Umeed Foundation

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya

On 27th May 2023, Umeed Foundation conducted a session on Good Mental Health Awareness and Self Awareness Skills at Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya.

The objective of the session was to sensitize youth about good mental health, provide insights into the benefits of counselling, and emphasized the importance of good mental well-being. The session aimed to equip the attendees with knowledge and tools to promote their good mental health and cultivate self-awareness.

BEHALA NABAPRAYAS SPECIAL CHILDREN SCHOOL

Umeed Foundation spent an wonderful time with Behala Naboproyas Special Children School on international Women's Day (8th March,2019) and it was a great experience of accepting the challenges many difficulties, we are facing in our daily life in a positive way which we have gathered from the special children and the educators of Behala Nabaprayas School. We are really honored to extend our hands towards them.

EK PRAYAS

Feedback:-

"Lots of learning regarding good habits, feeling confident. I like both maam's explaining. I love and enjoy the session. Thank you for guide us in such way.”
Kushi Morya

JADAVPUR RESPONSIBLE CHARITY

Feedback:-

“We have learnt the most important thing on the basis of our daily life. We would like to maintain that precaution for everyday. And we will try to avoid social media as much as we can.”
Firdous Ali

MUKTHA FOUNDATION

In the spirit of continuous learning for the development of self and professional expertise, Ummeed is honoured to collaborate with Muktha Foundation (Organization Committed to Prevent Abuse and Promote Mental Health). Led by their founder director, Ashwini mam, Muktha Foundation has been conducting programmes on CSA awareness and personal safety nationwide.

MAHAJIBON NGO, SHYAMBAZAR

Wonderful Christmas celebration by Umeed foundation today with the destitute children of the Paikpara 5 no. ward area (night shelter for shelterless people). This project is a CSR initiative under HUDCO, implemented by KMC. Mahajibon NGO is taking care of their basic education and protection. Umeed foundation is overwhelmed after distributing Stationary items and Christmas cake to the children.

ALL BENGAL WOMENS UNION & TOLLYGUNGE HOME

Umeed Foundation reaches out to dear senior citizens. Little time spent with them was deeply cherished, we sang we talked and shared a little happy that Umeed associates with All Bengal Women's Union and Tollygunge Home in the month of October, 2019 to provide empathetic care. We were rejuvenated with love, warmth and zeal for life.

Wonderful Christmas celebration by Umeed Foundation on 23rd December,2019 with the destitute children of the Paikpara 5 no. ward area ( night shelter for shelterless people).
This project is basically the CSR initiative under HUDCO, implemented by KMC. Mahajibon Ngo takes care of their basic education and protection. Umeed Foundation is overwhelmed after distributing Stationary items and Christmas cake to the children today.

Feedback of the session:-

" From Umeed Foundation today they have come to Mahajibon Paikpara centre. We all have celebrated advance Christmas , we are grateful to Umeed Foundation very much. Thank you for giving study materials and for cutting cake,to share happiness with the children..... Many best wishes to the Umeed Foundation for being with us." -- Moitrayee Banerjee ( Mahajibon NGO -- President )

Ummeed Interns, who are post-graduate students of psychology, reached out to the students of Ekprayaas, a school for Underprivileged children, on 22 November 2019. They gained a hands on experience in working with children from low socio-economic backgrounds, with the aim of their upliftment by imparting quality education. The interns interacted with the students and gained exposure in the way NGO's work.

Umeed Foundation reaches out to dear senior citizens. Little time spent with them was deeply cherished, we sang we talked and shared a little happy that Umeed associates with All Bengal Women's Union and Tollygunge Home in the month of October, 2019 to provide empathetic care. We were rejuvenated with love, warmth and zeal for life.

Umeed Foundation spent an wonderful time with Behala Naboproyas Special Children School on international Women's Day (8th March,2019) and it was a great experience of accepting the challenges many difficulties, we are facing in our daily life in a positive way which we have gathered from the special children and the educators of Behala Naboproyas School. We are really honored to extend our hands towards them.

On 28th February,2019 Umeed Foundation has conducted a interactive session on "Prevention of bullying - Building good peer support " with the students of class I and class II at Ek Prayaas Educational Society.

Prevention of bullying session with students of class III & V at Ek Prayaas Educational Society

Feedback of the session:-

"We learn about bullying system, we should do not tease anyone. We should helps the bullying peoples and children. We should do not disturb anyone. We should talk with bullying children and solved the issues. I wish, I want learn again more about bullying system. Thank you ma'am to listen us about bullying system." - Saddam, Class V.
"We have learnt many informations from today's session, we learnt how to stop bullying, we should follow the step that we teaches today, we should never tease anyone, Thank you teacher for give us this important session." - Kakisha Parveen, Class V.
"Today we learn about bullying. Bullying is a bad hadit, we should not tease anyone. We should stop bullying otherwise we have to face problems . We should do not using bad language with other people, Thank you maam , for giving us a good opportunity. We should helps bullying people and children, we should stand against by bullying and do not mock anyone." - Zeenat Ismail, Class V.

All Bengal Womens Union Home

An wonderful evening spent with All Bengal Womens Union Home by Ummeed Team on 8th December,2017 and it was a very valuable evening spent with people to whom a little time matter.

Tollygunge Home

An extremely touching experience for the Ummeed team on 20th November,2017, being with 54 inmates of Tollygunge Home.

We were rejuvenated with love, warmth and zeal for life.

God bless amply these brave hearts and young souls.

Ek Prayaas

"The sessions conducted at Ek Prayaas were on issues of discipline towards self, classroom & home, individual and group counselling to address behavioural issues such as restlessness, poor academic progress and lack of concentration. Parents were also counselled from time to time to sensitize them towards the physical and emotional needs of the children." – Sarbani Samanta, Senior Counsellor at UMMEED.
“We would like to acknowledge the efforts and support of team Ummeed to us. In this endeavour and extend our heartfelt gratitude for the same, your highly capable counsellors with the special mention of Ms.Gaurika and Ms.Sarbani Samanta have made marked difference in the lives of our children and teachers. During the course of the year we have seen the results in the form of marked improvement and the flow of positivity in the school environment”.- Sima Jalan, Ek Prayaas Educational Society

Jyotimayee Vidya Mandir

Life-Skill Workshop on RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY

To create a safe and conducive learning environment in the classroom.
To help the student develop and maintain self-control, respect for others and socially acceptable behavior.
Learning how to co-operate both with the teachers and with other students.
To recognize the appropriate usage of school property.

FEEDBACKS

“From this workshop I have learnt that we should respect our neighbours, teachers and elders and should not damage school property. We should not fight with anybody.”- Farjana Khatoon
“I liked this workshop very much because I have learnt useful things from it. We should respect ourselves, neighbours; we should not indulge ourselves in fighting with others.”- Saba Parveen, V
“From this session I have learnt to be more disciplined and keep the school environment dirty, not to abuse others and help others always. We should also respect our teachers and not be very selfish” – Hariom Kumar Jha, VI
“Aaj ka program bohot achcha laga. Maine sikha ki humein mushkilo se kabhi haar nahi manana chahiye, humein achcha kaam karna chahiye aur kisi se ladna nahi chahiye.” - Saima Mariyam, Jyotirmaye Vidya Mandir

Empowering Educators of Ek Prayas & Jyotimayee Vidya Mandir at Umeed on Positive Disciplining of children

Empowering the teachers towards building an approach that significantly reduces discipline problems by teaching self-discipline, responsibility, cooperation, and problem-solving skills.
Enabling teachers- how to encourage students and set limits using kindness and firmness at the same time.
Sensitizing and orienting the tools which will effectively lead a classroom based on cooperation and mutual respect instead of control.
Entrusting to the development of life-skills and character is as important as academics to help students be successful in school, in work, in the community and in family relationships.
Orienting to have a set of resource materials for future reference.

Suryadaya School

To enable the students gain an understanding about the various facets of Adolescence.
To empower the students to understand and comprehend the various positive and negative influences that they will experience in their life.

Hope Foundation

The workshop was initiated by brainstorming with the definition of life skills. These skills focus on behavioral change aimed at self development. Strategies to improve memory were discussed in the session and how reading and writing can help retain information, in a more effective way was also discussed. Taking notes during class is essential. Underlining key words, use of maps, diagrams help in studying effectively - Pinky Banerjee

Anant Foundation

Objectives

To enable the participants to develop,
Social, Emotional (e.g., affect regulation),
Cognitive (e.g., fund of information, skills for processing/acquisition, perspective taking), and
Behavioral (e.g., conversation skills, pro-social behavior) skills.
Motivational and Expectancy sets (e.g., moral development, self efficacy) needed for successful Social Adaptation.

After the session several students stated that they feel that they have become emotionally more adept to cope with difficult situations and feel that they have a higher self esteem with the help of group counseling and individual counseling sessions.

"From today’s session I have learnt that – we should give importance to others feelings and emotions. We should also accept differences in human being.”- Susmita Saha
“I learnt that we need to be our self and have to remember that we are all social animal and a better person lives within us. We should behave properly with others and know own self in depth.” – Madhumita Kar
“I have learnt that- to live peacefully in our society we have to accept others differences and adjust accordingly.” – Ankita Jaiswal
“We need to be a good listener in order to improve our identity better in future. I learnt that I need to be good listener and be patient.” - Debojyoti Majumdar

Shanti Rani

Objectives

“Amader ajker class khub bhalo legeche. Amra aaj ke onek ojana jinish jaante perechi. Jemon-porar somay monojog diye porte hobe, jore jore porte hobe,poribesh thik rakhte hobe, pushtikor khabar khete hobe, porjabto ghumate hobe. Apnara khub valo bhabe bujhiye diyechen. Amra bore fill korini, somay pelei amader ekhane ashben r notun notun jinish sekhaben. Thank you very much, please come again.” - Rumpa Das, XI
“Ei class ta kore ami onek kichu jaante ebong bujhte perechi jemon prothome bhalo kore pore nite hobe tarpor setai khatai likhte hobe. Porar table ta porishkar rakhte hobe, pushtikor khabar khete hobe.Ami chaichi ei class ta abar apnara neben, notun notun pictures dekhbo sikhbo.” - Priya Dey, VII

Shiv Mandir

Life-Skill Workshop on Motivation and future goal at Shivmandir Sikhsha Pratisthan School

Help the students to understand the concept of motivation and future goals and how these tools enable them to become successful and well rounded human beings.
Drive them to understand their own ideas and perceptions about a good, holistic life in a better and more informed manner.

Ek Tara

“Now I will follow up all the suggestions and the methods which Umeed Foundation has taught me, It was a very inspiring session with Salony Ma’am, I learned a lot and felt good being a teacher ” – Tarannum Meher, Teacher at Ek Tara

Torpa - Ranchi

Woman Development Centre TORPA, Ranchi (aided with Jashed ji Tata Trust)
Caregivers, NGO workers, Aaganwadi teachers and Jharkhand Government school educators were guided on need of sound mental health of children by Salony Priya. Academic challenges, behavioural issues, role of parents, in catering to behaviour and basic health, were some of the issues addressed with the audience.

Umeed Foundation

JOINING HANDS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

THE MISSION

Trustees of Umeed Foundation

Ms. Salony Priya

Mr. K.C. Sahai

Shri H.K. Chowdhary

Mr. R. Rustagi

UMEED FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH