Sakya Hostels for Tsunami hit children (boys & girls) in Manali New Town, Chennai, is one of the major achievements of Visuddhaloka team. The Sakya hostels envision is to provide good environment for the educational development and advancement of the children, so that they live and contribute in the modern world with self confidence. After successful completion of 4 educational year at Sakya Hostels. This year 21 boys and 28 girls are seeking education through this organization.  The children are admitted to the near by Government school from the hostels.

We seek your help to make our children the best individuals of the society. We need support from individuals / organizations to fulfill their needs in terms of food, clothing, study materials, stationaries, sports, medicine, cultural materials and any other essential requirements so as to enhance their improvement.

You are welcome to the Sakya hostels to share your happy and memorable moments with the students. You may celebrate your special days with our children. You may help us in any other ways by giving your precious time voluntarily. We solicit your support to help us to continue this noble task.

We request your Support for Sakya Hostels in what ever way possible.                        

Please send DD/Cheque in the organizations name: “VISUDDHALOKA WELFARE ASSOCIATION“ A/C No. 30747865565, State Bank of India, Tondiarpet  Branch, 621, Tiruvottiyur High Road, Tondiarpet, Chennai â€" 600 081, Tamil Nadu. www.statebankofindia.com

All Donations are exempted from Income Tax under section 80G of Income Tax Act. Vide letter No: DIT (E) No. 2 (764) 08-09. 27-03-2009.

Postal Address:  Sakya Hostels, No: 12/95, Subramani Nagar, Manali New Town, Chennai â€" 600 103, Tamil Nadu, India. Ph: +91 09841 255 342.

Thanking you.

With all our metta.

S. Jayasridhar..

09841 255 342

Date: 28/03/2009

Dear Friends,

This is an urgent Appeal being made to you – Organizations and individuals, requesting you to make a generous contribution for a very young Pahadia girl child aged 1.5 years hailing from a remote village in Godda District who is suffering from a very unique disease known as Hydocephalous.

She is the youngest among the three children to a poor a Primitive Tribal Couple; who are very poor and just cannot afford and have lost all hopes. But meantime an Activist (Mr. Soumik Banerjee) was approached and he referred the patient for undergoing test in Ranchi.

Now she has undergone CT Scan and has been diagnosed as Hydrocephalus by Doctors of Seventh day Adventist Hospital and Rani Children Hospital in Ranchi.

The cost of treatment as estimated by the Doctors is Rs. 30000.00 (Rupees Thirty Thousand). Doctors are not charging for surgery after considering the family's economic condition and on Human ground. The amount from your contribution will be spending for medical treatment (medicines and other hospital service charges).

Dr. Suranjeen (CINI) and  people associated with the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan – Jharkhand have made all the efforts to provide logistical support to the family for medical test and stay in Ranchi.  

We on behalf of the Family under grief and out of human compassion and consideration make a humble appeal to you all, for your kindness and generous contributions for this cause either Cash or cheque.

Your help will bring hope to the family and a new life to one in need. Human Life indeed is very precious.

Looking forward to help at ther earliest..

Thank you      

                                                                                    Appealed by

Balram (9934320657)                                    Haldhar (9431391342)

                                                                         Dr. Suranjeen Prasad (9431707728)

** Kindly contact Alexander (9430753275); 06512532087. Email: alexfes@gmail.com                             

The Paharias are the original inhabitants of the area with a population of 13234 Primitive Tribal Groups-PTGs (Jharkhand has 9 PTGs out of which 2 reside in the area) are some of the most disadvantaged in the area, residing on the hill tops with abject poverty, inaccessibility, low literacy levels, nutritional status and endemicity of Malaria and a number of other tropical diseases. The Paharias practice shifting cultivation of pulses & millets on the hill slopes and are also involved in collection & sale of forest products. The Santals largely residing on the plains carry out Paddy cultivation, Tasar sericulture & other forest products.

Majority of the households are able to grow about half of their total food requirement in their own farms. This gets reflected in terms of extreme malnutrition rates amongst children and even adults. As per our surveys 86 % of Paharia children are underweight with 46% in severe malnourished conditions (this is almost double the NFHS-3 data for Jharkhand), almost all women are anemic and 67% of women have BMI below 18.

Godda district has an Infant Mortality Rate –IMR of 71 as compared to the Jharkhand – 50, the situation for the Paharias is further worse (though no formal study has been done). This is evident from the fact that 7 infants died in the period (Aug -Dec-2008) in a population of around 3000 an IMR close to 80.  Complete Immunization coverage is at 7.6% in the district. Only 21.4 % of expecting mothers undergo Ante-Natal Care with 10% institutional delivery.

Hydrocephalus is usually due to blockage of CSF outflow in the ventricles or in the subarachnoid space over the brain. In a person without hydrocephalus, CSF continuously circulates through the brain, its ventricles and the spinal cord and is continuously drained away into the circulatory system. Alternatively, the condition may result from an overproduction of the CSF fluid, from a congenital malformation blocking normal drainage of the fluid, or from complications of head injuries or infections.^[1]

Regardless of cause, the fluid accumulates in the ventricles. Compression of the brain by the accumulating fluid eventually may cause convulsions and mental retardation. These signs occur sooner in adults, whose skulls no longer are able to expand to accommodate the increasing fluid volume within. Fetuses, infants, and young children with hydrocephalus typically have an abnormally large head, excluding the face, because the pressure of the fluid causes the individual skull bones — which have yet to fuse — to bulge outward at their juncture points. Another medical sign, in infants, is a characteristic fixed downward gaze with whites of the eyes showing above the iris, as though the infant were trying to examine its own lower eyelids.^[2] Hydrocephalus occurs in about one out of every 1000 live births^[3] and was routinely fatal until surgical techniques for shunting the excess fluid out of the central nervous system and into the blood or abdomen were developed. Hydrocephalus is detectable during prenatal ultrasound examinations.

Usually, hydrocephalus does not cause any intellectual disability if recognized and properly treated. A massive degree of hydrocephalus rarely exists in typically functioning people, though such a rarity may occur if onset is gradual rather than sudden).^[4]

^{(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus).}

Loknayak Jaiprakash Eye Hospital

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

Amritnagar, Korra, Hazaribag 825301 Jharkhand – India

To an estimate, there are about 1 million Cataract Blind people in India, mainly the elderly, widows and poor people in rural areas. Their world is dark. The Cataract is a curable disease. Within 15 minutes the vision can be restored by an IOL (Intra Ocular Lenses) surgery which costs only $50 or Rs.2000/-. But those people cannot afford even that small amount. You can help them to see again by contributing only $50 or Rs. 2000/- per person!

You can also celebrate Birthday, Anniversary or Memories of your near and dear in an innovative way by gifting a sight to one or more Cataract Blind in their name, which will give you more satisfaction, happiness & blessings.

NBJK Strength

Kendra, a renowned voluntary organization, has setup Eye Hospitals at Hazaribag and Dumka of Jharkhand state where there were no eye care facilities for the poor people. The Hospitals have 4 Experienced Eye Surgeons, over 40 paramedic staffs, 50 beds, advance OT and the required modern equipments and operating microscope with a capacity to do 14000 surgeries every year. It has its own hospital building at Hazaribag (as shown in the picture above) and rented building at Dumka.

But currently NBJK is operating only 7000 patients per year by the support of some international donors. Thus we are unable to do another 7000 Cataract surgeries per year against our potentiality of 14,000 in lack of support, though there is enormous need for it.

Success story

Flora Barla, a 60 year widow of Hazaribag district, lost her eye sight gradually in last 4 years due to cataract and reached on the verge of complete blindness. Flora's two sons are daily laborer. They didn't have resources for surgery of mother's eyes. Flora had no hope to see again.

She was identified with cataract at regular eye check up camp organized by NBJK at villages. She was referred to NBJK eye hospital and her both eyes were operated one by one and appropriate lens was transplanted.  She is now happy grandma who can see her grand children again and play with them.

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