Hai friends,

I would like to share with you some of the success stories of the beneficiaries at our Sewing Project, Vijayawada.

Name of the student: Prasanthi

She comes from a very poor family. She is a single, Christian, 20yrs of age. below. Went to a Government Girls high school.  She is living in a rented house along with her parents.

Father is an illiterate  building construction worker. Mother is a housewife and a part time daily worker. Prasanthi has an elder brother who is also a construction worker.

Two years back Prasanthi’s father had a severe health problem and he is unable to walk anymore. He is bed ridden still today. At that Prasanthi was in her 10^th standard and besides her studies  she has to take care of their household work since her mother has to go to work for their living. Being a below average student at school she could not make her 10^th exams. She was in a situation like neither she could use her studies to get a job nor she could work as a daily worker.

Hemima our instructor encouraged her to join the Shoshana sewing centre where she could get free training in stitching in tailoring and embroidery. She finished her training in the previous batch last year. Having provided with a sewing machine from Shoshana she slowly started her own work from at home. Presently her mother is also not in a very good health and unable to work  so Prasanthi became the main support for their family along with her brother. She is doing good in her work and earning a minimum of 150 rupees a day.

She is very happy that Shoshana gave her a new life to be independent and could even be the main support for their family

Hai friends.

Temperatures are raising day by day. More than 40C. Very difficult to get out of the house.
Today i happened to visit one of our medical projects in Chirala.(Sampath nagar ).

Very few people outside, streets almost deserted.

When i was there in the centre, woman with sun stroke symptoms came for medication.

Since most of the women in this area are agricultural workers and rickshaw pullers our nurse Maheswari has more patients with this problem these days.

Most children with dehydration and diarrohea.
Nurse gave them necessary precautions.

If necessary she is ready to take in patients if there is any need for infusions.

Nagaralu Sewing project, Guntur.

Hai,

I recently visited one of our sewing projects in Guntur which is in the area called Nagaralu.

It is the recent sewing project we started. Started in Aug-2011 with Vasantha as the instructor.
She finished her first batch of tailoring students.

Here are the pics of second batch of students .

Started basics from April-12 onwards.

 The instructor Vasantha is a full time teacher so she is available all the time and ready to help the women as far as possible.











Majority women who joined the course are married. Few are housewives and rest daily workers.

All the women are from the same area.

The last batch women who finished their sewing class are ready to start their work. Coming months we will get to know the progress in their work and how far they could be able to help themselves.

Embroidery class in Guntur.

Pics from my last visit to Shoshana Sewing Centre, Rajeev Gandhi nagar, Guntur.

Our very first sewing project started in 2000 August with Nirmala as the tailoring  instructor mainly and with few basics in embroidery.

From 1st of April-11 we started full time embroidery and painting classes to the students along with stitching with Kamala as the teacher.

Pics of students already started the basic classes in painting.

These students started their tailoring class in Nov-11 and they will finish their course in Oct-12. If they start the painting and embroidery class now they will finish this course too along with tailoring.

Practicing drawing the sample pic and filling the colour.

Different colour combinations.

  

Pics from our Shoshana Medical Centre, Railway area - Chirala.

Temparatures all over the state are getting higher day by day. It is getting hard even to get out of the house but for people especially who live on the roads it is much terrible. One such areas is the railway area, Chirala where people mainly live on the road under some shade from the trees.

  

Our place Chirala is close to the sea so we have high humidity in the air and with hot weather ,the condition of old people and children is unbearable.

  

They can't stay inside their houses because it is too sultry without any air and outside it is too hot. Most of the children who are coming to our medical project, railway area presently are from dehydration and fever.

  

  

The people of this are very poor and far behind compared to the common people. They have no proper living conditions. Some people from Chirala provided a room for this area which they are using as a multi purpose hall in which Shoshana is providing medical help with a regular nurse.

  

  

  

Dr.Berny from Germany who is a donor of Shoshana visited this place and was very surprised to see the living conditions of this people and he got to know the kind of help we are providing for these people.

In this season if there is any emergency, then these people may need infusions and more medication related to fever and diarrhea.

Visit to Shoshana medical project, Swarna

  

Pics from my recent visit to Shoshana medical centre at Swarna village.


This is our recently started medical project. Villagers are quite happy with it especially the old people.

  

All types of people are utilizing the services. There is no age bar. In some of the projects where there is a female nurse we could see men little bit hesistant to see the nurse where as here there is no such situation.

  

The nurse, Prasanna is from this village so the people are familiar with her.

  

People in this area are agricultural labourers.Harvesting time for the paddy crop and people are quite busy with selling process. Old people and children who are at home are taking the medical help in the afternoon and the nurse said she get more patients in the evening time when the people come back from work.

  

  

hello friends,

I am very sad to inform you all that our dearest friend Bob, Martha's husband passed away yesterday. May his soul rest in peace.