Hearing Aid Distribution At CORP
As we entered into the main room of the Reality Gives supported Community Outreach Program (CORP) Shalom Centre, a daycare centre for disabled children, we were greeted with smiling, eager faces. Five days a week, from 4:00 to 6:30, a regular crowd of around 15 children spends the afternoon at CORP Shalom Centre. On Saturdays, […]
Meet Jonny
Today, we would like to introduce you to Jonny, who just spent three months working with the Reality Gives Community Centre team on project management and curriculum development. He isn’t new at Reality Gives. In 2010, he was part of the team that created the Youth Empowerment Program, and since then, he has been involved […]
Dance Classes In The Community
It is such a treat to witness the Reality Gives dance class on a Sunday morning. The Ashayen Community Centre is packed with more than forty enthusiastic dancers. Ranging in age from 3 -15, they have memorised lyrics and moves to the Steps song ‘5-6-7-8′ with impressive commitment and enthusiasm. Leading the way are Deshna […]
Welcome Peter, Our New Director Of Sports Programs
My name is Peter Woolcock and I have just joined Reality Gives as Director of Sports Programs. I am originally from Exeter in the UK, and I moved to Mumbai last January from London. In the last months, I have been volunteering with the “Goal Program”, a women’s empowerment program that uses sport (particularly Netball) […]
Project Front Foot Season 2012/13
Nieck has been our first-ever intern with Reality Tours & Travel. Despite some serious health issues, he managed to interview 74 Dharavi residents about their perception of slum tours in their communities. His thesis will still take some more months, so we will need to wait for an overview of his results. But he has […]
Parents Meeting At Royal City School
After the first two weeks of school, the teachers and program manager Lakshmi felt the importance to meet the parents in a first introduction meeting on Saturday, June 29th. There were many reasons behind this decision: First, the necessity to create a dialogue between the community and the school – one of the major objectives […]
Our New School Support Program At Royal City School In Dharavi
We are very sorry that it has been silent on our blog for such a long time. As you might have read on our Facebook page, our Executive Director left Reality Gives due to unfortunate circumstances. But of course we would like to inform you also about some positive change within our organisation and certainly […]
[Interview] Our School Support Program at Royal City School – Explained
To help you better understand our School English Language Support Program, we interviewed Lakshmi Vishwanatham, Reality Gives Program Head and a dedicated, experienced educator. Why do you think the community of Dharavi needs an English Language Support Program? The community looks at English as a career-defining path where their children will have access to job […]
Meet our Youth Empowerment Program Students
Zaiba came to the Youth Empowerment Program to improve her English and computer skills after completing both the HSC in Commerce and a tailoring course in Dharavi. Zaiba hopes to enrol on a telecommunications course at Bhavans College, Churni Road. She is a talented painter, and wanted to become a graphic designer, but her parents […]
World Health Day In Dharavi
Yesterday was International World Health Day (anniversary of the founding of the WHO in 1948). Reality Gives Health plays a very important role in our social activities in Dharavi’s communities, as it is the foundation of every individual’s development. Successful education and livelihood projects are based on good health, and therefore, it all starts from […]
