The Community Health Educators (CHEs) reached the community people at Gurugram vthrough 410 home visits this month. The CHEs discussed various topics during their visits that included safe motherhood, birth preparedness and importance of family planning, immunization, importance of education, reproductive health, hygiene and saving money through Self Help Groups (SHGs). Through these visits the […]
An awareness session was conducted in Bengaluru on the 9th of October 2017 for sweepers and cleaners. They are the people most prone to communicable and water borne diseases as they have to clean the streets, public restrooms, dustbins etc. They keep our society clean and yet they are the ones who fall sick most […]
Counseling sessions were conducted in the STeP centers of Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad. A total of 82 career counseling sessions were held. Interaction with youth on personality development, soft skills and their future career were overseen by personnel from various organizations. Sessions were taken up on development of confidence, facing interviews, […]
Actress Pooja Hedge who recently made her Bollywood debut with the movie Mohenjodaro celebrated her birthday on the 13th October 2017 with kids from a Mission Education centre in Mumbai. The kids welcomed her with a cake and wished her a very happy birthday. Celebrations followed with the cutting and distribution of cake and Pooja […]
On 16th October 2017, World Food Day; Smile Foundation along with Quaker Oats came together to create awareness about the importance of nutrition for each and every child through a feeding drive in Mumbai and Delhi. The children were feed delicious and nutritious food on the occasion. #FeedAChild is an initiative of Quaker India to […]
On 17th October, 2017 CFC Goodwill Ambassador Ms. Anushi visited a Mission Education centre in Mumbai to celebrate Diwali with the students of the Mission Education centre along with her family members and friends -Dhruvika, Sanaya& Neha. They decoratied diyas and Diwali greetings with 40 kids present in the centre and had a fun time. […]
Actor Shaleen Bhanot recently visited a Mission Education centre in Mumbai and had much fun with the children on the joyous occasion of Diwali. The children had an interactive session with the actor and learnt a lot from him. The actor spoke to them about the importance of the celebrations and the importance of studies. […]
Smile Twin e- Learning programme, is an attempt to help underprivileged youth to gain employment in various sectors and hence monthly exposure visits are conducted for the students to let them gain a firsthand experience of what it is like in a work place. Recent visits were conducted to various retail sectors for the students […]
People living in slums and rural areas are often prone to many communicable as well as curable diseases which in later stages become life threatening due to the lack of treatment. The people living in rural areas and urban slums many a times do not want to avail facilities in the hospital as it means […]
Teachers are the guides who help the children to go forward in their studies and simultaneously grow in extra co-curricular activities. A meeting of the teachers was conducted recently in a Mission education centre in Mumbai to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the teachers and parents in the school as well as home to […]
School is a distant dream for many and for some it is just the distance which makes it impossible for them to go to school. There are many children in Delhi city who enroll in school but due to the distance between their schools and their homes they either drop out of school or are […]
A meeting with ‘Sudhar Samiti’, a local leaders group that included the Pradhan and the Mukhiya of the area and the Anganwadi workers was done on 28th October 2017. It had 15 participants. During the meeting the CHEs discussed about the various interventions done by Swabhiman programme. Following this, active government schemes for community welfare […]
A value education session was conducted for school children under Smile Foundation’s Child for Child (CFC) programme in Vadodara, Gujarat. Over 750 children from class I to XII attended the early morning session which included the value of empathy, care and integrity in life; how to grow up as a successful as well as happy […]
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and that is why Children from a Mission Education centre were taken out of the classrooms and had a fun filled day with actress Parineeti Chopra on the 1st of November 2017. Parineeti’s latest movie Golmaal Again was screened for the kids. The movie is […]
Exposure Visits were conducted for students of STeP centers of Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Pune. A total of 43 exposure visits were held. The programme aims to provide an exposure to the students with learning opportunities on latest trends and practices at the workplace. Smile Twin E- learning Programme (STeP) is an initiative […]
