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 …
Cumballa Hill School Dharavi Tour
The students of the Cumballa Hill School in Malabar Hill didn’t know what to expect from a tour through Dharavi. “Usually we take our students to malls, the beach or in museums. But we never took them to a place like this although they can learn so much from the Dharavi community”, says the 4th …
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 …
The End of Our 3 Year Partnership With Atma
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 …
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 …
Students Visit From Singapore!
Reality Tours and Travel has launched a new initiative to raise social awareness in 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 …
Prince Andrew’s Visit To Dharavi.
During his one-week visit in India, His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, Duke of York came to see Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums to learn about the benefits and challenges of industry in Dharavi, the issues related to vernacular medium schools in Mumbai, and how art programs are allowing children to explore themselves and their …
Personal Feedback on Dharavi Tour
Some weeks ago we blogged about the students for the Berkeley Carroll School in New York who came to India to build a Community Center in a Maharashtrian village.