This Christmas on 25th December, Jeevantirth (NGO) brought celebrations to the unprivileged children by organizing a program that entailed cultural awareness, various dance forms, songs and plays. Held in the Baba Saheb Amdebkar Open Air Theatre, Ranip, the children cheered loudest at the arrival of dear Santa Claus. Kids from slums of Ramapir no tekro, [...]
On 10th of December 2015 Jeevantirth carried out Khusiyon Ki Home Delivery project, wherein 45 women of Self Help Groups from Ramapir no Tekro were provided with gas connections and gas kits (gas cylinders, stoves and insurance). More women will be covered under this project in future. The event was further highlighted by the presence [...]
Mr. Piyush Desai, Chairman of Wagh Bakri, has been a consistent supporter of Jeevantirth. In September 2015, on his birthday, he expressed his wish to provide a nutritional diet to slum children. As a result a two days camp was held at VTC where 2500 slum children were given milk.
Rakhi is one of the few Indian festivals that is celebrated across India; it is a call for brothers everywhere to return home to their sisters. It is a day of sweets and thanks giving; siblings call it a truce on this day and brothers offer monetary blessings to their little sisters. […]
100 young students from United States, China, Nagaland, Thailand and India volunteered in a program organized by AIESEC on 3rd August 2015. 1000 children participated in the event, 500 of which were from Jeevantirth. The event provided the volunteers with a chance to interact with slum children, the kids too found this new exposure to [...]
The Baal Sanksar Kendra at Nirnaynagar was in need of renovation as it didn’t have a designation space for classes or activities. The lack of a room and a shade overhead resulted in inconsistent number of students as the students had to face summer heat and monsoon rains. […]
It is usually the lower class people that fall victim to diseases caused by ill hygiene; this can be traced back to lack of awareness. In order to spread awareness amongst the people of Ramapir no Tekro, Deeptiben Shah and group organized a health kit distribution camp on 29th June 2015. […]
The need for sex education is quite evident in lower class cultures as no one takes the responsibility of doing the taboo. The changes that girls go through during puberty need explaining; education regarding human biology and its fundamental functions ensures healthy growth, physically and mentally, of adolescent girls. […]
Financial constraint has always been a barrier to education for lower class people. Even though they get enrolled in municipal schools they needs a minimum number of notebooks to note down their study material for each subjects. In today’s standard of living where a notebook costs 25 rupees, purchasing 10 notebooks becomes a task for [...]
It has been a custom in Gujarati families to load up on each year’s stock of wheat; families have to be doing well in order to do this as it needs a necessary amount of money. Such is not a case for all the families. Women working in the slums of Ramapir no Tekro earn [...]
