Born Artist - Roshini

Art is an expression of human mind’s emotions and technical skills. For children education’s advocates, that art is a panacea. Painting boosts concentration in children and helps them express their creativeness that are the reworking of imaginations they have acquired. Even preschools emphasizes more on art curriculum as the activity helps in developing the dexterity in children, required for writing.

Provided with blank canvas children get an opportunity to experiment with brushstrokes which benefits them in evolving as a strong decision makers. We bring you one such story of a girl, named Roshini, who is set out to make her own place in the world of strangers. Regardless of life being tough with her she has grown as proficient artist with a dream to fly high as sky is the limit.

Roshini, a 12 year old, is a born sketch artist. Since the age of 3 she has been playing with paint brushes, crayons and charcoal pencils. Her artistry is in sketches as well as coloring. Roshini used to teach children but due to studies she has taken a break but not from what she does the best – Sketching.

After years of hard work she has reached a level of adeptness, without any professional guidance, that cannot be matched with. Her “jaw dropping” work has taken a place in our hearts as well as in the blog’s display place.

We wish Roshini all the best for all her future endeavors.

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Be A Santa For Someone

Christmas season fills our home with warmth and happiness. This year “RELAXO FOUNDATION” (a CSR arm of the Relaxo Footwears Ltd.)  in collaboration with NGO “NAVJYOTI FOUNDATION” planned to become SANTA for 268 underprivileged children of Bawana Slums, Rohini, New Delhi. Giving them 365 blank pages to write the most beautiful chapters of their lives and making them believe that “Dreams do come true”.

WISH BOOK

Chapter1

Page 1 of 365 pages, kids wrote their wishes.

Chapter2

Page 2 of 365 pages, team exhibited the wishes.

Chapter3

Page 3 of 365 pages, employees’ volunteered to  fulfill the wishes.

Chapter4

Page 4 of 365 pages, kids were invited at Relaxo office to celebrate Christmas.

Chapter5

Page 5 of 365 pages, kids expressed their happiness.

Chapter6

Page 6 of 365 pages, kids pledge to dream about life and making every moment memorable! 

How it started?

CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) team thought of creating special moments with a different concept for kids. They designed a program to create magic in children’s lives by fulfilling their individual wishes. All the kids were asked to share their desires, and team to put up it all for employees’ to participate and fulfill them.

Team designed the activity props:

 a)      Wish Post Card – Designed to capture the details of Child and Volunteer both.

 b)   Wish Tree – To exhibit all the wishes.

Wish tree was put up at the entrance of the office flashing all the wish post cards. Employees’ selected the cards and fill in their details accordingly. All the gifts were purchased by employees’ themselves which added the flavor of love n blessings, making the event with a different approach in the course of various activities heard or done on the occasion of Christmas for underprivileged children .

Collection resulted in vibrant colors with differently packed with messages for the kids.

Response

An overwhelming response was received from employees’ making the event a huge success.
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Prakrat

PRAKRUT

Winter has started and so has the dryness of skin. I was looking for something which is not cosmetically designed and is developed with pure essence of nature, when I came across Prakrta’s virgin coconut oil and as  have a zest to use things which are made naturally I ordered the oil. On receiving the product I liked the packing and on using it I fell in love with ‘Prakrta’ and increased the curiosity in me to find about the birth of such an amazing product line.

‘Prakrta’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Prakrut’, meaning nature. It had been founded by two beautiful sisters Ms. Rupam Singh & Ms. Anupam Singh. Rupam left her flourishing career for the most responsible profile in the world ‘Motherhood’ where Anupam worked for 10 years as a brand manager for start-ups till both the sister joined hands to open their own brand.

Inception of Prakrta: Five years back Rupam’s five month old daughter was diagnosed with Pediatric Eczema. Baby’s cheeks used to turn dark red and would itch so much that scratch it leaving cheeks bleed. Five different dermatologists were consulted and all of them prescribed steroidal creams to control the Eczema but there was no solution provided to stop it from erupting. Being a mother, Rupam was worried about her daughter’s well-being which kept search alive and one fine day she came across a dermatologists who suggested her to stop applying the prescribed cream regularly it could be harmful for the child. And as it was difficult to find out the reason the allergy asked to stop using any soap as all of them contains harmful chemicals and advised to go ‘Grandma’s’ way for making baby’s skin healthy by using unrefined coconut oil and for bathing use neem leaves. That’s when Rupam started off on researching about the natural essentials to cure eczema. And then sourced that extra virgin coconut oil (extracted from coconut milk and not dried copra) from Kerala and Anupam helped her sourced cocoa butter and aloevera. Rupam started making home-made cocoa butter cream, and in three months result was unbelievable the allergy got controlled and baby’s skin became better. On seeing the results friends & neighbors expressed their desire to buy the cream from us and that’s when Prakrta was born.  

Prakrta team have framed few principles and believes to follow the same firmly:

1.100%natural

We want to promote only 99-100% natural skin care. When we say 100% natural then our products will not feel sophisticated like commercial products, but they will do a better job minus the chemicals (our hair conditioners are the only product that is 91% natural, because of the fact that conditioners require certain chemicals to be stable and effective)

2.Skin friendly products only

 Our products cater to sensitive skin  (minimal or no fragrance) . No artificial fragrance and minimal use of essential oils because both natural and artificial fragrance is not good for sensitive face skin ( example our Serum of youth face serum may not smell great, but it has some truly exotic oils that are great for the skin. )

3.Purity matters to us  - more than 60% of our raw material is edible grade purity

4. 100% of the oils we use are extra virgin/ virgin or cold pressed oils that have high levels of anti-oxidants and provide maximum benefit

5. Social impact - we source more than 35% of our raw material from self help groups that promote rural employment for women. We plan to increase that to more than 60%.

6. Eco friendly  - Of course our product is 100% eco friendly but more importantly more than 50% of our packaging is glass packaging to avoid the burden of plastic in the environment (although it will be much cheaper and easier for us to use plastic!!!)

7. Finally ....all products are first tried on ourselves, friends and family (NO animal testing at all :-)

 Reach Prakrta @http://www.prakrta.in/

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STREETO - MUMBAI

Womania

Women Era

Every Day – A Woman Day

 Worldwide “International Women’s Day”, originally called “International Women’s Working Day” is celebrated on ‘08^th March’ every year. Every country, region have their own pattern of celebrating the day to showcase the ‘appreciation’, ‘affection’, ‘love’ and ‘care’ for the beautiful ladies around.

On ‘08^th March’, every year, many believes are shared, such as, we should celebrate “Women’s Day”; few questions are raised why do we need to celebrate a “Women’s Day”? Every day is a “Women’s Day”. Celebrities share their expert views. However I believe it should be OR it should not be. Indeed every day is a “Women’s Day”, but they need a pat on their back, an appreciation for the fantabulous work they do for their family & friends. Even it is also true that the work a woman executes cannot compensate for anything in the world, it’s just a feel good factor for us. We believe in giving without being demanding, whenever we see a smile on our loved ones, that day is a “Women’s Day” for us.

‘Current Era’ is becoming more of ‘Women Era’. Woman being a homemaker making her own identity by getting into E-Commerce business. On Women’s Day we bring you the story of two online stores, one to dress the lovely ladies across the country and other to accessories them at affordable but uniquely design articles.

Ethnic India Boutique:

Inception of the boutique happened in April’ 2011 by Ms. Shivali Sharma. Initially she started by exhibiting the products @ Schools, Exhibitions & Residential Societies. Idea behind the exhibitions was to reach more n more of people and building the clientele, which she successfully accomplish. However due to her hubby’s nature of work, they have to shift their base after a year and so. Due to frequently change in her base she decided to go online and designed her ‘Facebook Page’. Since then she has been getting overwhelming response. Her mission is to establish the brand name for her online store and open a website to cater the service across the world.

You can view her collections on https://www.facebook.com/ETHNIC.INDIA.BOUTIQUE or write to her on ethnicindiaboutique@gmail.com

Simply Trinkets: By Women, For Women

 An online jewellery store started by two beautiful sisters Ms. Naima Hassan & Ms. Ayesha Hassan on February ‘2014. Both the sisters believe in the uniqueness of every woman and love to accessories them as per their different personalities. Their belief that women are the ideal blend of ‘Passion’ & ‘Joy’, led to the conceptualization of their ‘Jewelary Line’. Simply Trinkets is all about ‘Affordable Cost Quality Product’, to enthuse every women to style their own fashion segment. Every woman long to look bold & beautiful; to stand apart from others, Simply Trinkets fulfill this dream of every woman by bringing in the uniqueness in their collections, which everyone will to have in their ‘Jewelary Box’.

 

Vision of Simply Trinkets: To be the most trusted accessories provider in the segment as a result of authority, expertise, quality and service excellence. Simply Trinket wants to bring Affordable Cost Quality Product (ACQP) in all the segments it shares it presence with.

You can reach them http://www.simplytrinkets.com/ https://www.facebook.com/simplytrinkets