The Preschool Education team regularly holds multiple informative sessions for the parents of the students, to inform them and make them aware of the various elements of our project – good behavior and manners to follow, hygiene, nutrition etc. In addition to these sessions, it also conduct awareness sessions for these parents, in collaboration with [...]
XDR-TB stands for Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, a kind of TB that is caused by bacteria resistant to some of the most effective anti-TB drugs. And the team of Infectious Diseases project, which works towards providing medical support to the slum citizens of our project areas for prevention, protection and possible cure of five diseases [...]
Today is a very interesting and exciting day in the Catalonia part of Spain, where they are celebrating the beautiful festival of Sant Jordi, a version of their Valentine’s Day. The story behind celebrating this day is related to Saint George, who once saved a beautiful Princess from a dragon who had been terrorizing the [...]
The girls of Life Skills Empowerment (LSE) recently had a gala time watching a Bollywood movie, and for many of these girls, this was the first time they watched a movie, not on TV or mobile phone, but in a movie theater! One of our partners, Bookmyshow.com’s (a website for booking movie/theater/events etc tickets) “Book [...]
Today we want to share with you the comments of a very dear visitor, who came to meet us all at Mumbai Smiles Foundation and visit our projects. Ana, a tourist from Spain came to visit India and its various cities to explore our multi-cultural nation. And on her trip to Mumbai, she decided to [...]
Tuberculosis or TB was a fatal disease until very recently when its treatment was discovered, if detected at an early stage. The government of India has been conducting many awareness campaigns to spread basic knowledge about the symptoms and treatment of TB among the public. However, despite many advertisements, celebrity endorsements and medical reach-out, there [...]
In the last week of March, a free eye health camp was organised in our most disadvantaged project area, Govandi, where our beneficiaries are mostly people living on the streets of a highway and who work as daily wage construction workers, barely making it hand to mouth. Of all the beneficiaries screened at this health [...]
Each year at Mumbai Smiles Foundation, we accept many volunteers and interns to help us in our mission and projects by donating their time and efforts to the organization. One such collaborator with us is Lucia Galant who, throughout last year, helped us a lot with multiple assignments, right from ideating the emotional gifts to [...]
After the Beneficiary Committee meeting of Educational projects of Higher Education and Girl Child Education, the Life Skills Empowerment project also had its last Beneficiary Committee Meeting conducted to review the activities and the assess the impact of this project’s activities with the parents who form the Beneficiary Committee for this project. The meeting started [...]
The last day of the Preschool Education project in the financial year 2017-18 was dedicated to distribution of the performance or the report cards to all the 854 children of our 29 preschool centres. Throughout the year, these kids learn a lot of new things under their syllabi, including alphabets, names of animals/birds/fruits etc, stories, [...]
The Responsive Action project, recently, was more than happy to welcome four kind hearted souls to visit our projects. Carmen and Juan, two professional photographers who wanted to visit us for a very long time, decided to make a trip to Mumbai and pay us a visit. On the same day, Silvia, who is into [...]
The Education Unit, before the end of the previous project year (Mar 2017 – Apr 2018) decided to do one last awareness campaign on social issues and after multiple rounds of brainstorming session on the various possibilities of this campaign, the team zeroed down upon the idea of a street play on female foeticide. Once [...]
