Vibha Dallas had around 20 events since the beginning of 2021, with their youth and adult volunteers contributing around 3000 hours, towards school counseling, science fair, writing camp, food drives, bake sale, fast food fundraisers & hygiene/ books/ blanket/ recycling drives. The year began with an initiative related to climate change that sought to eliminate…
Vibha Chicago’s BollyX Dance Fundraiser Vibha Chicago’s Annual BollyX event was held on March 26th 2021 . With their ability to run the event virtually Roshini , a Vibha Chicago volunteer & a BollyX instructor collaborated with 13 different instructors from all over USA to celebrate Indian Heritage & raise funds for Vibha . It…
This is a success story from Language Learning Foundation (LLF)’s Har Ghar School campaign. Vibha partnered with LLF last year in 2020. Vibha is partially supporting LLF’s Neev: Early Learning Improvement Program, a project in Durg district of Chhattisgarh. This project covers 200 schools in total, out of which 50 schools are supported by Vibha.…
This is a success story from one of Vibha’s partners in India, Leap For Word (LFW). It describes how LFW’s training positively influenced English-learning journey of a 10-year old girl, Sidhi Yuvraj Patil, a daughter of a farmer in a small village in Kolhapur. Sidhi’s mother Shubhangi was sitting in her courtyard, when some tourists…
The year 2020 was a rollercoaster ride that nobody signed up for. It brought with it a pandemic, horrendous natural calamities, and unexpected celebrity deaths, to name a few. But, it was also a year that taught us about community, and the importance of unity in the most adverse circumstances. We, at Vibha, never put…
Vivek started his non-profit journey in 1997 and worked with multiple NGO’s until 2005. In 2005 when he moved to California with his wife, Vibha was looking for a finance manager to handle accounts. It was serendipitous, after working for so many years with NGOs in India, he had this great opportunity to continue his…
Education in rural India – the real picture Approximately 67% of India’s population stays in rural areas While the percentage of children in the age group 6 to 14 years enrolled in schools is an impressive 95% (ASER 2018), the dropout rate in secondary and higher secondary groups is also high. A wide majority of…
Manas, a Beneficiary of Rachana Remedial classes “If I get a power to make changes, the first change I would make is I would make every day, one games period where we all could just go out and play for hours. We have it in Rachana classes but not in our school.” -Manas After my…
