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Contribution to GHAR – A Sant Ishwar Foundation “Helping one person may not change the whole world; but it can change one person’s whole world.” 

“Life is all about opportunities.”Ghar is about opening the door of opportunity to orphans and children from the footpath,” says Founder Colonel Mickie Uberoi.

About Ghar:

  • Ghar is a home for orphan, abandoned and vulnerable girls, disabled women and the elderly.
  • Located in Pune it is a replica of a home with three generations of residents residing together much alike children, parents and grandparents residing in a home.
  • Most of the 35 girls learn in an English medium school with high quality education. The girls are all exposed to the opportunities of extracurricular activities such as yoga, sports, vocal and instrumental lessons, art and craftwork.
  • Girls are provided a healthy and nutritious diet as well as chances to celebrate the national holidays with everyone.

How we contributed:

  • We contributed by providing their healthy snack (apples)
  • Donated 1 lakh Indian rupees ($1,220) which would help towards their school and extracurricular activity fees.

Special Thanks:

Thanks to Mr. Kevin Adamo (advisor) and Ms. Mudra Machewad (President) from the Builders club, Beaver Lake Middle School, Sammamish.

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Building Service Leadership

Building Service Leadership @Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS)

Service leadership, what’s that? Here’s how the Builder’s Club at Beaver Lake Middle School defines it: “The heart to serve … the call to lead … the courage to engage.” That’s also the club motto.

The more than 1,600 Builder’s Clubs across the United States sponsored by local Kiwanis Clubs are aimed at creating future generations of service-oriented leaders by involving 6th, 7th and 8th graders in projects serving mainly children, but also elder adults.

The club at Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS)-which began in the fall of 2021— is the brainchild of three people: Kevin Adamo, then the faculty advisor; Kathryn Coffin, the principal; and Mudra Machewad, the 6thgrade instigator of it all. Coffin wanted a community-centered student organization. Adamo was aware of the Builder’s Clubs and had already started one at another school. And Machewad was the dynamo who recruited and organized the student members.

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Kiwanis Builders Club

As a Kiwanis Builder’s Club Advisor for the past four years, I cannot emphasize enough how valuable the sponsorship of our Sammamish  Kiwanis Club has been. This Club could not exist without them and the hard work of their membership.

The Builder’s Club has provided opportunities for our middle school students to work together in service to our school, local community and even a village in India.  This club has developed so many leadership potentials and fostered the development of strong and moral character of all involved.  During these past few years, it has been even more important for our students to have an opportunity to work with their peers and help spread goodwill.  It is amazing the ideas these students have and how much they care about other people.

Some of our projects over the past few years have been making surgery dolls, making cards of encouragement, and reading to children at Seattle Children’s Hospital to creating a video thanking First Responders for all their help during the pandemic and even raising money to send to a village in India to give children an education.  We are looking forward to many more activities this year!

Thank you, Sammamish Kiwanis, for your sponsorship this year!  We are so excited that you are giving us this opportunity at Beaver Lake Middle School.

Warm Regards,

Kevin Adamo, Beaver Lake Middle School, Kiwanis Builder’s Club Advisor