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A Holi Message from Sri Ravi Rai |
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Written by Ravi Rai, COME International
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bijhar,
Hope you all had a great holi. This was the second Holi for children staying at Apana Ghar. Holi was celebrated on 4 March here.
Last day in school before holi, the results of mid term exams have to be declared. This is their first year in a main stream school. Students at Apna Ghar are dressing up in the morning. There is a meaningful silence all over. Everyone looks tense as if all of us have taken exams. What if they fail? Shall I have to defend before the school authorities?
The whole day our eyes fixed at the gate.
About 4 pm we saw Shubham and Sahid came rushing in with with a shield and a paper in their hand. Other children were running behind them. Wow! They came with flying colours. Shahid (92.8%), Vinod(80.4%), Sanjay(80.75%), Shubham(81.5%) and Ashmit(71.2%) were given Gaurav Patra (appreciation letter) and a shield. Rest of the children scored above 60% except Rohit (46.5%).
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A journey through Asha Vihar |
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Written by Rajesh Anand
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 Claudia Zechel
Meeting Mrs. Claudia Zechel on Wednesday 6Dec06 was like meeting a younger avatar of Mother Teresa who I was very unfortunate to have missed seeing in flesh and blood though I lived in Kolkata for 6 years and that too at a place not very far away from her celebrated home for the poor named "Nirmal Hriday".
It was indeed a soul-stirring experience to go through a lecture comprising of photo slides about Asha Vihar which Claudia and her wonderful team from Germany and elsewhere have been running near Bokaro in Jharkhand since 1995.
When I received an invitation for this programme, I was not sure if the evening lecture would hold much to justify spending 2-3 hours on an arduous working day but within minutes I realised how wrong I would have been in underestimating the incredible work Asha Vihar, the institution which Claudia, her Orthopaedic husband and her team have built over the years. At the end of the presentation, I was left wondering how an individual could undertake such seemingly utopian tasks and achieve results which in my opinion are absolutely mind boggling.
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From illiteracy to e-literacy |
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Written by Basant & Prakash Hetamsaria
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BIJHAR Helps Bridge Digital Divide
BIJHAR worked in close partnership with Jharkhand Vikas Nyas, a Ramgarh based NGO to provide a computer training facility provided to the students of Harihar Sahoo Girls High School, Gola, in Hazaribag district , Jharkhand.
Gola is a rural block level small town, about 25 kms. from Ramgarh Cantt.This is an agricultural area and has very few other means of employment. People are peasants and poor. A good part of the population is tribal.Harihar Sahoo Girls High School is the only high school for girls in Gola block and has nearly 600 girl students. Despite being high school students, The girl students had no exposure to computers as the school did not have computer education facilities. There was no hope of any such facility being made available to them by the management in the near future, due to meagre revenues. The education they were getting was obviously inadequate in the
light of the need of being computer literate to progress and to move ahead in life in the modern world.
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Diwali at MINDS Singapore |
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Written by Bijhar Reporter
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How BiJhar helped brighten up the lives of the MINDS children by celebrating Diwali with them. Some of us Bjhari ladies got together and organised a Diwali celebration at the Yio Chu Kang branch of MINDS. As you may be aware, MINDS, stands for the MOVEMENT FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED FOR SINGAPORE. It is a school for the kids with special needs and is run with help from Community chest. On Wed, 18th Oct 2006, a quartet of Bijhari ladies went to the MINDS School.
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Jharkhand Vikas Nyas (JVN) |
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Written by Rajesh Anand
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This is a Ramgarh based charity organisation run by Mr Basant Hetamsaria.
JVN is currently running a “Rag-pickers” project where they support destitute and orphaned children who would otherwise earn their livelihood through rag-picking.They run a school for these children
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