Showing posts with label Navarachna School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navarachna School. Show all posts

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Internship Opportunities


Internship opportunities are available at Colorss. Students can apply for internship along with their detailed resume. Opportunities for MSW / BSW students to get on-the-job training. It's just not limited to social work students - we are accepting students from media, communication, engineering, management, art-n-craft, fine-arts, NID, NIIT and more... Feel free to drop an email with your resume and make an inquiry.  - emailcolorss@gmail.com | www.facebook.com/colorssfoundation | http://colorss.org

For Love,
Anand

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Diwali Celebrations at UrjAa - igniting the fire within


No other time of the year or festival conjures up as much excitement as Diwali! The festival of lights which illuminates the country with its brilliance and dazzles everyone with its joy is coming soon! The lights illuminate our homes and hearts and empower us to commit ourselves to good deeds. A celebration of light, love and prosperity, the spirit of Diwali entices all. 

Celebrating the festival of lights with the community members would't had been possible if we did't get the support from you;

22nd Parallel, Restaurant, Baroda - for sponsoring food
Mr. Ramgopal Rajan - for sponsoring the gifts and sweets





The joy is beyond explanations; these small gestures bring in a lot of trust, hope and faith in these communities. The women and their family members really had fun. It was like a family get together having everyone at one place...

Thank you for making this event a big success..

For Love
Anand

Friday, November 09, 2012

Colorss Foundation in partnership with Badhai.in; India's premier online gift voucher company

These are some real deserving NGOs with impeccable background and real focus on making change at the grass root level

Badhai.in, India’s premier online gift voucher company, has added another feather to its cap.  After launching various firsts in the industry Badhai.in has now added NGO’s as its affiliates. Now users can not only shop at leading brands but also donate to NGOs. Mr. Ajay Pandey, CEO and Founder, says, “It’s a direction in our endeavour to add goodwill to gifting. These are some real deserving NGOs with impeccable background and real focus on making change at the grass root level”.

Given the fact that not all NGO’s have the distribution strength to raise funds, some deserving NGOs may end up losing out. Badhai.in has extended its platform and reach to these very organizations. Badhai.in has tied-up with Colorss Foundation - works towards the well being of underprivileged children. [Please click here to go Colorss’s page on Badhai.in and make your donations.] Then click on Donate and your donations.

Ajay adds that “Many people are willing to donate but do not know if their contribution would ever reach the needy. Also there was an issue of time and convenience towards this effort. Therefore, we decided to open up our platform to these very people who could contribute without the slightest anxiety. It is a chance for individuals and corporate to connect with and support different charities, anytime and from anywhere, even abroad”. Source:
http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Badhai.in-opens-its-platform-to-NGOs/5540101490

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Make the Diwali of the children at Colorss brighter. Be a part of 'Joy of Giving' this Diwali.

No other time of the year or festival conjures up as much excitement as Diwali! The festival of lights which illuminates the country with its brilliance and dazzles everyone with its joy is coming soon! 

The lights illuminate our homes and hearts and empower us to commit ourselves to good deeds. A celebration of light, love and prosperity, the spirit of Diwali entices all. 

This year let’s combine the spirit of Diwali and the joy of giving by spreading the virtues of the festival by illuminating the lives of children! Make the Diwali of the children at Colorss brighter. Be a part of 'Joy of Giving' this Diwali.

Any help that comes from your end would bring in joy at Colorss.

Colorss does NOT accept donations from countries other than India.

50% deduction to all donations to Colorss are exempt from tax under sections 80G, of the Income Tax Act. Tax exempt under Income Tax act 80G(5) Registration No: BRD/CIT/1 80G (20) (105) 2009-10.

You can send in your contribution directly in our account and let us know.

Colorss Foundation
Current A/C number: 30562854518
IFS Code: SBIN0009737
State Bank of India
New Sama Road (9737) Branch
Vadodara

Alternatively you can make a direct transfer from this link as well: https://www.badhai.in/ngo/ngodetails/colorss-foundation and click Donate

Many thanks and we look forward to hear you,
For Love,
Anand


Sunday, October 14, 2012

All about Colorss


Reducing the number of school drop outs, brightening children’s lives with martial and creative arts, and teaching skills to poor women: some actions have a great potential of change. This is what Colorss Foundation believes in. This is what we do: use knowledge to transmit knowledge. Colorss Foundation has been operational since Sep 2008 having its presence in Baroda, Gujarat and Pune, Maharashtra.

By developing programs to improve disadvantaged groups’ lives, Colorss Foundation is doing its part.

1.    Project Enhance – 110 girls [Pune]
Underprivileged children face stress in many aspects of their lives: family, academics, health, and more. The situation is often worse in female children; because of social stigma, girls tend to be seen as inferior or even neglected, which leaves them with a sense of worthlessness and low self-esteem. The truth is, however, that they deserve much more than this.

How can we brighten these children’s lives? How can we empower these girls and foster their confidence? Thinking about this, Colorss Foundation has developed a program called Enhance. This project uses the benefits that Karate and Creative arts bring to reach a better life for these kids.

2.    Project ‘Colors of Life’ – 100 students [boys and girls – Pune, Baroda]
Observing government schools in India, we can face a bad reality: 50% of students drop out of school before the 8th standard. This is very worrying when we think about the importance of education, a key for the development of individuals and of the society. And this is the point when creating a program like Colors of Life. How this can be done? The students are given topics for creative writing –they are either encouraged to write in Marathi, Gujarati or Hindi. These topics are thereafter translated into English and published as an E-zine. 

The program works with brain stimulation games, workshops on life-skills and different issues, drawing, music and dance, creative arts, and PBL (project based learning) too.

3.    Project 'UrjAa' – igniting the fire within – 15 women in vocational training [Baroda]
Helping on the development of children is very important. However, we do not work just with children: Project UrjAa that attends to disadvantaged women is important as well. It intends to break the vicious cycle of poverty, in which these women do not have access to training and resources and, consequently, have little or no education. Then, they stay in poverty, and the same thing keeps happening.
            Only education can solve this problem. The children of their families are provided with needful education. Different workshops are conducted for these women and their families. Building up these women current skills and introducing new skills, we can empower them and impact positively their families. This is the basis of Project UrjAa: professionals, peers, community, awareness programs, and mentorships teach vocational skills to a group of women from the slums of Sanjay Nagar, New Sama Road, Baroda.

4.    Risachi - It is the research wing of Colorss Foundation, recently formed in early July 2012. Despite its recent inception, Risachi has successfully completed one major survey study involving 62 subjects and has three other major projects in different phases. The outcome of the research will involve designing novel strategies to improve the health of the underprivileged population.

5.  Aircel a+ a CSR initiative in partnership with Colorss Foundation – 480 students  [Pune, Maharashtra State]
480 students are in a+ Center in Pune. This is an Aircel CSR initiative to help bridge the digital divide in India. The initiative will help empower underprivileged children and adolescents with computer literacy and vocational training and provide them with employability skills. 

Thanking you,
For Love
Anand 

Monday, July 23, 2012

Speed Maths using Flash Cards | Baroda


The original plan for the class on 21st July 2012 in Navprerna was to show the children the e-magazine on the internet but due to some technical error we were unable to do so.

We then decided to do some simple speed math using flashcards.We divided the class of 18 (11 boys and 7 girls) into two equal groups. Each of us separately conducted the activity with one group. We started by explaining the rules of the game - each card will not be shown for more than 2 seconds and the students had to write only the answers in their books. For the first round, we decided to keep it simple, thus we started with just 10 questions/cards. We used cards for addition and subtraction only. Then we conducted two more rounds of 10 questions each.We noticed that the performance on the whole was not bad.

Some students did very well, like Kajal Chauhan and Rita Katara who scored 30/30.

Others made mistakes in reading the signs (whether it was + or-) or they would not notice where the blank was, whether it was in the question or answer. For example in the question 9+_ =15, they would write 24 as the answer rather than 6, i.e. they would simply add up all the numbers they could see on the card. A few of them often did not look at the card and missed the question. Their concepts of addition and subtraction are quite clear, but they either lack confidence or do not pay enough attention to the question.We will probably conduct a similar exercise again also including questions on multiplication and division.

Conducted by Ankita Bhagwat and Shreya Hiryur [Baroda Team]

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Project Enhance: Blending Karate with creative arts to make an impact at psychological and physiological level


The biggest forte of our Project Enhance is that it is the brainchild of Mr. Anand Koti, founder of Colorss Foundation himself. No doubt Mr. Koti is personally involved in every initiative Colorss Foundation takes, but he is personally at the helm of affairs for Project Enhance because of the nature of the project and Mr. Koti’s experience in the field.

What is Project Enhance?


Project Enhance is an unusual blend of martial and creative arts. In India the children belonging to the underprivileged sector already have to face countless hardships during their lives. Stress is a constant in their lives and this is particularly prominent in the case of female children who have to face many social stigmas in addition. They are often not given the place they deserve in society and their progress is not only hindered due to financial reasons but also due to many social taboos. This is bound to create mental pressure and strain for these female children. Project Enhance focuses on this chunk of the population in particular. With its unique programme of sports and arts it seeks to eradicate the mental pressure and strain that these young, underprivileged girls have to endure. Not only mental strain but these young girls usually have to undergo through a sense of low self esteem and inferiority too because their position in society is not very strong and they are many a time manipulated and exploited because of their weak standing. Giving such girls strength and perseverance to withhold these negative forces of society is the aim of Project Enhance. Through Project Enhance we conduct bi-weekly sessions of half an hour duration focusing on martial arts including karate, yoga and other forms of meditation and self-defense exercises in addition to creative art sessions including techniques like drawing, painting, story telling etc. Through this unique combination we at Project Enhance aim to relieve the stress endured by these young and weak members of our society.

If you want to help us in working toward the betterment of our society’s underprivileged members you can send you valued donations to the account details mentioned at the end. In addition to monetary donation you can also send in karate or exercise clothing, drawing materials like coloring books and pencils etc. Or if you want to volunteer for Project Enhance you should be proficient in either of the skills that our project focuses on. Volunteers that have some experience in the martial arts and karate techniques/yoga/dance/sports are welcomed to volunteer for our Project where they can disseminate their knowledge and talent to these young girls.

Also if you think you can conduct productive sessions involving arts and craft, drawing painting, story-telling, personality development etc then please feel free to contact us on the contact numbers given out. We would be more than happy to have you on our team. Together our small steps can make a big difference. 
Warda Baig ~ UNV Volunteer

Sunday, March 18, 2012

An appeal for Project Urja with its product line

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Many underprivileged people are stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty. How would YOU like to help break this cycle? Colorss Foundation has developed the concept of Project Urja; this innovative project aims to develop vocational skills in women. This gives them the power to uplift themselves as well as their families so that they have a chance of a brighter future. Since 2011, Colorss Foundation has its Project ‘Colors of Life’ for 25 students of Navprerna Day care at Navrachana School, Baroda, Gujarat. And now we are starting our first vocational training in Baroda.
how does project urja help them learn?
Currently, the needs assessment has been conducted and a training program has started on from 18th March 2012. 25 women are undergoing training program and they are being taught 6 products to start with; Keep your imagination wild till we upload the photographs of the products
1. Designer Water pot ready to hang outside home/balcony – this summer be humble and sever water to the thirsty birds.
2. Paper earning – something you should wait till we upload the photograph
3. Night lamp
4. Designer show basket – useful to decorate the home and also a gift
5. Pen-stand made of clay 
6. Hair-band – beautiful hair-bands for the little angels and for you as well.
how does project urja make a difference?
Disadvantaged women have no access to training and resources, which means that they have little or no education, resulting in poverty. This is where Project Urja comes in, to break this cycle. By both improving their existing skills and teaching new skills, disadvantaged women gain the training they need to become self-sufficient, productive members of society; their financial and social independence is strengthened.
how can you change someone’s life?
It is obvious that this one-of-a-kind program (at Baroda, Gujarat) is the key to improving the lives of disadvantaged women and their families... But we need your help, especially since Project Urja is still in the development stages. You can contribute to this good cause by:
  • Monetary support to finance raw materials, equipment, pay the women in training and our trainer fees.
  • Marketing, planning and organizing events and exhibitions.
  • Organizing interactive meets and awareness programs with experts concerning topics such as health, education and sanitation.
we need your help to change someone’s life?
If you would like to send your donation directly to our bank account:
Colorss Foundation
Current A/C number: 30562854518
IFS Code: SBIN0009737
State Bank of India
New Sama Road (9737) Branch
Vadodara, Gujarat

If you would like to send in your cheques and DDs in favour of `Colorss Foundation` at:
Colorss Foundation
E/68, Jyoti Park,
Behind Navrachna School,
P.O. E.M.E
New Sama Road, Vadodara - 390 008
Gujarat














Sunday, March 11, 2012

Project Enhance moving ahead....


Project Enhance
Anand Koti, founder of Colorss with more than 15 years of martial arts training, a second-degree black belt, and a passion for using his talent to help others reach their potential has come up with this project.

            Project Enhance uses a combination of sports (Martial Arts) and creative arts as vehicles to promote both the physical and mental well-being of underprivileged children in India. Good mental health is not just the absence of a mental disorder; it is a state of well-being where an individual feels confident and ready to cope with the stresses that life sometimes presents.

            In India, young girls are viewed as inconsequential, often ignored, or even harassed and molested. Project Enhance aims to empower young girls and boost their self-confidence through a blend of karate and creative arts in hopes that they can one day become educated, productive, and active members in their communities and society.

Objectives:
-          Empower young girls
-          Promote  mental and physical health
-          Foster a sense trust, cooperation, confidence, and community
-          Encourage values of discipline and responsibility

Students undergoing self-defense techniques under project enhance.. Demonstrating the techniques with our volunteer/inter Neha Shaw (Symbiosis Law School, Pune)
  
How Can Martial Arts Help?
            The art of karate involves integrating the mind and body to condition the physique and enhance self-awareness. When the muscles and brain act in perfect unison, a sense of discipline, mindfulness, and serenity are set in play. Thus, learning to control each movement in a fluid and adaptable fashion produces benefits that outlast practice sessions. Research has shown that karate is associated with positive changes in mood, as well as reductions in anxiety and depression.

Sensi Pervez Mistry, the father of modern martial arts in India, noted: “Karate is generally perceived as a destructive sport. This is a misconception. In fact, the reverse is true. With karate, we can work towards improving health. A willingness and desire to be a better person is developed and self-confidence is built while ego is dampened.”

In fact, martial arts promote both mental and physical health and enforce values such as respect for others, faithfulness, and tranquility, and sincerity. When these qualities act in unison, they can induce relaxation and increase self-confidence. Additionally, many studies have championed the cognitive and behavioral benefits of martial arts. Improvements in self-esteem (Fuller, 1988), positive receptiveness of physical challenges (Richard and Rehberg, 1986; Trulson, 1986), greater autonomy (Duthie, 1978), emotional stability and assertiveness (Konzak and Boudreau, 1984) and reductions in anxiety and depression (Cai, 2000) have all been associated with martial arts training.
     
To sum it up, Gichin Funakoshi, the father of modern karate, once said, “The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.”

Sensi Mistry speaks about Anand
            Sensi Pervez Mistry is considered to be the father of martial arts in India. He has been the Chief Instructor for the International Okinawa Goju-RyuKarate-do Federation in India for the past 46 years and is the founder of Karate-do in India.



            “Karate is generally perceived as a destructive sport. This is a misconception. In fact, the reverse is true. With karate, we can work towards improving health. A willingness and desire to be a better person is developed and self-confidence is built while ego is dampened. When Anand met me a few years ago, he was worried whether or not we would be able to manage the program. I was confident from day one that he would succeed.  He has struggled and faced hurdles, but he has conquered all of them, in part from the confidence he has gained from martial arts training. 


How Can Creative Arts Help?
        Creativity and art help reinforce elements of martial arts training, further helping children develop and retain their learned skills. Though its task-based instruction and demanded attention to detail, art cultivates a sense of responsibility, hand-eye coordination, and controlled motor skills. Furthermore, selecting materials and tools, focusing on creating a work of art, and ultimately finishing a project fosters a sense of achievement as well as enhances cognitive skills, decision making skills, and discipline. Furthermore, to maintain and develop awareness of different methods of mind and body control, games, meditation, and dance are incorporated into each creative arts session.

Current Status and Project Structure:
        Project Enhance currently focuses on helping 110 girls from two schools
·            Fifty five girls from 5th, 6th, and 7th grade girls from Mahadji Shinde High School, a municipality school under Pune Cantonment Board.
·             Fifty three girls from 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade girls from Dr. Ambedkar Memorial School, a municipality school under Pune Cantonment Board.

It consists of 1 hour sessions, twice a week, with 30 minutes of martial arts training and 30 minutes of creative arts. Each martial arts session is a mixture of exercise and meditation. These sessions aim to relax the body muscles and gradually build flexibility and stamina. Each creative arts session includes various exercises in drawing, sketching, dancing, music, acting, brain-stimulation games and story-telling.

Based on child progress, the program introduces longer and higher levels of martial arts and creative arts sessions. Thus, the contents of each session change along with the children’s progress in order to keep challenging and encouraging each child to reach his or her full potential.

Finally, a counseling component is integrated into the program. Professionals work with the children not only to provide a support system, but also to motivate them to succeed, improve communication skills, discuss future careers, and teach them about socially acceptable behavior.

Quote from participant:
            I feel very peaceful after joining the karate project. Our teacher is a very cool person and karate benefits us and gives us physical exercise. Karate also helps us develop a better memory and gives physical flexibility to our bodies. There are so many benefits of karate.



How can you contribute?

Volunteer:
Volunteers are our greatest asset. You can contribute by volunteering to conduct workshops in various media of creative and performing arts, such as drawing, counseling,  painting, dance, personality development, brain-stimulation games and creative writing. Any other forms of creative art are welcomed as well!

http://colorss.org | emailcolorss@gmail.com

Thank you

Sunday, February 19, 2012

“Who says you can have problems and you can’t smile also?”

 

Definitely you can…I saw and learnt this from these small kids who although came from a weak socioeconomic background, often separated families still had a smile on their faces and zeal to learn and change the way their life was.

While they were introducing themselves I noticed that they had family problems, e. g death of a parent or separated families. Most of the mothers worked in other houses doing the household chores to earn a living or fathers worked in factories or buildings as laborers.

It was an urge to teach small children which made me to join Colorss as a volunteer. My task which seemed to be very easy to me initially turned out to be a challenge for me. I was supposed to take a 45 min class, making children of class 6-9 standard write articles on a few topics.

I started with an article on My Ambition, where I had not only to explain the meaning of ambition to children but also had to assist eachPriyanka_MS of them in framing sentences ,making them spell every word properly and translating their thoughts from Hindi to English. This took 30 min for me and there was hardly any time left for any other activity. It was a kind of surprise for me to see children of 8th grade unable to  spell  “will”  “have”  “doctor”  “because”.  I felt the presence of a loop hole in the education system where students of an English medium school were not well versed in spellings and general English.

I thought of doing it another way. Next day I divided them into teams and told them to ask spellings from the opponent team. This sense of competition made some of them to find difficult words from their text books such as “environment” and learn them. This little effort of the children was encouraging for me. I also introduced some games in the class such as “Bring a thing” where students had to bring specific objects from their teammates such as “A black Reynolds pen or a paper boat”. Although I could not work for a long time as my vacations were going to be over, but it was an experience I would cherish forever.Something definitely needs to be done somewhere and Colorss is an attempt to do it. After joining Colorss as a volunteer, with Anand sir’s support I was more than comfortable and enjoyed every bit of work. Anand sir’s briefing of everything about children, their background, talents, general behavorial tendencies were helpful to know children better. I would like to thank Anand Sir for giving me the opportunity and believing in me. It was something very different and satisfying I could have done in 4 years of my college life. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot from it.

Priyanka Trivedi

VIT Vellore

Volunteered with Colorss at Pune

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Girl students at Enhance learnt 'Sudoku' along with Martial Arts


Since the children were already burdened with unit tests, I thought of conducting some activity which would be new, fun and beneficial at the same time. I came up with “Sudoku”, which provides an overall exercise for the brain, helping in  keeping it active, focused and sharp.

The girls were very excited at the prospect of learning a new ‘game’. Smriti and I started with first explaining the various terms associated with the game, followed by the concept. Most of the girls, except 2-3 were quick to grasp it, and were able to solve a 4 X 4 grid within minutes.

Neha and Smriti teaching Sudoku at Project Enhance, Pune

Further when I asked them should I increase the difficulty level by giving a 6 X 6 grid to solve, ALL of them answered in the positive.  2 girls who were giggling and not paying attention, I called upon them to solve the grid on the blackboard, and contrary to what was told by Anand, I did not find them to be shy at all, since most of them were literally jumping and asking for a chance to come and solve on the board.


So basically, I found that if the girls have the knowledge, and when they know what to do and how to do, they become confident automatically.



And when around at quarter to four, I asked them if they would like to have a 9X9 grid to solve at their homes, in case they wanted a break from studying, there was a unanimous yes. On the downside, 3 girls told me that they were bored [its positive in the way that they could freely express what they actually felt].


Neha and Smriti
Team Pune

Creative thinking started....students created their own story looking at an image


Create your own story with the help of an image was held at Baroda 'Colors of Life' project, by the Team Baroda. Here the volunteers showed the students the image below. Here the children were asked to look at the image and think what they can perceive.  They were asked to come-up with a story. This unconsious method has helped in creative thinking and opening the children. 

Image used for creating your own story.

The students came up with this story..

'There was a village called Rampur. A fair was held there one day. Everybody from the village went there. Rohit, a four year old boy, also went there with his parents. Rohit was delighted to be at the fair. He wanted to go to the balloon-seller, food-stalls, the magician, toy stall and the snake-charmer. In his excitement, he left his mother’s hand and got lost. When he couldn’t find them after a while he got scared and started crying. He cried so much that he became tired and fell asleep. His parents made an announcement in the fair asking people to find Rohit and bring him to them. A man found Rohit sleeping and brought him to his parents. His parents were very happy and grateful.'

We were delighted to read this and we hope even you would have enjoyed.

Team Baroda
Colorss

Monday, January 16, 2012

Joy on their faces was something we can never forget | Colors of Life ~ Baroda


“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

When we first joint colors we didn’t know what to expect from the children. We didn't know how much they knew, what they would be interested in or how they would interact with us. We weren't even sure how we should interact with them. Therefore, our initial classes were not productive. The children did not stay interested in our classes for long and we began to have problems with the attendance. The boys would refuse to talk to us, preferring to talk among them, the girls were shy and we had difficulty in connecting with all of them.

After three months of fruitless discussions, us pestering them to write and them demanding to go out, we finally decided to change our approach for lack of satisfactory results. We spoke to our teachers and mentors and unanimously came up with the idea of doing more activities with the children. Since then, we have done a variety of activities with them like the ‘hero game’. In this, we asked each child to think of his/her favorite film character and tell us how they would respond to certain given situations.

This helped us to understand what they admire in their heroes and it made them think about what they would do in the same situation. We also conducted a quiz o Indian states and capitals. Though we had asked them to prepare beforehand, most of them didn’t bother. When we gave the teams which won kites as a prize, the joy on their faces was something we can never forget. They were genuinely so happy! Some of the others even came up to us and told us that they would come prepared next time. After months of frustration and disappointment with our work, we felt like we had finally achieved something!

Now, we feel more confident about our plans for the future. Though we had broken the ice some time ago, it is finally getting warmer.

Shreya and Ankita
Team Baroda

Friday, January 06, 2012

“ENHANCING” LIVES ~ Project Enhance


“ENHANCING” LIVES

Education is the key aspect that helps to build a child’s future. However education confined to the realms of textbooks and notebooks does not make the child ready to face the challenges of the world. Overall development of a child is of utmost importance for survival in the world of cut-throat competition. Thus providing basic elementary education to poor and underprivileged children is not enough to ensure a good future for them.

PROJECT ENHANCE uses sports and creative arts to brighten the world of children and contribute towards their overall development. Reaching out to the girl child is of utmost importance to universalize elementary

The project is currently carried out at Pune Municipality Schools

  • Mahadji Shinde High School with 51 girls from 5th to 9th grade.
  • Dr. Ambedkar Memorial School with 56 girls from 6th and 9th grade.


Both schools are in Pune Cantonment Board, Pune

Children take part in 30 minutes of martial arts and creative arts twice a week. This helps reduce stress, increase stamina, build confidence, developing a spirit of team work and makes education more interesting. In addition to this, professionals give the children talks on topics including body language, careers, family dynamics, communication skills and more. The result of this project is children who are disciplined, self-confident and perhaps most importantly, happy.

Women are given a secondary status in our society. Education of such a kind would help them let go off the inhabitations that hamper the development and growth of the girl child. After all they have to grow up and become women of substance, and this initiative of the COLORSS FOUNDATION helps them achieve this feat.

This novel idea that goes beyond bookish knowledge and helps improve and empower the girl child. All it needs is your contribution and time to touch new heights and change more lives.

LET US ALL COME TOGETHER AND MAKE LIVES FOR THESE CHILDREN A BETTER PLACE SO THAT ONE DAY THEY CAN MAKE THE NATION PROUD.

Contact- www.colorss.org to keep yourself updated follow us: Facebook Colorss

Tarishi Mishra

Friday, December 30, 2011

Happy New Year


Dear Supporters and my dear volunteers/interns,

Year 2011 coming to end and year 2012 about to start. A new year, new month, new week, new day and yes of-course with a new hope, faith, love and all the beautiful colors that will fill the heart of those who would look out for you. 

We are very thankful to you all, who made the journey for Colorss beautiful. Your continued support is required to make us strong. We do hope that this new year 2012 reaches out to a lot more people. 

Everyone from Colorss wishes you and your loved ones a very happy, peaceful, colorful and prosperous new year.

For Love,
Anand
www.colorss.org
www.facebook.com/colorssfoundation

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Calling Volunteers for Project 'Colors of Life' at Navprerna - a care club of Navrachana School, Baroda - Gujarat

Project 'Colors of Life' provides an answer to one of our nation's most troubling problems. Although more children are staying in school than in previous years, there are still too many students dropping out, even at the very earliest levels. This problem is especially prevalent among the poor and the disabled. Some studies estimate that as many as 50% of children will drop out before finishing the higher secondary stage. More than half of all children leave school before ninth grade. To reduce these rates, we have to figure out why so many children aren't finishing their studies.

Project 'Colors of Life' is going to start for the students of Navprerna a care-club of Navrachana School, Vadodara Gujarat. `NAVPRERNA`a programme to educate Less Privileged - a care-club of Navrachana School. The children come from slums of Sama Village. The women particiapnts of 'Project Urja - igniting the fire' our first vocational training program started in Baroda, Gujarat also belong to the slums of Sama Village. 

Students of 6th and 7th grade would be the part of our Project 'Colors of Life' and we aim to launch the first E-zine of Baroda chapter on 15th August. 

We are requesting volunteers to join us at Navrachana School. The timings are 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on weekdays (twice a week - days would be confirmed soon) and on weekends i.e Saturday (1st and 3rd - 4:00pm to 5:30 pm)

Psychology students/ Psychologist/Students and any one who can contribute to this project are most welcome. Send us your resume at contact@colorss.org . Deadline 10th July 2011 latest by 6:00 pm

Thank you
For Love
Anand