Students Visit From Singapore!
Reality Tours and Travel has launched a new initiative to raise social awareness among students from Mumbai and internationally. In the last couple of weeks, we have hosted two student groups on our tours with the hope that they will walk away with a better understanding of the city and the complex social issues that […]
Garage Sale In Canada and Marathon in UK
Every year in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), in a neighbourhood known as The Glebe, there is a huge garage sale that is attended by people from across the city. It’s known locally as the Great Glebe Garage Sale. Nik Nanos, the head coach of a small soccer team, the Ottawa Royals Hellenic Boys U10 team, lives […]
World Environment Day
Today is World Environment Day. For those of you who have visited Mumbai and Dharavi in particular, you will know that, sadly, people in our communities do not think much about their impact on the earth on a daily basis. So, for this special day, we think that it is important to take time out […]
Guitar Class And Other Activities
During May Mumbai turns into a different world: it’s becoming extremely hot and extremely empty (relatively meant). Many migrants from the rural areas of India go home to visit their families and to escape the urban heat. Our Youth Empowerment Program as well as the computer classes take a break until June to start fresh […]
Teacher Research Nutrition In Dharavi
Reality Gives teachers, Malika and Asthma, have been interviewing households in Dharavi about health and nutrition. As part of a research project being undertaken by ‘v-shesh’, an organisation dedicated to connecting youth and women to income opportunities, our teachers are being employed during the summer season to undertake this survey work. “This is a fabulous […]
Girls’ Football Program
Two weeks ago, we finally started the Yuwa Girls Football Program in Dharavi. Every morning at 6 am, three coaches receive around 12 to 20 enthusiastic girls aged of six to 14 in the Reality Gives Community Center in Dharavi. In the following two hours, the girls run, sing, play, and kick the ball until […]
Art Class Students Explore Bandra Through A Camera Lens
Last week, we invited you to the exhibition “Dharavi: hum baccho ki nazar se – Dharavi: through kids’ eyes” at False Ceiling Gallery in Bandra West from 21st to 24th April. It is still going on, and everybody is welcome to marvel at the photos. But hurry up, we have already sold a lot of […]
Personal Feedback on Dharavi Tour
Some weeks ago, we blogged about the students from the Berkeley Carroll School in New York who came to India to build a Community Centre in a Maharashtrian village. Claudia, one of the students, just sent us her feedback on the slum tour they did before they went to the village: “My experience with Reality […]
Volunteers: Pat and Joyce’s experience.
Patrick and Joyce Zickler from US are a nice slightly older couple with a big heart. When Pat came to Mumbai in 2009 for a conference he did his first Dharavi tour with Reality Tours and Travel and fortunately his first guide was Krishna. And since we all know that everybody falls in love with Krishna’s communicative, […]
From Studying In New York To Building A House In Chinchoti
World Leadership School, the Berkeley Carroll High School in New York, and Reality Tours and Travel realized a great project in Chinchoti, the village we usually visit on our village tour with Krishna. On Sunday, the 18th March, 14 students, two teachers, and two facilitators, including our founder Krishna, started a great one-week experience that none […]