The Rickshaw Run Team
Now it’s almost one year ago when we started our Reality Gives Ambassador program and it’s fantastic for us to see how great the response is. This week we will feature two great stories about International supporters who fundraise for our projects – either in a very professional or totally crazy way! Yesterday we hosted […]
Meet Steph
One week back, Steph, the new CEO of Reality Tours and Travel, arrived in Mumbai to start her work. She will explain on our blog what she did before, what she did in her first week, and how excited she is for the future to come: “Hi, my name is Stephanie, and I started as […]
How A Smartphone Case Can Help Children In Dharavi
By the beginning of this week, we have introduced you to our Reality Gives Ambassadors from the Rickshaw Race Team 2013. Today, we want to tell you the story of our new Ambassador who came up with such a great idea worth reading about. Christiana left her career behind in Chicago to travel the world […]
Masoom Resource Centre
One of the first connection projects of Reality Gives was Masoom,a not-for-profit organisation that aims to establish quality education in night-schools in Mumbai. Last Saturday they opened a new Resources Centre which was supported by Reality Gives. Chris and Summer visited the opening to inaugurate the centre and to discuss future plans. Given the inadequacies […]
Count on Cycling and Beach Clean-up with RUR!
Today, RUR – Are you reducing, reusing, recycling?, the Panasonic Experience Centre and the Reality Group organised a cycle rally to promote the cause of e-waste recycling in Mumbai. Seventy people of all ages – the youngest was 6 years, the oldest was over 70 years old – participated in the event to support the […]
Responsible Tourism Awards Ceremony
Ray Way, Chairman of Reality Gives and father of our founder Chris, felt very honoured when he received the awards in the sections “Best Poverty Reduction” and “Overall Winner” on behalf of the RTT team during the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards Ceremony two weeks back. Read here about the event and how proud he […]
Barefoot Acupuncture Site Report
Barefoot Acupuncturist Dharavi Clinic is located in the midst of Dharavi Slum in Mumbai. It’s a precious stone of fraternal help in a multi-cultural neighbourhood. The neighborhood has an highly active population and life never ceases on the narrow alleys and streets, making Dharavi an authentic maze to anyone that doesn’t know the area. BA […]
Connection Projects- CORP Children With Disabilities Program
Reality Gives is launching two new Connection Projects. Besides an Acupuncture Clinic in Dharavi, we will also support a Day Care Centre for Disabled children in Dharavi, which is run by the community-based NGO CORP. In Dharavi, children born with a physical disability are at risk for infanticide or abandonment. Families struggle to find the […]
A Saturday With FMCH In Dharavi!
Tara is an Expat living in Mumbai. She loves our Dharavi Health and Nutrition Project and volunteered to write a short report about her experience while attending the last session on 6th October 2012. She will also create a cook book together with Nutritionists of FMCH. Read here about her Day in Dharavi: FMCH runs […]
Meet our Youth Empowerment Program Students
After a break from our Reality Gives stories, we are back now with YEP students who successfully graduated three weeks ago. We wish them and all the other students of this batch excellent luck. Ashwini is married with a five-month-old son, Dhwaj. She joined the programme because she wanted to grow as a person, and […]