VIBHA BOSTON Our first fundraiser, Bowl for a Child, was to take place at Boston Bowl on March 10th, 2012. Even though the Boston Action Center was in its infancy, Arvind, Prabhu, and I seized to opportunity to have our first fundraiser. With only one week to pull it off, we sent out emails in…
Why was Vibha created? Vibha is very unique in that it was created to fill the desire of those who felt they could create change but were not able to for a plethora of reasons (location, lack of confidence, extremely daunting work, no support community etc.) Thus, while Vibha substantially impacts the lives of underprivileged…
“India Shining” seems like a distant reality as it continues to host one of the highest numbers of child laborers in the world. Our country sadly has not been able to tackle child labor in spite of all the globalization policies which is supposed to be branding our country as a progressive and developed economy.…
Kasim and Arbaz in October, 2011, transitioned from their special class (exclusively taught by a special educator) to Preparatory (taught by regular educators). These children now sit with the normal children and slow learners in that class and study the syllabus designed for Preparatory by Prayas. Both these children are now considered as Slow Learners…
This publicity leaflet may appear strange to many, especially if one can read Telugu. This one was brought out by a Sikshana school months back- even I did not know about its existence till yesterday. It is from the Government (ZP) High school in Mukalacheruvu ( Madanapalle Cluster), in which GORD and Sikshana worked together…
By Akshat Shukla This series of posts brings live action from Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference being organized by Vibha in Pune, India The Day 2 of Pragati, focused on Social Metrics and its importance to bring out the true potential of the works of the organizations, functioning of the projects…
by Ansy Mathews Reminiscing back to what we did over the past weekend (Nov 5-6), volunteers here in Bayarea did a phenomenal job managing Vibha’s 1st ever Vibhasana Yoga Conference. During the conference we got to experience first hand the meaning of Yoga which is ‘to join’, ‘to unite’ or ‘to attach’. This spirit of…
by Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar The second part of Day 1 of the conference involved with all the breakout groups presenting their solutions to the three buckets of issues that were presented to them by the executives. After a rigorous Q&A to understand what each solution is aiming to address, the group evaluated all the proposals…
