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Working with street children comes with the statutory warning of LICE! Lots of it! So a few weeks into the Street Smart program, my nice-smelling strawberry shampoo was replaced by Medicare and two lice-combs stand proudly moved in with my hair brush in its stand. Such is life! So on Saturday, the kids decided they […]

In all meetings with various stakeholder groups, the one common characteristic that we find is the tendency of a majority of people to screen children for excellence and talent. That is not a wrong concept. Not in the least. Children who excel in either academics or any other field should be provided with the very […]

The past two days we have been creating a little personal space for Street Smart in Gandhi Park. On Tuesday we took coloured sheets of thin paper, rolls of string and our usual supplies of paints, paper and brushes. We cut out the paintings that the kids had made from before and added them to […]

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 […]

Welham Girls School in Dehradun is one of the premier Indian boarding school for girls and come 14th April, there is going to be a two-day fair at the school called Kar Kamal. It will be a great opportunity to interact with other NGOs and our wonderful supporter/volunteer/DJ/a-whole-lot-of-other-things has been working hard to think of […]