It is very exciting for us to report the Blossom Buses have been running again since September 21 when schools began opening in a phased manner. By mid October the buses were full and carrying around 600 girls from classes 9 to 12 to attend physical school on a daily basis and for the first […]
For the past two months during the Covid19 lockdown, White Lotus Trust, fully supported by Lotus Outreaches, LotusRelief program, has provided essential emergency relief in the most vulnerable in village and urban communities of north and south India. The lockdown commenced in India on 23 March bringing tremendous suffering and hardship to all but more […]
Sangam Vihar in South Delhi, one of the areas where our EQU+ programs are running has many Covid-19 positive cases yet the teachers have managed to focus on delivering work to the students on daily basis. So far we have been able to engage in meaningful educational work with 124 children from grade 4 to […]
In the deep south of India, our partner of 20 years in education and development in Tamil Nadu, Professor Ramu Manivannan, founder of Garden Of Peace School and our partner on Buddha Smiles program worked along with a group of University of Chennai student volunteers and GOP teachers, to provide emergency rations to the poorest […]
Most of the volunteers providing meals and rations in the slums are also teachers in our Education Quality Addition (EQU+) program that provides children of poor families with after school classes to ensure they keep up and catch up with their school work. More than 20 teachers provide academic support in a fun and entertaining […]
In early April, very shortly after lockdown on March 23, we began to look for ways to continue work in rural villages of Mewat. The Kaman block was a total lock down due to the fact some people suspected of having Covid19 had visited and stayed in some of the villages in our work area, […]
An EQU+ program family in receipt of emergency food relief: Afroz Jaha and her family received support on a daily basis and told us, “If the center didn’t help us I don’t know how I would have fed my children.” Afroz is a forty-five years old woman living in Bawana slum with her seven children […]
Presenting the Q3 reports which underline the importance and ongoing impact of our Max India Foundation (MIF) partnership programs. Girls Blossom Bus During the 2019-2020 academic year 300 rural girls from poor families of 23 villages in Mewat were able to achieve an average of 90% attendance due to the MIF supported Girl’s Blossom Bus […]
