Cricket and Service: A Perfect Duo

It was a beautiful day for cricket on April 21st, the day of the pitch-off for Vibha’s flagship event : the FutureTech Cricket Cup 2012. In what started out to be a day with variable weather and slight drizzles was very rapidly converted to an afternoon filled with intensity and cheers for the respective teams [...]

2nd DC Spelling Bee 2012: Outstanding participation in a unique event

VIBHA WASHINGTON, D.C. Vibha (meaning effulgence or radiance in Sanskrit), is a volunteer driven organization dedicated to uplifting the lives of underprivileged children in India and the US.  The DC Action Center organized the Spelling Bee 2012 event on March 4th at Nysmith School, VA for the second time. Vibha DC commends Nysmith School for [...]

Bowl for a Child: The takeoff of the Boston Action Center

VIBHA BOSTON Our first fundraiser, Bowl for a Child, was to take place at Boston Bowl on March 10th, 2012. Even though the Boston Action Center was in its infancy, Arvind, Prabhu, and I seized to opportunity to have our first fundraiser. With only one week to pull it off, we sent out emails in [...]

Vibhasana

by Ansy Mathews Reminiscing back to what we did over the past weekend (Nov 5-6), volunteers here in Bayarea did a phenomenal job managing Vibha’s 1st ever Vibhasana Yoga Conference. During the conference we got to experience first hand the meaning of Yoga which is ‘to join’, ‘to unite’ or ‘to attach’. This spirit of [...]

2011, the year so far..

It has been a busy year so far for Vibha with a number of exciting activities.  Here are the highlights. 1) Launch of Adopt-a-Project: With this new program, a patron can donate his or her money to particular projects pre-selected by Vibha that focus on child development initiatives. This is great news for patrons who [...]

Countdown to Pragati’11 – Vibha Pune Action Center’s Initiatives

This series of posts is leading to Pragati ’11 – a two day project wide conference to be organized by Vibha in Pune, India. This particular post is written by Alija Sule, a volunteer with Vibha Pune.  Alija is currently a third year Graphic Design student at the MIT Institute of Design. It is rightly [...]

Taal- follows the beat

On April 29,2011, more than 130 children and their parents braved rain and bitter cold to participate in TAAL, an annual Indian dance and music competition for children organized by the Twin Cities, MN Action Center of Vibha. This is the third consecutive year that Vibha is organizing this event in the Twin Cities metro.  In three [...]

Autism and India

- Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar By one definition, autism is defined as a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. At first glance, it seems relatively harmless. It doesn’t affect regular bodily functions, it doesn’t cause deformities, and it just affects [...]

They too need our help to grow!

- Abraham Pabbathi 1.5 million, that’s the number of kids who go to sleep without a home each year.  No we are not talking about some third world country; these are statistics from America (homelesschildrenamerica.org). Most of these kids don’t know where their next meal is going to come from. Most of these kids are [...]

Navjyoti Annual Souvenir Release

Navjyoti India Foundation was established in 1988 by Kiran Bedi and a group of police officers to promote welfare policing which resulted in the drug de-addiction program. Since then Navjyoti has focused on a wide variety of issues such as education, women empowerment, family counseling, rural and urban development, health, HIV/AIDS, environment. Over 12,000 people [...]