Showing posts with label Prajwal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prajwal. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2014

Storytelling...

The kids love to listen to stories and to read stories. It's also really nice to see the older kids reading to the little kids.

A few nights a week, an older boy reads a story from the boys' iPad to the other boys. The big boys enjoy reading to the little ones, and the little ones love to hear stories!

Prajwal reading to the boys

Here's Prajwal, one of our older boys, reading a story to the other boys after the evening prayer time. 


Makes for a nice family environment!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Best boy/best girl catch-up

Recent months' "Best Boys" and "Best Girls" (a prize given out each month to the kid who displayed the best behavior for that month) at Karunya Mane were:

March - Prajwal / Shwetha
April - Sreenivasa / Sowmya
May - Surya / Mamatha

Prajwal started 7th grade this year, in English medium. Always polite, neat, well-behaved, and disciplined, he's an outstanding kid who has the potential to great things in this world.

Prajwal
Shwetha started 5th grade this year. She gets very good grades in school and her behavior has improved tremendously -- the temper tantrums that she once displayed have disappeared and she's improved in all areas of behavior.

Shwetha
Sreenivasa, who attends boarding school and is now in 11th grade, returns to Karunya Mane on the holidays. When he's back, he provides great relief to our boys' house mother by helping her out with the little boys. Sreenivasa has grown into a responsible, mature young man and we're quite pleased to see that he seems to have outgrown his "street boy" behavior.

Sreenivasa (right) with Shashidhar Sir (one of our teachers) during the Holi madness fun!
The May best kids were repeat "bests" -- Mamatha and Surya -- who are consistently high performers in all areas -- school performance, behavior, chores, overall demeanor -- and as their prize, they got to go shopping with us at Easy Day for the sports equipment that we donated to the kids' school!

Surya doing his homework during tuition time. 
Mamatha

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Dancing!

In January, the kids got invited to participate in a dance competition in the city, against a few other children's home. The event was hosted by the Aashayein Fondation, a nice charity that helps others like us with stuff, and events like this.

Although it was a competition, we sent not our "best" dancers but our kids who needed the chance to perform in public to help bring out their personalities a bit more. Surprisingly, the kids won a prize for their performance and really got the audience excited during their number!

We're sure that they're *cuteness* contributed to them winning a prize!

Ready to go: Prajwal, Razak, Vinuta, Sadiq, Kartik, Shilpa, Kavya
Vinuta, Shilpa, Mamatha, Kavya, Netra, Prajwal, Meharbanu (house mother) Razak, Sadiq, Kartik and Blackie our dog 
Kumar, one of our teachers, stopped in to provide some moral support.

Netra and Razak front and center 
Sadiq and Kavya
Kartik and Mamatha