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 players hauled a giant bag in between them. The other girls sprinted ahead to the …
Ashwini is married with a five month old son, Dhwaj. She joined the programme because she wanted to grow as a person and she’d like to be able to heach her children English. She has and HSC pass in Science and she wants to train to be a nurse in the future. Her ambition is to become a military nurse where she would have a good salray and a permanent …
Mahalakshmi is in 9th Standard. She joined the Dharavi team because she likes football and running. Although she had not playing football on a team before, she does play carrom board. She comes to practice every day. Her favorite drills include dribbling and heading. She would love to play a real match soon! At school, Mahalakshmi’s best subject is math. In her free time she likes to watch cartoon movies. …
Reality Gives is so happy to get great hard working volunteers on board from time to time. They always do a little bit more than expected! Laura for example who was in Mumbai in June to research for a Mobile English Language Learning Programme did also a great job creating profiles on our YEP students. Rose who is currently with Reality Gives to monitor the Girls Football programme was also …
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 for student and small business microfinance loans. Saturday afternoon the school desks at the …
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 20 or less for the slum dwellers. The non-profit organisation is funded by donor patients …
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 teamed up with us to offer a twice weekly opportunity for kids to learn a …
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 address the issue of quality education for underprivileged children and young adults through a unique …
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 Cool Chef Cafe, the venue of the event. Marten and Paul from Germany won the …
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:
