Donation from Centre Point School

Centre Point School donated seven big boxes of books for our library. After putting in hours of hardwork, our library is finally complete! To ensure proper management, we have even made a library register to keep track of books borrowed.

Thank you to Centre Point School for this great donation!

Celebration of Children's Day in Nav- Jeevan!

For Children's Day, students dressed up in their nicest and colourful clothes.








The teachers prepared a great programme for their students: they sang, acted and danced for them! Fun games like throwball were also organized for the students!

The students enjoyed the programme very much and appreciated the effort that the teachers put in it.

Starting a Nav- Jeevan- Composter

Nav- Jeevan- Composter after 7 days

As the NJS-school has a lot of organic kitchen waste, we started a Nav-Jeevan-Composter close to our vegetable garden.

Here you can see the kids throwing their banana peel into the composter.

Collecting dried leaves and adding them into the composter is very important to get good compost! Thank you, Samuel, for helping with that!

Same amount of kitchen waste and dried leaves (or shredded newspaper) will get compost in only 90 days.

What can go in our Nav-Jeevan-Composter?

We hope that with the help of the kitchen staff we can maintain our Nav-Jeevan-Composter!
This sheet is attached to the fridge in the kitchen.

Kids enjoying their new Merry-Go-Round!

Improvement of the NJS-Playground

Thanks to Family Hecht

Franzi, a volunteer at Nav-Jeevan, tells us about her family who visited the Dr.T.S. Wilkinson Memorial School in October 2013:

My parents Gerlinde and Henning and my brother Maxi travelled to India to get to know the country, the people, and the way I am living and working here at Nav-Jeevan-Sanstha.

During their stay they wished to contribute something to improve the life of the Nav-Jeevan children. We visited a factory to choose a Merry-Go-Round for the kids.

They also brought a lot of teaching material which will be helpful for the English teachers.

Nav- Jeevan is always grateful to receive any In-Kind-Donations which will help the students in their academics, sports and physical activities.

 

After a week the Merry-Go-Round was delivered and was set up by Anup, warden of NJS, and the staff of the company.

After having watched the construction attentively the children unfortunately had to wait a few more days until they were allowed to jump on it and enjoy their freetime, because the cement of the basement had to dry properly.

Finally after the Diwali Holidays the kids were free to use the Merry-Go-Round as much as they like- which is a lot!

It is great to see these smiling faces having so much fun during their schoolbreak and freetime.

 

So again we say Thank You so much for this great help!

"A good deed never goes unrewarded in the eyes of God." 

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

If you are interested in another donation (such as the Banana Climber that you can see in the picture below) please contact us and we will be happy to arrange it!

Yashwant as the NJS-Tailor

One day, Yashwant took the sewing machine out of the library and all of a sudden, many children living in the hostel started to give him their broken clothes to mend them.

In the picture below you can see Yashwant repairing the school uniforms for his friends.

The question why he knows how to sew he answered proudly:

“My father showed me how to do this!”

The Know-How of sewing is very important to Indian children. If they are struggling in their education, sewing still gives them a possibility to get a job after they leave school. 
As a next project we will send some children to sewing classes regulary.

 

NJS- students' great drama performance

Studens from Nav- Jeevan performing "The story of a wise man selling wisdom"

The students of 6^th and 7^th class performed the drama Balbharati in English language during the programme for my parents Henning, Gerlinde and my brother Maxi who visited NJS for four days.

Isha as Queen Rupa
Sachi as Queen Rupa's Maid

Meena as Queen Tara 

Rohit as King

Varsha as Queen Tara's Maid (left)

Gaurav as Charnu 
Yeshwant as Fetehsingh

Anil as Buddhisagar (left)

The children hardly practiced for three weeks and they did such a great job!

"One last bow please!"

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Documentation- Heartbreaking Life Stories 

As a new project we started to write down together with Aneeta, Iris and Vicky the life stories of the children whose parents live in abject poverty and are not able to pay fees for their children's education.

In the photo you can see Tanushree and Yash during our interview. 

 

Seema, the mother of the siblings, works as cook in the school. You can see her in the picture above.

Yash and Tanushree were one of the first children joining NJS and her mother Seema provided the hungry mouths of all the hostel children since the school and the hostel were set up with delicious food.


NJS offers completely free shelter, food, education and medical care to about 35 children who otherwise would live in abject poverty.

Help one of these 35 children and become a sponsor!  

If you are interested in sponsoring a child or would like some more information about it please feel free to contact us.

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