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Ashray-Residence for Orphans and Vulnerable Children-May 9, 2010

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aejas
on March 13, 2010
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The next Kshana Event is being held at Ashray- Residence for Orphans & Vulnerable Children, Opposite Globus, Hill Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai. The event is scheduled on 9th May 2010. The event timings are 2 pm to 6pm.
 
This is going to be a Kshana event with a musical twist to it as we plan to have a game of Antakhshari with the kids. We are also going to have some fun filled games, which will be followed by music and providing a light snack.
The last and the most exciting part is going to be - Giving away the presents!!!! :) :)
   
The total cost of the event is Rs. 7,000. Donations are welcome in cash or cheques drawn in the name of ‘Kshana Charitable Trust’. 
 
Kshana is a registered NGO with the Charity Commissioner since December 2008. We have received the 80G certification. We assure prudent use of your donation.

Hope to see you there. Do let us know if you can make it.
 
Call Esha - 9820373176 or Roshni - 9820750480 for any further details. 

Masina Hospital Event - 7th March 2010

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roshni
on March 10, 2010
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We had a Kshana Event at Masina Hospital on 7th March 2010. The event was organised for the depressed patients in the hospital. The people at the hospital were very welcoming and they had organized a very delicious meal comprising of biryani and halwa for the patients, their family members and us. Our chairperson Ritesh started the event by introducing Kshana and thanking the hospital authorities for the required permissions. Then our very enigmatic host Aejas took over to increase the excitement levels amongst everyone.

We divided the patients into teams comprising of 6 people each and assigning 2-3 Kshanites to each team to help them out. Each team was asked to keep a name for themselves. The teams came up with brilliant names for themselves, one positive team was called ‘The Dream Team’, one hopeful team was named ‘Surya’, one of very lively teams names themselves ‘East or West, Ekta is the Best’, one happy team decided that ‘Happiness’ was just the right name for their team and the cricket loving teams decided to call themselves ‘Knight Riders’ and ‘Royal Warriors’. We started off by asking anyone if they could recall the names of all the teams. First every name and team seemed very jumbled up but after a few minutes almost everyone could identify all the teams with their respective names. Then we asked the team members to give the names of every person in their team. This really helped us to break the ice.

We had organized a quiz for them and quickly distributed the paper with all the questions it. The team members had to discuss the answers amongst them and finish all the questions in 10 minutes. Some of the team members including some Kshan-ites were on a look out for the person who came up with all those questions so that we could beat that person up ;-) But I have to admit that so many of them were so knowledgeable and they knew the answers to some of the difficult questions which we did not expect them to know.

Once the quiz round got over we had planned an team building activity for them where one person from the team was blindfolded had to walk on a obstacles path made by us and his/her other team members would give him/her directions. All the teams did wonderfully in this game. They were brilliant at giving and following all the instructions and working together as a team and not forgetting to mention that there was so much of cheering for every team. The enthusiasm levels were running very high
The last round was a Relay race which involved running with a lemon in a spoon, hopping and eating chocolates on you way. Must say that the eating chocolate on your way thing was quite a hit with everyone.

Once the relay race ended we decided to have a little dance session of our own. It was a lot of fun seeing so many people dancing with big smiles and happy faces. There was this lady who was one the mother of one of the boys and she was a fabulous dancer! Watching her dance on ‘Desi Girl’ was a treat and we just loved it so much that there were chants of ‘Once More!’ and she had to oblige us by dancing on the same song again

After the dancing session came to an end, we distributed the Frooti which we had bought for everyone and decided to announce the prize winners. All the winning teams were greeted with a big applause and lots of cheering. Lots of pictures were clicked and we gave all the winning teams a Kshana Cap – a little something with which they can always remember us

The doctor incharge also came forward and introduced his brilliant and hardworking team to us. He thanked us for making the Sunday very special and gave all of us small souvenirs to take back with us. This gesture really touched our heart
We said our good byes, wished everyone goodluck and left the place with that blissfully happy feeling.

Would also like to add that we had a brilliant group of volunteers at this event! The event was so much more fun thanks to all you enthusiastic guys!

A re-cap of our Diwali event 2009

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roshni
on November 4, 2009
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For all those who missed the event - and for the ones who came, here’s a lil note on the event. :)
The festival of lights – Kshana Style !

We decided to make Diwali much brighter and happier by celebrating it with the children from Prem Sadan, a girl’s orphanage in Malad.

We conducted a frame making workshop for which the kids were divided into a group of four. One Kshana member/volunteer was assigned to each group to help them out. It was barely any time before the kids finished making their picture frames. Their faces gleamed as they proudly clicked pictures with their shiny fishy frame.

The next on our list of activities was our bag making competition where the girls put their creative skills to test. Phew!!! It was a lot of hard-work! The girls came up with such brilliant ideas for their bags and they stitched so well (it kind of put our stitching skills to test :D ). Once they were done they danced around from one part of the room to another to admire each others bags. The bags were beautiful and so well made that one would find it a little hard to believe that those small girls had made it.

After all that hard-work we headed downstairs for a round of ‘4 corners’ which was a complete laugh- riot with all the kids and Kshanites rooting for their respective teams.

After that the kids gave a dance performance on ‘Jai Ho’, ‘Nagada’ and ‘Desi girl’. Quite a few of us learnt a few dance steps from them :D and then all of us dance together non-stop for more than an hour or so. It was one of the best moments from the event where everyone had constant smiles on their faces.

It was dinner time by the time we got done with the dancing. We had a special Diwali dinner comprising of salad, puris, chole, pulao, kadi and chocolate cake for the kids. Once they finished relishing their meal, we gifted board games, badminton rackets, carom board, and basketballs to the girls.

We also gifted them lots of saplings and pots as a special Diwali present instead of firecrackers. We also explained to them the importance of giving back to nature – instead of polluting the environment.

We announced the 3 talented winners of the bag making competition and handed over their gifts to them.

It was time to go. We hugged the kids and waved them goodbye.

This Diwali was very special indeed… there weren’t any lights or fireworks in the sky but we managed to light the face of every girl at Prem Sadan with a huge smile J J J

the first folder that says new year + diwali. And while you are there you can have a look at the pictures of our previous events too :)