Zaiba came to the Youth Empowerment Program to improve her English and computer skills after completing both the HSC in Commerce and a tailoring course in Dharavi. Zaiba hopes to enrol on a telecommunications course at Bhavans College, Churni Road. She is a talented painter, and wanted to become a graphic designer, but her parents …
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April 26, 2013 In Youth Empowerment Program By reality_g
Meet YEP Students Paresh, Jiten And Nisha
Paresh is currently a second year commerce student. His ambition is to become a chartered accountant or to be a real estate broker. He has lived in Dharavi all his life. His father is a carpenter and his mother is a housewife. Paresh thinks English language will be essential for job interviews, and for his …
April 25, 2013 In Youth Empowerment Program By reality_g
Meet YEP Students Reshma, Ahmed And Sharukh
Reshma is a first year student on an Arts degree programme, which includes a mixture of languages, geography and economics. Her father works in a bakery in Dharavi. She is very busy, juggling college classes, the Youth Empowerment programme and caring for her mother, who is unwell. She eventually hopes to become a teacher in …
February 18, 2013 In Special Events By reality_g
Dharavi Diaries Helps Women Who Were Affected By Massive Fire
At 3am on January, the 22nd the residents of Naya Nagar, the pipeline area close to Sion-Link Road in Dharavi noticed a fire which soon became massive and burnt more than 25 houses down. Dharavi Diaries is a new innovative project that works in this area and is especially concerned of the women issues. They …
February 4, 2013 In Youth Empowerment Program By reality_g
YEP Student Kaveri Graduated From Hotel Management Training
Sonam and Kaveri Shinde are sisters who live not far from the Reality Gives Community Center with their parents and two brothers. Kaveri participated in the Youth Empowerment Program last year, receiving English Language Support, computer training, and soft skills instruction. When someone from Youth Career Initiative came to recruit for a 6-month hotel management …
October 24, 2012 In Our Staff By reality_g
New Guides Subhash And Sagar
Subhash has grown up and still lives with his family in Dharavi on 90 feet Road, not far from our Reception Centre. He says that sometimes his friends wonder why he shows foreigners around in their neighborhood but he just ignores them and dreams of his future. Because Subhash uses the job as a guide …
October 12, 2012 In Our Supporters, Special Events By reality_g
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 …
August 29, 2012 In Our Supporters By reality_g
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 …
August 21, 2012 In Special Events, Youth Empowerment Program By reality_g
Our Dharavi Runners Rakesh, Afsha, Sheeba and Anand
Some weeks ago we already introduced you to our Dharavi Runners and football girls Mahalakshmi and Christeena. Now we would like to unveil the rest of the team. Eight of our Dharavi runners are already sponsored by our very generous supporters. Find out how you can sponsor our remaining enthusiastic participants from Dharavi including the …
August 9, 2012 In Youth Empowerment Program By reality_g
Youth Empowerment Program Students
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 …