahul Arora and their Team Energy ( a group of friends from a Gurgaon based American MNC; and the events were orchestrated by Utsav Anand (Team Leader, Meerut). Those who volunteered were Rahul Arora, Sanjay Deb (Panel Member, HelpingBrainz.Org),Neha Agarwal, Ajit Mahapatra and Sanjeev Verma(Volunteers, HelpingBrainz.Org), Surbhi Dhingra and Thë Ravi Prakash (Child Empowerment Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org),Pratik Raj Bishen ( Manager – Public Relations,HelpingBrainz.Org), Gitanshu Khurana (Community Development Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Rupak Kashyap( International Peace Leader, HelpingBrainz.Org), Ankur Khandelwal( Healthcare awareness Leader,HelpingBrainz.Org), Somi Shukla (Rural Educational Counsellor, HelpingBrainz.Org), Durgesh Patel, Shubhendu Mishra and Tanveer Alam ( Rehan Aziz )(Environmental Leaders, HelpingBrainz.Org), Prakarti Jain (Social Development Consultant, HelpingBrainz.Org), Volunteers from MIT, MIET and Dr. KN Modi College of Engineering and Yedhukrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org)
International Cultural Congress 4 Peace – Aster Public School
If somebody asked us what’s peace, we would say treating our fellow beings equally defines – what is called peace. Peace begins with a smile and Helping Brainz today witnessed and became the prime reason for the innocent smile of 100s of smart kids from Aster Public School, Noida.
When the world is working hard to establish peace, Helping Brainz in association with Aster International school, Noida tried their bit to contribute thier best to the process of establishing peace. Helping Brainz conducted the International Cultural Congress for peace at Aster’s Noida campus. Helping Brainz interns from Egypt, Thailand and Brazil presented about their countries wherein Danish from Jamia Milia Islamia represented the SAARC nations.
The 2 hours programme was inaugurated by Dr.Sharbari Banarjee, School principal. From Helping Brainz we had Ashim Borpuzari (General Secretary, Member of Governing Council, Helping Brainz), Rupak Kashyap (Vice President, International Peace Operations, Helping Brainz ), Pratik Pratik Raj Bishen ( Project Leader, Women Empowerment Campaigns, Helping Brainz), Hiba Siddiqui (Intern Helping Brainz).
The complete event was orchestrated by Ashim Borpuzari, Rupak Kashyap, Pratik Bishen and Hiba Siddiqui.
Udaan 2015
Udaan is a series of child empowerment event conducted by AIESEC in Delhi University every year. This year the event (which comprised: of painting competitions, dance and music shows, quizzes, talk shows) was held at University Conference hall at North Campus, Delhi University. The programme was coordinated by Eisha Hussain from AIESEC in Delhi University. The organizations which participated were CRY, Operation Asha, Deepalaya, Udyam, Lakshyam, HelpingBrainz.Org and Prajna Foundation.
The painting competition, also known as “Balkalakaar” was conducted by Helping Brainz. Around 150+ kids from different NGOs participated in the event supported by 10 Helping Brainz team-members, wherein the kids were asked to paint their dreams. Kids were gifted Camlin Crayons and Pencils, which were donated by Athulya Rajan and her friends. The best ones awarded.
People who volunteered were: Sanjeev Verma , Aanchal Suchye and Prakriti. And from Helping Brainz we had Sanjay Deb Sir (Panel Member, Helping Brainz), Pratik Raj Bishen (Business Development, Helping Brainz), Ravi Prakash Thë (Child Empowerment Team, Helping Brainz), Shubhangi Srivastavaand Athulya Rajan (Women Safety and Empowerment Team, Helping Brainz), Jyoti Suchye ( Elderly Care Projects, Helping Brainz), Gagan Walia and Shibin Varghese ( Environmental Care and Awareness Programmes, Helping Brainz), Rupak Kashyap and Ragini Singh ( International Peace Programmes, Helping Brainz), Sujata Kapoor andGitanshu Khurana ( Community Development Initiatives, Helping Brainz) andYedhuKrishna Menon.
Ujjwal – Sorkha Village
“Empowerment of and investment in girls are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights. When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everybody else”
An educated girl is a change maker: An educated girl will:
1. Stay healthy
2. Save Money
3. Build a business
4. Empower her community.
5. Lift her country: Change the World!
HelpingBrainz.Org in association with an AryaSamaj Ashram based in Noida Sector 115 conducted Ujjwal for 80 underpriviledged girls who stay at the AryaSamaj Ashram. The underpriviledged girls mainly belong to Nepal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The girls, who are aged between 4 to 18, are provided with primary and elementary education at the AryaSamaj Ashram.
As usual, HelpingBrainz.Org conducted Ujjwal which included, Paint Your Dreams programme, School Stationary Donations, Meal Donations and Motivational Talks.
School Stationaries for the 80+ kids were donated by Akash Goyal and friends from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon. Carpets were donated by Piyush Tyagi and friends from Pacific Global, Noida.
Post event, HelpingBrainz.Org would be conducting computer education, motivational and career counselling sessions for the girls.
Neha Agarwal, Aachal, Sanjeev Verma, Piyush Tyagi, Akash Goyal and Urvashi Arora volunteered for the event.
From HelpingBrainz.Org, the event was designed and orchestrated by Shubhangi Srivastava and Athulya Rajan ( Both Women Empowerment Leaders at HelpingBrainz.Org), followed by Rupak Kashyap (Vice President, International Peace Programmes), Suchaya Chaiworn (Intern –HelpingBrainz.Org) Kumar Madhuraj ( Project Leader – Community Development, HelpingBrainz.Org), Pratik Raj Bishen ( Project Leader – Women Safety and Empowerment Campaigns, HelpingBrainz.Org), Gagan Walia ( Project Leader – Environmental Awareness and Upgradation Programmes ),Jyoti Suchye ( Project Leader – Elderly Care Programmes) and YedhuKrishna Menon (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org)
We sincerely thank Dr.Renu Verma for this opportunity, and respect the social worker in her.
“Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them: A Day with Chotus” – at Madanpur Khadar
“I want to become India, because I love Hindustan”, this is what a seven year old mentioned; when he was asked what’s his ambition is! If anyone penetrates into the exact meaning of this one-liner by a seven year old Aslam from Madanpur Khadar, this may contain 100s of beautiful definitions, which may be a result of what Aslam saw from the day he came to his senses.
Aslam, was one among 114 who painted their dreams in “Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them : A Day With Chotus” orchestrated by Helping Brainz’s Child Empowerment Team at EFRAH’s Center in Samosa Chowk, Madanpur Khadar Village, an event co-sponsored by HCL Foundations.
“Ujjwal-let’s create wonders for them: A Day with Chotus”, is a colourful event programmed by Helping Brainz, wherein a child is encouraged in dream, concrete their aim and ambitions.
114 beautiful Chotus aged between 6 to 14, from the underprivileged section of Madanpur Khadar, painted their dreams and enjoyed their day on 6/20/2015 at a colourful event orchestrated by Helping Brainz, supported by HCL Foundations and facilitated by EFRAH.
Event consisted of:-
– Introduction to the process of dreaming,
– A session on concreting the path towards to the one’s ambition,
– Paint your Dreams – event,
– School Stationary Donations ( A notebook, Pencil, Sharpener, Eraser and a Camlin Crayon to each child )
– Distribution of Sweets and Food,
– A session on health awareness, and community hygiene by Dr. Renu Verma.
Who don’t want to be with the kids, the people who volunteered where Dr.Renu Verma, Vibhesh Anand, Sanjeev Verma and Neha Agarwal from Ameriprise Financials, Gurgaon; Mohammed Danish, 1st year student, Department of Travel and Tourism from Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, Delhi; Hiba Siddiqui, an Intern with Helping Brainz (however 1st year student, Department of Psychology from Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, Delhi).
From Helping Brainz we had, Ravi PrakasH ( Thë) Yadav and Ritesh Sachdeva (Event Coordinators, Ujjwal) – both Project Leaders from Child Empowerment CampaignsHelpingBrainz.Org; Rupak Kashyap (Vice President of International Peace Operations at HelpingBrainz.Org; Gagan Walia (Project Leader, Environment and Elderly Care Projects) and Yedhu (Founder, HelpingBrainz.Org).
Specially to mention: Rajeev Thakur , Ravi, Ritesh and Rupak – ‘the 4Rs’ where the real Changemakers of yesterday’s event.