POWAI INFO

Today January 25, Heritage Gardens at Hiranandani, Powai, threw opens its gates and play area to every kid, with or without special needs, to ensure that everyone gets their time in the sun.

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Greetings from Udaan India Foundation! Udaan India Foundation is celebrating its first Sports day and it would be our pleasure if you could be our guest on this special occasion. We would very much appreciate if you could grace this occasion with your family on both or any of the days as per your convenience. [...]

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Earlier this month, Garib Nagar in Powai, where one of Mumbai smiles balwadis is located, witnessed a different kind of activity that was both entertaining and educational. Members of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan organised and performed a street play on the subject of education for residents of one of the slums in Garib Nagar. Using elements of [...]

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Introduction - The earth belongs to all living beings. The existence of animals is required for the smooth functioning of the entire eco system. Just like humans, animals feel pain, hunger and sorrow. Its time, we are all compassionate towards them.  We at Animals Matter To Me (Mumbai) aim to save the animals from starvation and [...]

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I had the privilege of interviewing  the founders of MBA foundation Mr. C R Bala Subramanian & Meenakshi Subramanian. MBA Foundation Is A Non Profit Public Charitable Trust, started in January 2002 By a Group Of Parents  Of 7 Disabled Girls, To Answer Their Traumatic Question “After Us , What ?   ADVERTISMENT- Article continues below

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Mrs Chaitali Gupta is one of the pioneers in advocating the use of Eco-Ganpati made out of Clay, She has through her NGO Ankan, trained 100″s of underpriviledged woman skills which has made these woman self reliant. She held a workshop at Powai Lake where she taught us how to make a Eco-friendly Ganpati with clay [...]

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I am on a emailing list of an activitist by the name of Mr. Krishnaraj Rao, below I have copy pasted a email received from him today, I think its a good information to know. His email starts below… My colleague G R Vora is a civic activist of long standing. He has been interacting [...]

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Powai is proud of you,Priti! Believe it or not, 7500 red light area children have benefited from her compherhensive intervention , 1220 children removed from the red light area for long term residential care and development, 650 children at any time covered under Children Affected by AIDS/ Orphans and other Vulnerable Children project,  700 children covered at [...]

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Aarey Milk Colony is the last of remaining green patch of Mumbai City. Some youths along with some seniors have initiated a project and putting their best efforts to see that we dont lose this green cover. While the group has not been very succesful, they have tried, in mustering quite a bit of support, [...]

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Elsie Gabriel. Meet Jayalakshmi  Krishnan of Powai, who has dedicated her life to cancer detection and welfare. If you ever need help in detection or treatment you can call the numbers 2857685 and 9821421993. Her smiling face has championed the crusade against cancer, almost single-handedly in the big city of Mumbai. She oversees the complete [...]

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Founded in 1998, The PRAJA Foundation is a non-partisan voluntary organization which empowers the citizen to participate in the governing process. With a view to provide knowledge, transparency, accountability and enlist people’s participation, PRAJA specifically aims to provide ways in which the citizen can get politically active and involved beyond the ballot box. Concerned about [...]

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ABOUT RADHEE RADHEE Disaster and Education Foundation is a registered nonprofit organization. It works for social cause in the field of Disaster Management, Health, Education and Environment. RADHEE is registered organization with Social Welfare Department of Government of Maharashtra. Mumbai have witnessed multiple disasters over the last decade – 26/11 terror attack, Mumbai floods, etc. to name a few. [...]

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When you walk into the mobile crèche center here at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, you know that the resounding ‘Namaste’ you get from almost fifty little kids with heartfelt greetings, is enough to pull your heart strings! It’s then you know deep inside that the kids are being taught etiquette and respect , and are not [...]

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MBA Foundation Is A Non Profit Public Charitable Trust, started in January 2002 By a Group Of Parents Of 7 Disabled Girls. The organisation’s mission is to promote dignity for the disabled, to help them live a life of esteem.

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This is about the visit to one of the remedial school (under the aegis of VIDYA) situated at Phule nagar , near IIT, Powai. The school is supervised by its co-coordinator Mrs. K.B. Joshi, a retired KVIIT teacher, who has been mentoring about 65 under privileged children, from phule nagar and surya nagar, for the [...]

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The sound of music engulfed me as I walked into a ground-floor apartment at Powai. A group of young men and women was practising a dance — surrounded by grinning and cheerful youth in wheelchairs. The dancers were disabled but who noticed? The josh — the verve and sheer joy — with which they tried [...]

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