at-admin Shweta has gone and Vandita has taken over as co ordinator of Street Smart. We wish Shweta all the very best, she was inspirational in the establishing of this project. Thank you Shweta. And now we are so lucky to have found Vandita. She is dynamic and caring all at the same time. The children … Read more
The Bindal Project has now been merged with a new project that Aasraa Trust is introducing from August 01, at St. Joseph’s Academy along with a Delhi-based organization, Aman for All.St. Joseph’s Academy is a premier school in Dehradun and the administration there have kindly allowed us space to run an afternoon program on their … Read more
But most of all, in this past month I have noticed with immense pride, how much Rajkumar has transformed and grown. He was this scrawny teenager whose skeleton frame would be too little for any clothes we ever gave him and though he is still a size-zero model, he is no longer an invisible speck on the walls of…
So it was obviously a very difficult goodbye that we bade to the girl we all love so much. Darby should have reached home by now and we want her to know that we fervently wish for her return back to India, Dehradun and Street Smart ASAP! Of course from Naina, this is not a wish but a command!
शनिवार का दिन स्ट्रीट स्मार्ट के कुछ बच्चों और स्टाफ के लिए बेहद खास रहा. तीन स्टाफ के सदस्य, सात बच्चे और एक volunteer Ashlyn, Orient Hall में “ज़िन्दगी न मिलेगी दोबारा” फिल्म देखने गए. सभी लोग काफी उत्साहित दिख रहे थे. फिल्म ख़तम होने के बाद बहार आये तो तेज़ बारिश शुरू हो चुकी … Read more
As of August 01, 2011 the charge of Street Smart will be in the highly (un)able hands of our new recruits: Vandita and Aanchal! The two young ladies are prone to fits of giggling that do not seem to ever stop and they spend half of the allotted “training time” each afternoon laughing with and at each-other, while I…
While talking about Street Smart with our newest member Vandita, we started to go through all the pictures that we have taken at the project since we started in January this year. It was incredible to look at the change in these kids in six months! Look look LOOK!!
Onto other news now! On 29th, we had the team from Childline 1098 come to Rein Basera to talk to us about the emergency services that they have launched in Uttarakhand recently. Childline is a wonderful initiative- a toll-free help line for street children that was originally launched in Mumbai and has recently…
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Recently, Sunita picked up a wallet that she found lying around near a carnival going on in town. We are not sure of how exactly the events played out but we know that Rajkumar tried to deposit the wallet at the announcements counter in the carnival and instead was picked up by the policemen there on charges of…
