New Pavillons for Villa Janwaar

Over the last two months Pappu and his team of locals have been working hard to give the courtyards of our Villa Janwaar and the neighbouring land of the forest department a new look. After renovating what was already there and painting all the walls the first goal was to avoid the ponding of the […]

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Math & Skateboarding

We’ve wirtten before that we have now a math teacher (online sessions), Saurabh Suri, who really understands how to get the kids’ attention in math. Now we are building on this in a series of math experiments. He is the first one Anil and Asha did with the kids. It was about the AVERAGE. Anil […]

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“Kids teaching kids!”

Asha is giving sessions to the kids at our Villa Janwaar. Here is a little “report”. “Today I played with our kids an Indoor game: “When I say head, touch your head!” I found a YouTube video on this, After playing I asked to kids how was the game? Did you like it or not? […]

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Happy Shoe Day

Once again new shoes for the Janwaar kids and some elders. This time the package was shipped from Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Warriors Shanghai via my son Tim supported us. As you can easily see, the kids were in heaven! Thank you Warriors Shanghai!

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Happy Holi!

Every year we celebrate Holi, the festival of colors. And every year it’s extreme fun. All the kids from our Open School Project in Delhi came backhome. They brought organic colors – and, as you can see they were used abundantly. No one could escape! At the end we spontaneously decided to go to the […]

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Beach Party

I live in Madla, 35 km away from Janwaar, right next to Ken River. The kids love this place. Last year we had our first beach party – it was such a huge success that the kids were demanding to make it an annual event. And that’s what we did. On March 23, forty kids […]

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