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Street Smart Diaries will resume the routine, daily updates from tomorrow, i.e. January 14 since I am grouchy about the cancellation of my Auli trip and Penny’s computer crashed. I shall head back to my ‘happy place’, i.e. the school with our kids tomorrow and will update the Diaries for both days then. A grouchy […]

Today we started with alphabets!!! Whoopie!! It was a lazy beginning with a few kids coming in and hanging around post a nice meal at the dhaba we had zero-ed in on, yesterday. Gudakesh drew the alphabet क for the kids and they started colouring in it and through the day, we had everybody discussing […]

After yesterday’s fiasco we acted on Neelu’s (our team member who is excellent and enviously patient with the kids!) suggestion and brought in plasticine for those children who were no longer interested in painting. Earlier in the day, a few of us met at Doon Club to discuss strategy and plan of action for the […]

So our fragile little house of cards almost came tumbling down today. We think that maybe the children have been painting for 6 days now and they need something new to do. Art is no longer engaging their minds, except for a few like Rajkumar and Naina. The kids today were incredibly high today. They […]

We have officially arrived! Today was the inauguration of Street Smart at Rein Basera and it was a beautiful, personal, no-frill program attended by all friends and supporters of Street Smart, besides us and the kids, of course. We missed a lot of people associated with the project since they are not in town. Shaila, […]