The Community Health project recently organised a free eye checkup camp for the students of one of our partner BMC (Mumbai Municipal Corporation) schools in Sangharshnagar area, which is where our Education projects are extremely active. With a total of 260 students having been screened at the camp, the health camp was organised with an [...]
The Infectious Diseases group recently conducted another free health camp in Bhandup, an area in the northern most area of Mumbai. This time the camp was set up in Rajdeep Nagar, in which 95 slum communities were screened for malaria, along with which a general check up was also done for them. With 45 [...]
The HOPE project recently organised a medical kit distribution activity for our beneficiaries in Wadia Hospital, one of our medicare partners who help us with treatment of children suffering from cancer. To ease out mental and financial stress on the children with cancer as well as their parents, the Hope project often organizes activities and [...]
The Infectious Diseases team recently organised a free health camp in Ashok Nagar, Saki Naka, which is an area close to our office in Andheri East. Focusing on HB (haemoglobin) and RBS (Random Blood Sugar) testing of the citizens, this camp also did a general health check up of all the beneficiaries who attended the [...]
The Community Health team had recently organised a free eye checkup camp in one of our partner schools. Vyankatesh Vidya Niketan High School is one of our Education partner schools, which is situated inside a slum area and the students of this school belong to one of the most underprivileged sections of Mumbai. During the [...]
The Infectious Diseases team recently organised a special Malaria screening camp in the Sahyadri Nagar area of Bhandup. The total turnout in this camp was 73 people, including 59 female and 14 male citizens. The camp was meant to check these patients specifically for Malaria as the rains this year have stretched to more than [...]
The Life Skills Empowerment project team recently organised a 2-hour Self-Defence training session for all the 50 girls in their school by two experts by the name of Venkatesh and Mercial. They have been in the field of self-defence as trainers for a number of years. In fact, having gained experience in security and intelligence [...]
The LSE or Life Skills Empowerment project for the adolescent girls of underprivileged segments of Mumbai (in our project areas) is one where girls imbibe the different life skills in themselves with the help of an animator (effectively a guide), to lead a better life – one that is healthy and of good quality. One [...]
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 [...]
