BHUMI (organisation)

Ignite is Bhumi's supplementary education programmed for under-privileged children. The programme is delivered during the weekends by trained volunteers of Bhumi. Over 25,000 children are benefiting from the programme as of 2020.[3] The programme consists of English, Mathematics, Science, computers, mentoring, arts, sports and life skills support.[1]

Kanini meaning computer in some Indian languages including Tamil, is Bhumi's computer literacy programmed for children. Kanini has a well-structured syllabus with courses that cater to children's varying requirements, interests and aptitudes. The basic course package consists of introduction to the Computer, basic software and hardware, Microsoft Office tools and the Internet.

The Speak Out programme provides quality English and soft-skills education to underprivileged children. The programme builds the communication ability and confidence of children so that they can stand at par with the rest of the world.

Lakshya is a mentorship programme which pairs underprivileged children with volunteers who act as their mentors and role models. Mentors meet mentees every week and assist them with school work, listen to their problems and support them in challenges they encounter. In the process, mentors instill self-confidence and the ability to solve one's own problem in the children.

e-Lakshya is a mentorship programme which pairs underprivileged children in rural India with Bhumi volunteers across the world who act as their mentors and role models. Mentors interact with mentees through the internet at Bhumi facilitated sessions.

Little Einsteins – Mathematics is an activity based learning programme that focuses on the conceptual understanding and learning. The programme taps the curiosity of children and eliminates the fear of the subject by widening the spectrum of their knowledge.

Little Einsteins -Science is an experiment based programme that teaches the fundamental concepts of science through experimentation, observation and conceptual understanding. The programme helps students understand concepts by doing experiments and helps eliminate the fear of Science.

Yantra is an exciting hands-on programme that helps children learn scientific concepts by building their own robots. The programme helps children develop interest in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)[11][12]

Nakshatra, is Bhumi's talent development programme. Nakshatra consists of an Annual inter-orphanage art, sports and science talent Fest to bring out the children's creative talents held across India[13][14] and a year long talent development programme in arts, sports at shelter homes. The event has been held annually since 2009[15] [16] .[17] Over 6,000 children participate in Nakshatra every year[18]

Nakshatra, is a two-day talent fest held every year has an array of competitive activities to ensure that children of all age groups from orphanages participate and gain immensely by competing against their peers. The 50 different arts and cultural competitions- including flower arrangement, pot painting, clay modelling, elocution, solo / group dance and song etc. and athletic and sporting competitions like sprint, high jump, shot put, volleyball, chess etc. are structured for various age groups to facilitate maximum participation. The event is peppered with entertainment, games and a science exhibition to keep the children busy even while they were not competing.

Catalyze consists of Bhumi's civic projects that engage volunteers in causes like animal welfare, community welfare, disability,[19] environment,[20] health etc. The programmes consisting of one-off and regular volunteering activities engage over 5,000 volunteers each year in over 15 cities across India.

The project started in 2020 during Covid Pandemic is aimed at nurturing the potential of lesser-privileged children through dance — is a way to recognize the skills of dancers across the country for a cause and this social project will be curating a nation-wide online dance competition titled Lockdown Showdown 2020.[21] The dance competition had two categories — self-taught dancers and professional dancers, and three age-wise sub-categories — those below 18; above 36, and those between ages 18 and 36. The submissions under the self-taught dancer's category had been posted to Bhumi's official TikTok account and the winners were chosen based on the number of likes their videos received and A special jury was also constituted to evaluate the performances and similarly the professional dancer's entries were shortlisted and shared on Bhumi's Instagram account and the winners were selected by a special panel and also a registration fee was collected from the participants the proceeds of which were donated towards Bhumi's COVID-19 relief activities. The registration for self-taught dancers was fixed at Rs 99 and for professionals was Rs 249.[21] Following rules were fixed for competition:[21]

1.Each participant was allowed to post only one video.

2.Time limit of the dance video was fixed at less than 60 seconds.

3.The participants were asked to ensure good quality video and audio are posted and no video editing or after-effects were allowed.

4.It was ensured that the video was original and filmed during the quarantine period.

In 2019,TikTok app had partnered with NGO Bhumi and launched the "Clean India" challenge which trended on it with more than 750 million views and to spread the challenge and rope in greater number of TikTok users as part of the campaign, Bhumi initiated cleanliness drives in other Indian cities too.