An interactive empowering educators session conducted by Team Ummeed with Julien Day School Howrah on 27th November,2017 on "Identifying and supporting students with academic difficulty".

Reflection of Participants :-

1. "The case study segment had been extremely useful in diagnosing some fundamental problems an average child faces. The group discussion helped to expose many remedies. Similar orientation programme would be helpful in future. " - Avik Das (Assistant Teacher)
2. "The workshop was very informative and touched on topics that we all teachers must make note of all at times. The activity that followed helped us to act in certain situations. Overall, a wonderful experience." - Marianne Pereira (Class Teacher of class II)

Ummeed conducted a session on Gender Sensitivity thereby Empowering today's youth at New Alipore College on 20th November,2017 by Ms. Salony Priya Director of Ummeed . This session was organized by Womens Study Cell of the college.

Reflection of Participants :-

1. “I am very glad to being part here, I am very thankful that New Alipore College organize the gender sensitivity for young adult in our community hall. I am very thankful to teach us this thing.” SATARUPA CHATTERJEE 2nd Year (Computer Science Honors)
   
2. “Highly enriching and enlightening together, you are powerhouse of inspiration for social charge. I enjoyed the speech. Interspersed with slide show.”  GORACHAND NAG (Economics Honors)

Ummeed conducted two days workshop on sensitizing youth and their parents to create a healthy bond that makes transition of adolescent years easier leading to Respect and Responsibility at St Marys English school in Jamshedpur on 16th and 17th November,2017. Resource person for the session was Ms.Salony Priya founder director of Ummeed.

Reflection of the participants :-

1. "I am glad to attend this seminar. I have learned many things from this seminar. I promise myself that I will make use of this golden opportunity. I will try my level best to achieve above 90% in my academic ICOM. Actually now I will not try bring 90% above in CBSE inter commerce. Thank you Salony Maam for such a great seminar. " - Priyanka Ghosh (Class - XII)
2. "It had been a wonderful programme and seminar for us maam. You gave a vivid image of what life is than actually, what we had thought about it earlier. We really enjoyed the little session. I really appreciate your efforts of making a beautiful world. Hope our upcoming generation will get benefited from your inspiring speech, which provokes us to do well in our life." - Sonali Kumari (Class - XII)
   

"Good Touch and Bad Touch" by sensitizing students of LKG on Safety issues at Hariyana Vidya Mandir on 7th November,2017 by team Ummeed.

Safety issues have become a part of parcel of our everyday lives. The earlier we can create awareness among children, the better equipped they become to create their own safety net. Certified Pastoral guides along with Ummeed Counselor at the Frank Anthony Public School Kolkata, conducted a sensitization programme on 7th November,2017 for students of classes I and II on Good Touch and Bad Touch, emphasizing on building personal safety.

A lifeskill session on "My Space, My Responsibilities" was conducted for the junior students of class IV at Lions Calcutta Vidya Mandir on 3rd November,2017 by team Ummeed.
Reflection of the participants :-

1. "In this workshop, the teachers told us about the feeling that happen when we are affected by good touch and bad touch. This workshop is useful in our day to day activities. We learnt that we should be careful. Bad touch makes us feel uncomfortable. Good touch makes us feel comfortable. We should be aware of unknown person. So, from this workshop we learn many different things." - Roopsa Majumdar - Class IV
2. "We learnt that boundary means where I ends and you begins. We also learnt that we should be independent, responsibility of our own, safe our private body parts. We learnt that boundaries are of two types - external and internal boundaries. We learnt that if we feel bad feelings by the bad touches we should share that with our parents, teachers, grandparents and other trusted person."- Udita, Parnai, Titas, Raj Nandini - Class IV
   

"Leading change through Management Skills" -  A conference for the principals and heads of 100 schools from various North East states of India and from Bhutan and Nepal was held on 20th of October, 2017 at Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati.
A session on Safety for the students by addressing issues of Addiction and Aggression was conducted by Ms. Salony Priya, Founder & Director of Ummeed.
Reflection of the session :-

1. "Your workshop was so relevant, It allowed deep connect, introspection and immense value to all present, wish we could have Salony for one more full day." - Sr. Anna Molly, Deputy Director of Education.