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The book “Three Cups of Tea” is a beautiful narration of a man’s efforts with a community living in the remotest and rugged terrains of Pakistan around the Karakoram Mountains, to build schools and provide education to the children there. The story is inspiring and shows the lengths to which people are willing to go … Read more
Yesterday, while setting up for Street Smart at the usual spot in the park, we glanced at a person sleeping under the trees a little way from where we were. Since people sleep under trees everywhere in Gandhi Park, we did not give it second thought. Then the sleeping figure began to stir in jerks and we recognized…
At The Bindal School- a two-hour evening program that we run with children from the Bindal slums six days a week- Saturdays are reserved for art. The children sit down to paint, chat and just have a good time after the week-long lessons in Maths, Hindi and English. At Street Smart, we do art thrice a week and the…
Malti loves to study and is the only child at Street Smart who draws only for the last ten odd minutes, once she has had her fill of alphabets, spellings, words and numbers. She has studied up to class V and would love to study more but her daily wages as a rag-picker are what buy the rations to cook the meal everyday.
Kar Kamal fair at Welham Girls was a great experience for us at Street Smart. As I have been gushing about in the past few posts and photo albums, on the morning of April 14 we reached the grounds of Welham Girls at the unholy hour of 8:30 a.m., armed with some wonderful products that … Read more
Here are a few pictures from one of the days at Rein Basera where the kids strung ceramic beads
Well, I will tell you, it flared yesterday! The Tine lot dropped everything and came to Gandhi Park much before their requisite time. There were more children yesterday than in a long time (by which I mean about two weeks but remember the relative value of two weeks for a 3-month old project).
But at the end of it all, our kids had an incredible time and that is what matters to us! A few photos from the day:
We also have two wonderful additions to our team of volunteers- Kavita and Ira, both involved in theatre and dance respectively- and with them, we played dancing statues with the kids. Nobody really followed the rules but it was still a lot of fun. Here are a few photos:
One day Street Smart was settled at Gandhi Park as usual. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and the kids were engrossed in their art, save for the occasional fights and arguments. Then a reporter descended around the happy little group and started to ask questions about what was going on.
