Our dear friend Montse has been to Mumbai Smiles before with her sister Gurutze who is currently volunteering with us in the accounts & budgets department for some time now. This year, Montse decided to come back to visit Mumbai Smiles and this time she also brought her friend along as well! Natalia and Montse [...]
Last week we had blogged about how a general health camp was organised for the beneficiaries of our Life Skills Empowerment (LSE) project. This week we want to share with you the news of the HB (Haemoglobin in blood) checkup for all the girls of LSE. It is important to get our routine blood tests [...]
The team of Infectious Diseases recently organised a free health camp in one of our project areas in the northern most part of Mumbai called Rajdeep Nagar in Bhandup. The camp was one for general health checkup but also included specific screening for Malaria in the members of the community. With a total of 62 [...]
A dear friend from Madrid, Spain, recently visited Mumbai Smiles for a day of visit and was really moved with what she saw. Guadalupe, a young woman working in a communication agency, visited Mumbai Smiles and our projects on a half day visit. This included two preschool centres, where she observed the preschool students participating [...]
The Community Health project team recently tied up with the Higher Education project team to conduct a free ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat) checkup camp for the students of std. 7th and 8th at one of our partner schools called Sharada School in Saki Naka area (close to our office area of Marol). From among 100 children [...]
It cannot be emphasised enough upon the importance of regular health checkups. Maintaining a good health depends upon our regular habits and lifestyle choices. Eating fruits, green leafy vegetables, dry fruits, milk and other food items, rich in calcium, proteins and other vital nutrients in a balanced manner ensures that our height, weight, blood sugar [...]
A couple of months ago, the Community Health project team, in coordination with the Higher Education team, had conducted a dental checkup camp in one of our partner schools, screening a total of 335 students. These students, studying in 5th-10th std. belong to severely underprivileged sections of Vikroli (north of Mumbai) and hence, many of [...]
As part of the annual activities of the Preschool Education project, the drawing competition is organized with the aim to boost the development of motor skills in the tiny tots. The drawing competition was held across all 29 preschool centres at the same time, in which all our 899 students participated with much excitement and [...]
We had blogged about the strategy meet held with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and World Health Organisation (WHO) held last month in order to organization various health camps with their logistical and medical support. And in the series of health camps, recently one was held specifically for pregnant women and infants of [...]
The celebrations have begun at the preschool centres with all the tiny little children. The practice sessions have continued for weeks, the preparations to set up the stage is complete and parents are excited to see their little ones perform on stage, all dressed up in different costumes and accessories. To accommodate all the centres [...]
We are very happy to announce that a new preschool centre has now open up by Mumbai Smiles for the street children and this is a milestone achieved for us, thanks to all our donors, partners and collaborators! With 27 preschool centres running across the city of Mumbai, right from Khetwadi in South Mumbai to [...]
The Maternal & Child Health (MCH) program, which is run in partnership with ARMMAN’s mMitra project, works around the year to reach out to pregnant and nursing mothers in the most disadvantaged sections of the northern part of the city. For this, the Aarogyasakhis (Community Outreach team comprising of Preschool teachers and assistants) stay in [...]
