Happy Birthday Sanjay Dutt
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Happy Birthday Munna Bhai
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Veteran
actor Sanjay Dutt hosted a small and simple birthday party for Smile
Foundation children in his residence in Bandra, Mumbai. Sanjay specially
took time off from his busy schedule to spend a lot of time with
the children.
The children gifted him a cake, with a handmade
card and flowers. He cut the cake along with Smile kids and in turn
gave them chocolates and gifts, which the children were very excited
to get.
Sanjay spent the whole evening interacting
with the children, asking about their hobbies and dreams. To cheer
them up Sanjay also shared some of the dialogues from his films
Munna Bhai and Agneepath.
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Smile
children new friends for Dia Mirza
Dia
Mirza is new friend of Smile Foundation children. The actor
invited kids at her residence in Mumbai to celebrate the
day with them. She exchanged friendship bands with the kids
who were very happy at finding a new friend.
She also spent a lot of time interacting
with the kids discussing about her friends who always supported
her. To wish Dia, the children had specially made a Friendships
Day card, which she happily accepted and wished the kids
for their future endeavors.
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 Actor Dia Mirza celebrating Friendships Day with Smile Foundation children in Mumbai.
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Motivational
session with Abhay and Esha
Actor
Abhay Deol with Smile Foundation
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Bollywood
actors Abhay Deol and Esha Gupta invited the children of Smile Foundation
for a motivational session in Mumbai. They invited the children
to spend some quality time with them. The children gifted a bouquet
of flowers to Abhay and Esha. Cheering the children they had a lot
of interactions on their dreams in life and also doing good for
others.
Abhay motivated the children to 'dream big
in life and also to do good to others.’
The actors also gifted some presents to the
children, who getting the gifts felt really special. The children
also wished the actors best of luck for their upcoming movie 'Chakravuyh'.
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Indian Idol for Smile kids
Vipul
Mehta, the winner of Sony's singing reality show Indian
Idol 6 came down to Mission Education centre at Dreamz Home
in Mumbai and spent some quality time with Smile children.
Vipul sang songs, danced with the kids and also gave away
a few goodies such as bags and books to the kids. The kids
were seen having a cheerful time with Vipul around and he
also made sure that the kids enjoy every minute of it.
The students of Smile’s STeP
programme Desh Seva Samiti also were invited to be a part
of the show, which was a happy moment for kids. The students
enjoyed being a part of the show and met the judges Anu
Malik, Salim Merchant and Sunidhi Chauhan.
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 Smile Foundation children on the sets of Indian Idol 6 in Mumbai
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Rakhi with Aishwarya Sakhuja
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Happily Interacting Aishwarya Sakhuja
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Famous TV actor and Miss India 2006 finalist, Aishwarya Sakhuja
celebrated Raksha Bhandhan with Smile children in Mumbai. She came
down to Smile Foundation's Mumbai office to be a big sister to Smile
kids and to celebrate the day with lot of fun and spirit.
She spent quality time interacting with the children asking about
their hobbies and dreams. They all had fun with lots of music, songs,
dance and activities. The children also cut a Rakhi cake with Aishwarya.
Aishwarya distributed small gifts among them, which the children
were happy to get.
She also motivated the kids to work for their
desired goal in life and encouraged them for achieving it.
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Serve with Smile Week
Smile
Foundation in association with Evening Flavors launched
a week long campaign “Serve With Smile Week”
in Bangalore. The campaign aimed at providing nutritious
food to the underprivileged children, by involving the socially
conscious restaurants and eminent personalities of the city
for a year.
Under this campaign, the restaurants
who associated with Smile Foundation had dedicated one table
each for a week to provide nutritional support to the underprivileged
children.
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Chetan Bhagat, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Prasad Bidapa, Uzma Irfan, Pankaj
Advani, Dr. Kamini Rao and Kulsum Shadab Wahab are some of the eminent
personalities who came forward to support the campaign. Other than
the personalities, the restaurants who served with Smile were Kakori
Kababs and Curries. Love Shack, Nagarjuna, Fisherman's Wharf, Touché,
Keys, Soul City, 100ft., MovenPick, Tango Calypso, 898 steaks and
grill, huckleberry, Inchara, Shivsagar, Atria and Portland.
Motherhood a premium healthcare
centre in Bangalore supported nutrition of 100 underprivileged children.
Prestige Group has been a regular supporter of Smile Foundation
and this time also came forward to support this campaign. Accord
Advertising Pvt. Ltd. became the outdoor partner in the Serve With
Smile Week.
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Joy of Giving with Smile
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Smile
Foundation celebrated Joy of Giving Week 2012 with its corporate
partners.
The employees of corporates like Panasonic
India, Infosys BPO, Coca Cola, BNY Mellon came forward to fulfill
the unheard wishes of the underprivileged children. Smile Foundation
put up wish trees in the premises of the corporates. The corporate
employees pledged to fulfill the wishes of the underprivileged children
by picking up a wish from the wish tree. The employees were all
excited with the feeling of doing something good for the children.
Smile Foundation would like to thank all corporate
professionals in Panasonic India, Infosys BPO, Coca Cola, and BNY
Mellon for coming forward and fulfilling the unmet wishes of Smile
children through the Joy of Giving Week 2012.
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Healthcare Leadership Award 2012
Smile
Foundation receives 'Healthcare Leadership Award 2012' for
its contribution in the field of healthcare for the underprivileged.
The award function was organised at Alliance Francaise,
New Delhi.
Nominations for this award have been invited from seven
countries, including India. An expert panel had been constituted
to undertake the selection procedures, which also did independent
research on the activities and credibility in relation with
the applicant organisations.
Dr. K. K. Aggarwal , (Padmashri and
Dr. B C Roy National Awardee), presented the award to Mr.
H.N. Sahay, Director Operations, Smile Foundation.
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 Mr. H.N. Sahay, Director Operations Smile Foundation receiving award
from Padmashri Dr. K K Aggarwal
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Special screening of CFSI's Gattu
Smile
Foundation had joined hands with CFSI as the outreach partner
for its movie Gattu. In order to support the journey of
Gattu Smile Foundation organised a special screening of
the feature film at Film Division of India in New Delhi.
This screening was conducted especially for school principals,
teachers, Smile's NGO partners and children.
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Like I am Kalam, this film too motivates children to dream against
all odds to make them come true and encourages adults to ensure
that all across the world no child remains on the streets, but in
the trustful environment of the school.
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Mr. Sharvan Kumar, CEO, CFSI and Mr. Santanu Mishra, Co Founder & Executive Trustee Smile Foundation interacting with Smile children
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Run for a cause
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Mr. Harendra Singh and Mr. Ashok Kumar supporting Smile Foundation at ADHM 2012
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Smile
Foundation, once again this year, participated in the 5th Airtel
Delhi Half Marathon 2012. Veteran Indian Hockey players Mr. Ashok
Kumar, former Indian Hockey player and son of Major Dhayanchand
and Mr. Harender Singh former couch of Indian Hockey team supported
Smile Foundation this year. Along with the sports stars Barclays
Shared Services, the leading global financial services group, also
participated in the marathon supporting Smile Foundation and the
cause of “Sending Every Child to School”.
This year Smile Foundation had participated
in the Great Delhi Run and both Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Harender
Singh were present to cheer Smile Foundation and Barclays Shared
Services. Young students of the Smile Twin e-Learning Programme
had also participated in the Marathon. Both the sports stars cheered
the students from Smile Foundation with great enthusiasm. Before
the run flagged off, both, Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Harendar Singh
met the students from Smile to motivate all of them to finish the
run well. The students were very excited to meet the stars and were
overwhelmed with their gesture of personally coming to motivate
them for their challenge.
Further extending their support both the veterans
pledged to support Smile Foundation at the Joy of Giving Week by
unveiling a wish bag for supporting the education of 50 children
of Smile Foundation for a year.
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No wrestling but smiles
Smile
Foundation's children went to meet their WWE (World Wrestling
Entertainment) heroes Kane and Eve Peters in Delhi. Kids
were thrilled meeting their wrestling stars. They spent
some quality time together wherein the wrestlers inspired
the kid to face every fear in their life with a lot of determination
and courage. Both the stars told the kids, to chase their
dreams and have confidence that they can achieve what they
aspire for.
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 International WWE stars Kane and Eve Peters with Smile Foundation kids
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