Jilla. Mani - Request for medical help

Need of medical support for a women at Shoshana medical centre area, Giripuram, Vijayawada.

She is Jilla.Mani aged 43yrs. She is a domestic helper and has one daughter and one son. Husband died of heart attack ten years back and from then she is taking care of her family.

Both her children finished their 10th standard and are ready to join the college. Mean time she got a problem with her left hand. She had a wound on one of her fingers and being a diabetic patient it became chronic and presently she is unable to do anything with that hand.

Since she is the only earning member in the family it is very difficult for her to stop working. Children are waiting to join in the college.  In order to pay the house rent and for othe household expenses they are doing small jobs.

She needs surgery for the finger so she could do her work again. She doesn't want her children to drop their studies and settle as domestic helpers. She is requesting for medical help. She needs medication first to lower her sugar levels before going for surgery.

Pics of Sewing Centre, Giripuram, Vijayawada.

Pics of Sewing centre, Giripuram, Vijayawada.

Though located in the city, Giripuram is an area where mostly the backward and weaker sections live. People still living in backward conditions.  Alchoholism, domestic violence and other factors which are very much dominating in this area. Many children without parents, women losing husbands at early age, sick people turning their children into dropouts and child labourers, single parents are mostly seen in this area.


Shoshana started its work in this area locating needy women, helping them for their self help providing sewing machines after they finish their training in stitching and embroidery. That way many women and girls are supporting their families making efforts overcoming some of their problems.

Instructor Hemima with her students

Medical support is also needed in this area for some extent. Many sick people with long time illness and chronic diseases. Many requests from this area for medical support.

Pics of new batch of women at Chilakaluripet Sewing Centre

Pics from Shoshana sewing centre, Chilakaluripet. Two instructors at the same centre providing both stitching and embroidery courses. Women has the chance to choose according to their requirement.

Instructor Sumathi with her new batch of students

 Both Swetha and Sumathi , the instructors here in this centre care for their women and see that they get settled in their own business. They are more partners in this organization not just like employees.

 Some of the women are daily workers and some have their own occupation which they run at home.

Swetha with her new batch of students

Swetha dealing with embroidery students already started engaging them  in making handwork on sarees so that they could put their products on sale.

Lakshmi, student from Shoshana sewing centre, Nagaralu, Guntur.

Lakshmi

Lakshmi is one of the students of Shoshana sewing centre, Nagaralu, Guntur.


Illiterate woman of 55yrs of age. Single. She has 3sisters and 2 brothers. Being the elder one in the family , she took up the responsibility along with her parents to run the family. Now everybody got married,settled and she is left alone with her younger sister who is mentally disabled. All they have is a small one room hut. .She is living on small income as a coolie.  Health and age wise also it is getting difficult for her to work as a coolie, so it is very hard for her to run the house. 

She is interested to learn stitching with which she could help herself to earn her living working from home so she joined the free stitching classes at Shoshana sewing centre, Nagaralu sponsored by Shoshana, Germany.

Instructor Vasantha  with her students

Inside the sewing centre

 Lakshmi started her training as a tailor in Feb-13. It takes some more months to finish her course. She already started doing small samples. She has lots of hope that this training would definitely support for her self help.

Teacher Vasantha with her present batch of students

Lohiyapuram medical project

Pics from Medical project, Vetapalem.

Medical help at a weaver's colony named Lohiyapuram.

We have the centre at one of the government built houses for the weavers.

Its mainly a weaver's colony. Each house has a weaving equipment and both men and women work as weavers. Its more like daily labour work since majority of them work for a whole sale shop.

People here have a few basic facilities for living but no medical support.First aid help is very much necessary for them since they are far away from the town.

 The nurse Mrs.Varadhamma is taking care of the medical help here. Necessary medicine is available all the time. Except for emergency cases, the nurse is giving basic medical treatment for the people and since the nurse is from the same area it is more easy for the people to utilize the services.

Besides getting medicine people also gather here to spend some time, talk about their problems and its more like a meeting point. Houses are very closely located so all the people in this colony are like a family.

Pics from Audit office, Vijayawada.

We finished our audit work for the financial year 2012-13.

All the projects met at the audit office in Vijayawada headed by Mr.P.Janardhan, our auditor and all the staff working in different projects of Shoshana had an opportunity to meet one another.

Heat wave has hit much of  India. Soaring temperatures has made life miserably for people. It is very difficult to get out of the house. Especially for people who are daily workers and road side vendors. Death rate is also very high this year because of the heat.

Coming to our projects most of our projects are closed for the summer but medical projects are open in order to be  available to the people who need medical support specially in this climate.
Few pics from one of our medical projects located in Epurupalem, A.P.

Besides the hot weather we have continuous power cuts here in our area making life more difficult.

 Schools are closed for summer holidays and children are mostly playing outside. More people are coming for medical help for dehydration and Sunstroke symptoms.