26th January is one of the few days that children look forward to at spending in their school. It is usually a celebration with participation activities like sports competitions and talent programs. The Bal Sanskar Kendras run by Jeevantirth mean much more to the children than academic education; their excitement for Republic day’s celebration augmented [...]
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, [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
India has to be lauded for its feature of teaching cricket to every other individual. Children improvise on the skimpiest lanes, pausing and waiting for the vehicles to pass by, making them into cricket playgrounds. Owing to this the children of Ramapir no Tekro have not been exempt to sport as they too have made [...]
Albert Einstein once said that, “So long as ANY SINGLE CHILD is deprived on this earth; NO invention is great and No discovery is outstanding”. We celebrate children’s day on 14th November, as it is the birthday of India’s first prime minister & the favorite Nehruchacha of all children. On this day, let us take a [...]
