Balabharati updates - June 2017

Namaste

Balabharati team shares with you the updates of the month.

July month Magazine and Yojana :   

The 56th edition of BB Magazine and the corresponding Yojana soft copy for July 2017 is updated in the resources blog home page ( right side ). Visithttp://balbharati-resources.blogspot.in/  Hope centers have contacted nearest Balabharati Pramukh and collected the hard copies for the kids. Magazine and Yojana soft copy also attached in this mail. Subhashita Audio for July month story is updated in resources blog ​( http://balbharati-resources.blogspot.in/2017/05/subhashita-on-learning-from-our.html ) ​

Subhashita for July uploaded in resources blog at    http://balbharati-resources.blogspot.in/2017/07/subhashita-think-before-you-act.html  

Special activity in last week of the month ( July ) :  

For June, the special activity conducted in the last week of the month is about RIVERS. Elders from the apartment can be called to narrate to the children their experience with life in village, their association with Rivers, how we worship and care for them. They can teach the shloka "Gange cha yamune chai va" to kids. Persons from different states can be called so that children can listen about multiple rivers. 

News and events from centers:   

• New Balabharati has started in Alpine Eco apartment, Doddanekkundi ( Near Maratahalli) Kundalahalli Khand

• New Balabharati started in Saptagiri apartment, Munnekolala, Kundalahalli khand 

• NGV and ST Bed BB of Koramangala had arranged a trip ( sahal ) to Lalbagh. 9 families participated. Several toher families who were watching the Balabharati kids play came and enquired and joined the group, learnt about Balabharati and showed interest to involve.

• The shikshika teams meetings were held at 3 places in the city on July 1/2 week end. Over 90 shikshikas and several shikshaks and supporting karyakartas participated. All centers shared their experiences, and also challenges and ways to overcome them and strengthen  the Balabharati process. 

• In the shikshika teams baithak, many shikshikas shared experience of conducting summer camps.  Prior to that, around the month of March 2017, we had sent an email asking shikshikas and parents to share suggestions and ideas for summer camp. The ideas collected and the ideas implemented by shikshikas in few Balabharatis are compiled in the attached excel sheet. There are about 50 activities that came up, which can be conducted by parents and neighbours themselves for kids. We can continue to think in these lines for upcoming vacation periods, particularly summer of 2018. 

The monthly Balabharati updates is also available under the kids blog at     http://balbharati-kids.blogspot.in/search/label/bbnews    Since many of the parents' email ids may not be in this mailing list, shikshikas/shikshaks are requested to share the above link in whatsapp to all parents and other shikshikas who are not receiving this email. 

Correction:  In June magazine, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi's punyatithi year got printed as 1958 instead of 1858. Error is regretted. 

Shubham

Balabharati Team