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Smile Foundation has been awarded the Barclays Chairman’s Award 2010 for putting its best efforts along with the bank’s Indian employees in helping disadvantaged communities. The 14th annual Chairman’s Award was held in Madrid. This global award ceremony is organised by Barclays to recognize and celebrate colleagues’ achievements in their local communities. The award is given to the employees and the NGO for working together in devising innovative strategies to bring a positive change in the lives of the marginalized. This year’s awards had received 376 nominations from 27 countries covering every area of their business. There were 10 individual and team winners from different geographical regions with one overall winner – Smile Foundation. The Foundation along with the bank’s representative Awanish Gupta, Manager – Retail Banking, was recognized for their outstanding commitment to bring a change. Smile Foundation and Barclays have worked together to help 200 underprivileged young boys and girls in taking up the career of their choice at Smile Twin e-Learning Programme (STeP) centres. Apart from this, the Foundation and Barclays devised a holistic programme to spread awareness on health related issues of women and HIV in some specific locales of New Delhi, which have a considerably large population of immigrants and young girls engaged in adultery. Among the jury this year, were Marcus Agius – Chairman, Barclays, Lord Ashdown – President, UNICEF UK, Geoffrey Dennis – Chief Executive, CARE International UK and Alan Rusbridger – Editor, The Guardian, among other notable people. Dance India Dance On the occasion of Anti Child Labour Day, children from Smile Foundation were given an opportunity to be a part of the audience on the popular dance show, Dance India Dance on Zee TV. Veteran actor and dancer, Mithun Chakravarty, spoke to the viewers about the significance of the day and made an appeal to all other channels and the media fraternity to promote and spread awareness for the cause. The host of the show, Manish, talked about Smile Foundation and its support of education and health for underprivileged children. The children from Smile were welcomed to the show with a huge round of applause. They were very amused to see how episodes are shot and were very excited to see their favorite contestants in person. They also cherished the time they spent with the celeb judges Farah Khan, Sandip Suparkar and Mithun Chakravarty. Father 's Day Celebration
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Ranbir Kapoor celebrates
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