These slides describe the ongoing work with the Children's Home, Mumbai that I am involved with.

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G.R.O.W.
Give Remand-home-children Opportunity and Will

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How it started…
 GROW is an initiative started by three students of The Cathedral and
John Connon School, namely: Vidit Bhandarkar, Aditi Guha, and
Amaesha Durazi.
 The objective of GROW is to help underprivileged children living at the
Remand Home. The Home suffers from a lack of adequate funding.
This prevents the children from having access to some necessities like
clothing, adequate food, clean water etc.
 We thus decided to take matters into our own hands and help in any
way we could.

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First Task
 The number of children at the Remand Home vary from time to time.
When we first met the Warden, a big group of children had been
rescued from a factory where they were victims of child labor. These
children were brought to the Home. This facilitated an immediate need
for uniforms. Arranging these uniforms was our first real task.
 We bought the girls undergarments and got new uniforms stitched for
them

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Long Term Goal
 The Children at the Remand Home are cooped up for most of the day
and they have a lot of unused energy. This generally results in a lot of
fights.
 I felt that keeping the children engaged in a sport is the best way for
them to use this energy.
 We decided to provide them with a basketball hoop, throw ball and
volleyball nets and carom boards.
 After buying the equipment, we went to the Remand Home and set it
up with the help of some of the children.
 We have also decided to play these sports with them and teach them
how to sing; another great way of spending time.

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Funding
 In order to procure funds for the sports equipment and clothing, we
made posters and created a website to raise awareness about our
cause.
 The funds came in slowly at first but after a month or so we had
enough to buy the equipment.
 Our target audience is mainly the parents of students who are
privileged enough to go to schools like ours.
 The school also pitched in and the entire proceeds of this year’s bake
sale (sale of home-made cookies and donuts) have been made
available for the uniforms

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The Poster

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Independence Day
 We were honored to be invited for the Independence Day celebration
at the Home where we joined the children in singing the national
anthem and watched them hoist the flag.
 We then watched skits performed by them.
 This was a very pleasant experience and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Future Plans
 Our school, The Cathedral and John Connon School, really liked what
we were doing with the Remand Home.
 They want to make, ‘cleaning The Remand Home’ an annual Socially
Useful Productive Work (SUPW) project for the 11th and 12th graders.
 We immediately jumped at this opportunity and approached the
Warden to get his approval who agreed without any hesitation.