Photograph Exhibit inaugurated by the Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Bhushan Gagrani
Mumbai, September 1st, 2025: College students from Salaam Bombay Basis’s Media Academy who’ve been educated in images and visible storytelling, have partnered with the Training Division of Mumbai to current a robust visible narrative.
Turning their lenses towards town’s government-run colleges, they’ve captured the often-overlooked tales of transformation and progress inside these academic establishments.
The photograph exhibit titled ‘Training & Us’ was inaugurated by Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Bhushan Gagrani, on the historic Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) Headquarters in Fort, the place it should now stand as a everlasting tribute to the spirit of studying.
The occasion was additionally graced by Dr. Amit Saini – Extra Municipal Commissioner (Japanese Suburbs), Dr. Prachi Jambhekar – Deputy Commissioner (Training), Mrs. Sujata Khare – Training Officer, Mr. Mukhtar Shah – Deputy Training Officer and Mr. Dinkar Pawar – Principal Arts Academy – BMC (Training).
The scholars’ images spotlight a variety of amenities, together with digital school rooms, an astronomy lab, pc and vehicle coaching centres, sports activities coaching, and on-campus medical amenities, amongst others. Collectively, these photographs replicate the federal government’s rising dedication to enhancing infrastructure and enriching the academic and life-skills expertise for its college students.
Guided by Salaam Bombay Basis’s Media Academy staff and mentored by skilled photographer Mr. Aslam Saiyad and impartial photojournalist Mr. Prashant Nakwe, the scholars related deeply with the theme, capturing the very authorities colleges they research in, areas crammed with private recollections and which means.
By the Media Academy college students from resource-challenged backgrounds, are empowered to specific their distinctive views and discover potential profession paths, finally serving to them break the cycle of poverty.
For a lot of of those college students, it was their first time holding a DSLR digital camera. Right now, because of hands-on coaching, mentorship, and internship alternatives, they’re geared up to tackle skilled assignments.
A number of college students have already begun supplementing their training by photographing native occasions, birthdays, and portfolio shoots inside their communities.
Ms. Padmini Sekhsaria, Founder & Director, Salaam Bombay Basis, shares, “At Salaam Bombay Basis’s Media Academy, we take satisfaction in equipping resource-challenged college students with the instruments and confidence to inform their very own tales.
Watching our college students develop from hesitant freshmen to expert visible storytellers is deeply rewarding. For a lot of of those younger people, this isn’t nearly studying, however about breaking the cycle of self-doubt by means of alternative and publicity.
A lot of them go on to take up images as a profession, gaining not solely artistic fulfilment but in addition monetary independence.
We prolong our heartfelt gratitude to the Municipal Commissioner for providing our college students this unimaginable platform to showcase their work on the BMC headquarters.
We additionally sincerely thank the Training Division of Mumbai for his or her invaluable collaboration in bringing this distinctive initiative to life.
Seeing our college students’ images displayed in such a prestigious setting is a second of immense satisfaction and inspiration for them, and for all of us at Salaam Bombay Basis.”
Salaam Bombay Basis empowers adolescents from resource-challenged communities by offering vocational coaching, life expertise, and experiential studying alternatives that open pathways to brighter futures.
Aligned with the imaginative and prescient of the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020, the Basis’s initiatives resembling its Media Academy promote holistic training by integrating talent improvement, creativity, and profession readiness.
Initiatives like these replicate our dedication to nurturing expertise, fostering Twenty first-century expertise, and amplifying pupil voices, whereas supporting the broader aim of constructing training extra inclusive, sensible, and aspirational.
About Salaam Bombay Basis:
Salaam Bombay Basis began in 2002 to work with 12 to 18-year-old adolescents rising up in India’s city slums. These kids reside in excessive poverty and in “in danger” environments. Many are undernourished and face the danger of substance abuse.
They arrive from financially challenged houses and are pressured to drop out of secondary faculty and search jobs to help their households.
Given these floor realities, Salaam Bombay Basis has harnessed the power of child- pleasant, progressive training instruments to develop life expertise and coping expertise mandatory to make sure that these adolescents become nicely rounded personalities, in a position to meet the challenges they face and tackle management roles inside their communities.
The Basis retains kids at school by empowering them to make the appropriate selections about their well being, training and livelihood thereby guaranteeing that they’ll thrive with a vibrant future. In-school management programmes equip “at-risk” adolescents with the life expertise they should lead change.
The Sports activities, Arts and Media academies encourage them to specific themselves and supply efficiency alternatives that construct vanity.
The abilities@faculty programme broadens their profession horizons and empowers them with vocational expertise for sustainable careers. In simply three years, they go from surviving to thriving. They don’t simply keep at school however set themselves on a path to dignified dwelling.
By its DreamLab initiative, SBF, has offered for a continuum of expertise coaching and market-based internships to kids within the age group of 14 and 18 years. Launched in July 2019, DreamLab, has been in a position to furnish stipend-based internships to a whole lot of expertise@faculty alumni throughout 9 job sectors.
DreamLab additionally creates a expertise pool of grassroot entrepreneurial adolescents. Salaam Bombay initiatives enhance confidence, give weak adolescents the means to earn part-time and keep at school, and supply the instruments to discover their full potential.
By the completely different academies at Salaam Bombay Basis, we work on the important thing areas beneath CSR Schedule VII – Preventive Well being, Psychological Wellbeing, Vocational Expertise, Sports activities, Arts, and Media for the underprivileged adolescent from city slums of India.
Break the cycle. Construct a future.
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