How and when did your Vibha journey begin? I started volunteering for Vibha in late 2000’s. We were still CRY then. The first event I volunteered at was a Hari Prasad Chaurasia Concert in early 2001. I was assigned to parking duty for that event and it was one heck of an experience. Right after…
How and when did your Vibha journey begin? My first introduction to Vibha was in the year 2005 when a close friend participated in the Vibha Dream Mile marathon. Subsequently I attended the Vibha MN SP.Balasubramaniam concert where I got the chance to visit their booth and check out their posters and brochures. At this…
On April 29,2011, more than 130 children and their parents braved rain and bitter cold to participate in TAAL, an annual Indian dance and music competition for children organized by the Twin Cities, MN Action Center of Vibha. This is the third consecutive year that Vibha is organizing this event in the Twin Cities metro. In three…
Did you know that 2011 is a special year, yes it is the year India became the Cricket World Champions again after 28 long years, and if you happen to be a Wisconsinite then it’s the year the Packers became the Super Bowl Champions; but what I am referring to is the fact that the…
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not…
Mahatma Gandhi once said ‘Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will’. It’s this indomitable ‘will’ and ‘strength’ that AURED (Aural Education for the Hearing Impaired) aims at instilling in the hundreds of hearing impaired children that it works with by habilitating them and integrating them into mainstream schools. Their…
– Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar By one definition, autism is defined as a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. At first glance, it seems relatively harmless. It doesn’t affect regular bodily functions, it doesn’t cause deformities, and it just affects…
