![[Interview] How a Recent YEP Graduate’s Trip to a Rural Village Changed The Way They Think About Dharavi and Inspired Change](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Blog-Post-20160314-1344x756.jpg)
Recently, Kaveri and Hasnain, two graduates from our Youth Empowerment Program joined youth from the French NGO Global Potential for a four day leadership course in our partner village, Chinchoti. Global Potential is an 18 month leadership and entrepreneurship program for youth from underserved communities. A key aspect of their program is a 45 day service-learning project in a …
Having ended 2015 with the release of our Annual Report, looking back on a year where we extended our reach to have positively impacted the lives of over 6,000 people in the communities we serve in Dharavi, January now feels a fitting time to look ahead. We caught up with a whole host of staff …
![[Interview] “I Learn A Lot From The Kids – Probably More Than I Teach Them!”](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Blog-Post-20150907-1344x756.jpg)
After studying at the Yoga Institute in Mumbai, Shraddha became a teacher and has been inspiring apprentice yogis for over 2 years now. She recently decided to share her wisdom with young beneficiaries from Dharavi through weekly yoga classes in one of our community centres. After one of those classes, we sat down to discuss her job, her new …
![[Interview] “It Is A New Life, I Made New Friends And I Got A New Chance Here”](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Blog-Post-20150713-1344x756.jpg)
Vijaya Kumari, 33, is a recent graduate of our Youth Empowerment Program (YEP). As a mother of three and having only had the opportunity to study until 8th Standard, we sat down with Viji to understand some of the story which led her to enroll. Viji’s journey with Reality began when her daughter saw a pamphlet (distributed by Reality …
![[Interview] “I have enjoyed every minute”](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Blog-Post-20141003-Lydia-Volunteer.jpg)
From late August to early October, Lydia Wummel, a Business Management student from Germany volunteered with us. Just before she boarded a flight we caught up with her and made one more request (she was gracious enough never to say ‘no’ to whatever we asked, one of the many qualities we loved her for), to …
![[Interview] “Football has made me strong and confident”](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Blog-Post-20140828-GoalClick.jpg)
Recently Goal Click asked us to help them identify a girl in Dharavi to take an analog camera with 27 shots on it and capture insights into their experience of football in Dharavi as part of their world wide mission to’provide a person in every country with one analogue camera and one roll of film …
A few weeks ago Jayne Gorman, a UK based travel blogger contacted us to inform us she wanted to blog about Reality. Having visited us during the last four and a half years, which she has spent travelling the globe from Goa to the Vatican, San Francisco to Mumbai, Jayne explained that in that time …
![[Interview] “Go Kiss the World”](https://realitygives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Blog-Post-20140422-YEP.jpg)
In February we sat down to interview several students who had just begun our Youth Empowerment Program to understand their motivations for joining the program and discuss hopes and aspirations for where it might lead. Now, two months later we caught up with Hajira (who is currently two months into the program) and Shabana (a …
While an overwhelming amount of respondents to Nieck’s interview questions were positive, we also received some feedback about areas in which we need to improve. The people of Chamda Bazaar, Dharavi (a poorer area of Dharavi inhabited mainly by Muslims who work in the leather industry, skinning, shaving, equalising, dyeing, embossing and texturing the animal …
On 6th February, 2014, 31 new students became the 25th and 26th groups to participate in the Youth Empowerment Program held at the Reality Gives Community Centre in Dharavi. This program spans 15 weeks, with students studying English, Computers and Soft Skills. One week into the program, some of the students sat down with us …
