Sonrisas de Bombay Volunteer visits Mumbai Smiles

Mumbai Smiles International is an umbrella under which Mumbai Smiles (MS) in India and Sonrisas de Bombay (SDB) work together to fight against poverty in the Andheri area of Mumbai. While the on-ground project runs exclusively in Mumbai, the awareness and fund raising activities are carried out in both the countries. And hence, while we have volunteers and interns helping us in our work in the communities here in MS, Mumbai, we have a lot of volunteers who donate their time and expertise to SDB for us in Spain as well.

Esther Barreda Dominguez is one such important part of SDB as its volunteer, who, by profession, works in the logistics department of a company in Spain, and she recently decided to visit Mumbai Smiles herself. Having worked for SDB for over a year now, she was extremely familiar with the various programs of Health, Education, Livelihood, Awareness and Advocacy, but only via pictures and in theory. Once In MS, she saw the projects first-hand and was extremely glad to have been associated with Mumbai Smiles as a volunteer. In her own words –

After a complete day long visit, the last project visit to one of the LSE centres was visibly the highlight of the day where she interacted with the LSE very informally, discussing the session for the day, about Spain and even showed them the Spanish currency.

Impressed with the visit, Esther has shown interest in continuing her volunteer work with SDB and also spread the word about our projects in her friends and family circle to help us raise funds for the projects. Thank you so much Esther and we hope to see you again, very, very soon!