People volunteer for various reasons. Some to gain experience, some for personal satisfaction and others to make society a better place to live in. Whatever reason be, it is this volunteering work that drives organisations like us to make a difference every day. Here...
Bhumi’s Transformational Education Programme at schools focuses on improving social-emotional development, strengthening teacher professional development, and leadership. In-school facilitators who work directly with the children, teachers, and headmasters work towards creating an ecosystem that will help the child thrive in a fearless learning environment.To inject...
Lakshya, Bhumi’s life skill project pairs underprivileged children with volunteers who act as their mentors and role models. The objective is to enrich the lives of underprivileged children (mentees) through a caring relationship with a personal mentor who supports, encourages and builds their self-confidence....
All Volunteers Meet (AVM) at Bhumi helps to bring all its volunteers from a certain project /city to one common platform where they can ideate, discuss and enjoy with each other. Volunteering for a single organisation, teaching the same subject, but at different locations with different...
Eco-Champs is one of the volunteer-driven programs in Bhumi. We in Eco-Champs believe in investing as much in our volunteers as in our children. Hence for their capacity building, we hold monthly training as well as organize field trips and workshops by external guests.Recently a...
We cannot underestimate the significance of teachers in our lives and in society. While passion for teaching cannot be learned, there are other skills and knowledge which can be developed and shared to improve as a teacher and impart better learning. Super Teacher Workshop is one...
Yantra, Bhumi’s Robotics project, started its journey in January 2015 when 30 children were selected for classes at Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in Chennai. With Belgium based NGO Dwengo as the knowledge partner, concepts were taught using the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) methodology...
We’re all storytellers. We tell stories to make a point, to imagine a possible future, to remind, to comfort & sometimes to inspire! Here is one such inspirational story from our Bengaluru team. One of our volunteers Budha enrolled 7 children from our sports project into “Ronaldo...
29th September 2019 – Sunday, read the calendar. It was not just any other Sunday; perhaps, one of those very few (Sun)days we’d not have to do a quick ‘phone-grab’ to check the date! The morning of this oh-so-special Sunday witnessed the coming together of 503...
Rithika Ramesh, an enthusiastic marketer during the weekdays, and a volunteer during the weekends is a part of our English project in Chennai. She insists on the importance of visual learning for children and how it can help retention and engagement for the children. It...
