One Day I Will Love Winters Again

Here is the thing about reality. When you see the true face of it, you are heartbroken and disillusioned for a while. It makes you hate everything that you once thought was perfect and beautiful. It takes the joy away from your heart and leaves an unbearable vacuum in its place. But truth is important to learn. For…

Music Lessons At Street Smart

Samia Khan introduced us to Kapil Sharma who is a trained singer. He is an HR person by profession and runs a placement agency through his office at Darshan Lal Chowk. He has been coming for only a little while but has already connected wonderfully with the children. Though he claims he has no patience with his own…

सिलाई = Sewing

The younger lot now settled into this routine, the focus then turned to the older lot- Naina, Rajkumar, Malti, Roshan and Raja. Pooja has gone back home to Bihar for some time but she will be back soon. The older lot is well-trained in the art of block-printing and the time that the older kids need to complete…

The Usual Straightening

That, dear friends is the time when we carry out our usual straightening exercises. These exercises are usually done by Shaila but sometimes by Vandita too. The average straightening session involves the team sitting the children down and explaining to them (and not always calmly) the benefits we get out of this…

The Story Of Chandni

Child Helpline, the folks of the magic numbers 1098 joined hands with Street Smart and from September 01, 2011 everyday, our super-coordinator Vandita went with the Child Helpline team back to where we started from- Gandhi Park. Armed with colours, papers and pencils, the little group sat down to see if more…

Divine Life Society At Street Smart

The Divine Life Society was one of the first donors to help Street Smart when we started out and on September 30, Swami Padmanabhan who is the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society; visited Street Smart along with other members of the Society Street Smart Supremo, Neelu Khanna arranged the visit. She has been … Read more

Another Sad Goodbye!

So through this post, all of us at Street Smart want to tell her that we miss her and we hope she will consider returning to visit us sometime. We also wish her all the best with her education and career. xxx

Star Pupils!

Here are our two Star pupils of the week! Sombati and Amirdaz! The two of them have been fantastic in their studies, they both have had excellent behaviour and most of all they have always been so co-operative! Sombati was given a beautiful hairband and Amirdaz was given a handkerchief and a pen! Well done … Read more

Street Smart Fun!!

This week with all Indians around the country we celebrated Independance Day. Rein Basera was a spectacle of Green, white and orange! It looked fantastic! Great job to all the staff who put it together! We began our celebrations with a prayer, then the older girls performed a fantastic dance and to top all our … Read more

Pleeeaaasseee??

Working at Street Smart has definitely been an experience to remember! The first day I arrived at Street Smart I was greeted with so many hugs. This was the first time I had met the children so I was completely taken aback by their warmth!! Street Smart is a project that allows you to be … Read more