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15th february – world pediatric cancer day

By Sandhya | Published: February 15, 2012

Today is “World pediatric cancer day”. At Samiksha, every day is a day spent with a child affected by cancer. Their lives have changed and their bodies are changing, but their spirit is the same. These are ordinary children like yours and ours in an extraordinary, unhappy situation. At Samiksha, we encourage children living with cancer, to seek the happiness within themselves, draw from the happiness available all around them- which is free, by the way!, and face their situation with grace and dignity. Let us all do something to increase the happiness quotient of children with life threatening illnesses and help them live their childhood dreams with lots of smiles!
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Saturdays at Samiksha

By Sandhya | Published: January 16, 2012

At Samiksha, much of the work is done by volunteers. Saturdays are the days when many working people and students from colleges and schools come in and tutor our kids and spend time with them. Among some of the most dedicated in these last months have been coming in from companies like Cognizant, National Instruments, Oracle,and the Youth for Seva. Saturdays are the days when some of our own are able to take a break from the weekly routine because of these volunteers who keep the programs running. Saturdays are also the days that the moms and caregivers at the ward are able to sit around and chat and not worry about their kids,as they are busy at Samiksha.

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An Exercise on Laughter

By Sandhya | Published: October 30, 2011

29th Oct 2011.

We organised a birthday party for 8 kids in the oncology ward. Our storytellers Anushri and Ambika started off with a beautiful Japanese Farmer story.The children listened enrapt to the story which had a different setting. They had a lot to imagine. Then they were encouraged to make little japanese hats with paper and straw. A simple thing that made them smile putting it on their bald heads.They wanted us to take fotos of them with these new hats. Then Lioness club of Bangalore West sponsored the event by bringing in some guests and distributed fruits to the children. Mrs. Bhatnagar donated handmade mobile pouches to all the children in the ward. Our special guest was – Member Secretary of a Laughter Club of Bangalore. She presented some interesting insights into laughter and its importance. With her skill and communication abilities she drew the kids out into peals of laughter and taught them some laughter exercises.

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Birthday Party for Cancer Kids with Samiksha Foundation: Infosys Retail reach team

By Sandhya | Published: September 9, 2011

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A highly enthusiastic group of Infoscions from Retail Reach (Corporate Social Responsibility team of Retail, CPG, Logistics and Life Sciences Unit of Infosys Ltd) joined hands with Samiksha Foundation to share smiles with the kids undergoing cancer treatment at Kidwai Hospital. They volunteered their time and energy and were fuelled by the generous contributions from their colleagues.

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story telling program-may 2011

By Sandhya | Published: April 30, 2011

From the month of May, we are glad to introduce a new program for our kids. Storytelling every Tuesday or Thursday  afternoon at Samiksha. We now have a resource person who is a qualified storyteller and will lead the program for the kids at Samiksha. We are very happy to make this announcement. This is something we have been doing in  a small way for our children, all these years. With the help of our new resource persons, we will be able to take this Storytelling program to new heights.

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Tejas Kumar

By Sandhya | Published: April 19, 2011

ON 12th april this year we received a call from Meenakshi -Tejas’s mother from her home. She wanted to enquire about us and update us on the progress that Tejas had made at school after being discharged from hospital. He had been at hospital for over a year undergoing treatment for cancer. Then he was in first standard. He missed his entire school year of 2nd grade and attended Samiksha whenever he could, during this time.His mother was a most encouraging  ward mom, always helpful, always smiling and hopeful for the kids..Unlike many mothers there, Meenakshi was a well travelled, educated and talented woman-she had left behind 2 older sons at home to be with little Tejas at the hospital. She bubbled with joy when she called me to say that Tejas had been doing very well at home and at school He got 79% in his 3rd standard exam even though he had missed the whole year there. Thanks to the people at  Samiksha, he was able to get back to school and normal life with pride and joy. Whenever he is upset with his routine in regular life, he tells his mom that he wishes he were back at the Samiksha school at the hospital where he was happy and had so much fun. Thank you Meenakshi for acknowledging our work. Good luck Tejas Kumar. We all wish you well and a great school year ahead.

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15th march-a doctor’s Birthday

By Sandhya | Published: March 18, 2011

This is a special day at the Kapoor Ward. The Head of Pediatrics, Dr. Appaji, has his Birthday today.. The children are excited, so are the parents! When we were there, everyone was planning a birthday for their favorite Doctor, also their mentor and friend. Children collected Rs.20 each and got together to  order a huge cake for him (even though none of them can actually eat cake on their own birthdays!) At the class they planned beautiful cards for him with drawings and poems written by them. The team at Samiksha made  a special card for Dr.Appaji with wishes written in many languages.

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The party on International Women’s Day

By Sandhya | Published: March 7, 2011

This International Women’s Day will be celebrated by us in a very special way. It won’t be about individual women and their achievements et all.. We, at Samiksha Foundation will be celebrating the contributions of a small group of highly focused and dedicated women The ANNS rotary women’s group- led by Nandita Sanghani , Asha Patil of Koramangala. They have been following the work done by us at Samiksha- Kapoor Ward, and are now sponsoring  the biggest Birthday Party ever for our kids there. We have 18 children celebrating their birthdays this March ( Feb and March ) .. There will be entertainment and gifts distributed to ALL the 110 children. 52 in the ward and about 35 in the Dharamashala ( kids awaiting treatment) and rest in other critical care wards at the Hospital. We at Samiksha Foundation are grateful to this group of Women who have generously contributed to our cause and share our joy in person whenever they can. Thank You Ladies and Happy Women’s Day!

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Charumathi visits the children

By Sandhya | Published: January 30, 2011

Here’s a small note on my first visit to Samiksha…

I was struck by the cheerful and positive atmosphere in the Kapoor ward of Kidwai Hospital, the morning that I visited. There was no reflection of discomfort or ill-health in the children’s eager, smiling faces. Their absorption with school work and reading seemed total. One of the girls in the ward was being medicated through an intravenous drip. She was sitting and reading, heedless of the drip.

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year 2011

By Sandhya | Published: January 4, 2011

As we ring in the year 2011, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who showed interest and pooled in their time and resources  to support our work at the foundation. We had some interesting visitors last year from october to December 2010. Among them were volunteers from Oracle, IBM, Christ university, residents from Brigade Millenium – JP Nagar, residents from Prestige Acropolis at Diary Circle, students from the international schools of Inventure Academy, Indus International School. Families contributed to infrastructure projects that we had undertaken ( who prefer to remain anonymous). Everyone of them have made significant contributions to the cause and we are grateful to all of them. Among our team i wish to personally applaud the work of  Manjari Bhatnagar, Tania Khosla, Meera Srivatsan, Padma Vishwanathan, Aditya, and our dedicated teachers Vidyavathy and Parvathi. Among the young volunteers, special thanks is due to Rohan Desai and Akash who worked with the children whenever they could.

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