When Failure turns out to be a New Motivation

Surekha Dhadwe is a 48 years old preschool teacher working with Mumbai Smiles Foundation since 5 years and this is her inspiring story. Surekha was born and raised in the slums of Marol pipeline, [...]

The World Literacy Day

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” – Rabindranath Tagore “The function of education is to teach one [...]

Akhil Shinde and his struggle as a kid

After four months into the Covid-19 lockdown across the country when people were hoping to get back to some “new normal”, hoping to get some work to support their families, there was still a [...]

Meet the leading head of Preschool Project

We meet today with Vikas Gaitwad, Project Manager of Preschool Education at Mumbai Smiles Foundation. Vikas is responsible for day-to-day field monitoring and logistics support to ensure the [...]

Celebrating the Guru Purnima day

Guru is the one who imparts knowledge to their students without any expectations. We worship our GURU/ mentor on the full moon day of this month in India every year to show our gratitude towards [...]

Distant education during Covid-19 pandemic

Jaberia and Sheefa Sheikh are two sisters studying in our Ccheda Nagar preschools. Their parents are daily wage workers. The mother used to peel garlics and the father used to work in a garment [...]

New guests in the preschools

Mumbai Smiles team has been preparing temporary shelter homes for those who are homeless, hungry and passing every night on roads. Considering the current pandemic situation we were hoping to be [...]

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