SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

~ Stressed school-going children desperately need after-school stress busting mechanisms; reveal experts ~ India’s fastest growing after-school hangout ‘Scooldudes.com’ enters Mumbai and rest of  Maharashtra When ‘during-the-school’ stress levels have pushed 12 per cent of Indian children within the age-group of four to 18 years suffer from psychiatric disorders and about 20 per cent into mental disorders, yet another alarming situation has come forth. According to the Survey conducted by Scooldudes.com, India’s first-of-its-kind after-school hangout for children, has revealed that the school going children in Mumbai within the age group of 10 to 18 years have reported the maximum school and education-centric stress levels. From among 5,000 school-going children surveyed out of eight cities and 2,000 children from Mumbai within the age-group of 10 to 18 years, about 80 per cent of them were found in acute stress levels; mainly owing to factors like pressure of da...

The cheerful faces of excited children blushed the red roses at the World Vision India  Partners Meet in Mumbai on 27th February. I know there are too many adverbs in a single sentence but can not help praising the World Vision India. Such was the exhilarating , refreshing and mood-boosting atmosphere at the partners meet that, all of us first time visitors are grateful to World Vision India for absorbing us in their Multi-Dimensional activities. World Vision India is a Christian humanitarian organization working to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, caste, race, ethnicity or gender. Spread across 174 districts in India, World Vision works through long-term sustainable community development programmes and immediate disaster relief assistance I am passionate about children-cause so I grabbed this opportunity to blog for World Vision India...