2016 Activities

As a part of our initial planning, we had decided to distribute bicycles at each school. We had done that exercise earlier but at a very small scale. The response from schools with those cycles were amazing. Over 3 months back - sometime in September, we had iniread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 17-Dec-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 54 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Team Suhrid started its health related initiatives way back in Oct, 2012 with an adult camp at Khand (Vikramgadh).  The objective was to get the full understanding of social as well as medical issues. This was followed up with another camp in Bahirampada, wherein wread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 19-Nov-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 51 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Just before Diwali, we had completed the first round of eye checkup at the school level.  Our teachers had identified 35 cases. During this visit, the teachers brought the kids to Vikramgad for the optometric test.  This process had started almost 2 years back and read more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 23-Oct-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 66 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

This was our last visit before the Diwali Vacation.  We visited Barafpada, Palavpada and Kaspada on 22-Oct 2016. Barafpada is the latest entrant in Suhrid foundation.  The two big problems, which were highlighted by the teachers / villagers were unavailability oread more

As a part of our connect with village, we have been discussing various topics with farmers in the village and what best they can achieve from their farming. Presently, Almost all the farmers take only one crop in a year - rice. This requires them to work on their fread more

Based on the previous visit to Barafpada, it was decided to revive its borewell and make arrangement to get water in school for sanitation, drinking and plantation. The visit Barafpada was for confirming the school on the water project and seeking support from pareread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 26-Sep-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 49 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Having conducted camps at Dadade Ashram Shala and for the students of 11 schools, we decided to have a mini health checkup for the anganwadi kids. We have 25 kids in two anganwadis (3 to 6 years age range) at Janathepada and Toplepada respectively.  The kids are unread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 29-Aug-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 45 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

In this academic year, we decided to have the medical camps for the kids in the early part of the rainy season, wherein kids are becoming more susceptible to cold and fever. There was another challenge in front of us this time.  We had included Barafpada as 11th atread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 02-Aug-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 52 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

As a standard practice, our first few visits in the session start with visiting each school, connecting with the kids, distributing starting kits and explaining the plans.  However, this time around, we decided to even add the medical camp at Arvind Ashram Shala Daread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 06-Jul-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 54 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

We started the academic year 2016-17 on 25th June, 2016 with the formal inclusion of Barafpada. This is a small school with around 60 students, managed by two dedicated teachers. We had done the due diligence a few months back.  Apart from the common issues, in terread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 08-Jun-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 45 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

During our survey in the month of March 2016, we were convinced that if  the water conservation work is not started in Vikramgad area, we may have to see Latur kind of situation in a few years from now. Though the signs were visible to the villagers as well, they wread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 12-May-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 52 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

In the month of February 2016, we had visited on our the new school at Barafpada. This is our 11th school at Vikramgad region. During this visit, we realised that this village and in then had no good access to water after January. This led is to think on how can weread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 14-Apr-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 48 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

We had included Zila Parishad School of Khandeghar almost 2 years back. This was our 9th school. The school showed steady but slow progress in the first year. The school lacked in the right infrastructure as well as the whole-hearted support from the parents. Entryread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 18-Mar-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 56 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Second phase of our follow up camps for this academic year was on 12th March, 2016. Camps were organized at Bahirampada in the morning, wherein we examined almost 150 odd kids from Bahirampada, Toplepada and Khandeghar and at Palavpada Anantpur, wherein the 140 sturead more

We decided to have our follow up camps for this academic year on 5th March and 12th March, 2016 respectively. Both these camps were sponsored by our esteemed supporter Rajesh Lifespaces in memory of the mother of founder family. First day of camps was organized read more

This year, Suhrid Foundation, along with support from one of the donors and WHDC organisation, conducted a wonderful inspirational, motivational, confidence building training for teachers working with Suhrid Foundation. This training was conducted by very able facuread more

Suhrid Foundation manages 651 students from ten Zila Parishad school, 31 Anganwadi kids from two anganwadis and 350 residents girls from Arvind Ashram Shala. Since we had an uphill task to launch multiple projects in these schools, we decided to only include Anaganread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 20-Feb-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 48 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Team Suhrid completed the parents meeting session on 6th Feb 2016 by visiting Bahirampada, PalavapadaAnantpur and Palavpada. Bahirampada is one of the villages, wherein despite of the constant involvement by village head, the parents were not able to get involveread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 24-Jan-16 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 42 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Team Suhrid visited Nandelpada, Kaspada and Talyachapada on 23rd Jan, 2016. This was the first visit after the launch of big infrastructure projects at Nandelpada and Kaspada. The visit at Nandelpada started at 10:15.  During our earlier visits, we had to wait fread more

Team Suhrid visited Khandeghar and Toplepada on 9th Jan 2016 to have the annual parents meet. Both the schools are similar in terms of size, but are quite contrast when it comes to environment.  Toplepada villagers were quite actively involved in the school relaread more