Taking into consideration the Balwadi children’s health aspects, Mumbai Smiles organised a Vitamin A Supplementation Training of Trainers (TOT) session for the Balwadi Project team. Once this is done, the team disseminates that information to all of the 30 teachers and assistances in all of the 30 Balwadis. This training was provided by Vitamin Angel [...]
Working endlessly towards their belief of ‘Giving back the Right to Childhood’, Toybank has made a generous donation to Mumbai Smiles Balwadi children. We are thankful to their donation and the kids are super excited. This endeavour brought a smile to the faces of so many children; it was magical. Toybank’s objective is to spread [...]
Cipla funds two new afternoon session Balwadis at existing place Suryanagar, Vikhroli. The afternoon sessions will be conducted from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. The inauguration for Balwadis no. 24 and 25 was done on 14th September, 2015. Mumbai Smiles has always believed in serving its beneficiaries with the best and quality of services. With our new [...]
Every child deserves a story filled with drama, excitement and a lesson learned. With innocence that would move you; these carefree, loving and full of life children are all around us. They put perspective and imagination into this monotonous life. To add more colours and vividness to their dreams, 5 Masters of Finance students from [...]
All work and no fun isn’t the ideal way for anyone and we believe it shouldn’t be that way for our Balwadi students as well. So, to get the kids to be a part of extracurricular activities, every year Mumbai Smiles organises a Fancy Dress Competition for the kids. This allows us to gain more [...]
Every parent has the right and the need to know the progress of their kids in school. To serve this purpose, we held the first parents meeting of this academic year 2015-2016 across all of the 28 Balwadis. The response was incredible, resulted in 85-90% attendance by the parents. The purpose of this meeting is [...]
Independence Day, a day that marks the freedom of our nation; a day that brings a sense of pride when we notice how much we’ve accomplished; a day that reminds us of the grandiosity of our beautiful country, India. To mark the 69th year of Independent India, one of our partner schools, Samatha Vidhya Madir [...]
Grave yet underlined, the issue of malnutrition has plagued India for a long time now. With the monsoon in tow one does wonder the reasons for explicit rise in the death of children. According to the Health Minister, Dr. Deepak Sawant, sixteen [...]
It’s always a lovely feeling when people from different countries and cultures show an interest in the work of Mumbai Smiles. Their enthusiasm and dedication is contagious and forever welcomed. One such visit took place on the 11th and 12th of August. Rosa Balanzo, an extremely dedicated volunteer in Spain for the past few years [...]
Mumbai Smiles Balwadi reopen June 2015 marks the beginning of a new academic year for our budding stars at our Balwadi. Starting the 5th academic year of the project, on 16th June all the 25 Balwadis reopened to welcome the children. The Balwadi Team conducted rigorous surveys to assess the needs of the communities before [...]
Evaluation of Balwadi teachers and assistants Balwadi Project’ is designed with the motto of ‘Cultivating Healthy Habits through Education’ in order to address the Educational as well as Health & Nutritional needs of slum children between 1 to 6 years of age. The project is run through 25 Balwadis spread across five different slum areas of Mumbai [...]
Balwadi children’s performance evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation is an integral aspect of all the projects that are implemented at Mumbai Smiles. Recently all the children at the 25 Balwadis were evaluated for different parameters like general knowledge, alphabets, numbers etc. The Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Amit Dambhare along with Health Unit Head Dr. Nirmal Ahuja [...]
