Date: 4th July 2024 In early July, we made a presentation capturing our work thus far since the beginning of Seedling Foundation in November 2023. It was for a meeting of all NGOs working at the various children Homes of Mumbai and Children’s Aid Society (CAS), the organization that runs
Date: 2nd September 2024 Today afternoon, we were in Dongri preparing for a new initiative on Gandhi ji’s life at the Children’s Home, called Gandhi Abhiyan. While we were planning for this initiative, I received a message that Arun Dada passed away a few minutes back. Arun Dada was an
Few older boys have been at the Dongri Children’s Home for the last 3-4 years. They have seen many transformations in Dongri. Many external people have come here with the aim or intention of creating a positive change in the boys and have tried many different things. One such attempt
A couple of days back, last Thursday, I was processing a few things from the previous evening, added by more incidents from that morning at Dongri, which were triggering me internally. However, given my nature, I go into a silence mode, into a shell, while dealing with things that seem
Yesterday morning, we conducted a session on road signs with a small demo setup. As we discussed each road sign, we also asked the kids questions on their life in connection to the sign in front of them. For example, for the child talking about a ‘speed breaker’, we asked
A couple of weeks back, a small encounter brought a smile to my face and left me thinking that day about innate human qualities and in fact for a couple of days after. One of the kids at the Home is a special child, with some mental disability. However, he
One of the older kids, who has been at the home for about 3 years now, was having a conversation with a coworker, let’s call him Aniket sir (pseudo name), from another NGO. As they were talking, he noticed that the backpack which Aniket sir was carrying was torn and
One day, while returning from the Children’s Home, I was waiting at the bus stop. As I was standing there, I noticed a bike with a couple and their son, a small boy, sitting in the middle. The mother got down from the back, went to a roadside cart, bought
Recently, one of the kids approached me with a pencil and paper as I was standing at the door of the classroom and said “please can you teach me how to write my name in English?” So I wrote his name and handed it back to him. Soon, he came