When you read someone’s achievement stories you often have the eagerness to meet that person and to hear all about his journey and understand his perspective. After reading General Director, Jaume Sanllorente’s books, “Sonrisas de Bombay” and “El Poder de Las Sonrisas”, Javier and Alicia could not resist from visiting the Mumbai Smiles Foundation (A [...]
Mumbai Smiles and its team is always been intervening in new challenging areas to create better future for the slum communities. Last year we opened two new schools for the street children and for the children of the victims of human trafficking. The preschool for street children at Govandi is yet to complete one year [...]
When we think about the first day of our school what we remember is the excitement, the anticipation, and the butterflies in our stomach. 18th June was the first day at all the preschools of Mumbai Smiles. There were smiles and tears. Not only children but also their parents were very happy and also nervous. It [...]
Mumbai is always been a dream city and many come here for their bread and butter. Unfortunately not all can secure good homes and good surroundings and due to the lack of financial resources and medical aids they have to suffer from unwanted diseases. After supporting successfully to cancer patients and conducting health camps in [...]
Apsara, Utkarsha and Mansi are three thick friends who studied together and passed the class 10th exams successfully from Samata Vidyalaya with a continuous support from Mumbai Smiles. It was a happy and proud moment for the team of Higher Education as well. Tuesday was a celebration day for the team!! The sparkling eyes of [...]
They say, “Healthy body means healthy mind” and therefore, nutrition has always been a key point of early development of preschool children in Mumbai Smiles. Yesterday, the office was full of food aromas and some tasty healthy food prepared by these beautiful ladies of SHG (Self Help Group) groups. The team was very happy to [...]
After taking the initial steps to create a new change agent, the education team has conducted one more mobilization session at Sangharsh Nagar and received the equally enthusiastic response. Not only girls but their parents are equally supporting for this new initiative. After getting trained by their loving mentor Prafullata, Field Coordinator of Primary Education, [...]
Life is just not about mugging up lessons, and appear in exams but much more to live in dignity and grow in totality. This year Life skill Education’s beneficiaries are going to take a huge leap to become a potential “Change agents” to undertake responsibilities to solve issues which bother them and their neighbourhood. The First step towards [...]
Javier Lopez Soldado from Madrid visited Mumbai Smiles on 24th April 2018. After his initial visit to the Projects sites, he was so thrilled and excited and loved the projects so much that that he wanted to spent some more quality time. Since its summer here, what can be better way to engage with kids in [...]
Hot Wednesday afternoon is pretty intense it seems! This year, we decided to restructure and re-frame our teaching modules for Preschool children. Our teachers have gathered at Powai Center to undergo the 3 days long training. This is the first day ( 23rd May).The training is imparted by Silvia, our Volunteer from Spain, who comes [...]
At Sangharshnagar (Powai) Municipal school on 30th March, our Life skill Education Beneficiaries got together to wind up the 2017-18 LSE education session. It was a fun filled event. Ines Ramos (Deputy Director), Aasawari Kolhatkar (The Principal of the school), and the team members of the education dept all got together to be part of [...]
The Responsive Action project here at Mumbai Smiles welcomes hundreds of supporters each year. Most of these visitors are our existing supporters, either as our regular donors, members or friends or family of someone who is associated with us. Many of them also hear about our NGO through our Founder, Jaume Sanllorente’s book (Sonrisas de [...]
