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  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Pankhudi Mumbai – MoM for 27th July 2010   13 hours, 57 minutes ago

    Pankhudi Mumbai (Shahzad, Krunal, Shivani, Samiksha, Aditya, Mukta) and Adams (Intern) met at Pankhudi’s Office for one last time on the 27th. We will be vacating the place by end of this month.

    Points that were discussed:

    Our engagement with Lions Club.
    Activities for August 14th and 15th. It was decided that a drawing competition will [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Pankhudi Mumbai interacts with Parents   3 weeks, 4 days ago

    Pankhudi Mumbai completed the batch distribution exercise today.

    A Parents’ meet was organised where we discussed our plans for the year and our expectations (in terms of discipline and attendance) from them.

    All parents were supportive and seemed happy about our choice of subjects – English and Maths.

    Later, ID cards were filled. They [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Pankhudi Mumbai conducts Batch Distribution Test (BDT)   1 month, 1 week ago

    Pankhudi Mumbai conducted BDT on Sunday, 20 June 2010 at Suman Nagar, Chembur.

    Shahzad, Krunal, Aditi, Sachin, Samiksha, Uday, Aditya, Abhirup, Arunima, Sonali, Grishma and Mukta – all volunteered and made this event a grand success.

    Special thanks to Smriti (for her insights) and Sonali, Grishma, Arunima, Abhirup for pitching in and helping conduct the test smoothly.

    Through [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Pankhudi Mumbai conducts a Survey   2 months ago

    Pankhudi Mumbai conducted a two part survey in Suman Nagar area, Chembur on May 16th and 23rd.

    The purpose of the initiative was to spread the word about Pankhudi’s classes and assess the educational/vocational needs of the target group.

    The survey threw up some interesting pointers :

    Most family incomes ranged between Rs. 3,ooo to 10,000
    Non Pankhudi students [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Republic Day Celebrations   6 months ago

    On the occasion of Republic day, we decided to spend the whole evening with the children at Suman Nagar.
    The entire class was jam-packed with over 70 kids turning up.
    One of our senior batch students, Sanjeevani had prepared a speech about the importance of celebrating this day. Everyone listened with rapt attention as she listed [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: ~ Pankhudi Office Inauguration   6 months, 3 weeks ago

    On 3rd Jan’10, we celebrated the New Year Twenty-Ten in a special way by having a formal inaugural of our own ~Pankhudi Powai office. We had an awesome experience.  It all started with cleaning & decorating the office with balloons, crap papers & flowers…large number of volunteers where present for this special I-DAY…white board was [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Survey at Suman Nagar   7 months, 3 weeks ago

    It’s good to see the enthusiasm in the newly inducted interns. Most of them have become regular visitors at the Suman Nagar balwadi and are getting a hands on training. This Sunday four of them – Ajay, Mukesh, Abhinav and Nikunj conducted a survey at the slum area. They went from door to door [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Interns Induction at Pankhudi Foundation Office   8 months ago

    Dear all,
    Today we had a very warm induction session with the interns who were recruited by Pankhudi Foundation (refer to previous updates). These interns from IITB would primarily be working under areas of insightful surveys-seeking to uncover some new paradigm of attention required, innovative children content development, teachers training modules & resources, Profiling related work [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Children’s Day at Suman Nagar Balwadi   8 months, 1 week ago

    Cinema is a medium which has both mass appeal and a powerful influence on those watching it. And when the audience is a group of appreciative children, it can produce an electrifying effect. This Children’s Day the volunteers at Mumbai, arranged for a film screening at the Suman Nagar Balwadi. A city-wide search for a [...]

  • pankhudimumbai and Ram Kumar Koppu are now friends   8 months, 1 week ago

  • pankhudimumbai and Vaibhav Khandelwal are now friends   8 months, 1 week ago

  • pankhudimumbai and Soma Das are now friends   8 months, 1 week ago

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: IIT Bombay interns-2009   8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Recently Pankhudi Mumbai concluded an on campus internship process at IIT Bombay.

    Last week of October a presentation was given to 2nd, 3rd year students. It was surprisingly well attended and we received far more applicants than we thought we would. It was heartening to see undergraduate student interest in working in the non-profit sector.

    A total [...]

  • Aditya Karandikar and pankhudimumbai are now friends   10 months, 2 weeks ago

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Classroom today (13th September)   10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Yesterday, some of our volunteers went and made a presentation to Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) Mumbai..The objective of this outreach was to make them aware of efforts for educating slum-dwelling children being put in by Pankhudi volunteers and seek their involvement in the same.

    The presentation was indeed the culmination of several weekends of [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: Re-Kicking off the new academic year   10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Classes began in June for the new academic year with some new experimental changes to the curriculum.

    A Batch distribution test to sort the new kids as well as review the performance of the existing kids. Student profiling is also planned to keep and update records throughout the year at regular intervals.

    In the last two weeks [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: NCPA workshop   10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Date: 20th June 2009

    Venue: Suman Nagar, Chembur

    Conducted by: Suruchi Aulakh

    Objective of the workshop:

    Lifeskill sessions were added to the course curriculum this academic year with the objective of imparting an all round education to our kids.

    As a part of this venture, in association with Miss Priya Raj Malick from NCPA, we conducted an english speaking workshop [...]

  • pankhudimumbai wrote a new blog post: ACM- 2009   1 year ago

    Pankhudi’s All Cell Meeting (ACM) 2009 was held on 30-31st May at  d birth place of ~Pankhudi,IIT Powai. It is d same place where the seed of the great thought was sowed four years back. We all have taken few steps but we have long way to achieve our dreams and goals. It was heartening and overwhelming feeling [...]

  • pankhudimumbai and admin are now friends   1 year ago