Lakshya programme helps to enrich the lives of underprivileged children (mentees) through a caring relationship with a personal mentor who supports, encourages, and builds their self-confidence. It also enables children from classes 8 and above to complete the cycle of growth by guiding them to focus on a career of their choice or need. In […]
In the immortal words of Henry Brooks Adams, ‘Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.’ – it is indeed true that a teacher sows the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams. Teaching is not just a noble profession, but also an […]
Bhumi’s Transformational Education Programme at schools focuses on improving social-emotional development, strengthening teacher professional development, and leadership. In-school facilitators who work directly with the children, teachers, and headmasters work towards creating an ecosystem that will help the child thrive in a fearless learning environment. To inject structure and nurture excellence, we have adopted some best […]
Lakshya, Bhumi’s life skill project pairs underprivileged children with volunteers who act as their mentors and role models. The objective is to enrich the lives of underprivileged children (mentees) through a caring relationship with a personal mentor who supports, encourages and builds their self-confidence. The programme also helps the children realise their potential and transforms […]
All Volunteers Meet (AVM) at Bhumi helps to bring all its volunteers from a certain project /city to one common platform where they can ideate, discuss and enjoy with each other. Volunteering for a single organisation, teaching the same subject, but at different locations with different types of kids, AVM becomes their meeting point. It helps […]
We cannot underestimate the significance of teachers in our lives and in society. While passion for teaching cannot be learned, there are other skills and knowledge which can be developed and shared to improve as a teacher and impart better learning. Super Teacher Workshop is one such endeavour by Bhumi to help our budding teachers […]
Yantra, Bhumi’s Robotics project, started its journey in January 2015 when 30 children were selected for classes at Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in Chennai. With Belgium based NGO Dwengo as the knowledge partner, concepts were taught using the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) methodology which stimulated the children’s interests even more. We could see that […]
We’re all storytellers. We tell stories to make a point, to imagine a possible future, to remind, to comfort & sometimes to inspire! Here is one such inspirational story from our Bengaluru team. One of our volunteers Budha enrolled 7 children from our sports project into “Ronaldo Football Club” for a tournament in October this […]
29th September 2019 – Sunday, read the calendar. It was not just any other Sunday; perhaps, one of those very few (Sun)days we’d not have to do a quick ‘phone-grab’ to check the date! The morning of this oh-so-special Sunday witnessed the coming together of 503 kids from 18 shelters at the New Horizon College, […]
Rithika Ramesh, an enthusiastic marketer during the weekdays, and a volunteer during the weekends is a part of our English project in Chennai. She insists on the importance of visual learning for children and how it can help retention and engagement for the children. It helps them decode the lessons and imagine what’s next! Here […]
