On July 26, 2005, Mumbai was faced with torrential rains due to cloudburst, which combined with high tide in the afternoon. This day is now known as Mumbai Floods in the history of the world when the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) recorded a crazy 944 mm of rains in less than 24 hours. This one [...]
Bibian, a yoga teacher and Carmen, an auxiliary education teacher by profession, are both from Barcelona in Spain. On their recent trip to Mumbai, they decided to visit us and our projects and spend some time with the Mumbai Smiles family. On their one day visit to our projects, Bibian and Carmen interacted with the [...]
In continuation with the Fire Safety training, First Aid training was recently conducted for all our 27 teachers and their 27 assistants. In collaboration with another organization called Faith, the first aid training was conducted by Sujeet Sathe and Nilesh Gadre, both of whom have almost decade of experience in the field of safety & [...]
30 year old Sunita Londhe is an Assistant Teacher in one of the Mumbai Smiles Preschool Education Centres and combined with her husband’s salary (who works as an office boy in a corporate), her monthly income is Rs. 18,500 today which lets her and her husband lead a dignified life in one of the slum [...]
Pregnancy is considered to be the most beautiful and magical time in any woman’s life, when she starts creating another human inside her. But this is the time that the woman needs to take most care of herself, which includes consumption of apt diet, vitamins & minerals, [...]
With august being the month of vacation in Spain, we received a lot of visitors last month. One of the groups that came to our office for a day long visit was a group of three lovely ladies, Silvia, Maria and Joanna. Silvia is already involved with another NGO in the city of Pune where [...]
Lucia Galant Martinez is a very dear friend and a collaborator of Mumbai Smiles as well as Sonrisas de Bombay, who often, selflessly helps us with different activities such as Emotional Gifts, Content Development etc. She has been associated with us for more than 6 months now and has become an integral part of our [...]
32 year old Vaishali Varak comes from a small village in Shirgaon district, Sindhudurg in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. She and her family were heavily dependent on her father daily wage labourer in the village farms, their only source of livelihood. Her living conditions were not good and there were times when Vaishali slept [...]
Teachers are like second sets of parents for their students, who play a very important role in moulding their students’ lives, both positively and negatively. A good teacher not only teaches the syllabus, but also inspires their students to dream and work towards achieving it, be it a young or a grown-up student. Teachers, as [...]
The LSE or Life Skills Empowerment program focus not only on training of the 50 girls in skills that we need to live an empowered life in the society but also on the nutrition of these girls, since most of them neglect their health. The reason for this neglect is often rooted in the psyche [...]
It takes months and years to build anything; it takes second for an accident to bring it down. Accidents can happen anywhere anytime and we must be prepared for it with as much knowledge of the know-how to deal with the situation. When it comes to slum communities, all the structures are created so close [...]
“When we think we know, we cease to learn” – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan For centuries, Teacher’s Day has been celebrated in its own way in various countries of the world. In India as well, till today we celebrate the occasion of Guru Purnima to pay homage to our teachers who guide us and help [...]
