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We had a wonderful lady come to us yesterday with material for spray painting. Charu Goyal has worked with street kids in the past and she has now volunteered to come every Tuesday to make beautiful things like greeting cards, craft work and paper bags and initiate different crafts projects for the kids.
Inside the park, Suraj (the oldest and most disruptive member of Street Smart) beat up another, younger boy Riyaz. While trying to pacify Riyaz and asking Suraj to leave, we were surrounded by the other kids who demanded that Suraj be asked to leave since he disrupts everything they do. We wrapped up the program as…
As the final announcement, starting May 16, this blog will now be updated twice a week- Mondays and Wednesdays. Additionally, on Fridays, I will do a photo diary by way of updates.
So on Saturday, the kids decided they have had enough of me scratching my head like a lunatic and took matters in their own fingers. So Meena, Sharmina and Pooja sat around me on three sides and pulled and pushed my head in mind-boggling directions picking out the little buggers out of my head (I have been told I…
Yesterday, the kids were even more eager to decorate “their tree”. We painted on dried leaves, we painted our names on the stones and leaves and scraps of paper and we hung them all from the tree. One of our teachers was doing Hindi and English alphabets with the kids and soon they were painting क’s and ख’s and…
Such questions are not baseless. They reflect a mindset that is sadly- though reasonably- quite set in stone and is rationalized by the attitude of the larger society that conveniently treats them as invisible beings. The local public representative will make his/her appearance suspiciously close to the municipal…
So it is all smiles owing to the magic box at Street Smart!
So this ‘next school’ has become a fascinating place for the kids because they obviously want to know who these kids are, what we feed them, what we teach them and such information. I assure you, most of this fascination is geared at finding out what we are doing different at Bindal so that we can be subjected to…
So in the past few weeks, we first had to deal with the Jhanda Mela. This is an annual affair around the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib celebrates the time when Guru Ram Rai arrived in the Doon Valley. The Fair lasts for anything between 15-20 days and sees the area around Jhanda market and Khurbura transforming into a…
However, the one question that nags us is: what about the rest of them? It is absolutely essential to get the best talent from slums, streets and other marginalized communities but at the same time, it is imperative to not stop at just that. There has to be good quality education that is provided to those who not…
