Smile Foundation

20 Health Camps in association with NSIC
2011-12-13 - 2012-12-12 | Delhi
Twenty health camps were conducted by Smile Foundation in various parts of Delhi NCR in association with National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC). This initiative is part of an Integrated Community Development Project started by Smile Foundation and NSIC and was launched in December 2011. This project focuses at the holistic development of the underprivileged living in slums of Delhi NCR, through education, healthcare and women empowerment.
These health camps that were conducted provided curative, preventive, promotive and referral healthcare services to the people. OPD services for prevalent common ailments, growth check-ups for children, treatment for malnutrient cases, dispensing of medicines for common ailments, dental check-ups and eye check-ups were mainly the services that were made available in these camps.
They were conducted in 20 different slums across Delhi NCR, namely – Rangpuri, Tuglakabad, Dhaula Kuan, Mansarovar Park, Rohini, Sunder Nagri, Sastri Nagar, Jahangir Puri, Kalyanvas, Tilpath, Majnu Ka Tila, Gurgaon, Motiya Khan, Khori Kingsway Camp, Jahank Puri, Bhalaswa, Tahirpur, Wazirpur, Nand Nagri and Faridabad.
All the health camps received overwhelming response from the people. As many as 5021 people were benefited.
The objective of conducting these health camps was to create awareness of general health among the people, providing general health care services and counseling them, on basic healthcare and hygiene.
Majority of people were diagnosed with various common but seriously neglected problems such as diarrhea, cholera and cataract in the eyes. There were also a few cases, detected with major health problems; these cases were further referred to the referral hospital.

Exposure visit at pakiza mall
2012-03-10 | Indore
On 10th March , 2012 Jan Sahas organization and Smile foundation students are learning computer and spoken English in Indore at Mayur Nagar Musakhedi.For Retail Management the Exposure visit had organized in Indore’s famous shopping mall Pakiza.
Pakiza shopping mall had established in 1976 in Indore. Director of Pakiza is Mr. Maksood Bhai. Apart from this Pakiza has four branches in Indore. We visited on regal square branch.
Mehtaji [ In –charge}: Related to Retail Management Mehtaji (In charge) gave the information and Knowledge like, To sale a product. We show the product according to the customer’s choice. We must show a quality and variety of the product. He said Pakiza sale product in reasonable price in comparison of market Pakiza sell cheap and best item. Children visited at all floors of Pakiza.
Neemaji (manager):-Neemaji give his introduction and took the introduction of students also. He asked to children about the product which are selling in Pakiza. All students give the answer related to the product. He gave some tips to handle the customer’s and how to sale the product. Neemaji said all things are available under one roof only in Pakiza.
Neemaji told to children that deal with customer’s very humbly and politely
Should listen the problem of customer’s. According to their choice show the products. All these are the qualities of retail management.

Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates Smile's Mobile Emergency Response System
2012-03-11 | Delhi
Smile Foundation with support from State Bank of India has initiated a Mobile Emergency Response System project, as a new initiative under its healthcare services for the underprivileged. This project was inaugurated by honorable Union Finance Minister of Govt. of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee, on the golden jubilee day of SBI’s Staff College. Red Cross society along with Smile Foundation will be implementing this project in Delhi/ NCR.
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, Smile Foundation
This project has been designed to provide emergency response service living in the slums of Delhi/ NCR. Smile Foundation is already providing the much needed healthcare services through mobile hospital programme and health camps.

Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates Smile's Mobile Emergency Response System
2012-03-11 | New Delhi

Smile Foundation rolls out the first 'Smile on Wheels' in Bihar
2012-03-16 | Bihar
Smile Foundation rolled out its first Smile on Wheels mobile hospital for the state of Bihar in association with Siemens Ltd. This mobile healthcare initiative is providing comprehensive healthcare services for the underprivileged in the villages of Madhepura district of Bihar. The project is a first of its kind in the state and will is initially benefiting over 25,000 people in 10 villages of Madhepura, namely Sahugarh-1, Sahugarh-2, Bhatutola, Mithai, Balam, Shripur, Chakla, Sabela, Puniyahi and Sukhasan. This Project in Madhepura is being supported by the Corporate Citizenship initiative of Siemens Ltd.
“We are proud to partner with Smile Foundation on this initiative. Basic healthcare is an integral part of our lives and with this initiative; we hope to touch the lives of the people living in the villages. We are sure this initiative will lead to much improvement in the healthcare services in the villages that ‘Smile on Wheels’ touches. This is an important milestone for Siemens too as we strive to be an integral part of society through sustainable corporate citizenship initiatives,” said V K Menon, Head of Corporate Communications, Siemens Ltd.
The initiative aims to meet the primary healthcare needs of the underprivileged population through preventive, promotive and curative services. It focus on improving coverage of ante-natal care amongst pregnant women to ensure safe motherhood thereby reducing infant and maternal mortality, improving immunization and general healthcare services. It also provides respiratory tract infection case management, awareness of HIV/AIDS and sanitation. The aim is to improve reporting and management of infectious diseases amongst the people of the district.
This is the 20th Smile on Wheels project in India by Smile Foundation. Smile on Wheels programme is a national level healthcare programme by Smile Foundation which is catering to the healthcare need of the underprivileged people of Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha.

Smile Foundation participated in NGO India 2012
2012-03-16 - 2012-03-18 | Gurugram
Smile Foundation participated in NGO India 2012 with other corporate foundations and development organisartions, organised by UBM India and Guidestar . UBM India, one of India’s reputed event organisers, shows corporate houses the way to leverage business expertise to implement effective corporate social responsibility. For the first time, a unique concept of bringing the non-governmental organisations and CSR professionals together on a structured exhibition and conference platform.
In this three day conference Smile Foundation presented a session on,” Building Employability Skills to Facilitate Empowerment of Underprivileged Youth in Urban India”, showcasing the corporates and individuals the work Smile Foundation is doing towards ensuring livelihood for the underprivileged adolescent youth.
The three-day conference served to deepen the understanding of key issues in areas such as Health, Livelihoods, Environment, Education, Disaster Response and Empowerment.

Smile Foundation sensitized the students of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology
2012-03-16 - 2012-03-18 | Delhi
Smile Foundation associated with Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology for their annual fest MOKSHA 2012. It was 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, Women Security in Delhi and Education for children. All the students joined and participated excitedly in all sensitizing activities conducted.
MOKSHA, the 3-Day long cultural festival of NSIT is distinguished by its unique mix of unconventional and cultural events that include professional performances by reputed artistes, dramatics, music festival, dances, quizzes, and debates. This year the theme of Moksha was- The Spirit of Delhi, as Delhi has entered its 101th years of being the capital.
Established in 1983 as Delhi Institute of Technology, (renamed as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in 1997) with an objective of meeting growing demand for manpower in the emerging areas of Engineering and Technology. NSIT has continuously been featuring in lists of the top 10 engineering colleges of India by engineering education surveys conducted by bodies such as India Today, Outlook, Dataquest-NASSCOM etc.

Smile Foundation was cause partner in the CSR Live week
2012-03-20 - 2012-03-21 | Gurugram
Smile Foundation participated in CSR Live Week Exhibition as the cause partner. CSR live week was the India’s exciting and comprehensive gallery & exhibition on corporate social responsibility. The event was the perfect platform to all the Leading Corporation, Social Entrepreneurs Philanthropist and development organization to showcase the social initiatives adapted & supported by them. Other than Smile Foundation many corporate foundations and development organization participated in the conference.
In this two day activity Smile Foundation presented a session on the topic, “Civic Driven Change- A win-win perspective for holistic social development”. And, also exhibited its areas of work & received a lot of appreciation.

Exposure visit at P&M Mall
2012-03-22 | Patna
On 22 march 2012 an exposure visit was organized for the students of STeP center Prayas patna at P&M Mall situated in kurjee.18 students along with center in charge Mr. sanjeev kumar and instructor Mr.Raj kumar were a part of the visit.
As a part of the curriculum under Smile Twin e-Learning Programme, the visit is initiated to provide a better understanding of working environment to the students. The students received a very warm welcome from the staff of Big Bazar. Mr. Ahmed guided the students, where the actual Billing and selling of the products were taking place. Maintaining the decorum of the place, the students very keenly observed and listened to the staffs as they explained the procedure of payment. Students visited different types of shops which were there in Mall premises. The following was studied by the students after the completion of exposure visit.

In Stores Management
Customer Handling Techniques
Product Knowledge & its Information

Graduation ceremony for toddlers
2012-03-23 | Faridabad
Smile Foundation and Ryan International School, Faridabad organised a Montessori Graduation ceremony “Together we make the world brighter” for toddler Ryanites. The ceremony was conducted to felicitate these toddlers graduate to primary with the feel of stepping ahead a significant phase of school life. The kids were feeling vivacious after getting graduation robes, hats and certificates of graduation.
Smile Foundation’s Child For Child programme always tries to inculcate social responsibilities in kids towards society for their and society’s overall development. By organising this graduation ceremony Smile Foundation & Ryan International school made this milestone special for them in order to strengthen their roots of responsibility to participate proactively for helping others, giving wings to their independence, also to train them to take up challenges in coming future.
Smile Foundation wished future endeavourers to all the young Ryanites.

Employer Engagement Program- Flipkart.com
2012-03-28 | Delhi
On 28th March 2012 employer Flipkart came to the STeP center Adarsh Seva Samiti(Dwarka). Mr. Gaurav Sr. HR manager and Ms. Namita Rastogi started with the introduction of Flipkart.com. they explained the details of Flipkart.com and what is online shopping. They described the journey of an order. Ms. Namita explained the process flipkart follows from the time of taking the order to delivery of the items. They explained the responsibility of employee for packing and dispatching.
They also explained the importance of security in the organisation. He also showed the level of security they follow in their organisation.
Mr. Gaurav described the job profile of the opening in their company, he also explained the internal recruitment process and asked the students to participate in the interview
All student were very happy and enrich with the knowledge of flipkart internal recruitment process, so that they can prepare them self in advance, and apply whenever flipkart have new vacancies.

Smile Foundation for woman's security and dignity
2012-03-31 | Delhi
Smile Foundation organised a sensitizing campaign Suraksha and Swabhiman (Security and Dignity) at Jantar Mantar, as an effort to sensitize male members of the society and to ensure their participation for making the society safer and friendlier for the women.
In past some days the rate of women harassment and abusing has worryingly increased and serious concerns have been raised about the increasing instances that compromise woman’s security and dignity.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. H.N. Sahay- Director Smile Foundation stated, “When we talk about safety and dignity of women, we cannot ignore the roles of the male members in our society. They are brothers, neighbors, co-workers, strangers, and this is just about any men. If our men are sensitized and play their role wherever they are, we can make our society a better place for women.”
In order to intensify the issue and find a proactive solution in the form of sensitizing and involving men, Smile Foundation conducted the campaign named Suraksha and Swabhiman(Security and Dignity) A few young boys and girls came together symbolically to show the way towards making a safer and better place for women.
The youth came from all walks of life enthusiastically participated in the campaign.
The campaign included some sensitizing activates like slogan writing, street play, poems, one-act play, caricatures, etc. related to the issues of safety, security and dignity of women highlighting the fact that how proactively involvement of men can improve the situation.
Pledges were raised for making the society a safer place for women.

Smile Foundation for woman's security and dignity
2012-03-31 | New Delhi

Ramp for Champs - A successful second season
2012-04-04 | Bangalore
Ramp for Champs is one of the many innovative initiatives that Smile Foundation has undertaken to promote the cause of education for underprivileged children. It was the time in the year again when Smile Foundation along with Prestige Group organised a celebrity fashion show – Ramp for Champs 2012 accompanied with fashion guru Prasad Bidapa hosted by ITC Gardenia. The primary objective of this fashion show was to raise resources to educate less privileged girl child beneficiaries. Along with Prestige Group other corporate who joined hands for this inititaive were Air France, Tusker Harley Davidson, Aircel, Reliance Trends and Reliance Timeout to name a few.
This year Ramp for Champs had special focus on the girl child. Celebs made the evening even more special by walking the ramp with the kids. To name a few celebrity faces who came out and out to extend their support to the venture were Dr.Kamini Rao (Medical Director, Bangalore Assisted Conception Center), Ms. Ameera Shah (Managing Director and CEO of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd), Ms.Geetanjali Kirloskar (Kirloskar Group), Mr. Pieter De Man (General Manager, Airfrance / KLM Indian Subcontinent) , Ms. Uzma Irfan and Zaid (Prestige Group), Srinivas Reddy (Tusker Harley Davidson ), Jija Hari Singh, Syed Kirmani, Kavitha Lankesh, Pooja Gandhi, Sumalatha, Chitarajan Dar, Paresh Lamba, Anu Datta, Harish Bijoor, Polyanna Patel, Kavita & Ajay VijIla Naidu and Ranjan Biswas.
The kids were super excited as they got very good drapes and gifts sponsored by Reliance Trends and Reliance Timeout respectively. An evening full of entertainment and enriching experiences for everyone – such was the second season of Ramp for Champs.

Exposure visit at at COMCO outlet
2012-04-06 | Jaipur
On 6th April’12 Prayatn Sanstha, Jaipur conducted one Exposure visits for their STeP students at COMCO outlet of Hindustan Petroleum. 17 STeP students along with their centre administrator took part in this event.
As a part of the curriculum under Smile Twin e-Learning Programme, the visit is initiated to provide a better perceptive of working environment to the students. The students received a very warm welcome from the staffs and were briefed about how to fill station which operates right from procurement of the fuel to delivery to its customersand payment. Details including eligibility criteria, selection norms, and training and expansion opportunities in the company were shared with the students. The main objective of organizing the program is to make the students well acquainted with the present working culture of various sectors and helping them to choose the better career option according to their preferences. The visit initiated for the students was considered as a best way for learning through their exposure.

Employment Engagement Programme, OVHA
2012-04-17 | Dharavi
On 19th April 2012 An Employer Engagement Programme was organized by Orissa Voluntary Health Association (OVHA) ,Bhubaneswar STeP centre for the students of the centre.
Mr. Bibhash Chakrovorty of Café coffee ,kolkata centre came to the centre and shared the job details and the future prospects in Café Coffee. He arranged an interview for Bhubaneswar Café Coffee Centre. Students faced interview and done well.
During the time of Interview Mr. Satrughan Behera,the coordinator of the centre was present and cooperated in the process. Mr Satya guided the coordinator over telephone.
Students were very excited about the interview.they also asked few questions and were very satisfied with the answer.

Employment Engagement Programme, OVHA
2012-04-19 | Bhubaneswar

Smile Foundation at 12th Sailors Today Awards 2012
2012-04-21 | Mumbai, India
Smile Foundation participated as NGO partner in 12th Sailors Today Awards 2012 held in Mumbai. This award function was conducted to felicitate great personalities from the shipping industries for their hard work towards this sector. The objective of the participation of Smile Foundation in this award function was to involve privileged people in helping underprivileged sections of the society.
Smile Foundation received great response from guest attendees at the function. Most of the people present there including famous music director Meet Bros. pledged their support to Smile’s development initiatives.

Exposure visit to Hub Mall
2012-04-21 | Goregaon
On Apr 21, 2012, Saturday Exposure visit of STEP Course students was arranged to Hub Mall situated in Goregaon.Wherein 12 students of STEP Course got the benefit. The instructors gave brief idea about the purpose of the visit and then the students moved their way in the mall. They were briefed about Retail and mall environment Information was provided on every shop which was located in the mall and students were also told about the working style of particular shop and maintaining the discipline in same way. The Following are some which students visited in
1. Big Bazaar
2. McDonalds
3. Movie time Cinema
Such valuable and important information was shared with students during the Exposure visit. Students got familiar with the atmosphere of retail and were very satisfied and happy on their visit to the mall which provided them lots of knowledge. At the end the students got the best Knowledge and were satisfied with the visit.

Indian Art with Audi
2012-04-22 | Gurugram
Smile Foundation & Audi recently joined hands to organise a charity fundraising event at the Audi Showroom in Gurgaon. 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, one among which was auctioned and the proceeds were given to Smile Foundation for its Mission Education programme.
Speaking about the association between Audi and Smile Foundation, Mr. Mikey Tode Director- Sales and Marketing Audi stated; “We at Audi Gurgaon strongly believe in the principal of giving back to the community. The 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 any contribution we can.”

Exposure Visit at Softlogic Pvt Ltd
2012-04-26 | Chennai
On April 26 2012 an Exposure visit was arranged at Softlogic Pvt.Ltd. There were 20 students participated from our STeP course of IUCT and they got very good exposure on the following things during the industrial visit. The Industrial visit led by Mr.Murali Nagaraj, Lead HR. Softlogic Pvt.Ltd.
Exposure visit emphasized on the following points:
Organisation profile
Nature of work
How students can work with organisation
Employment Opportunities
Interview was conducted for our STeP students all the students attended and they showed their performances.Students were very excited about the interview and they did well.

Employer Engagement programme - BITAN
2012-04-28 | Kolkata
On 28th April, 2012 at BITAN STeP Center, The employer Center for Career Planning (CCP) is a recruitment consultant organisation, specially catering to entry level human resources needs of Corporate World in various sectors. Mr. Mainak Majumder (Business Development), Manas Gupta (Business Development) Sudip Mandal (Placement head) came to the center . To Make the students well acquainted with the present working culture of various sectors helping them choose the better career option according to preferences.

Mentally preparing the students to take up challenges and get ready to enter the job scenario.
Making them aware about the various job openings.
Informing them about the requirements for the jobs.
Giving them a brief about the retail, Food& beverages, Sales and BPO sector from the service industry.

They not only gave them the overview of the working culture but they also motivated them to be a sincere and hard working employee.

It was the much needed discussion because it was the time the students completed their exams and were about to choose their career option.
Many job related queries of students got sorted out.

Smile Health Camps with TechShastra
2012-05-08 - 2012-05-18 | Delhi and Mumbai
Smile Foundation in association with TechShastra organised three Smile Health Camps for making healthcare affordable and accessible to the underprivileged slum dwellers in three slums of Delhi and Mumbai namely Tuglakabad and Rangpuri Pahari (Delhi) and Sion Koliwada (Mumbai).
These health camps that were conducted provided preventive, promotive, curative and referral health care services to the people who have less medical facilities available for them.
During the camp It was found that in the communities most people suffer from skin infections, fever, cold & cough, dehydration, anemia and malnutrition which anyway are common diseases but seriously neglected by the people who are busy earning livelihood for themselves.
The doctors provided immediate treatment and gave proper medication to all the people who attended the camp. Growth check-ups for children, treatment for malnutrition cases, medicines for common ailments, dental check-ups and eye check-ups were some of the services that were provided. Some people were diagnosed with serious health problems which further were referred to the referral hospitals. A total of 771 people were benefited from these health camps.
Smile health camp teams also conducted sensitization activity within the community to sensitize the people on common preventable health problems and to improve the health and hygiene of the people residing there.

Mother's Day celebration with Fever 104 FM
2012-05-11 | Delhi and Mumbai
On the occasion of Mother’s Day children beneficiaries of Smile Foundation 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 were given a brief educational tour of the studio by DJ Avinash in Delhi and DJ Urmin in Mumbai. They were given a real time experience about how a radio station works and how different people are involved in the making of a radio show. The children also recorded messages for their mothers and recited some self-composed poem thanking and appreciating their Mother’s contributions in their lives.
These messages and songs were played on air for the entire day.

Kiran Segal celebrates her book's success on Mother's Day with Smile
2012-05-11 | New Delhi
On the eve of Mother’s Day, renowned Odissi dancer Kiran Segal celebrated the success of her recently authored book, “Zohra Segal: Fatty” with Smile Foundation’s children beneficiaries. An interactive session was conducted wherein the children asked Ms. Segal about all her dancing career, how she managed to train herself in such a difficult dance form and yet continue with academics, why did she think of writing a book, etc; to which Ms. Segal responded with great patience and very happily.
Kiran Segal has written a book on her mother and celebrated actor Zohra Segal. This book was published on Zohra Segals’s 100th birthday.
Speaking for the occasion Kiran fondly shared some memories – “My mother has been strict all these years. She used to take me to Prithviraj Theatre after my school hours and also put to dance sessions. I used to hate it. But when I look back I realize how my mother has relentlessly shaped me as a person over all these years”.

Exposure visit at KRISNA BHOG PVT Ltd
2012-05-11 | Hyderabad
On May 11, 2012,STeP students from Arunodhaya Trust went for exposure visit to KRISNA BHOG PVT LTD. Divya G Medar chief executive of KRISNA BHOG PVT Ltd took an interactive session with the 25 students where they groomed the students about the process of different food products and also discussed about the ongoing roles and responsibilities of the organisation. It was mainly for the purpose of giving them an exposure to the market. where the interaction was interactive as a result the visit came as a great motivation to the group of beneficiaries who were positive about the future scenario.
They also mentioned about the vacancies available in Gachibowli and Kuakatpally Centre. Student’s enthustically participated and had an enormous learning experience.The students were very excite about the visit.

Smile for girl child at the World 10K Bangalore Marathon
2012-05-27 | Bangalore
Smile Foundation participated in the World 10K Bangalore Marathon and campaigned for the cause of girl child education. This was the first marathon for the Garden city and saw huge participation from the Bangaloreans. Participating in marathons is an effort from Smile Foundation to bring 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.
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.”
Smile acknowledges the gesture individuals showed in supporting the cause.

Integrated Community Development project in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, launched
2012-05-30 | Madhya Pradesh
Smile Foundation with support from Gas Authority of India Limited has started an Integrated Community Development project in the state of Madhya Pradesh. This project is operational in five villages of the state namely – Ahmedapur, Bublakhedi, Bawarikheda, Chainpura and Padarkheri, of Guna district. The project operation for Guna district was launched in May 30, 2012.
This integrated project is focused on providing education to the underprivileged children and primary healthcare services to the people, especially children and women in the identified areas. The project in Guna district will be providing education to over 200 children through bridge education and remedial education centers. Along with this, it will also provide healthcare to over 1000 people in the district through regular health camps.
During the launch of the project a health camp was conducted and uniforms, books and bags were also distributed to the children already enrolled in the project.

Smile kids get a special screening of Chota Bheem
2012-06-01 | Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad
An exclusive screening of the movie Chota Bheem and the curse of Damyaan was conducted for the children beneficiaries of Smile Foundation in five major cities namely Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. While the children were invited by the Green Gold Animation Pvt. Ltd. – the makers of the famous cartoon character Chota Bheem, PVR cinemas arranged the film’s screening in all five cities.
Chota Bheem is one of the most loved cartoon characters among kids today and the children were thrilled to meet their favorite cartoon character which they had seen only on TV before. After the screening kids got the opportunity to shake legs and click pictures with Bheem.
The event was certainly very exciting for the children and so was the movie.
