NGO: Vivekananda Kendra

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NGO: Vivekananda Kendra

Vivekananda Kendra is a pan-India organization working for the overall advancement of marginalized communities.

IDRF partner since: 2000

  • Focus Area: Health
  • Location: Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
  • Project Title: Fighting malnutrition among women and children in tribal villages of Arunachal Pradesh, Mobile Clinic and OPD Path-lab
  • Details:  Fighting malnutrition among women and children in tribal villages Lazu and Khimiyong circles in Tirap and Changlang Districts of Arunachal Pradesh In the remote hilly villages, about 73% children are malnourished and about 55% women are anemic as a result of multiple pregnancies. With IDRF’s support and guidance, Vivekananda Kendra has started a project wherein, 200 children and 50 women from 12 villages with severe symptoms are being identified in the first phase. During the free medical camps people are being made aware of this new program and children are selected for intervention. These malnourished children will then be provided nutritious meals through Balwadis and women will be given dietary supplements by health workers

    Anemia and Hemoglobin testing for adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women will also be started soon. Regular health awareness camps will be conducted to monitor the changes and special care given to pregnant and lactating women. The families will be encouraged to grow more grains, vegetables and fruits for consumption at home in order to improve their health. This project will require us to raise $15,000 per year in order to fight malnutrition among children and women in remote tribal villages..

 

Mobile Clinic, OPD Path-lab

IDRF has been supporting mobile medical clinics over the past two decades, in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The latest medical van was inaugurated in July 2014, in order to continue serving the medical needs of over 50,000 marginalized people from 35-40 of the most remote villages across Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The van is used for free medical care for these villages, as well as conducting free medical camps several times a year. With the new van, the medical team is trying to reach out to even more remote villages, along the Indo-Myanmar borders of Arunachal Pradesh.

Within one year of getting the new van,  the team was able to achieve tremendous success in conducting the following activities: 62 Medical camps benefitting 6,400 people; 69 basic health camps by health workers benefitting 1200 people; health workers’ orientation and training programs for 15 workers; 22 School Outreach Programs; village visits, malaria tests, administering deworming medicines to children and medicines for various ailments distribution by health workers; health awareness meetings benefitting more than 5,500 people; eye camps to detect cataract and glaucoma for 241 people and operating 13 patients so far, and dental camps to treat 103 patients.

Since then the mobile medical van has been regularly able to visit more remotely situated villages and offer medical services to the poor and impoverished villagers. These achievements have been highly commendable because of the tough geographical conditions of this area. Due to heavy landslides some of the roads are closed for several months and the health workers have to visit the villages on foot to provide basic medicines to the patients.

The medical needs of this region have been so dire, that IDRF established a new program called Rural Area Medical Aid (RAMA), whereby, medical doctors in the United States, donate $1,000/year to cover the annual operating costs of the van.  IDRF is also working with them to make the program sustainable by charging nominal fees for medical services provided. Two members of IDRF’s RAMA group have also served in a free surgical camp organized at Tinsukia in Assam. These doctors made use of the IDRF van to serve the patients in the area, but faced acute scarcity of diagnostic equipment and instruments. The experience of these doctors has inspired IDRF to raise $ 55,000 to support a fixed location OPD-path lab with modern medical equipment, in Tinsukia.

Medical Camps organized by Vivekananda Kendra in Arunachal Pradesh

IDRF funded Mobile Medical Clinic

Donor and Volunteer Testimonial:

Dr. Arti Gehani, is a member of IDRF’s RAMA group and has served in a free surgical camp jointly sponsored by Vivekananda Kendra and other organizations in Arunachal Pradesh. According to Arti, “As physicians, it was joyful to share our skills, but it was also very difficult and frustrating due to lack of medical equipment. Despite the challenges, the experience was wonderful but heartbreaking at the same time. The people were humble and kind and very grateful for our services. I believe that I gained much more from this experience than the patients did”.

Please click on the web link given below to get more information on Vivekananda Kendra.
http://www.vivekanandakendra.org/

NGO: Sri Ram Grameen Kshetra Vikas Samiti

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NGO: Sri Ram Grameen Kshetra Vikas Samiti

Sri Ram Grameen Kshetra Vikas Samiti provides a hospital with low-cost but- quality medical access for the population of villages around Nagauri, Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh.

IDRF partner since: 2008

  • Focus Area: Health
  • Location: Uttar Pradesh
  • Project Title: Smt Laxmi Todi Hospital (Nagauri Hospital)
  • Details:  The hospital is currently operating with the medical staff in the following fields: allopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy, eye care and pharmacy. The number of patients coming daily is about 50 on an average. Monthly eye-camps are being organized for the past several years. The cataract patients are examined and taken by buses to Meerut city for eye-operations done free of cost. This Hospital provides post-operative care to these patients on a regular basis. This program has been successful and effective in controlling the blindness in the rural population of the area.

    Despite its success, there are many challenges that are making it difficult for the hospital to treat many more patients than they are able to do so. Lack of roads, transportation facilities, unawareness among the rural people, are to name a few.

    IDRF is helping in not only the running of the hospital, but also in the construction of road, that will allow villagers from nearby communities to gain direct access to the quality medical-personnel and facilities available at this hospital. Additionally, IDRF funds were used to maintain various facilities, construction of staff residences and a separate wing for women patients in the hospital.

Mrs. Saraswati Jain attending to a leprosy patient

NGO: Sree Kasturibai Mahila Samajam

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NGO: Sree Kasturibai Mahila Samajam

Background:

A social service organization founded by the renowned scholar Swamini Lalitananda, Sree Kasturibai Mahila Samajam provides disabled, elderly, and disadvantaged people with a variety of services.

IDRF Partner Since: 2005

Focus Area: Health

Location: Andhra Pradesh

Project: Charla Susila Old Age Home

Details:

The home serves the elderly, many of whom were living in abject poverty, abandoned or abused by their families, and people who suffer from serious physical or mental illness. IDRF and Sree Katuribai Mahila Samajam provide these individuals with a comfortable living and medical care in a home-like environment.

Mrs. Saraswati Jain attending to a leprosy patient

NGO: Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service (SISS)

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NGO: Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service (SISS)

Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service (SISS), is a non-profit voluntary social service and research institute established in 1999. SISS has been devising and successfully implementing programs for encouraging rural population to develop independent thinking and mutual cooperation. The organization is also committed to the holistic development of tribal villages, with a specific focus on eco-friendly development and healthcare

IDRF partner since: 2013

  • Focus Area:  Health
  • Location: Telangana
  • Project Title: Arogya Dhara
  • Details:  Private-Public partnerships remain the secret of successful development-bringing a host of skills as well as financial, technical and operative know-how for efficient and effective implementation and sustained operation. IDRF’s exemplary partnership with SISS implemented the Arogya Dhara project from April 2013 – March 2016. On the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, SISS had started ‘Arogya Dhara Initiative’ in 2013, to promote sanitation, health and livelihood activities in the tribal areas of Adilabad district, Telangana. Their work targeted improvements in health and environmental aspects of the entire village.

    Arogya Dhara was started in 162 villages and 50,000 people from 10,000 families have taken part and benefitted from this initiative. IDRF acted as a catalyst by meeting the critical requirement of 7.5% funding. The ultimate beneficiaries contributed 8.6% through labor (Shramdan), the partner-NGO raised 2.9% locally and the remaining 81% was financed by the central and state governments.

Village Committees were constituted in every village, and development activities were carried out through them. Some of these activities are as follows:

  • People have been encouraged to construct toilets, soak pits and motivated to adhere to maintain clean surroundings (3,205 soak pits have been completed in 25 villages).
  • Horticulture and backyard plantation has been propagated in 4,500 households.
  • Health awareness programs for women and young girls have been organized in villages and schools.
  • Eye checkup camps have also been conducted in villages and various schools.
  • Vocational training camps for unemployed youth have been organized.
  • Homeopathic medicines have been distributed to 9,500 households to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

SISS also works closely with local government bodies through co-financing and capacity building, to ensure that governments will continue this work long after SISS has left. This ensures a major multiplier effect, and sustainability of this project into the long-term.

Villagers digging soak pits

Toilets in Mutnuru village

Please click to know more about Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service’s various programs.

NGO: Saraswati Jain Sewa Samiti

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NGO: Saraswati Jain Sewa Samiti

Saraswati Jain Sewa Samiti, was established in 2002 by Late Shri C.L. Jain and his wife Smt. Saraswati Jain. The Sewa Samiti is a non-governmental organization based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, with a mission of helping the most impoverished and ailing members of the society, especially leprosy patients who have been shunned by the society for ages. This NGO has two distinct objectives: (i) medical help for leprosy patients, mostly abandoned by their families, at the Mahatma Gandhi Kushtha Ashram located on the outskirts of Jaipur (ii) provides food, medications, blankets and other daily items to poor patients admitted to the local government hospital (Sawai Mansingh Hospital).

IDRF partner since: 2004

  • Focus Area: Health
  • Location: Rajasthan
  • Project Title: Mahatma Gandhi Kushtha (Leprosy) Ashram and Sawai Mansingh Hospital
  • Details:  A very unique feature of Saraswati Jain Sewa Samiti, is that, it has no overheads of any kind or employee salaries as all involved are volunteers. IDRF’s fund have played a pivotal role in upgrading the dilapidated building of Mahatma Gandhi Kushtha Ashram. IDRF has also helped procure medical supplies and the services of a local surgeon, who attends to the acutely ill and convalescing leprosy patients on a regular basis. In Sawai Mansingh Hospital Jaipur, IDRF is supporting the needs of poor patients admitted primarily to the Neurosurgery ward as well as other support areas such as the outpatient clinics, operation theaters and blood banks.

Donor Testimonial:

Dr. Lucky Jain says: “Few organizations, Shabnam and I know are so steeped in caring for others as is the India Development Relief Fund. Guided by the singular vision and dedication of Mr. Vinod Prakash, IDRF has created uncountable opportunities for the less fortunate. My own association with IDRF goes back for more than a decade and has steadily grown over time. IDRF has helped bring much-needed resources for sick patients at the Sawai Mansingh Hospital in Jaipur India and leprosy patients at the Mahatma Gandhi Leprosy Ashram in Jaipur……”

Mrs. Saraswati Jain visiting patients at the general ward in the hospital

Mrs. Saraswati Jain attending to a leprosy patient

Read more 
https://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/india-development-and-relief-fund-inc/324216

NGO: Sahaj Seva Samsthan

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NGO: Sahaj Seva Samsthan

Sahaj Seva Samsthan (SSS) is formed by followers of a spiritual way of living propounded by Mahatma Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. This society is focused on propagating the philosophies of selfless service, sacrifice, moderation, and co-operation. They have been working on uplifting the impoverished people of Telangana by providing them low-cost or free medical care and education.

IDRF partner since: 2005

  • Focus Area: Education and Health
  • Location: Telangana
  • Project Title: Free Schools for Disabled and Disadvantaged Children
  • Details:  IDRF has supported schools set up by the Samsthan for providing free education to children with special needs (slow learners), who are unable to study in normal schools and have failed there repeatedly or are dropouts. Another school that IDRF funded for, provides free education to disadvantaged children in an environment where besides academic excellence and vocational learning, the noble qualities like honesty, truthfulness, love, sharing, sacrifice, discipline, and moral values are being inculcated in the students through associative teaching methods.

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NGO: phect-NEPAL

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NGO: phect-NEPAL

Background:

Public Health Concern Trust (phect-NEPAL) is a not-for-profit national level Nongovernment Organization (NGO) committed to health development with the overall objective of developing a model of sustainable community health care throughout rural Nepal.

IDRF Partner Since: 2012

Focus Area: Health

Location: Nepal

Project Title: Kirtipur Teaching Hospital

Details:

IDRF helped PHECT complete the construction and design of both the hospital and academic buildings at Kirtipur. Kirtipur Teaching Hospital trains skilled and compassionate doctors to serve the marginalized Nepalese populations in remote areas. PHECT is also currently working towards becoming the first environmentally sustainable hospital in Nepal.

NGO: Mata Balak Utkarsh Pratishthan

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NGO: Mata Balak Utkarsh Pratishthan

Mata Balak Utkarsh Pratishthan (MBUP) is a social service organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of rural women and families through education, health, justice, and economic empowerment. The educated women of Sangola, led by the town’s first woman doctor Dr. Sanjeevani Kelkar , formed Mata Balak Utkarsh Pratishthan in 1978. MBUP employed a multi thronged approach to address the problems faced by rural women, and therefore, since inception, it worked in every possible area that could be used to reach and address the plight of these women. For example, it started pre-primary school, Self Help Groups, conducted myriad programs to create conducive environment on educational and cultural fronts

IDRF partner since: 2001

  • Focus Area: Health
  • Location: Solapur District,Maharashtra
  • Project Title: Mobile Medical Care
  • Details:  Since 2009, MBUP has been operating the project “Arogyadoot” (health worker) in the rural areas of Sangola Taluka. IDRF has been supporting “Arogyadoot Mobile Medical Care project” that aims to reduce the mortality rate of expectant mothers and infants by providing medical care and prenatal health education. The project has treated more than 2,000 women and children each year since 2009. From time to time, they also organize check-up camps for assessing hemoglobin levels in blood, blood sugar, skin diseases and hearing for the poor population.
    Arogyadoot Mobile Medical Care program has also been providing the following aid to the rural families in the area: distribution of First-Aid boxes to the health workers, midwife training, distribution of free medicines, training programs for health workers, providing funds for emergency, Self-Help Groups for providing financial assistance to families, awareness and use of toilets and smoke-less stoves (chulhas), personality development programs for students and kitchen gardening programs. Recently, IDRF has funded a medical camp for Hemoglobin checkup conducted in March 2018 and the construction of the school building (2 classrooms) that will be completed over the summer break by the end of June 2018.

Free prenatal checkup of an expectant mother

Arogyadoot: Mobile Medical Care Project’s free checkup camp

Mobile Medical Clinic

Please click on the link to know more about Mata Balak Utkarsha Pratishathan’s programs.

http://www.matabalak.org/

NGO: Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan Trust

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NGO: Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan Trust

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan is a charitable trust registered in 1988, by few motivated doctors who came together to bring a social change through healthcare. They started Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya (Hospital) at Aurangabad in 1989 and since then it is running many social activities apart from excellent patient carethrough several network of hospitals, mobile clinic and Slum Health Centers. It has achieved high level of faith & love amongst poor people of Marathwada region. In addition to providing health services to more than 4.5 million patients at affordable rates, the trust also provides Holistic Development programs such as Pre-Primary Education, and Skill-Development, etc. aimed at uplifting these communities.

IDRF partner since: 1998

  • Focus Area: Health
  • Location: Gujarat and Maharashtra
  • Project Title: Mobile medical clinics for urban slums in Aurangabad (April 2018-March 2021), BHIM -Better Health Intervention for Reducing Morbidity & Mortality in Malnutrition (June 2017 –May 2018), Dr. Hedgewar Hospital and Shri Guruji Rugnalaya.
  • Details:  After the success of IDRF-supported mobile clinics in other parts of India, we have expanded our program for three years (April 2018-March 2021) to the six slums in Aurangabad. This health care project has been successfully running for more than 21 years and provides three permanent health centers and one mobile clinic benefitting more than 125,000 slum dwellers, which is almost 40% of the population of the slums in Aurangabad.

    This project makes use of medical services as a tool for social development of the underserved. Millions live in densely populated urban slums in abject poverty under unhygienic conditions and lacking proper health and social awareness. Various diseases caused by unhygienic living conditions like water borne diseases, infectious skin diseases, T.B. and AIDs etc. are quite prevalent here. IDRF sent a grant to replace the existing old medical van with a new one. IDRF also supports various holistic preventive health activities that focus on education and neighborhood participation in community development, as the cost of curative treatment is lot higher than prevention. The unique feature of this project is that the doctor along his family resides among the slum dwellers and leads the program.

Services provided by the mobile clinic:

  • Primary health care (with nominal token fees)
  • Community health services (Free health camps incl. Eye and ENT)
  • Training of community health volunteers (Arogya Mitra Yojna)
  • Safe drinking water awareness
  • Health education and awareness programs (poster exhibitions, presentations, video shows, de-addiction programs, and personal hygiene awareness, etc.)
  • Community development programs (children development programs-jeevan drops distribution, women’s Self-Help Groups, and vocational trainings for youth)

Project Evaluation and Monitoring:

A project monitoring committee comprised of few trustees of organization, project coordinator, funding agency representative, etc., implements the smooth running of this project. They are responsible for periodic meetings, technical and financial reports and the maintenance of systematic patient records to evaluate the success of various programs.

Our partner organization has also trained and appointed health volunteers and people participation in every project area. Various events like health awareness exhibitions, poster exhibitions for school students, and video shows on healthy habits for children and adults, etc. are also organized on a regular basis.

Health Beneficiaries of Mobile Medical Clinics in 2019

Types of ActivitiesJanuary-MarchApril-JuneJuly-SeptemberOctober-DecemberTotal Beneficiaries
OPD patients examined7,0004,2496,1817,66425,094
Preventive Health Programs: health-exhibitions, video-shows, Jeevan-Drops distribution, anemia and de-addiction clinics1,0486941,4993183,559
Free Health Camps: ENT, Eye and Free Cataract Surgeries45143607181,272
Training & Appointment of Health-Volunteers (Arogya Mitra)200300730
Total8,5194,9897,7408,70729,955

Outcomes of the project:

  • Primary health care facilities are availed by more than 24,000 slum dwellers per year.
  • Cataract and micro-ear surgeries performed free of cost for poor and needy.
  • Health volunteers selected and trained to carry out various health awareness camps leading to a healthier lifestyle among the slum-dwellers
  • Increased economic productivity due to improvement in poor people’s health.

BHIM -Better Health Intervention for Reducing Morbidity & Mortality in Malnutrition (June 2017 –May 2018): Malnutrition is one of the most common causes of increased mortality and morbidity in children under 5 years, especially in developing countries like India.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan has started a community health research project with IDRF’s support, under which it is being studied whether small doses of antibiotics over a long term will be effective in reducing mortality and morbidity in malnourished children. This study is being done on about 5000 children living in 110 tribal villages in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The research team comprises of pediatricians, nutritionists, physicians, medical social workers and statisticians. This study will also help in improving the quality of life and survival of children with malnutrition.

Dr. Hedgewar Hospital: With IDRF’s continuous support and commitment for a noble cause, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan has been able to spread healing touch through Dr. Hedgewar Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital in Aurangabad. This hospital serves the underprivileged with quality care that is easily accessible. The hospital has all the modern facilities and is at par with leading hospitals of the country in terms of latest technology and human resources.  IDRF has been supporting a variety of their programs from time to time.

Shri Guruji Rugnalaya: 

A program was started about 12 years ago, to sensitize and foster medical students while at medical colleges to work for the well-being of the poor and needy. At the Shri Guruji Rugnalaya in Nashik several such doctors are working who have given their lifetime commitment for this project. This hospital has achieved good faith and confidence amongst masses in providing excellent medical care at an affordable cost. More than 40, 000 patients in OPD, and more than 8,000 patients on In-patient basis have been treated here and more than 1,500 surgeries have been performed. Medical services are provided either free of cost or at subsidized rates to the poor people. With the support of IDRF, the hospital was able to buy equipment for the oncology laboratory.

Mobile clinic 

Patients at the mobile clinic

Health awareness exhibitions for the slum-dwellers

Dr. Hedgewar Hospital

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NGO: Vikas Bharati

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NGO: Vikas Bharati

Background:

Vikas Bharati is a local NGO focused on the economic development of rural of Jharkhand. As one of Jharkhand’s largest NGOs, Vikas Bharati provides employment training and technology, while increasing social equity and preserving the cultural traditions of the people.

IDRF Partner Since: 1988

Focus Area: Ecofriendly Development

Location: Jharkhand

 Project: Seed Production

Details:

A primary source of income for Tribal farms of Gumla district is growing varieties of paddy rice. However, in order to buy quality seed, these economically disadvantaged farmers must buy them on credit, pushing them further into debt and making them even more vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes. IDRF, and local partner VIkas Bharati joined forces to implement a program where farmers grew paddy and saved it as seed rather than selling it as food. Eventually, the project introduced various technological measures to improve the quality of the seed. The project has resulted in local farmers earning almost triple their previous income by selling seed, and has improved conditions for non-participating farmers who have also benefitted from the higher quality product.