Visit to the only beach medical project run by Shoshana.


Ramapuram, beach village on the outskirts of Chirala.

Fishermen community. Working for big export companies on weekly wages basis. Only one or two have their own small boats but majority are workers.

The medical centre started in 2005 especially after the Tsunami effect. Ramapuram is also one of the effected areas. 2 died but mainly loss of property like fishing nets and boats. Shoshana sponsored fishing nets to a few families.

Inorder to have a long term help to the effected area, Shoshana started a medical help in this area with a nurse and free medication. Mainly first aid help since the area is too far away from the hospital.

Yesterday we again visited some more medical projects around Chirala.
One is in Kadavakuduru village  which around 15 kms away from Chirala town.

Our very first medical project, started in 2000. From then it has been giving medical services to the people of Kadavakuduru. Ofcourse the nurses and place of medical centre changed in between but Shoshana has been supporting the medical centre for the last 13 years.

 Rajakumari is the nurse at the medical project for the past 10 years but lately her daughter Ms.Divya who finished her 3yrs of Nursing course also is taking care of the patients whenever she has free time.

Divya is working in a private cardiac hospital. She has daily access with the doctos so she has more knowledge in dealing with the patients.

We met a patient at the medical project.
Rickshaw puller.50 yrs of age. Met with an accident 5 yrs back and was paralysed. Even lost his mental balance too. His wife and children left him after the incident. His old mother is taking care of him from then. He is totally depended on her for everything. She is a domestic helper and because of her old age she couldn't take care of him. They are not getting any help from the Government.
She asked for help from Shoshana.

We are looking for the possibilities to help him so that he could do his self help. 

Visit to medical projects, Chirala and Karamchedu

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Shoshana is giving more medical support in and around Chirala town. Setting up primary health centres in needy areas which are far away from the town and also where is no availability of emergency help or medication.

Shoshana medical care , Sampath nagar, Chirala started specially for tribal people migrated from different parts of A.p in 2003. Besides the tribals, other needy people around this area are also utilizing the services of this centre for the past 10 years.

In every place, the local societies are providing room for the medical centres .  Here also Daniel charitable society  takes care of the room facility and the members decided to shift the centre to a different house as soon as possible for better room facility and also to make the services available to more no of needy people.

 Medical project at Karamchedu village. Around 7km from Chirala town.  Medical centre is located in Ambedhkar colony , karamchedu which is on the outskirts of the village and specially started for the backward caste people who are mostly belonging to Christian community.

 Prasanna, the nurse is from this area. Along with the regular first aid medicines, Shoshana recently decided to help some diabetic patients too like giving out free checkups and also medicine to a selective needy patients.

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Want to show a few pics from our old students at Shoshana sewing centre, Beach road, Bapatla.
Women from previous batches of tailoring and embroidery classes who finished their class and running their own shop at home.

Usually whenever we go to see our sewing projects, we see that we meet some of the previous students from the class just to find out their situation. Not just giving out the machines after the class but  seeing the women getting independent and supporting their families gives more satisfaction.

 Nagamalleswari, from an agricultural family. Married, housewife. Has two small kids. Husband is a clerk in a small firm. So far she is taking care of the household work but now after having her own tailor shop at home, she is supporting her husband in running their family.

Anitha, also from an agricultural background. Parents are agricultural workers. She finished her 10th and she was helping her mother in their household work.  After the tailoring class, she set up her machine at home and started stitching for the neighbors. Now she is independent and instead of depending on her parents, she is earning her own money.

Visit to Liberty Gospel Ministries, Bapatla.


Yesterday we had a new experience of visiting a children home run by LGM,Bapatla .
Girls home consisting of 16 girls from primary to High school level.
Distributed some clothes and sweets to them and met the pastor Mr.Samuel who is running the hostel for both girls and boys with the help of local friends.

 We met a few girls in their lunch break from different classes.

Manjula, the instructor from Shoshana sewing centre, Bapatla arranged clothes for the girls. Usually the women at the sewing project use different materials for practicing the samples and the last batch women who finished their course stitched clothes which Manjula eventually distributed at the girls home.

Visit to Shoshana projects, Vijayawada.


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It was a very busy day yesterday visiting all the three projects in Vijayawada.
Few pics from our visit.

Shoshana Medical Project - First visit of Martha to this project after the inauguration. Started in Oct-13 in Bhanunagar, Vijayawada.
Primary health support to the needy in this area mostly filled with migrants from different parts of A.P.
Construction workers, vendors, domestic helpers etc.

The nurse Mrs.Grace at the medical centre

Coming to the sewing projects, started long back almost 12 years old. We have the same instructors from the beginning .So far trained more than 300 needy women belonging to different backgrounds. Many of them are independent now and successful in their self help.
Few pics from the two sewing centres.

 Pics from Shoshana sewing centre, Raja rajeswari pet, Vijayawada.

 The instructor Mrs.Sri vani still have needy women around her area who are interested to take the class. It shows that the training given by the Shoshana projects is really helpful for the women.

                                          Embroidery bags made by the women for the donors

Pics from Shoshana sewing project, Giripuram, Vijayawada.

Instructor Hemima in the centre with the students

Visit to  Shoshana sewing project, Pedanandipadu village.

Ravanamma, one of the students of our Sewing project at Pedanandipadu village. She is in the present group of women in the Tailoring batch, started in Nov-13.  Batch is about to finish by the end of Dec-14. After finishing the course she will have her own tailor shop.

When ever we start a batch we see that the most needy people get the free class. We collect   their family background and economic  status. In that process we came to know about Ravanamma.

She comes from an agricultural background. She has 2 children. Girls  are in high school.Her husband was a building construction worker. He met with an accident 5years back and was paralysed ,confined to his bed.   From then onwards the entire family burden is on Ravanamma. Being uneducated she is has no other option except working as a coolie. In between she learnt to operate a sewing machine designed to stitch leaf plates.
 Her daughters too are selling vegetables in their off time.

We came to know the story about this family and in order to encourage her husband to do his self help, Shoshana decided to give special help to him.  Shoshana sponsored a Grinder to this family. This could give him an opportunity to work at home and  support his family.

 Presently he is in need of a wheel chair which would help him to move around freely in his house.