Believe you can and you’re half way there! The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in drastic changes in everyone’s routine and lifestyle causing distress/anxiety in most cases. Children especially, are affected due to school closures and not being able to connect with their circle of friends. Through this daunting situation, engaging in an any form of […]
Travail to Triumph! A Beam of Delight for Children from Shelter Homes to exhibit their flair during the COVID Pandemic Lockdown. The tough and testing times always have us on tip-toes in general to focus on activities and creativity that brings us a sense of excitement and peace. From young to old, it’s been hard […]
One of its kind initiatives, Nakshatra is Bhumi’s annual inter-shelter home art, cultural, and sports talent fest for children to exhibit their talents and explore the potential in an atmosphere of healthy competition. Bhumi’s Bengaluru team decided to take the concept of Nakshatra a notch up by making it inclusive and organising Nakshatra Specials, a […]
29th September 2019 – Sunday, read the calendar. It was not just any other Sunday; perhaps, one of those very few (Sun)days we’d not have to do a quick ‘phone-grab’ to check the date! The morning of this oh-so-special Sunday witnessed the coming together of 503 kids from 18 shelters at the New Horizon College, […]
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time” Taking the cue from Rabindranath Tagore’s words we decided to give Nakshatra (Bhumi’s annual talent festival) a makeover for the first ever Nakshatra for schools conducted on Feb 23, 2019 at Olcott Memorial School, Chennai Designed around Howard Gardner’s Multiple […]
Bhumi Group an NGO from Chennai every year arranges Nakshatra 2016 various activities throughout the country for the underprivileged children. This year this programme was arranged in 14 different states of India. Our children were also invited to take part in the various events. The venue was Karnataka high school in Kothrud, Pune and the […]
“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves” – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru One such day of wonder and emotional adventure, for me was 24th July, 2016. After a month of planning, attending meetings every weekend in Lakshmi Devi Park, late night conference […]
7th Feb, 2016 marked the inter-home sports fest day organised by Bhumi. This event witnessed participation from many orphanages and shelter homes in and around Chennai. The event provided a platform for children to exhibit their talent, athletic prowess, and develop sportsmanship attitude. Coming from a lesser privileged background, these children hardly get any exposure […]
Nakshatra, Bhumi’s annual inter-children’s home talent festival was conducted by Bhumi on Sunday, 13 July 2014 at MCC Higher Secondary School, Chetpet. The sixth edition of the national talent fest is expected to be bigger and better this year with 6,000 children participating in six cities across India. The guests of honour at the inaugural […]