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Loving Faridibad

Aug 11th, 2010
by Julia Taylor.
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I love my city - LSDIn Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, PP Singh of India, undertook a project to improve his home city of Faridibad with a venture titled “I Love My City”. He created an NGO that has taken on many projects cleaning the city and making it safer, and in the process has received attention from many local newspapers. This story from Faridibad City Plus, dated from Jly 3rd, tells a bit of the story.

It’s Your City, Keep it Clean

Faridibad residents put up an excellent example of fulfilling their duties towards their city when an NGO, “I Love My City,” Market Welfare Association, and RWA jointly took the initiative to clean one of the most popular but messy markets of Sector 15.

The venture was held on Sunday by almost 50 people where they themselves swept the market clean and shouted slogans like “Mera market kaisa ho, Mere ghar ke jaisa ho.” They talked to shopkeepers and vendors about how they were responsible for the upkeep of the market. They received a positive response from the locals when shopkeepers voluntarily started to clean the garbage near their shops  and promised to do the same.

PP Singh, the founder of the NGO, said “I ardently love Faridibad and it is every resident’s responsibility to take care of this city.”

Manohar Puniani, MWA president, said “It is actually our responsibility to keep the market neat and clean and today we have taken the first step.”

The NGO has been associated with many more welfare projects in the past where they undertook the construction of a road in Sector 23 and repaired potholes in Sector 28.

[Find out more by looking up I Love My City on Facebook.]

The Babe Within Helps Girls Make the Most of Life

Apr 28th, 2010
by DJacoby.
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the babe withinIn 2009, Rupa Mohan used Landmark Education’s SELP class to create The Babe Within, an eight part program to have girls live a more fulfilled life. The program focuses on key area’s in a girl’s life such as motivation, self-esteem, nutrition and fitness.

The girl’s empowerment program is designed to have each girl discover their own uniqueness, free from the biases and pressures of our culture and the media. The program offers many hands-on activities, including exploring new talents, physical exercise, healthy cooking programs, and beauty tips. Girls are given a journal to record their progress through the program.

The organization’s program was a part of the Lower Bucks County (near Philadelphia) YMCA Summer program in 2009. Events are ongoing – the organization is speaking at the Penwood Middle School’s Girls Night Out event on April 30, and the program returns to the YMCA Summer program when it starts in June.

To learn more, visit The Babe within website and Facebook group.

Dances with Weeds

Mar 9th, 2010
by Julia Taylor.
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The New Zealand Newspaper Western Leader has written an article about the ‘war on weeds’ initiated by Sandy McGivern and Don Morrison as McGivern’s project in the Landmark SELP programme.

The project gathers people together to remove the weeds around Morrison’s Titirangi primary school, specifically ginger weed. The event is taking place from 10-2 on March 21 at the lower playing field of the school, and volunteers will be fed by a barbecue and entertained by live music. More details are in The original Western Leader article.

“As part of the Landmark Education course I’m doing I had to come up with a project and I wanted to do something which would benefit the community,” said McGivern in the article.

“We need to help people see what’s possible and show them how easy it is to make this a better place.”

Balloon Rides for Kids with Cancer

Jul 22nd, 2009
by DJacoby.
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In what looks like a new landmark self-expression and leadership program project in the news, The Middletown Journal of Ohio is reporting that Floating Smiles is a new project offering balloon rides to children with cancer.  The patients came from the Children’s Hospital Medical Center and got the rides at the MidFirst Ohio Challenge ( a balloon festival) last weekend. The project was created by Julia Ossipov-Grodsky.

Balloon Festival to Give Cancer Patients a Lift

by Eric Robinette

Hot air balloons tend to make people smile, but for one group of children who will visit the MidFirst Ohio Challenge this weekend, the smiles may be extra wide.

Those children are cancer patients from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, who will be treated to tethered balloon rides on Saturday, July 18.

The kids come courtesy of Floating Smiles, a nonprofit group that creates opportunities for young cancer patients to go on a hot air balloon ride to rise above their troubles.

“We just wanted to lighten up their day,” said Julia Ossipov-Grodsky, one of the group’s founders.

Floating Smiles and the hospital began working with Ohio Challenge organizers earlier this year, and the Challenge organizers secured a handicapped-accessible balloon — “Accessible Air” piloted by Al Hansen of Winamac, Ind. The balloon, which Hansen said is the first handicapped-accessible balloon in the United States, features a door on its basket to allow entry for someone who uses a wheelchair or who can’t easily climb into a standard basket.

Ossipov-Grodsky conceived Floating Smiles after working with Landmark Education, an international training and development company.

“I wanted to create a program that would lighten these children while they’re floating up in the air. I wanted to impact children who haven’t been having fun for awhile,” she said.

That impact is considerable, said Hansen, who has flown special needs children several times.

“Some of them can’t speak, then they go up and scream as loud as they can, and you see a smile coming across their face.

“It’s a really overwhelming and humbling experience to be able to do that,” he said.

The Ohio Challenge has made a point of trying to facilitate outings for similar groups in the past, said its publicity chairwoman, Ann Mort.

“We’re really excited. (The Ohio Challenge has been absolutely fabulous to work with for us. They’re so positive and it’s well-crafted for the children,” Ossipov-Grodsky said.

Fundraiser Aids Indian School

May 1st, 2009
by Julia Taylor.
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Tessa Mills created a fundraising event to raise £1,000 for new classrooms at a Himalayan school. The event, which was her project in the self expression and leadership programme, actually raised £1,500 and the attention of the London Informer.

Chelsea Party for Indian Kids

by Ellie Dyer

A Chelsea resident has been inspired to throw a party to help build a new classroom at an Indian school, nestled in the foothills of the world’s largest mountains.

Tessa Mills, 56, is hosting an event at World’s End Studios, in Lots Road, tomorrow night to help children in the famous tea-growing district of Darjeeling.

She hopes to raise £1,000 for the 55 pupil English-speaking school, so it can extend its educational reach and improve the lives of youngsters, after a visit to the institute.

“It was truly amazing place, on the foothills of the Himalayas. But there was a huge contrast between the beauty and the simplicity of the classrooms”, said Tessa.

“Raising the money will means the school can continue.”

Tickets for the party cost £15 and it starts at 6pm. The ticket includes an Indian beer and entertainment.

It will be held at the World’s End Studio, 134 Lots Road, Chelsea.

Student Artwork Aids South Africa

Jan 15th, 2009
by Julia Taylor.
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cavan-art-exhibit.jpgBen Flood’s project in the SELP allowed students from four schools to create an art exhibition which aided children in South African townships. The Anglo-Celt newspaper wrote the story.

Schools do their Art for Africa

Michael Cryan

The four secondary schools in Cavan town took part in an art exhibition in the Town Hall to raise funds for schools in the South African townships on Saturday.

Students from Loreto College, The Royal School and Breffni College were involved in the exhibition, which was organised by Bernard Flood as part of his Self Expression Leadership Programme with Landmark Education. The exhibition was a “demonstration of cooperation and harmony between the communities that are in Cavan as well as reaching out in friendship and generosity to school children in the South African townships”.

According to Bernard, the exhibition consisted of 40 pieces of artwork, ten from each of the schools.

Their aim was to raise £3,000 from the exhibition, which would be donated to schools in the townships through the Niall Mellon Township Trust, which had worked with schools in those areas.As part of his programme Bernard came up with the exhibition idea, which was entitled Art Works for Africa.

“The idea was to raise funds for schools in South Africa and I wanted to get the four second level schools involved.” “There were some excellent pieces from each school and it was the first exhibition of its kind to be staged in Cavan” he told the Anglo-Celt.

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