Christmas is just around the corner. As we all are busy in the preparation of Christmas & New Year, there are many less fortunate kids who are deprived of celebrations. There are lots of organizations working towards providing food, clothes etc. to underprivileged children but very few of them are focusing towards their happiness beyond food and clothes.  Music creates happiness in everyone’s lives. Everyone looks forward to reality shows, TV shows, Concerts and entertainment. It is like a stress buster and increases the happiness quotient in a person’s life. Keeping this in mind this Christmas TAF-The Artiste Foundation and Musical Dreams have started an initiative to spread the Christmas cheer and happiness amongst the underprivileged kids with “Happy Concert”. Team TAF and young artiste of Musical Dreams and Indian Idol 9 finalist Mansi Bhardwaj visited underprivileged Primary school in Noida where she performed for children on various Bollywood songs. Happiness was visible among kids as they also got involved with the artiste and sang and danced to their tunes.

 Founder of TAF- The Artiste Foundation Meeta Nagpal Said “Entertainment and Music is everyone’s need. We perform for people of all walks of life, for all age groups. We realized that the less privileged people have limited options for entertainment due to lesser resources. With Christmas round the corner we thought it as the best time to spread joy and happiness to these kids so we decided to reach out to these people and organizing a Happy Concert was an interesting way to do so. Our motive to do these concerts is solely to spread happiness to everyone. Happy people make a happier society. The warmth and enthusiasm received by the students is always overwhelming. Their claps, smiling faces and dancing moves encourage us to spread happiness in whatever way we can. This is our little contribution towards the society”

She further added “When a person spreads happiness he in turn receives a lot of joy. True to that, whenever we have a Happy Concert we come back with a lot of smiles and joy. Musical Dreams has always supported us in this initiative. Their artistes are always ready to be a part of this initiative and it is because of them we are able to carry this forward. We hope that we are able to do many more things to make this world a better place”.  

Indian Idol 9 fame Singer Mansi Bhardwaj who performed at the occasion shared – “I have performed at various national and international concerts in front of different set of audience. This was my first time when I was performing in front of underprivileged kids and I must say this is among my most memorable performances so far. After performing here I have realized that money can’t buy you happiness and the love which I have received from this audience is beyond explanation”.

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New Delhi, 17th July, 2017: Furthering its commitment towards the welfare and support of underprivileged children and woman, Droom, India’s pioneering online automobile transactional marketplace, today organizes a super exciting activity for children on the occasion of Youth Skill day, July 15^th. The campaign is a part of Droom’s Founder and CEO, Sandeep Aggarwal Foundation.

The campaign is a daylong event which includes a walk for “Clean Society-Clean India” to promote “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”, couple of creative activities such as Drawing competition and teaching some mind-blowing magic tricks to children of NGO – ZOE MISSION. These magic tricks were demonstrated and taught to kids by Droom Employees itself. Over 50 kids participated in this event.

The Sandeep Aggarwal Foundation, founded by Droom Founder and CEO, Sandeep Aggarwal is also sponsoring the education of 30 children for a year. The Foundation is also supporting especially abled children and underprivileged women since last year through one of its campaign.

Speaking on the launch of the campaign, Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, Droom, commented, “As a thoughtful ‘people’s’ organization which believes in spreading love and joy, we have always been committed towards the welfare of underprivileged children and woman. This is a small step towards that goal. Who knows, through our initiative, there emerges a great artist or a great magician? Many children fail to get wings for their ambitions to take off, due to the lack of opportunities and resources. It is our effort to bridge this gap so that no children are deprived of a livelihood they rightfully deserve.”

About Droom:-

Droom is India’s first and only online marketplace for buying and selling new and used automobiles. At over 65% of the automobile transactions market share online, Droom is the largest auto portal in India. Droom is not only the largest online automobile platform in India but also the 4th largest E-commerce company in India in terms of GMV. The automobile platform is category, seller, price, condition, and geography agnostic.

Droom platform has four marketplace formats i.e. B2C, C2C, C2B and B2B, and three pricing formats – Fixed Price, Best Offer and Auction. The platform offers wide range of categories from bicycle to plane and all automobile services such as warranty, RSA, insurance and auto loan. Droom uses data science to build trust at scale with a US Patent technology called Full Circle Trust Score. Droom has also built the de-facto pricing standard for used vehicles in India – OBV, which has a US patent. Droom has built the entire ecosystem for India so that the transaction for used automobiles can take place with least degree of information asymmetry and morale hazard.

It has built tech and data science heavy tools to create the entire ecosystem around used automobiles, including OBV (pricing engine), Eco (121 points vehicle inspection), History (200 mil vehicle history records), Discovery (dozens of pre-buying tools) and Credit (India’s first and only marketplace for used vehicles loans).

Droom is currently doing $554 Mil+ in annualized GMV growing at the rate of 350% Y/Y, 159K+ auto dealers (largest auto dealer platform in India), presence in 500+ cities across India (largest hyper local marketplace), 24 Mil+ monthly visitors, nearly 5.8 Mil+ app downloads and 5 Mil+ Facebook community.

Droom has the best unit economics as compared to any other E-commerce platform in India. The company spends less than 5% of GMV to run marketing and the entire cost of the company is less than 4% of GMV in terms of the net burn. Droom is the only E-commerce platform which has successfully built the cost advantage and sophistication of the tech platforms with the strong data science layer, nobody else has been able to do it in India.

Droom is founded by Sandeep Aggarwal, who previously founded ShopClues at his house in California in Oct 2010, which became 5th Unicorn in India by January 2016. Droom is a Singapore Holding Company with its subsidiary in India and United States. Droom has so far raised close to $45 million dollars in four rounds of funding. Droom is head quartered in Gurgaon, India with a team size of 260+.

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In a one-of-a-kind initiative, Droom commemorates Father’s Day showering love and care on underprivileged children

Organizes a day out with movie screenings, special meals and exciting activities

New Delhi, 16 June 2017: Furthering its commitment towards being a thoughtful ‘people’s’ organization which believes in spreading love and joy, Droom, India’s pioneering online automobile transactional marketplace, decides to celebrate Father’s Day by sprinkling love into the lives of young deprived children. As a part of the initiative, Droom is organizing the special screening of Sachin: A Billion Dreams at PVR Naraina.

Sachin Tendulkar is an inspiration for cricket lovers as well as fence sitters across three generations. Cricket is akin to religion in India and Sachin being the God, nothing inspires the kids of this generation more than the way little master does. With this thought in mind, we decided to organize the special screening of the recent documentary on the life and career of the master blaster.

Commenting on the unique initiative Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, Droom, commented, “Traditionally, we have been celebrating Father’s Day by reveling fatherhood and the special father-child bond. This time we thought of doing something entirely different. Why not inspire, motivate and encourage unfortunate underprivilege kids by pampering them with love and joy, this Father’s Day?. This is where the idea bore its genesis from. We will be interacting with the children and speak with them about leadership, problem solving approach and sense of responsibility through fun filled people development activities, inspirational movie and outing sessions, lunch with kids and doing a plethora of other similar kind of activities, through the day.”

Speaking on the occasion he added “My father has a key role to play in making me who I am today. As a kid and even now, I have always looked up to my father and tried to emulate him in everything he does. Helping people is something I imbibed from my father and I want to make the most of every opportunity which comes my way. I would like to be a father-figure to these underprivileged kids and help them in whatever way I can.”

Droom will be volunteering with Smile Foundation’s Mission Education Programme, which promotes education and healthcare of the underprivileged children coming from backward rural and urban locations. The program promotes and catalyzes universal education among underprivileged children, build the process to induct these children into mainstream in a sustained manner, strengthen their abilities to cope up with the formal education system, enable them to emerge as productive assets and establish the foundation for nation building.

Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Santanu Mishra, Co- Founder and Executive Trustee, Smile Foundation said : India is home to one of the largest young population in the world, a greater portion of which is still uneducated and Education is the only way to come out of the vicious cycle of poverty. We are thankful to Droom  to extend their support for this initiative and share our vision for a better future of our children.

At present, the Mission Education initiative of Smile Foundation is directly benefiting to 23,000 children through 91 projects across 21 states in India. The day long community activity will be organized on 17th June.

About Droom

Founded in April 2014 in Silicon Valley, droom is India’s first online marketplace to buy and sell new and used automobiles and automobile services. Droom has taken a completely innovative and disruptive approach to build trust and pricing advantages for buyers.

The current experience of buying and selling an automobile is completely broken, antiquated and full of pitfalls. Droom offers a truly 21st century experience in buying and selling automobiles. With its technology driven marketplace approach, droom enables transactions between buyers and sellers by bringing transparency, building trust, and mitigating information asymmetry. Droom is a mobile first marketplace with a presence on three platforms i.e. Android, iOS and Desktop.

Droom is among the fastest growing consumer Internet companies in India with 136k+ B2C sellers, 26.8k+ products, 142k+ listings, 7,130 cr.+ in listed GMV, 4.46 Mil+ FB Community members (highest for any automobile community in India) and over 5.3Mil+ downloads for mobile apps.

Droom has a very strong and proven founding team with 50 years of combined experience in technology, Internet, E-commerce and FMCG including 20 years in Silicon Valley. Sandeep Aggarwal is founder of Droom. Prior to Droom, Sandeep founded ShopClues.com, India’s first and largest managed marketplace and 5th Unicorn in the Consumer Internet in India. Droom has a team of 275+ and is funded by some of the leading global venture investors.

About Smile Foundation

Smile Foundation is a national level development organisation founded in 2002 by a group of young corporate professionals who wereinspired by Senge’s philosophy – “Sustainability, social equality and the environment are now business problems. And corporate leaders can’t depend on governments to solve them …” (Peter Senge, Founder, Society for Organizational Learning). The founders recognized the need to facilitate and work with grassroots initiatives in India towards a civic driven change for effecting positive changes in the lives of underprivileged children, their families and communities.

The Foundation is working with a holistic approach in alignment with the Millennium Development Goals and now the Sustainable Development Goals of social development vis-à-vis ensuring accessibility to quality education for children, maternal and child healthcare, skill enhancement for youth and empowerment of women and girls.

The Foundation is directly benefitting over 400,000 children and their families from poor economic and social background every year, through more than 200 live projects on four thematic areas of Education, Healthcare, Vocational Skill Development and Empowerment of Women and Girls in over 950 remote villages and slums across 25 states of India.

The Foundation’s Mission Education Programme catalyzes improvement in learning outcomes of children in a joyful surrounding through participatory teaching learning materials, capacity building of teachers, nutrition support to children and infrastructure support, in partnership with competent community organizations. The Foundation invests in designing and delivering standardized processes to lay a strong educational foundation among the children from underprivileged background. As a result children get mainstreamed and are able to do well.

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Aim to provide quality education to 150 children from remote, urban and semi-urban areas

Sahibabad, May 11, 2017: As part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, has partnered with Smile Foundation to announce the launch of a ‘Mission Education Centre’ in Sahibabad. The centre will help the economically disadvantaged children in the area to gain access to education and basic healthcare.  With this project, Ingersoll Rand will provide quality education to children from remote, urban and semi urban areas. The program will help bring these children into mainstream in a sustained manner and strengthen their abilities to cope up with the formal education system.

Located in Sanjay Colony, Near Ambedkar Park, Arthala, Ghaziabad, U.P., The Mission Education Centre was inaugurated today in the presence of officials from Ingersoll Rand, Smile Foundation and the Mission Education Partners.

Ingersoll Rand began its partnership with Smile Foundation in the year 2015 to support Project Mission Education. Having received an overwhelming response in Kolkata, Ingersoll Rand and Smile Foundation are extending the project to Sahibabad, U. P. starting today.  The program will cater to children from class 1 to 6and thereafter help them enroll in mainstream education.. Through the Mission Education Centre, Ingersoll Rand and Smile Foundation will positively impact 150 children.

The project will directly benefit and empower children from underprivileged communities in the region. Indirectly, the program will also benefit the families of these children, teachers/ educators through training sessions and community sensitization programs and community workers through mobilization programs. Some of the key activities conducted as part of the program include classroom teaching learning, progress assessment of students, co-curricular activities such as health awareness, art & craft/music/ dance activities, physical education activities etc.

With a successful running of this program, we hope to make a difference in the:

• regular attendance and retention of these children in the education program
• holistic development through curricular and co-curricular activities
• overall improvement in the health status
• increase in confidence amongst all the beneficiaries towards working for better quality of life

Through the Mission Education, Smile Foundation along with its partners has provided education to over 21,000 children across 21 states of India and this year, it aims to positively impact 25,000 more children through Mission Education.

About Ingersoll Rand

Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) advances the quality of life by creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments. Our people and our family of brands — including Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Thermo King® and Trane® — work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings; transport and protect food and perishables; and increase industrial productivity and efficiency. We are a $13 billion global business committed to a world of sustainable progress and enduring results. Ingersoll Rand products range from complete compressed air and gas systems and services, to power tools, material handling and fluid management systems. The diverse and innovative products, services and solutions enhance our customers’ energy efficiency, productivity and operations. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.com or www.ingersollrandproducts.com.

About Ingersoll Rand in India

Ingersoll Rand is committed to India and is implementing strategies for product innovation and design for Industrial Technologies; Food Safety; Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. The company is based out of 21 locations in the country. Ingersoll Rand believes that Innovation for emerging economies is critical for products to succeed in these markets. The company has two world class manufacturing facilities at Naroda and Sahibabad; and Engineering and Technology Centers at Bangalore and Chennai. Ingersoll–Rand (India) Limited is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.co.in.

About Smile Foundation

Smile Foundation is a national level development organization working in the field of Education, Health & Livelihood & Women Empowerment.  Smile Foundation is implementing more than 200 projects across 25 states of India and directly benefitting more than 4, 00,000 beneficiaries.

Project Mission Education:

• 17.7 million children in India are currently out of school
• 25 million children are at risk of acute hunger
• 1 in 4 school going children have dropped out of school
• 73% of girls do not get past 10 years of school
• 33 million children in India are engaged in child labour

Last year, 21,346 children across 21 states of India were directly provided education under the initiative. This year, Smile Foundation aim to provide education to 25,000 children through Mission Education.

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•  Collaboration aimed towards catering to the educational and transformational needs of economically underprivileged children in Delhi and Noida

New Delhi, September 22, 2016: Intex Technologies, one of the leading consumer electronics major, today entered into a partnership with Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya (the School-after-School) for the upliftment of around 500 underprivileged children in Delhi and Noida. This collaboration is aimed at providing education as well as skills to those who have been deprived of their basic socio-economic needs, thereby helping them to enter the mainstream of society.

Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya (under the aegis of the Shanti Narayan Memorial Trust) is working towards the transformation of children to become skilled, productive and responsible adults with an enthusiasm for learning and an ambition to progress in life. Intex is supporting Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya in this endeavour to provide the deprived children with holistic learning opportunities. The aim is to provide supervision, guidance and inspiration to significantly improve their academic achievements, communication skills, self-confidence and overall personality development.

Intex also plans to replicate this model at other places within the Delhi NCR as well as in other Metros of India in years to come.

Speaking on the association, Ms Ishita Bansal, CSR Project Head, Intex Technologies said, “Intex Technologies has always endeavored to actively support community building initiatives aimed at promoting public welfare and empowering people. One of the pillars of empowerment for Intex is education, which enables and transforms the life of a child to become a better human being and Indian citizen. Working towards this goal, we have collaborated with Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya which has been doing great work to support the overall upliftment of 500 underprivileged children in Delhi and Noida.”

Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya is an initiative that started with 30 children, 2 volunteers and some citizen volunteers in 2006. It now extends to 460 school going and 30 non-school going children (218 girls and 242 boys) and 13 teachers. Its group of core members including its Founders Rear Admiral (Retd) H. C. Malhotra and Mr. Sunil Razdan as well as Mr Sanjeeva Narayan, Trustee of the Shanti Narayan Memorial Trust plan and steer the program duly integrated with the curriculum at the Government schools in Mayur Vihar – Phase 1, Delhi where they are mainstreamed for formal education.

Says Rear Admiral (Retd) H. C. Malhotra, Founder, Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya (GSV), “Without any designed formal blueprint, the journey of GSV slowly  gathered momentum involving inspirational, evolutionary and experiential learning amongst the parents, the children and all of us, with integral challenges, which had to be resolved and overcome. This had to be done with creative but acceptable solutions, to ensure a healthy progress so as to enable and provide these uncared for slum children from the banks of the Yamuna River with appropriate opportunity to be able to discover and explore their talents and potential, leading to their holistic transformation, as responsible, skilled and employable citizens. We express our warm appreciation and gratitude to Intex for their integrated support for this specific initiative and also to expand this unique learning experience to several places around the NCR and maybe across the country, wherever needed, as a CSR Mission.”

Intex Technologies has always endeavoured to actively support community building initiatives in every sphere that the company operates in. The company’s CSR philosophy is to influence its legacy of technology innovation to positively influence societies and human life, and offer new opportunities to more people. Based on this philosophy, the CSR Board Committee actively monitors and supervises all activities undertaken by the company aimed at promoting public welfare and empowering people. Education is one of the main pillars for community development for Intex and the company is supporting many initiatives in this sector.

For more info, please visit www.intex.in

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Social Media helps give ‘Ezee Hugs’ to more than 70,000 underprivileged children

Every year, the cold waves which sweep the northern belt of India affect thousands of underprivileged children. In order to protect them from harsh winters, Godrej Ezee Liquid Detergent has embarked on the Ezee Hugs Campaign, a woolen donation drive aimed at alleviating the winter related hardship of underprivileged children by providing them warm clothes.

This task is easier said than done as the campaign has to build effective reach, sensitize donor audience about the social cause, urge them to donate & then redistribute the collected woolens to needy children, and all this has to be accomplished in less than 30 days. The key to success lies in the ability to reach as many potential donors in the shortest possible time.

In its 7th edition, Ezee Hugs made Twitter, Facebook and YouTube the center piece of its media strategy to reach millions of people, built awareness about the cause and urged them donate woolens. This year Ezee Hugs has transformed into a major movement in social media platform by urging people to take up the #EzeeChallenge!

#EzeeChallenge urges people to brave the chill of winter without any woolens and warm clothes and share their picture or video on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The youth on the social media have taken the challenge and made a commitment to the cause by making the challenge go viral in the recent weeks.

Speaking on the campaign, Sunil Kataria, Business Head – India & SAARC said, “Ezee Hugs represents our continued commitment towards providing warmth to the underprivileged and needy children. The donation drive has been getting bigger every year and this year we expect an even higher number of donations through the support of over 100 schools around Delhi NCR. The sweaters collected through this drive will be donated to needy & underprivileged children through our NGO partner Aarohan.This campaign has grown progressively as an initiative weaving in the element of care, the core of brand Ezee. We are optimistic about spreading this initiative to more parts of the country and help needy children as much as we could. ”

Commenting on the social media outreach for the cause, he added, “The support of the people has been instrumental in our ability to provide warmth needy children every year and therefore, we decided to take the cause online this year with the #EzeeChallenge. The response on social media has given a fillip to the cause with many youth and social media users spreading the word and even making personal donations for the cause. I hope this small step encourages people to join us in making this endeavor even bigger this year and help in making a big difference in the lives of the underprivileged children.”

Apart from engaging with people on Twitter and Facebook, the brand has created an engaging video of people who actually took this challenge in Delhi and has effectively leveraged it to build awareness for this social cause in a clutter breaking way. Ezee Challenge has gone viral and received more than 5.5 lakh views on Facebook and 3.5 lac views on YouTube. The Ezee hugscampaign has succeeded in building significant engagement and conversation on social media with over 65000 social engagements. The campaign has mobilized more than 70,000 warm clothes.

Clothes donated as part of the initiative are washed in Ezee before being shared with the kids.This year Ezee Hugs has helped alleviate the winter related hardship of more than 70000 needy children with these collected warm clothes!

About Godrej Consumer Products:

Godrej Consumer Products Limited is the largest home-grown home and personal care company in India. We are constantly innovating to delight our consumers with more exciting, superior quality products at affordable prices.

We have bold ambitions and are becoming more agile and future ready. We rank number 1 in hair colour, household insecticides and liquid detergents and number 2 in soaps. In India, you grow up with our brands – Good knight, Cinthol, Godrej Expert, Godrej No. 1 – and we are now on our way to becoming an emerging markets FMCG leader.

In line with our 3X3 approach to international expansion, we are building a presence in 3 emerging markets (Asia, Africa, Latin America) across 3 categories (home care, personal wash, hair care). In 2010, we acquired the Indonesia based Megasari group, a leader in household insecticides, air fresheners and baby care. With the acquisition of Rapidol, Kinky and Frika in South Africa, and the Darling Group, a leading pan-Africa hair care company, we have a strong presence in the fast growing African hair care market. We acquired the Issue and Argencos groups in Argentina, leaders in hair colour, in 2010, and expanded our footprint to Chile through the acquisition in Cosmetica Nacional. Our UK business acquired in 2005 has a play in hair and personal care. We also operate in the Middle East and have a strong presence across SAARC countries.

To read more about GCPL, visit www.godrejcp.com

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The spectacle will travel to Delhi in December

Disney and Citi came together to ensure that 290 underprivileged children experienced the magical live musical – ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Children affiliated to multiple non-profits, namely Meljol – an NGO focused on providing  life skills training to children and  St. Jude India ChildCare Centres – a home away from home for children with cancer and their parents.

It is for the first time ever that Disney presented the timeless classic Beauty and the Beast to the Indian stage. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this classic musical love story was presented to Indian audiences on a much bigger scale than the mega-productions seen on New York’s Broadway and on London’s West End. Over 100 of the best musical theatre performers in India presented the story of Beauty and the Beast alive on stage, with world class production values, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Having won hearts across 28 countries, the Beauty and the Beast musical is completely developed locally in India, while retaining the original script and memorable music of the Broadway show. The production is in English at 130 minutes in duration.

The children also got an opportunity to walk backstage and interact with the cast of the show and even click pictures with the characters.

After having achieved stupendous success and rave reviews in Mumbai, with all ten shows sold-out, the show will now travel to Delhi in December 2015. There will be 12 shows held in the capital city starting December 19, 2015.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is the classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

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• Interacts with kids at Shelter Don Bosco
• Aviva Early Starters campaign launched by Sachin last month, to give 20 children a chance to live a day of their dream profession
• One child from the shelter to get a chance to enter the contest

Mumbai, August 25, 2015: As a part of Aviva India’s latest consumer connect initiative – Aviva Early Starters, Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, today, interacted with and inspired the children at Shelter Don Bosco in Mumbai. The initiative was launched last month to encourage children to start planning for their dreams early in life.

To inspire underprivileged children, Aviva will choose one child from the shelter as one of the 20 children who will be mentored as a part of the campaign.

The central inspiration for the campaign came from Sachin, who has been Aviva India’s brand ambassador since 2007. At the launch, Sachin said that he was able to realise his big dream because he started early.

“I could start playing for India at 16 because I started preparing for it at 8. An early start led to early success and helped me reach far.  Now with the Aviva Early Starters initiative, I am looking to give an early start to children’s careers and turn their big dreams to reality,” Sachin said.

The Early Starters initiative will take forward Aviva India’s award-winning ‘What’s Your Big Plan’ campaign. Aviva India will provide 20 children an opportunity to live their dream profession for one day.

Mahesh Misra, CDO, Aviva Life Insurance said, “Aviva India is committed to help children realise their big dreams. Our ‘What’s Your Big Plan’ campaign was highly successful in capturing these dreams. Now through our Aviva Early Starters initiative, we want to enable children to live their dreams. Sachin is an inspirational figure for the young India and we hope that this initiative will inspire not only the privileged but also the less privileged youth of the country.”

While Sachin will be the chief mentor for these children, renowned personalities like Dr Naresh Trehan, chef Kunal Kapur, fashion designers Shantanu & Nikhil, RJ Naved and artist Alka Raghuvanshi will also be a part of the Early Starters mentorship programme.

About Aviva India 

• Aviva Plc is one of the UK’s largest insurer and one of Europe’s leading providers of life and general insurance

• ­Aviva India is a joint venture between Dabur Invest Corp (DIC) and Aviva International Holdings Limited (AIH). Current paid up capital amounts to Rs 2,004.9 crore. DIC holds 74% of the share capital while AIH holds 26% of the share capital
• The Aviva India media centre at www.avivaindia.com/media includes images, company and product information and a news release archive

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Mumbai, December 24, 2014: Spreading cheer on Christmas eve, Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Trustee and CEO – Wockhardt Foundation and Author Enakshi Sengupta launched a book titled ‘A Worm in the Apple’ at Oxford bookstore, Churchgate. The book spins value based tales for children explaining what is right and what is wrong.

At the launch event, Author Enakshi Sengupta narrated a story from the book to give the book enthusiasts a feel of the book. Elaborating on the content of the book Enakshi said, “Teaching moral values to children and instilling positive values in them is an important part of parenting. Since children love reading stories, I felt the need to explain the importance of values to them through a book of stories on sins and values. A Worm in the Apple’ is a collection of 6 short stories explaining 6 out of 7 sins for children. This value-based storybook aims to benefit both privileged and underprivileged children. Through this book, I feel proud to be associated with Khel Khel Mein, an initiative of Wockhardt Foundation dedicated towards giving a better life to children.”

45 per cent proceeds of the book, which is the entire royalty received by the author from the publisher will go to Khel Khel Mein, a unique initiative of Wockhardt Foundation, comprising of edu-recreational centres for the underprivileged children aged 6 to 12 years. The programme teaches values and good habits to underprivileged children through fun and play.

Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Trustee and CEO – Wockhardt Foundation said “I am thankful to Enakshi Sengupta for associating with Khel Khel Mein and through her book helping raise funds for such a noble cause. I urge parents and primary education authorities to endorse and purchase the book that will doubly benefit the children of society as well as the underprivileged children in our city.”

Enakshi Sengupta is an academic and management consultant by profession who writes for children hoping they would create a world of imagination with an abundance of creativity.

The book costing Rs. 125 will be available for purchase at Oxford book store and e-commerce websites – Flipkart and eBay.

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Antano& Harini, Leaders in Neuro Linguistic Programming and the founders of School of Excellence, takes a unique noble initiative to transform the lives of 300 underprivileged children from three Missionary schools in Mumbai from 9^th -13^th December

•  Through Children Empowerment uP with NLP programme, Antano& Harini will help the kids in building a strong character, improve focus, enhance their interest in studies, get over focus & attention issues such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As well as overcome personal challenges using the best of Unconscious Patterning (uP) & Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques.

•  A free one-on-one NLP Bliss Session will be provided to every child at the missionary schools – St. Joseph’s- Juhu, St. Anthony’s- Versova & St. Louis school premises from 9^th to 13^th December, with targeted change work for each student, by qualified uPwithNLP Practitioners trained by Antano and Harini, from around the country. These sessions are done one-on-one by the Practitioner to help each student overcome their unique challenges and set them in a direction towards achieving their dreams

10^th December,2014,Mumbai: Antano Solar John and Harini Ramachandran – Leaders in Neuro Linguistic Programming, and founders of School of Excellence will be organizing a free Children Empowerment Programme as their Corporate Social Responsibility from 9^th -13^th December in Mumbai.

Expert uPwithNLP Practitioners trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) by Antano& Harini will be using NLP patterning, on a one-on-one basis with every child in these school premises. These children are from the economically weaker & underprivileged section of the society and face many self-development and goal-oriented problems

The UnConscious Patterning (uP) & Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) based modules delivered by Antano and Harini, as well the targeted one-on-one NLP Bliss sessions will help the children in building strong character, improve focus & enhance their interest in studies. It will also help them get over focus & attention issues such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and overcome any personal challenges they may be going through, on a day-to-day basis.

Children sometimes suffer from low confidence, lack of focus & vision, low morale, distraction and many such issues, especially issues such as ADHD which Doctors, Teachers and Parents worry about a lot these days. With so much to do, and so many distractions, children tend to go off-track easily, so these sessions use very specific, targeted NLP Patterning in transforming their outlook towards life and make them more positive, as well as set on a result oriented approach in their journey. The changes brought about through these sessions by Antano and Harini and their team of uP with NLP Practitioners are immediate, measurable and self-sustaining, They use the finest of uP with NLP techniques to make sure each individual gets over their challenges and focuses ahead in their studies and develops a strong personality.

Though these sessions can be organized through group lectures for the children in different clusters, Antano & Harini are of the opinion that specific, targeted change sessions works uniquely for each student and ensures long-lasting results. Every student has different issues, working with them on one-on-one basis and installing superior strategies is the way forward, so that they will not just be temporarily motivated, but the changes will continue to sustain and grow with time. Each of the uPwithNLP Practitioners that will be working with the students are trained extensively in uPwithNLP patterning by Antano and Harini which are engineered for making changes sustainable in the long run.

In addition to the one-on-one transformation, Antano and Harini (NLP Leaders) will do conversational programming with the children to get them more oriented towards their dreams and goals  and bake in the spirit to build a great future. This programme will also have expert practitioners of uPwithNLP program from all over India assisting Antanoand Harini in these school premises.

Vijaydeep Varma, one of the uPwithNLP Practitioners, who heads School First, an organization that is a one-stop, end-to-end School Needs Service Provider around the world has roped in the above schools first for this initiative. He plans to bring in more schools from all over India in the near future where Antano, Harini of School of Excellence, together with uPwithNLP Practitioners trained by them, make a difference in the life of every student. School First  provides one stop, end to end school need services to 1,60,000 schools worldwide.

The Module will be executed in the following format:

1. Two hours of conversational programming by Antano Solar John and Harini Ramachandranfor the following:

– Vision
– Beliefs and Convictions
– Determination
– Motivation

2. 4 Hours of One-on-One meeting in a volunteer-led group of uP    withNLP Practitioners trained by Antano and Harini. Each volunteer will be given 10 students to work one on one for two things:

– Removing Obstacles (Focus, get over bad/unhealthy relationships, distractions, get over ADHD, improve confidence, enhance concentration, get over bad memories, get over bad habits etc.)
– Programming for Peak Performance

3. Two hours of Conversational Programming by Antano Solar John and Harini Ramachandran for the following:
– Generalizing the Change
– Building in Self Correcting Mechanisms
– Passion for Studies and Growth
– Importance of building a Strong Character
– Channelizing energy and focus in the direction of Studies and Growth

This activity is scheduled as follows:

• St. Joseph’s Juhu on (9th and 10th)
• St. Anthony’s Versova (11th and 12th)
• St. Louis Seven Bungalow (13th)

Over the last 3 years, Antano and Harini have worked with thousands of individuals and have helped them Miraculize their life (TM) by bringing immediate and measurable changes in their mindsets, career &personal lives.

School of Excellence, founded in 2011 by Antano Solar John (International Tech Author – currently acknowledged as one of the finest in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Harini Ramachandran. It is inspired by the concept of Replicating Excellence found in Geniuses to make them available to the common man. It identifies geniuses from different fields, codes their skill and nurtures a nationwide movement to make that skill and its benefits available to the common man.  It is a pioneer in engineering Human Excellence for “Leveraging Models of Genius from NLP for 21st Century needs.”

Some more information about the Social Drive with the Children happening in Mumbai from 9^th-13^th December here: http://www.antanosolar.com/blog/lets-help-300-school-children-december-mumbai/

Updates about the daily happenings in these events will also be documented on http://www.antanosolar.com

More on the Founders:

Antano Solar John – http://www.antanosolar.com

Harini Ramachandran (Singer Megha) – http://www.hariniramachandran.com, http://www.singermegha.com

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