07Nov 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall received Digital Trail Blazer Award 2016.

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Our project “StudyMall” received Digital Trail Blazer Award at Digital India Conclave event . This Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr.Devendra Fadnavis  for bringing digital education to rural children of Maharashtra. The Digital India conclave was presented by HP India in association with India Today Television and KPMG.  The Digital India Conclave is India's first conclave that brings together the best of minds, talent and people with a varied range of expertise in the digital field from all over the country. We were honored to share the award with 4 other esteemed organisations. 1) AAPLE SARKAR APP, DEPARTMENT OF I.T - GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA initiative which address public grievances while ensuring participative governance. The 'Aaple Sarkar' portal and app are monitored by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in Maharashtra and is a platform for citizens…
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01Oct 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall project presented at CSIM (Centre for social initiative and management)

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A room full of enthusiastic social change makers and experienced professionals along with their teachers and mentors ready to listen about Thinksharp Foundation "StudyMall" on a Saturday evening was a sign of there commitment towards there passion of starting something to help society.  Students doing course on NGO management and social  entrepreneurship were excited to listen what I have to tell them on managing StudyMall project under Thinksharp Foundation. We Thinksharp Foundation team was invited by CSIM Hyderabad to speak about our journey and management of NGO to students of CSIM this year in month of June. As our Founder was on not available, this great opportunity came to me to present StudyMall to CSIM students. CSIM launched a centre in Hyderabad in 2002, by networking with Dr.Reddy’s Foundation. This…
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15Sep 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments
StudyMall nominated for SWAG 2016 Awards in education category

StudyMall nominated for SWAG 2016 Awards in education category

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Thinksharp Foundation's project "StudyMall" was nominated in education category for the SWAG (Social Welfare & Growth) Awards, 2016 initiative by The CSR Journal http://thecsrjournal.in/ . We received the appreciation  and participation trophy by chief guest Mr.Sushilkumar Shinde,  Former Union Minister, Government of India at this prestigious event .   The CSR Journal is an online portal which connects the NGO / Social enterprises on a single portal. And also they connect this NGO/Social enterprises  to the companies/corporate  who are ready to help them through CSR . However the work of The CSR Journal goes much beyond that, they motivate, inspire and act as social change makers themselves by putting all this social stories together. The CSR Journal team is acting like a catalyst to speed the good work done in society.…
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06Aug 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments
Together “we” can do- StudyMall at Sandbox Samvidha,Hubbali

Together “we” can do- StudyMall at Sandbox Samvidha,Hubbali

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Thinksharp Foundation team has another proud moment as its achievement this year.  Our project "StudyMall" was selected among all the other NGO's from India to be presented at Sandbox Samvidha, Deshpande foundation. One of the most exciting and motivational factor  for us about this event was a chance  to meet Dr.Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande sir. Words might fall short to describe. Dr. Deshpande, Founder of Deshpande Foundation, Hubbali. He has pursued an entrepreneurial career for the last three decades.  He is involved either as the founder, a founding investor or chairman of several companies.Dr. Deshpande lives in Boston and serves as a life-member of the MIT Corporation, and he is responsible for MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at Massachusetts. Deshpande Foundation has three other centers. He  co-chairs as a National Council to support…
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15May 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

“You don’t need time to help someone, you need kind Heart”

Education, helping, humanity, NGO
What is the most common reaction people give you, when you tell them about your NGO and work ? I have to know this and so I asked Santosh.   With a chuckle Santosh said"Most common reaction would go like the one I had during one of friends get together a friend  casually mentioned to me " Boss, you really got have a easy job and great boss, you can work on your NGO you must be so lucky to have this free time."  What I didn't tell him is that " I am a regular guy like him with same target, appraisal and promotion pressure but what makes my life look easy is that I am happy because I know life is more than this and when I visit…
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19Apr 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall – Digital classroom for village vangani childern

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What do you picture an second year engineering student studying in metro city like Mumbai? Attending classes, struggling with studies, keeping up peer pressure by attending movies, Whatsapp, Facebook,Instagram, showing his art in annual functions? Yes i thought too. But dimensions changed when we, ThinkSharp Foundation team met Saurabh. [caption id="attachment_67" align="alignnone" width="224"] Saurabh Mangrule- dearest Dada for vangani children[/caption] Saurabh is an youngster who goes beyond only educating himself. He is educating 200  children by bringing better educational resources in their school at Z.P.School vangani village. But his social work is not limited to this but covers a lot of things like working for water shortage in drought areas , spreading social message via videos etc. Vangani is a village which is in close proximity to Mumbai, 1.5 hrs only…
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19Mar 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall 2- Possible due to a teacher who didn’t stop to help children after retirement…

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It was 29 Sep 2013, a very important and busy day for team Thinksharp. After 2 years of planning, discussion and overcoming lot of hurdles we were finally able to start actually helping rural children by providing better rural education by launching first StudyMall at Surungali. To add to this excitement was presence of our supporters, friends and family  for this occasion. And among all this attendees we also had pleasure of having Mr.Chandrashekhar Awatare sir. One of our close friend and a close part of team Mr.Amol Awatare's father. Mr.Awatare sir,  was appreciating  our work and said in his speech how youngsters like us are needed in every part of village. That was sure a motivation and boost for us. And on the same day he made promise to us that…
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05Mar 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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Preeti an 7th std standard student from village Surungali in 2013 told us "she wants to be astronaut" that amazed us. Because in a village of hardly any TV, Satellite, forget about internet but no desktops and 2 school at long distances with poor infrastructure her confidence and knowledge that she wants to be an astronaut. We asked her what she is doing for achieving to be astronaut, she said she goes to school but she does not know exactly how to be one? She spends her time after school looking after her younger brother and doing daily chores of house till her parents return from farm. She does not have place to study or read amazing stories of astronauts after school or in school, she does not  have access to…
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15Feb 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall – Read, Learn, Play

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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Z1QJ_mndQ&list=PLNSShY_DkLmH76Q39kCzlg_fJS04TIgtU[/embed] StudyMall – Read, Learn, Play is more than just a library which provides better educational infrastructure in rural areas. Include better sitting place during and after school. It also provides Books, Educational games, Toys, Computer learning, Digital/ Multimedia learning, and conducts workshops on various topics. Problem that we intend to solve Lack of better place to sit after school for study Poor infrastructure of schools which fail to give required educational facilities Libraries are either absent or are at long distances Rural children do not have access to digital / Multimedia learning. Impact of StudyMall At present with one StudyMall the statistics are- More than 1500 children are getting advantage of our current StudyMall Increase in awareness regarding education and its need by 25 to 30% of previous level.…
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