Again this year, POTA volunteers visited us and spent three wonderful weeks with us. This time it was Katja, Ana, Meta and two Evas. They created with the children, performed simple experiments, sang, danced, cooked and did many things. We are very happy that they decided to become the godmothers of one of our youngest […]
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Visitors
We feel happy and honoured when people from all over the world visit us. This time we were visited for the first time by a family from Italy, from Florence. Silvia, a psychology student, conjured up a wonderful atmosphere for our children, so that quite a few tears were shed when it was necessary to […]
Meeting with our Friends and Benefactors
We are very grateful for the opportunity to visit our friends and supporters the CED family in Germany. We gathered together at the presentation in Munich, where we talked about the innovations in our project, as well as the successes and challenges. The president of the CED organization dr. Susanne Pechel also spoke about several […]
Excursion to Shantiniketan
West Bengal is the native state, of the venerable philosopher-educationist-bard Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore curated an educational set up in ‘Shantiniketan’ to challenge the existing education system. Shantiniketan is the place to come across the framework that was conceived. Many artists, craftsmen, linguists, creative intellectuals visited/visit Shantiniketan and left/leave their mark in the architecture, sculpture, artefact […]
Teach for India – Film Ready steady
Teach for India, Kolkata invited us to their very firts Film Festival featuring to films: Ready, Steady and Conference of the Birds. Ready Steady is a high school drama about ten teenagers who come from low-income backgrounds but have managed to get admission to an elite high school in a posh part of Delhi. Our […]
Our 16th year anniversary
This year we are celebrating 16 years of our project therefore we have prepared a special ceremony with a cultural program on this occasion. Our guests of honor were the Ambassador of Slovenia in India, Mrs. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, First Secretary Mrs. Irma Sinkovec, Honorary Consul Mr. Bagaria and Mr. Anjan Chowdhury from the company […]
Medical camp
In collaboration with the Lions Club of Kolkata, we conducted a medical examination for our children and villagers. Six older villagers received free cataract surgery, and some of our students will receive their first glasses. A gynecologist was also with us.
A visit from Slovenian students
Tinkara, Lana, Lucija and Monika, students from Slovenia spent with us a few days and organized various fun, creative and educational activities for our kids.
Let’s play music!
A big thanks to blugrass musicians from USA, Patrik, Charlie and Allene for spending a week with us teaching our kids playing different instruments.