Martur medical Project plus on the way

Our visit to Martur medical project especially started in 2005 to provide medical

support to the Granite workers families. Martur is famous for Granite cutting

factories and the people of Adarsh nagar working in those factories have small colonies around

the factories and a few are working as coolies in the near by fields.

 

Work of the people both men and women in those factories is hard compared to

other jobs. They are easily prone to cuts, breathing problems since they are in dust

most of the time, regular wounds since they work with heavy granite stones like

while crushing the stones to pieces or cutting them in shapes and on top they have

regular body pains.

Having regular medical help around their area turned out to be a great help for them.

We have a new nurse for this area. Her name is Mumtaz. She is a married muslim

lady. She has two years of working experience as a nurse in a private hospital in

Martur. Besides taking care of the medical centre she started going around the

area to get familiar with the people and give out medication to those who are

bedridden

The nurse Mumtaz got enough suggestions regarding taking good care of the medical project from the society members of Adarsh nagar and from Martha.

Visit to Shoshana medical Project in Epurupalem

Shoshana medical project in Epurupalem  recently moved from weavers’ colony to Christian pet. Pics showing in and around the medical project.

Buela rani is the nurse.  Well qualified and has good experience of working in famous hospitals. She has been the incharge of our medical project for the past five years.

The medical project is recently changed from weavers’ colony since majority of the weavers decided to leave their traditional work and search for other jobs since it is getting difficult for them to earn enough income for their living.  Only the ones who own the weaving unit are getting richer but the common weaver who is working on daily wages has not enough  money to support their family so most of them are migrating to other places in search of jobs so Buela rani had not enough work in that area.

Medical project is recently shifted to her own house
which is in Christian pet and which also a very needy
area with majority of illiterate people who are daily workers.

Since Rani is living in the same house she will be available to the people all the time and she
could as well take in patients if necessary like for infusions.

People in this area are very happy to have the regular medical support under the good
maintenance of the nurse.

Our visit to Narasaraopet projects including two sewing and one medical project scattered on three different parts of the town.

Especially the medical project , situated on the outskirts of Narasaraopet town still towards yellamanda village. Area KSP nagar is purposefully selected by the society members to provide medical help where majority of the people are very needy for all kinds of support.

The Nurse Mary working at our Shoshana medical project worked as a volunteer for Government health department before she joined here and she was alloted this area for distribution of medication now and then. She is familiar with the people and their regular health problems. So people here both men and women are quite confident with the treatment given by this nurse and they are quite happy with the regular medical help at our medical project. The nurse has good connections with the government nurses and she is helping them during medical camps organized in this area.

Yesterday she had a patient with leprosy which is somehow rare case these days. She suggested him necessary precautions and she is planning to take him to a famous leprosy unit near to Kottappakonda village where he gets proper care and complete course of treatment.

Next our visit to the sewing projects one at  Shalem nagar and the other at Navodaya nagar. Both started during the last four years time. Pics showing the ladies with their instructors at both the projects.

 Santhamma, the instructor at Shalem nagar is one of the older instructors. She has more experience as a teacher even before started working with Shoshana. She is quite practical and up to date with the samples trying to teach all kinds of readymade patterns to the students which are necessary for their future tailor shops.

 Second sewing project is at Navodayanagar and the instructor is Satyavathi. She started recently in 2010 working with Shoshana but she too has enough experience as a teacher. So far she finished one batch of students. She is slowly learning to organize and train the students according to the standards set by Shoshana which is only for the future benefit of the needy women for their self help. Our aim to to give good training to the women which they could use practically for their success in their betterment of lives.

Visit to Guntur

Our second visit yesterday was to our second sewing project in Guntur . It was started in 2005 with Rajani as the tailoring instructor and till now she trained 64 needy women in tailoring and embroidery but for the last one year  Rajani is trying to teach Beautician course for the ladies as a change and which is also one of the good income gaining source now a days.

She had 6 students in the first batch and two of them are working in Parlours and rest working on their own.In the present batch she has 6 girls for the beautician course. We suggested her to have a combination of tailoring , embroidery and beautician course so the women will have a chance to use any of these skills for their living.

Third tailoring project in Guntur.

Picture details  of our recent visit to Guntur sewing projects.
First is the sewing project at Venkataramana colony, Guntur. Anitha is the tailoring instructor at this project and she is the youngest of all our instructors and one of the best.

She was a child labour as a kid. She lost her father at a very young age. Her mother was the one who took up the responsiblity of a big family. She couldn't afford to send all the children to school so two of them had to do some work to support her mother. Anitha was sent to Singapore to work as a domestic helper. She worked there for a few years. Meanwhile she had no chance to go to school.  After coming back from Singapore she learnt tailoring and other handicraft work which is now very useful for her self help.

Anitha along with her students is working as group in selling the products made my them and also taking orders from outside sharing the profit among the group which is very useful for the women who are actually working as coolies for their living.

Since she came from the same financial background ,she has in her mind of helping the needy women who are going through the same financial crisis not just working as an employee from Shoshana.

Medical camp, Lohiyapuram

Pictures from the medical camp conducted at Lohiyapuram medical centre.

Lohiyapuram is an area in Vetapalem village belonging to Prakasam district. This area is on the outskirts of the village specially alloted for the down trodden people by the Government. This area has people with different occupations like weaving which is a major work, agriculture, rickshaw pullers etc.

Government is slowly providing all the basic facilities to them but still medical help is lacking.

We started medical help in this area in 2008 with Vardhanamma as the nurse. This time society people decided to organise  a medical camp with two qualified doctors in this area.

young doctors couple whose names are Dr.Nancy and Dr.Ben. Studied medicine in Guntur medical college. They are very co-operative and willing to give their free medical service to the needy people whenever they have a possibility.

Here we have the support of nice society members who are very active in taking care of the poor people in this area from time to time.

We are very happy to have the support of both German and Indian people who are caring for the benefit of poor people.

Visit to our Vijayawada Sewing Project

Visit to our Sewing Project in Vijayawada. Vijayawada is a city in Krishna district. This place is famous for Krishna river and Prakasam Barage and there is a famous Temple of Goddess Durga. It is a busy city with lots of different business. Here we could see contrast economic situations like very rich and very poor people.

Rajeswari pet , where we have our Sewing project comes under old city. The area is little  backward compared to the  other part of the city. Here we see people who are rag pickers, daily workers, rickshaw pullers etc. Women are mostly domestic helpers. Children are mostly dropouts and child labourers.

Inorder to show an alternate livelihood for the needy women Trinity welfare Society which is a local society specially formed for the upliftment of downtrodden people approached Shoshana for their support in opening a sewing centre at Wynchpet, Vijayawada.

It was started in 2001 and so far for the last 10 years it is running effortlessly for the benefit of the poor women for their self help. Srivani has been the tailoring and embroidery instructor. She is  very good in teaching, encouraging the women and see that they settle in life .

Students made special embroidery bags for the donors.What ever knowledge they have in embroidery, they were showing in on the bags.