Rtn. Satyan Israni’s son Samaksh celebrated his 8th birthday with his 375 Bhavishya Yaan friends. Samaksh loves bubbles and wanted the lucky children of BY to experience a life-sized bubble show. He arranged a magician, Mr. Anil Kumar, for the GK Marg children who trapped the children in giant bubbles. The surprise had the children...
With our Bhavishya Yaan students heading back to school, the Rotaract Club of H.R. College welcomed them back to school with a motivating, fun day. RCHR headed to the Ganpatrao Kadam BMC School for to spend a day with students from standards 5 to 7. Our Rotaractors made the entire refresher day into a game...
Fun, Learn & Grow 2 was a twoday workshop conducted by RC Hinduja for students of Bhavishya Yaan at the G K Marg School. On the first day, ‘Who Am I’ was played and students were asked to solve riddles. This helped them improve their thinking capability and creativity while enhancing their vocabulary. On the second day,...
BY at G.K. Marg, which had been closed for 18 months, reopened on Tuesday. There was great enthusiasm among the students who said they prefer normal class in school to online classes. We thank all the teachers and coordinators of our education partner NGO Vidya for going beyond their call of duty during these trying times...
A few years ago, Bhavishya Yaan at Colaba school hosted an Australian intern, Grace Gerhard. Grace spent a month teaching English to BY students. She observed that several students had tremendous potential. Amongst these, Rakesh Thakur stood out as a motivated and capable young student. She decided to support his goals to become a lawyer. Rakesh recently...
A storytelling Lit Fest was held in November; in December, the children were given Christmas and New Year-themed speaking assignments. Storytelling classes were conducted once a week for classes 5th to 9th. The students were introduced to fairy tales and mystery, understanding the elements, role playing of the story, sequencing of events, pronunciation of new vocabulary...
addressed the vocational and night study centre students at YMCA. All three are engineers and Rotary scholars as well. This was an offline session with over 40 students on inspiration and motivation. The topics covered by our BY students were: 1) Dedication and aim 2) Healthy mind and healthy body to do well in life 3) Time management...
Students and alumni of RCB’s Bhavishya Yaan programme had a unique equine leadership training course on Sunday at the Mahalaxmi Race Course. They were taught leadership, motivational exercises, control and team-building through close interaction with horses. The students were elated with the experience, and the press coverage after the event revealed that the media was...
Last week, 60 were given to children in four BY schools: G.K. Marg Municipal School, N.M. Joshi Municipal School, Colaba Municipal School and Ambedkar School, Worli. The remaining tablets will be distributed this week in BY’s Prabhadevi and Byculla centres. Parents and students were called to the schools to receive the tablets along with a...
Bhavishya Yaan scholar (N. M. Joshi Marg) and IT engineer Vaibhav Patil has got a job placement at Atos Global and he sends RCB a short thank you. Hello everyone, I am Mr. Vaibhav Dnyaneshwar Patil. I have completed my 10th Standard from N. M. Joshi Municipal Secondary Highschool. Also I am a Rotary and Bhavishya-yaan scholar...
75 key events from India’s recent past were covered by the Bhavishya Yaan kids in video format, to celebrate India’s 75th Independence Day, on August 15th, 2021. Events were assigned to each BY school and the teachers worked with the children to research the event and prepare their speeches. The children made their own videos, and...
Prize distribution for SSC scholars of Bhavishya Yaan was carried out offline by each school separately. About 60 students of 2020 and 70 students of 2021 were awarded prizes, with the overall toppers receiving mobile phones, top 8 from each school receiving wireless earphones and others above 70% receiving wired earphones. While we carried a...