Indian
Art with Audi
Smile Foundation and
Audi joined hands to organise a charity fundraising event at the
Gurgaon located showroom of Audi. The event was mainly about exhibiting
Indian Art & raising resources for charity by auctioning them.
Speed painter Vilas Nayak from India's Got Talent fame, created
two paintings during the event, one among which was auctioned and
the proceeds were given to Smile Foundation for its Mission Education
programme.
Speaking about this association, Mr. Mikey
Tode, Director - Sales and Marketing Audi stated, “We
at Audi Gurgaon strongly believe in the principal of giving back
to the community. Smile Foundation is a wonderful initiative that
truly does bring a smile to the face. We are extremely proud to
be associated with them and we hope to support their work through
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Running for the Girl Child
Smile
Foundation participates in all the major running events in India
with the objective of bringing the privileged mass on a single platform
to support a cause, and to make them aware that a proactive effort
can bring difference in lives of many who are less privileged. After
the Delhi and Mumbai marathons of the year, Smile participated in
the World 10K Bangalore 2012 and campaigned for the cause of girl
child education.
Smita Kalappa, National Director
– Child For Child, Smile Foundation speaking about the participation
said, "We made an honest effort to sensitize people about
a very alarming issue of education for the girl child, we encouraged
people to make a fitter tomorrow by understanding their social responsibility
as an individual and connect with the cause close to their heart
.We encouraged people to be the change. As an event this certainly
is a great way to make us think that it's time we be one and bring
the change."
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Hand in hand with Air
France KLM for womanhood
Smile Foundation and
Air France KLM together celebrated the spirit of womanhood and festival
of colours, with an employee engagement activity at their Gurgaon
office. The main idea behind arranging this employee engagement
activity was to give an exposure of the corporate environment to
the young girl beneficiaries of Smile, and thus help them in expanding
their career horizons.
The girls visited different departments of
Air France's organisational structure and interacted with various
teams including the Customer Calling department, Sales and Marketing
department, Finance department and Human Resources department. A
small question-answer round was also held, where in the girls clarified
their doubts about functioning of the organization and about the
airlines industry. The event culminated with a pledge taking activity
where all the women employees of Air France KLM along with the girls
from Smile, signed pledges for the empowerment of women.
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How I see the world with MTS
A painting
competition was organized for children in association with MTS -
the mobile telecom service brand of SSTL – on the topic “How
I see the world”. Mr. Vsevolod Rozanov – President and
CEO, MTS and Mr. Harish Nandan Sahay – Director, Smile Foundation
were also present for the competition.
Employees of MTS, volunteered
and educated the children on the benefits of the internet through
an audio-visual.
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The lovely paintings along with the knowledge that the children
already had regarding the uses and advantages of the internet, made
this engagement activity a very interesting one. This painting competition
was conducted in the Mission Education centre run in partnership
with Neev in Gurgaon. All the children were given attractive school
kits as rewards for their efforts and delivering such beautiful
paintings.
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Maa Tujhe Salaam
It was a double treat
on Mother's Day at Smile Foundation this year. To begin with, children
from Smile were invited by Fever 104 FM in Delhi and Mumbai, to
join the radio crew and celebrate the special day by dedicating
it to their mothers. The children along with DJ Avinash in Delhi
and DJ Urmin in Mumbai recorded messages for their mothers and recited
self-composed poems expressing their love and respect for them.
These messages and poems were played all day for the listeners at
regular intervals.
In addition to this renowned Odissi dancer
Kiran Segal, daughter of veteran actress Zohra Segal, celebrated
the success of her recently authored book, “Zohra Segal: Fatty”
with the children beneficiaries. This book was published on Zohra
Segals's 100th birthday.
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Painting
and more with Dr. Kiran Walia
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Smile
Foundation became the charity partner in Kalpitatva, an art festival
held at Alliance Francaise in Delhi. The event intended to showcase
the work of art and rejoice the magic of music. To elevate the cause
taken up and to motivate the forthcoming artists, noted painter
Arpana Caur and Dr. Kiran Walia, Minister for Health and Family
Welfare, Women and Child Development, inaugurated the exhibition
and were the chief guests for the event.
Among paintings from various
amateur artists of the city, drawings from children beneficiaries
of Smile Foundation were exhibited in the event. These children
were from Smile's Mission Education centre run in partnership with
Health and Care Society, Delhi. Celebrity artist Arpana Caur guided
Prashant, a budding painter from Smile Foundation to replicate one
of her famous Gautam Buddha paintings. Along with this, all the
participating painters and the children from Smile Foundation got
together to paint a scroll for Smile on a big canvas to celebrate
the existence of art and opportunity. All the proceeds generated
from sales of the paintings will be given to Smile Foundation for
the education of its children beneficiaries.
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Awareness and Moksha
As the alarming cases
on women harassment and child labour have increased it has become
important to sensitize the youth in order to make them act and improve
situations. And to sensitize more and more youths Smile Foundation
associated with Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT) for
their annual fest Moksha.
It was a three days long cultural festival
organised for the students to sensitize them towards the most disturbing
issues of the society. Smile Foundation and NSIT worked together
with the promising and talented student community to create awareness
and sensitization towards causes such as Women Empowerment, Security
of Women in Delhi and Education for Children. All the students joined
and participated excitedly in all sensitizing activities that were
carried out.
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Smile Foundation with support
from State Bank of India has initiated a Mobile Emergency Response
System, as a new initiative under its healthcare services programme
for the underprivileged. This project has been designed to provide
emergency response services to people living in the slums of Delhi
NCR. The project was inaugurated by former Union Finance Minister
and present Indian President Shri Pranab Mukherjee, on the golden
jubilee day of SBI Staff College.
Along with Shri Pranab
Mukherjee, also present for the occasion were Mr. D. K. Mittal,
Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and Mr. Pratip Choudhuri,
Chairman and CMD of State Bank of India, Mr. Santanu Mishra, Co-
Founder and Executive Trustee of Smile Foundation and Mr. H.N. Sahay,
Director of Smile Foundation. Red Cross Society along with Smile
Foundation will be implementing this project in Delhi NCR.
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Mobile Emergency Response System launched

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Not just pretty ... actually Pretty Awesome!
Pantaloons
Femina Miss India World 2012, Vanya Mishra, has become the Goodwill
Ambassador for Smile Foundation's girl child empowerment initiative.
In addition to this she has also pledged support for the education
of 100 girl child beneficiaries.
Vanya visited Smile Foundation's educational
centre in Lucknow. She spent the whole day there and interacted
with the children and motivated them to follow their dream and work
hard to achieve them. The children put up a special show for Vanya
where they performed group dances, songs and plays for her. Thrilled
with the talent of the children, Vanya also joined them in their
dance performance.
Sharing her experience about the visit
Vanya Mishra stated “It always
feels great to celebrate the spirit of childhood. I see the spark
to excel amongst all the kids and I will be more than happy to be
associated with them in whatever way I can.” Further adding
to the same she said “The kind of work and effort that Smile
Foundation is putting in to bring joy and happiness in the lives
of these underprivileged children is commendable. I am sure this
will inspire me more than anyone else to do good work and spread
more smiles.”
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Together we make the world brighter
Smile Foundation and
Ryan International School, Faridabad, organized a Montessori graduation
ceremony for the toddlers. The ceremony was conducted to make the
toddlers feel they were stepping forward to a significant phase
of their schooling. Dressed in robes and hats, all the children
were given graduation certificates. As an important part of the
ceremony the children were also sensitized about their individual
responsibilities to participate proactively in civic driven change,
which in turn makes them much better and successful individuals
as they grow up.

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