Jazz Dance Class
Last Sunday the first session of the jazz dance class took place in the Reality Gives Community Centre. Maria, an American professional dancer who works for a local dance studio and her assistant Deshna volunteer to do regular dance workshops for the kids of Dharavi. She and the Reality Gives team were very surprised and […]
US-ambassador Nancy J. Powell Visits Reality Gives Art Class And Bombay Underground
The residents of Dharavi were inquisitive and excited when they noticed four white cars with a police escort dropping off a very important visitor outside the pottery area, known as “Kumbharwada”. Nancy J. Powell, the USA Ambassador for India, came to Dharavi on Monday, 10th September, to meet our photography students. Powell’s second visit to […]
Handmade Books By 5th Grade, Cambridge Primary School, Australia
In March 2012, the primary school teacher Kelly Hardy from Melbourne, Australia, posted on the Reality Gives Facebook wall: “My parents are booked to come on a tour with one of your guides. I am a teacher at a primary school in Melbourne, Australia, and the students would like to do something for a school […]
Rose And The Football Girls
Rose has been volunteering with Reality Gives for around two months to research 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 players […]
Partnership pilots: The Foundation for Mother & Child Health and InVenture
The community centre was buzzing with activity last Saturday. We were excited to officially launch our health and nutrition program with the Foundation for Mother and Child Health. In addition, as part of our Youth Empowerment Program, we are piloting a credit-building program with partner InVenture, which is aimed at helping our community members qualify […]
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 conventional western medicine is limited costs just Rs 20 […]
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 […]
Graduating from the Atma Accelerator Program
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 every week. Atma works to address the […]
Volunteer Laura’s Perspective
After one month of 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: I first came to Mumbai […]
Frank Leboeuf Meets The Girls’ Football Team
The former Football World Cup champion and actor Frank Leboeuf visited Dharavi today, the 25th June 2012, to host a football training for the Reality Gives’ Girls Football Program. Leboeuf is currently in India to present the European Football Championship 2012. The French Ex-football player, who is famous for his performance during the final match […]