Our trip to the Dream a Dream Foundation in Bangalore proved to be very worthwhile. Lynn and myself (Kris) visited on the Tuesday 25th March and had a long chat with Namrata the Volunteer Manager of the project who gave us background on the project. Dream a Dream has been running for eight years and was started by 11 young volvunteers who wanted to give something back to their community. Initially this involved taking disadvantaged kids from orphanages or from hospitals for those suffering from HIV and AIDS out on day trips, for a picnic or to the cinema. Good news spread and soon enough more people wanted to get involved and the project took off to the degree that it had to formally set up as a charitable organisation in 2001. They now work with children aged 6 - 18, helping to provide them with the necessary skills for life, with the firm idea that these skills are transfered through fun learning techniques rather than a serious study environment.
They work directly with 6 partner schools and orphanages in Bangalore and have a great support from local businessed and othr NGOs and charities working in the area. They have worked with over 500 children and run a bank of 700 volunteers from within the community. Their projects involve arts and creative programs, IT programs, sports programs, social programs and mentoring. All benefit from high levels of professionalism. We were able to go along to one of the sports sessions and th kids in their official bright orange Dream a Dream foundation tracksuits certainly seemed to be having fun anihilating us at table tennis.
This gave us a lot of inspiration and ideas for ways to help take the Kullu Project forward, especially in terms of involving the local community in volunteering and hopefully sponsorship. We left with a renewed sense of enthusiasm to get moving with our task ahead and will be ready to start implementing our ideas after arrival on the 11th March in Manali.
http://dreamadream.org/
They work directly with 6 partner schools and orphanages in Bangalore and have a great support from local businessed and othr NGOs and charities working in the area. They have worked with over 500 children and run a bank of 700 volunteers from within the community. Their projects involve arts and creative programs, IT programs, sports programs, social programs and mentoring. All benefit from high levels of professionalism. We were able to go along to one of the sports sessions and th kids in their official bright orange Dream a Dream foundation tracksuits certainly seemed to be having fun anihilating us at table tennis.
This gave us a lot of inspiration and ideas for ways to help take the Kullu Project forward, especially in terms of involving the local community in volunteering and hopefully sponsorship. We left with a renewed sense of enthusiasm to get moving with our task ahead and will be ready to start implementing our ideas after arrival on the 11th March in Manali.http://dreamadream.org/
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