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Rose And The Football Girls

Rose has been volunteering with Reality Gives for around two months to research for a project about empowerment through sports. This is her story, telling also the current happenings in the Dharavi Girls Football Program: When the Dharavi girls’ football team took to the field for their daily practice earlier this week, two of the …

Barefoot Acupuncturists

Reality Gives just recently connected to another great organisation operating in Dharavi: Barefoot Acupuncturists. The system is as simple as effective: Acupuncture experts from India and abroad provide high-quality treatment to the underprivileged community of Dharavi. The professional therapy that is known to treat diseases where the conventional western medicine is limited, costs just Rs …

Aussie Rules Football Match

Every Wednesday and Sunday evening around 45 boys come together on the muddy ground at Shivaji Park to play a game that isn’t often seen in India – Australian Rules Football. But it’s not just the rules that are special – the game brings young people from different communities together. Australian national Lincoln Harris has …

The End of Our 3 Year Partnership With Atma

Thursday was a bittersweet day for Reality Gives. It marked our graduation from the Atma partnership, which shows the immense amount of progress and growth we have made in the past few years, but also means that we will no longer be meeting with the team at Atma on a weekly basis. Atma works to …

The Final Football Fest

Despite Dry Day around 30 people came in the afternoon of Sunday, the 1st July to celebrate the Final Football Fest with Reality Gives and internations.org. Twelve teams with two players each participated in the Foosball Competition to win a bicycle tour of Reality Tours and Travel, two Reality Gives bags and a gift from …

Volunteer Laura’s Perspective.

After one month research in Dharavi for the Mobile English Language Learning programme Laura will leave tomorrow, the 29th June 2012. We were happy to have her and to get to know more about innovative resources for effective English learning projects for underprivileged communities. Read here about her experience: