Kids bring creativity, awareness to World Environment Day
Ganeshpuri, India— On June 5, the people of Ganeshpuri celebrated World Environment Day with activities organized by representatives from PRASAD Chikitsa, and from local schools and youth groups. At the Primary School of Ganeshpuri, enthusiastic children created drawings and Rangoli to express how trees benefit both people and the environment. Read more…
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Donor, Margareta Blix, is celebrating the life of her beloved late sister, Gudrun, with a grant of up to $20,000 that will provide a dollar-to-dollar match for new donations to PRASAD Children's Dental Health Program (PRASAD CDHP) received through October 31, 2010. Read more...
“Paddlers for Humanity” Open Ocean Paddle to benefit PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program
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Widow’s Sight and Self-Sufficiency Are
Restored
Bhima
Chima Bhoir is a widow staying at Parol. Her husband died three years
ago, and her two sons are now married and living with their families.
Alone and with no means of support, she has had to work as a day laborer
at the brick factory in order to have money for food.
About a year ago, she started having decreased vision in both her eyes,
making it harder to work and take care of herself. She knew about the
PRASAD Chikitsa 
eye
camps and about the hospital in Ganeshpuri because when her husband was
alive, he had cataract surgery there - but she was afraid to go to the
hospital by herself. When Netra Chikitsa program coordinator Gurunath
Baliram Shelke came to her house as part of the eye camp’s outreach
program, Bhima was happy to see him; it was Gurunath who convinced her
reluctant husband to have the surgery six years before.
Now it was Bhima’s turn to be encouraged by Gurunath, and she agreed
to go for the screening at the Parol camp at the end of March. She was
operated on the next day at GSP Netra Chikitsa Eye Hospital. As her lovely
smile in the post-surgery photo indicates, all went well. Bhima is very
thankful to PRASAD Chikitsa for helping her become self-sufficient again.