Food4Thought Foundation recognises Esha's efforts in promoting reading

When you get a call and the person on the other side says, "We have researched your work and we would like you to nominate yourself for this recognition", the first response is gratitude. 

The entire process of nomination to the award ceremony was such a beautiful, positive experience. This is how awards and recognitions should be conducted. It is an honour to get this recognition. 

You can see this event here: 3rd india reading olympiad 2021~Virtual Award Ceremony | Facebook

The event was conducted on January 23rd. We just waited to share our happiness. :) 

When a simple blog gets noticed.. Thank you!

Today, I woke up to a pleasant surprise.. the Esha blog has been noticed and mentioned by the indiantopblogs:


http://www.indiantopblogs.com/2018/01/blogs-for-social-cause.html


As the readers of this blog are aware, this is a list and platform that I truly value because this is a list that is dominated by quality, not the blitz. The writing is simple and effective and the presentation is brief. In short, all substance and no jazz - just the way we like it.


Thank you so much, Indiantopblogs team!


In other news, preparation for Tour De Vision 2018 is in full swing and we hope you will make time to join us in our work for public space accessibility.


Feb 18, Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon.

We Are The City Rising Stars Champion Award, 2017

Esha won The Rising Stars Champion Award (5 winners this year) for our work on creating an on demand knowledge resource. This is really heartening for us because we work on empowering women - not just in the white collar category.

The citation is here: http://wearethecity.in/nidhi-arora-esha-braille/



SOIL Esha team wins the best outgoing SIP Team - 2016! Celebration Time!!

It is our pleasure and privilege to share that our Social Innovation Program team from #SOIL - School of Inspired Leadership, has won the Best Outgoing SIP Team this year. This is an honour well deserved by the team - that worked really hard all through the year on everything that Esha does, and then some more - Blind Walk, Social Media Management, Tour De Vision, doing Braille cards, and other projects.

Please join us in congratulating Rethina Kumar, Vigneshwar Ganesan, Cauvery Jalan and Saranya Balasubramanian - for being the rock stars that they have been! Thank you Atindra Nath Bhattacharya sir and the entire SOIL team for your encouragement. And of course, Randonneur Rajesh Dhuddu for his awesome mentoring.

To celebrate their journey with Esha, they have created a special video covering everything that they did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYggRDCD8M

And to hear their experience , we recommend that you head to Esha's Youtube channel, where videos of their feedback, and of the previous batch, are uploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/user/eshabraille/videos

The SIP Team of SOIL 2014-15

Last year, the SIP presentation at SOIL was scheduled for 10th June. That was the day my kid sister was getting married. Rajesh Dhuddu, a friend of Esha who is also on our Advisory Panel, very graciously agreed to take the presentation. And we had 4 students who chose us - Karen, Pooja, Vrishin and Amit.

The year started with them looking for an office for Esha. The next activity that they trained for was taking the students of TSRS to the blind school visit. They also were sent to the Karol Bagh blind school to meet Nirdosh, and see the people they were going to work for in the year ahead.

After that, the planning for the cycling event started. From October to Feb, the team worked on the cycling trip, meeting every week for project updates, getting encouragement, support, admonishment, and general push to keep going. They were ably mentored by Rajesh Dhuddu , and on the 8th of Feb, 2015, we had our first TourdeVision, all thanks to the SOIL students, Alisha, and all of the Friends of Esha.

But that was not a place to rest on our laurels. Very soon, the team was working on updating all the communication content of Esha. And on the last SIP day - March 18th, I took the day off to treat them to a very special experience. The day started early - very early. After all, we had to travel from Gurgaon to Greater Noida. The team witnessed the 9Tanki workshop conducted by Raju Koli, and the impact it has on the school students.
After that, we went to the India Habitat Center. To do our first "Blind Walk" . Tour De Vision had tried to raise awareness abt the fact that there simply aren't enough disabled people out in public spaces. The Blind Walk tried to understand why that is - by closing our eyes and trying to access public spaces. This event was covered by the Times of India and brought much public awareness about the issue.

To thank them for their participation, we got momentoes made for the team. And the best news came 2 days ago - Esha was adjudged the best NGO, that provides students with the best learning opportunity! Today, Rajesh and I attended the convocation to receive the award.. and what a day!!

Do see a photo journey of the year here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.965620650128731.1073741834.180352898655514&type=1

Raju Koli winner of karamaveer purasukaar

Today I am feeling very glad after getting this Karamaveer
Puraskaar. I want to thank Nidhi Mam,Jerry Sir And his Team for giving
me this opportunity.
     I want to share some moments while I was taking this award,When I
was attending Karamaveer puraskaar ceremony I listened to every
Kamaraveer Puraskaar Awardee who worked in different different fields
like some worked for child labour,agriculture,education for special
needs students,education for children living in slums etc. I salute to
everyone,I also thank to everyone who are taking the work forward for
their field.
    I was thinking about their lives which is very challanging.At last
I want to say that everyone is god gifted so we should help everyone
who are helpless and make their life better.
                                  "Sach hum nahi,Sach tum nahi
                                   Sach hain mehaz sangharsh hi"