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The education system, and the education system in India in particular has been known to be rather unimaginative and a downer to the inherent creativity of children. Even within our two projects, Street Smart and Bindal we are seeing proof of this. At The Bindal School- a two-hour evening program that we run with children […]
Malti is one of our many kids at Street Smart who regularly attends the program. She is always dressed in a salwar-kameez and arrives everyday with a sack of garbage slung over her shoulder. She dumps the sack near to where we sit in the park, picks up a slate with a sheet of paper […]
The school at Bindal is at a stage where we feel it is relatively settled in that we have space and desks and chairs and teachers. We have an exercise routine following a prayer routine. Then there is the routine of unexpected hurdles, delays, conflicts, confusion, which is as consistent as the school itself. So […]
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 […]
