Bal Sambal donated tables and chairs to a public government high school in the Sirohi district. This school is very close to Bal Sambal campus. These tables and chairs were provided to 10th and 12th grades to make it easy for them to study and learn. A little help from you goes a long way for these kids!
Panchsheel Jain has taken a new initiative of developing proper bathrooms for girls in government schools in the Rajasthan district. He started with Bharatpur's Ver district's Adarsh high school and the teachers, students and citizens of the village are very happy!
A government school in Niwai, Rajasthan invited Panchsheel Jain as chief guest to their 12th grade's graduation ceremony. The condition of the school is pretty bad and Panchsheel has vowed to help them in every possible way. He had donated 12 fans to the school earlier as well.
3 founding donors came to visit Bal Sambal with their families and brought fruits and sweets for the kids. Kids organized a program for them.
A family came to visit Bal Sambal who are contributing towards the cow shed and also helped buy 6 cows. This is very good for kids because it ensures good and healthy diet of milk, butter, ghee, yogurt.
Jain Shwetamber Terapanth Women's club came to spend a day at Bal Sambal. They organized art competition and gave out gifts and certificates. The kids organized a program for them which included dance music and speeches on environment. The women planted a few trees in the campus as well and pledged to do their part in keeping the environment clean. They served and ate food with the kids and sponsored a child for a year. The kids gave them handmade parting gifts.
Krishna secured 2nd place in Rajasthan State Games Archery Tournament.
Republic Day was festively celebrated with the kids in the slums (under Pahal initiative).
Blossom group organized a nurture program for the Bal sambal kids and the kids gave a great performance including dancing, singing and acting. Everyone present appreciated the talent. Blossom group helps Bal Sambal a lot in a lot of ways.
Through the Pahal initiative, a family celebrated their daughter's birthday with the children in the Jawhar circle Pahal group. A lot of people joined the celebration and donated clothes to the children. They cut the cake together and celebrated the birthday.Panchsheel told everyone about the 30 kids who come to study here and mentioned that they always stay disciplined and clean despite of few resources.
Pahal started a new initiative in Malviyga nagar slum and spend time with the children there talking about the importance of education and self-independence.
Bal Samba and Pahal kids celebrated Holi!
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One of the active member of the community threw a pizza and pastry party for the kids and they absolutely loved it!
Under the pahal program, Bal Sambal celebrated Christmas with the slum kids. The kids has a lot of fun, they danced and sang jingle bell and other carols.They cut cake and received gifts from guests.A volunteer from Japan sang songs in Japanese for the kids. A volunteer from Slovenia sang christmas carols for them as well. Member from Blosson group also sang "Aao tumhe chand pe le jayein" with the kids.They gave a lot of gifts of the kids and distributed blankets to their mothers. Panchsheel offered gratitude and encouraged everyone to participate in the growth and development of these kids who live in slums and otherwise would never have a chance to learn.
Kids celebrated New years and had a lot of fun! They ate cake and danced a lot.
The anuvibha bhawan in Jaipur had an exhibition and Bal Smabla had a stall as well. Princess from chomu alo visited the exhibition and came to visit the Bal Sambal stall. We gifted her a photo frame made by kids and she loved it.
A donor visited Bal Sambal with his son. They are helping a lot with the cow shed and also donated 6 cows. This is wonderful for kids because they'll get a consistent source of milk, yogurt, ghee and other dairy products.
Multiple donors came to visit the campus these last months - they are spent a day with the kids, witnessed their dancing, music, art and craft.
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This project report is a submission to GlobalGiving’s 2017 Fail Forward Contest, where organizations are asked to share a story of when they tried something new that didn’t go as planned and how they learned from it. Enjoy!
Failing is a crucial part of learrning and eventually progressing.
The design and architecture of Bal Sambal was a big endeavor in itself - especially with some kids already living there.
At one point, we thought we were ready for a olympic sized swimming pool. We had a plan for it in our initial design of Bal Sambal and we also wanted the kids of start learning how to swim. The construction started and soon we had a huge hole in the ground for the pool.
Then we started hitting the hurdles:
1. Putting tiles all inside the pool was quite expensive as it was a big (olmypic-sized) pool. This wasn't at par with our other monetary priorities at that time.
2. Rain water was starting to get collected in that hole - beggening to become a health problem.
3. The amount of water needed to fill that pool as well as keeping it clean was another big expense which we weren't ready for.
4. The hole was too close to the school and we already felt a need to expand on the school to add an auditorium and reception area.
All in all, we know we had failed in this vision. We filled up the hole and continued the construction of expanding on the school. As of now, we don't have a pool in the campus, but we learned very critical construction lessons. We also learned to research and get an estimate of expenses before commiting to any project.
After that we have taken up atleast 3 more big projects - girls' hostel, guest rooms and a yoga/dance studio. They have all been successful and very well done - thanks to our lessons learnt and us being more careful.
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On August 15th, we Independence day celebrated in Jawahar circle with slum kids. Blossom Group and many other well-wishes attended the function.
Construction work is also in progress at Bal Sambal. The racing track and athletic field is under development.
Akhsay won a gold medal in Karate in Jaipur Hall organized by IKFI and people from a lot of districts from Rajasthan participated. Akhsay participated in the 16-17 year section and won a gold medal. Also, Arjun, Aazad and Ajay won the bronze medal.
Krishna and Jagdish won gold and silver medal in the District tournament in the Chomu district government school.
People from Vamika club (names excluded for privacy reasons) planted a lot of trees in Bal Sambal and also donated a lot of stationery, games, edibles etc.
On the occasion of Diwali, a princess (from Rajasthan, name excluded for privacy reasons) came to Bal Sambal and celebrated diwali with them and shared food with all the kids.
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Blossom group donated beds, blankets and curtains to Bal Sambal and also painted the walls of Bal Sambal hostel. This made a lot o difference to the comfort of the children.
Bal Sambal kids made bird water bowls.
We planted 100 papaya plants in the campus, which are growing steadily.
Kids from the "Pahal" slums presented a cultural program in Jawahar Kala Kendra and they delivered wonderful performances. This was their first time on stage.
Tree plantation arranged by Blosson group, Prayas group, Raksha group and Dr. Atul in Bal Sambal.
Members from Sardarshahr committee donated steel bed frames to the hostel and spent a morning with the children.
A video of Arjun doing a dance performance.
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