31^st January 2019

Subject:  Bright Kids Foundation – 2nd Newsletter

Dear Donors,

Thank you so much for your generous donation which aids our mission and gives a child the opportunity to discover the world of education.

We are pleased to share further progress on our projects with our patrons. Bright Kids Foundation is currently devoting its time, resources, passion and love to three projects right now- ‘Project Bright Kids’, ‘School with a difference’ and ‘Khadavali School project’.

It gives us immense joy to inform you about the progress of these projects.

School With A Difference:  Bright Kids Foundation launched its first ‘School With A Difference’ (SWD) project in July 2018 at Sangharsh Nagar- a slum rehabilitated area in Powai, Mumbai wherein a group of 10 students between the age group of 4 to 7 years are being imparted quality education, with modern teaching aids to make the learning process fun.  We focus on English as this will enable them to have access to better opportunities in life.     We have launched a second SWD in September 2018 in another slum area in Powai with 10 students. We constantly visit the children in these schools to review their progress.   Every child has an ‘Individual Learning Plan’ based on his/her learning ability.   Thus, there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach which typically stresses young minds.   Children’s minds are stimulated with puzzles, fun quizzes, coloring books, storytelling, music and dance.

A 3^rd school that caters to children in the 7-11 years’ age group has just been started -again in Powai, on Sundays.  Children learn Maths and English – but in addition they’re taught health, nutrition, hygiene, moral values (through story telling), dancing (Dance Movement Therapy through a Psychologist) and games. Most children come from troubled homes and hence DMT helps them cope with the stress of living in such environments.

We are in the process of enrolling of some of these kids from SWD batches to a standard English Medium school for the academic year 2019-20

Khadavali School Project:  Our project for the year 2018 was to support the construction of a proper school building at Khadavali, a small village on the outskirts of Mumbai in the Thane District. Despite having an incomplete infrastructure, the school run by Sakina Education Trust manages to provide education to over 400 children.  Thanks to all your generous donations BKF could form part of a small development by providing 2 lakhs that helped the trust begin the construction of 3 classrooms.

The budget to build the school completely with all amenities and infrastructure is Rs.1 crore. BKF would like to be a part of this mission so that many deserving bright kids of Khadavali can be accommodated in the school.

Project Bright Kids:  For academic year 2018 – 19, Bright Kids Foundation has been able to fund an entire academic year of education of 45 children from Mumbai, Chennai, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. We got our first CSR grant of 6 lakhs from CAMS (Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd, Chennai) and all of this would not have been possible without your support and belief in us. We hope we continue to make you proud and give our kids the bright future they deserve.  We are aiming to support 100 children for academic year 2019 -2020.

We appreciate your great support and commitment to our cause. We wouldn’t be able to do all the good work without you! The best soldier cannot function without the necessary arms and ammunition – if we’re the soldiers on the ground, you provide us the arms and ammunition – hence we hope to continue to receive your support.

Our Website URL: https://www.brightkidsfoundation.org/

We will provide periodic updates so that you can keep up with our progress. You have made a difference in the educational initiatives that Bright Kids Foundation has begun.

Warmest regards and our heartfelt thanks,

Team Bright Kids Foundation