Parents-Tutor Meeting at Bhumi’s after School Community Centres “Together may we give our children the roots to grow and the wings to fly” UNESCO states India has the second biggest educational system in the world with children aged below fourteen comprising 28% of the population, 7.7 million...
Celebrating Womanhood! Educating the Girl Beneficiaries from Community Centres on Menstruation and Menstrual Hygiene A cross-sectional study was carried out using pre-tested proforma during the period of 1st June to 31th August 2017 by “National Centre for Biotechnology Information” in an urban slum area. Among the 100 adolescent...
“The possibilities are endless when you have the right tools you need to learn” For thousands of the poverty-stricken children in urban slums, quality education is a distant dream. Quality Education for Slum Children aims to make this dream come true, bringing a significant upliftment in...
In association with the Justice and Hope NGO, we started classes in Sevalaya Boys and Girls Center Chennai on 23rd June 2020 between 10 am and 12 pm. We had four volunteers from "Justice and Hope" joining our volunteers - Sherin, Malathy, Kalpana and Anisha. We started the session with...
There is a lot of excitement and giggling as we enter a classroom. There are children trying out mouse masks. We see that there is a role play of a cat and mouse going on. When we quiz them, the children share their pearls of...
Major world events are often an inflection point for innovation & this global lockdown, due to coronavirus is no different. At Bhumi, volunteers are engaged in brainstorming and coming up with ideas to continue igniting young minds through education. We have started exploring different online options...
There is no easy way out of the virus, which has already had devastating consequences on people all over the world, and may get much worse in the months ahead. But if there is a silver lining in this crisis, it may be that the virus is...
The coronavirus pandemic has rattled the world and suddenly our routines have come to a pause. While adults find ways to engage themselves during this lockdown such as working from home, assignments, chores, workout, Netflix etc., it is a challenge for children to stay indoors...
January 12, 2020, marked the first step towards the planning of the first-ever Ignite Fest in Bhumi Bengaluru. Even though the event was a yearly affair for a few other cities, the event was yet to touch base in Bengaluru. A month gap between the...
Ignite Fest is Bhumi’s annual inter-shelter home event where children from our shelter homes display their learnings in interesting ways. Volunteers also organize different workshops to engage the children throughout the day. It's a culmination of all the efforts volunteers put in throughout the year...