Adarshmay conducts its after school classes from 3pm to 5pm on Monday/Wednesday & Friday. On Sunday it is a FUNday for children!
Every Sunday we try to have different acvities or guest lecturers come and visit the Centre to interact with the children and teach them something new.
Read details about our FUNdays and other news here... |
posted Dec 26, 2010 11:57 PM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 27, 2010 12:09 AM
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 [Dec 26, 2010] Your favourite charity, Adarshmay works closely with Rotaract and they had invited our children to participate in the launch of the World Responsible Youth Week. K. C. College, Churchgate, Mumbai. Had a great time with Rtr Ankit and DRR Rtr Hari!
Their Director of NGO Relations - Rtr Sakshi invited and herself picked up the kids from our Center and took us all on a joyride to the launch.
We look forward to many more successful programs with Rotaract Zone 2B especially with the staunch support of Zonal Rotaract Representative Rtr Gautam Lulla.
A big thank you to all Rotaractors and Rotarians who visit and support Adarshmay activities regularly! Especially the Inner Wheel Club of Juhu! :)
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posted Dec 25, 2010 7:30 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 25, 2010 8:02 AM
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 [Dec 25, 2010] Pramod Sisodiaji, one of our earliest and staunch supporters, visited our center for Christmas! Fun, gifts and good energy all around! Tantalising sweet delights from Jumana Maam and lots of gifts from Netscribes!!!
Pramodji has been spreading the word about Adarshmay for a long time and this Christmas he finally got the time to visit us! We were delighted and the children were all excited to get a visit from Ashish Sir's sir... :)
Jumana Dalal had provided us with yummy sweets she had brought from Malaysia for our kids! So we distributed compass boxes, Yogo-ice malaysian sweets and biscuit packets for the kids!!
Pramodji loved the performances from the children and he enjoyed the day! We greatly appreciate his support...Thank you Sir!
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posted Dec 25, 2010 7:24 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 28, 2010 3:18 AM
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 [Dec 24, 2010] Netscribes invited us to celebrate Christmas Eve with them at their Parel Office! So 28 kids from your charity, Adarshmay, visited their office. They were kind enough to send a car with a booming audio system to pick them up! All the girls literally had a blast!
Thanks to Purvi & Mohammed for the invite and the love showered by the Netscribes Family! They had even arranged a visit from Santa Claus for our kids! We came back with 5 bags full of gifts and loaded with cake, snacks and juice!! Thank you!!
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posted Dec 16, 2010 11:45 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 16, 2010 11:50 AM
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 [Dec 7, 2010] iVolunteer invited Adarshmay kids to spend the day with the lovely staff at ICICI Prudential.
ICICI Prudential promised and over delivered a fun-filled day full of food, drinks and masti. Our kids were bowled over and never wanted the day to end!
Our special thanks to the ICICI Prudential Staff, especially Archana Maam and Neha, Ashima, Mihika and others from iVolunteer.
The kids were even given yummy biryani to take home bringing joy to their families too!
Khayaal Sabka!!
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posted Dec 16, 2010 11:38 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 16, 2010 12:01 PM
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 [Nov 20, 2010] Adarshmay kids participated in Balakalakaar 2010 and joined over 2000 kids from all over Mumbai in drawing and making greeting cards. Good fun!
However, due to inclement weather we had to miss out on some fun in the afternoon session.
Idu & Urja got to go on the stage and get individual, hands-on training from the trainer!
There was sumptuos kichhdi provided by ISKCON for lunch and the post-lunch session had a dance competition and various other activities.
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posted Dec 16, 2010 11:29 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 16, 2010 11:50 AM
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 [Nov 17, 2010] We concluded the Donate-a-word campaign by celebrating Rahul Karwa's birthday and Bakri Eid at our center! Rahul Sir and Payal Maam came to the center with the real world equivalents of all the words that were donated by email and added lots of goodies of their own too!!
Rahul Sir sang for the kids, and the kids too loved them so much that they gifted their favourite stuffed toy to Rahul. "Bluey" - the dolphin, still adorns their car!
The lovely couple even took the kids on a joyride in the car! We eagerly await their next trip
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posted Dec 16, 2010 11:23 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 16, 2010 11:51 AM
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 [Nov 14, 2010] 250 slum kids! Lots of singing, dancing and drawing! Complete medical checkup, plus breakfast, lunch, high tea & dinner! Looking forward to a MEGA Children's day celebration! Happy Children's Day to all the kids everywhere!!
We celebrated Children's Day with our parent body, the Indian Scout & Guide Fellowship & Pragati an NGO which works with kids in hospitals at Scout Pavilion, Shivaji Park!
Enjoy the pictures!
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posted Oct 26, 2010 6:01 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Oct 26, 2010 6:19 AM
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 Adarshmay celebrated Fellowship Day with its children by doing a community good turn on October 24th.
We contacted and requested our family, friends and well wishers, to donate their old but wearable clothes, handbags, footwear to us. These collected items were then "sold" to the local community for a throwaway price of Rs 25/- per item. We "SELL" the items to make sure that only those people who really need them will BUY them from us.
From the money generated (approx Rs 800/-) we invited the senior citizens from the community and organised a party for them. The children interacted with them and both the old and the young had a lot of fun!!
Fellowship Day is organised by each Unit/Guild on October 24/25 corresponding to United Nations Day (October 24th) and the date of the Foundation of the International Scout & Guide Fellowship (October 25th)
We hope you all had a wonderful & happy fellowship day!
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posted Oct 17, 2010 6:43 AM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Oct 17, 2010 7:32 AM
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 Your favourite NGO, Adarshmay, celebrated Dussehra with its kids today! Our benevolent guide, Prema aunty generously sponsored the refreshments for the day. The kids gathered at 3:00 pm and the event started off with the prayer.
After greetings and attendance, there was a Q&A session on Dussehra and the significane of Navratri and the burning of Ravana. A little bit of geography for explaining the location of Kolkata and the directions - east, west, north & south made it more interesting!
Our kids now know that Dussehra signifies the victory of Good over Evil and that it originated in Kolkata, which is in West Bengal in the Eastern part of India. They also know that Dandiya which is a dance played during Navratri is actually of Gujarati origin. Gujarati means people of Gujarat which is next to Maharashtra to the North. They also know that dandiya is played with sticks, while Garba Rass is payed using the hands to clap.
After the information exchange, since we did not have enough dandiya, we decided to play Garba Rass. Ruchita took over arranging the kids in circles and guiding them to dance, but many of the children did not know the steps. So I, Ashish Pawaskar, took an impromptu dance class for the kids explaining the basic steps involved and making the practise.
Then as we do not have a music system (hint!), we had two kids beat a upside down bucket for music, and they were talented too! All played the Garba Rass and had a lot of fun.
After the dance while we were resting sitting down, we had the kids revise the teachings of the week, ABCD, 1234 names of fruits vegetables, etc. The older kids acted as teachers and recited it all very well!
Then it was time for the Party!!! The kids divided them into groups and some took over pouring of the Mango Juice while some filled the paper plates with wafers and samosas (a savoury indian snack) and ofhter distributed Parle G Glucose biscuit packs to everyone.
We had brought enough stuff for 45 kids, but more than that turned up for the party, so some had to go without Samosas. But they all had great fun and loved every bit of it.
After the kids went the older kids (volunteers!) had their fill and it was a satisfying end to a fruitful day!
"The good prevails, the evil vanishes, sorrow withers away, joy conquers the heart.
Wishing all a dussehra that is a celebration of all the victories in your life.
May Durga- The Holy Deity bless you all!!"
Enjoy the pics here or in the Dussehra celebration album on facebook |
posted Oct 7, 2010 11:09 PM by Ashish Pawaskar
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updated Dec 16, 2010 11:27 AM
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[Oct-03-2010] During the past week - the Joy of Giving Week from Sept 26-Oct 2, Friends of Adarshmay donated over 350 kilos of dry grains like Rice, Tur dal & Sugar.
Our activities are designed to increase the incentive for students to participate in the after school classes we conduct or the numerous training sessions we conduct.
To this end, we decided that under the Annapoorna Scheme, children with over 70% attendance in the classes will receive the foodgrains free of cost, however to ensure that those who could not attend do not get left out, we decided to provide the food grain at 50% of market cost to those who could not or did not attend regularly.
The distribution bought smiles on the faces of both the children and their parents! We had discussions with parents about their kids and how we were helping them be better citizens.
The subsequent subsidised sale was mind blowing!! The news spread like wild fire and the stuff was exhausted in 10 mins flat!! With people wanting more and more!! They are now eagerly awaiting the next distribution day!!
The support of our Friends like Priyanjali, Pareta, Richa, Neepa, Poonam Aunty, Prema Aunty, Usha aunty, Rtr Jigar & Gagan, Pramodji and others prompted us to make this scheme a permanent one.
Help us expand this program! Donate food grains to the Annapoorna Scheme!
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