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Integrated Development
Smile Foundation
with support from Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has started
an Integrated Education and Health Development Project in the state
of Madhya Pradesh. This project is operational in five villages
of Guna district in the state namely - Ahmedapur, Bublakhedi, Bawarikheda,
Chainpura and Padarkheri. This integrated project is focused on
providing education to children and primary healthcare services
to the people, especially children and women in the identified areas.
GAIL that has one of its oil and gas projects
located in Vijaipur, has supported this integrated development
project with the objective of addressing the critical development
needs of the people living in the areas surrounding the project
in Vijaipur of Guna district. This integrated development project
has been launched and will be providing education to over 300
children through bridge education and remedial education centers.
Along with this, it will also provide healthcare to over 1000
people in the district through quarterly health camps.
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Health
Camps in 20 slums
in Delhi NCR
Health camps were conducted
in twenty different slum areas of Delhi NCR by Smile Foundation
with support from National Small Industries Corporation Limited
(NSIC). This series of health camps is part of an Integrated Community
Development Project that was implemented by Smile Foundation in
association with NSIC. This project focuses at the holistic development
of the underprivileged living in the slums of Delhi NCR.
These health camps were conducted in areas
namely Rangpuri, Tughlakabad, Dhaula Kuan, Mansarovar Park, Rohini,
Sunder Nagri, Shastri Park, Jahangir Puri, Kalyanvas, Tilpath, Majnu
Ka Tila, Gurgaon, Motiya Khan, Khori Kingsway Camp, Janak Puri,
Bhalaswa, Tahirpur, Wazirpur, Nand Nagri and Faridabad.
The objective of conducting these health camps
was to create awareness of general health among the people, providing
general health care services and counseling them on basic healthcare
and hygiene. As many as 5021 people were benefitted.
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Education
using the Internet
Smile Foundation with
support from MTS – the mobile telecom service brand of SSTL
– has introduced education using the internet, in five of
its Mission Education centres. These five centres are in Delhi,
Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore.
This innovative initiative will focus on enhancing
learning capabilities of the underprivileged children and making
them aware of the “Global village”. Internet aided learning
will be integrated within the regular course curriculum at these
Mission Education centers to achieve the laid out objectives in
other centres soon.
Over
8500 youth employed
The Smile Twin e-Learning
Programme has so far successfully placed 8582 young boys and girls
in retail and service sector organizations like Shopper's Stop,
HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Westside Stores, Café Coffee Day,
Big Bazaar, to name a few. The programme has so far trained 12,048
students.
An exposure visit and placement interview session
was recently organized by the partner organization JSS in Mumbai,
where companies like TATA Aig, Reliance Fresh, Eureka Forbes and
Dominos Pizza, were present to select students for various job openings.
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Babies are a nice way to start people
Having your first child
is indeed a moment of blessing. Holding your baby for the first
time, the little ones eyes, its smile, the feeble cries, everything
makes the mother shed tears. Tears of happiness. But for some people,
this first moment is completely different. Sunita is one of those
few.
Sunita's husband works as a daily wage labourer
and the couple lives in very poor conditions in Shashinagar, Delhi.
When the couple came to know of Sunita's pregnancy, happiness did
flow around the house, but an undercurrent of worry. From the very
start, with a lot of complications showed themselves in Sunita's
pregnancy. Despite that, thecouple never saw a doctor and decided
to have the delivery done at the hands of a midwife at home, mainly
owing to their difficult financial condition. The outcome. The midwife
could not handle the complications and the baby was born dead.
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The couple was distraught with the loss, when Rohit, Sunita's husband,
learnt about the Swabhiman centre in their community. He took Sunita
there for counseling where the counselors explained the couple the
importance of having an institutional delivery, ante-natal and post-natal
care. Following that day, Sunita kept going back to the centre for
counseling sessions from time to time and after a few months became
pregnant once again. This time, better informed and prepared, the
couple took all the measures needed and delivered a healthy baby
girl in the nearest government hospital.
Sunita and Rohit have ensured
that all their friends and family do not repeat the mistake they
made. They have been guiding all the young couples around them to
attend the counseling sessions at the Swabhiman centre as a must.
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Veeramani's IPS Dreams
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Veeramani is a native of Annanur, a village just four kilometers
away from Avadi, Thiruvillar District in Tamil Nadu. He lives here
with his mother and elder sister. Veeramani's father passed away
when he was four years old, leaving behind the mother alone to win
bread for the family, which she did by working as a building construction
labour with a local contractor's group.
Initially Veeramani and his
sister, both were going to school, and despite a tight budget the
mother managed to keep things running smoothly. But soon after that
she started keeping unwell, becoming unable to work regularly thus
leading to a lot of monetary difficulties.
Because of the poor financial condition, Veeramani and his sister's
school was obviously dropped from the family's priority list, and
Veeramani started distributing newspapers to add whatever little
he could to his mother's irregular income. Veeramani's case came
into notice of a project coordinator of Smile Foundation who visited
Veeramani's mother and convinced her to send him for remedial classes
at a Mission Education centre.
Understanding that Veeramani
could continue with his job and study at the same time, his mother
agreed to send him for the remedial classes. Veeramani has been
studying at the Mission Education Center for one year now. He is
a very bright and dedicated student and wants to become an IPS officer.
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Siemens for community health services in Bihar
Smile Foundation launched its first mobile hospital Smile on Wheels
for the state of Bihar with support from Siemens Ltd. This mobile
healthcare initiative is providing comprehensive healthcare services
for the underprivileged in the villages of Madhepura district of
Bihar. The project is a first of its kind in the state and is benefiting
over 25,000 people in 10 villages of Madhepura, namely Sahugarh-1,
Sahugarh-2, Bhatutola, Mithai, Balam, Shripur, Chakla, Sabela, Puniyahi
and Sukhasan. With the launch of this new project, Smile Foundation
now has 20 mobile hospitals operational across India.
This project is being supported by the Corporate
Citizenship initiative of Siemens Ltd. And aims to meet the primary
healthcare needs of the underprivileged population through preventive,
promotive and curative healthcare services.

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Camping for health with Tech Shastra
Smile Foundation is association with Tech
Shastra- digital partner of Surf Excel Matic organised three Smile
Health Camps for the people living in four slums of Delhi, Mumbai
and Bangalore.
It was found that in the target communities
most people suffered from common ailments like skin infections,
fever, cold and cough, dehydration and anemia, but remain seriously
neglected. Ailments were diagnosed and prescribed with suitable
medication by the team of doctors. Besides this, growth check-ups
for children, treatment for malnutrition cases, dental check-ups
and eye check-ups were some of the services that were provided.
Over 700 people benefitted from these camps.
Sensitization activities were also conducted
within the community to sensitize the people on common preventable
health problems and to improve the health and hygiene of the area.
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4000 children get their Right to Education
The Mission Education
programme has successfully mainstreamed 4000 children across the
country, from the bridge and remedial education centres to formal
schools. While there have been speculations about the effectiveness
of the Right to Education Act, effective since April 2010, Smile
Foundation, through this programme has been able to provide 4000
children their right to compulsory education.
There are currently 11,500 children beneficiaries
in various Mission Education centres across 19 states.
The summer break at all the educational centres was focused on engaging
the children in extra-curricular activities, some special ones being,
a summer camp in Mumbai by Sparsh Charitable Trust, annual sports
meet in Jalpaiguri by Hriday, Van Mahotsav in NOIDA by Nai Disha
and a vacation to Goa by Amcha Ghar in Mumbai. In addition, all
the projects conducted parents meetings to keep them updated about
their children's development and performance.
Besides this, two boys from Holy Mother School, an implementing
partner in Mumbai, got selected in the under-15 cricket team of
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A toast for Salim's good health
A rickshaw puller. The
soul bread winner for a family of five. An ailing alcoholic. This
is what would have defined Salim, of Bagrana Kacchi Basti in Jaipur
a year back. But things are different now.
Salim till a year back, used to be an alcoholic
draining his meager income in drinking, so much so that two square
meals every day was a luxury for the family. To add to the woes,
he developed an abnormal abdominal swelling and kept falling ill
and could not upkeep with work. Compelled to earn, his eldest son,
only 14, started pulling the rickshaw.
During one of the awareness sessions conducted
by the Smile on Wheels team, Salim's wife learned about the healthcare
services provided in the mobile hospital in their community. She
then took Salim to the Smile on Wheels team on its next visit to
the area and discussed about the swelling and Salim's drinking habit.
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The doctor's first instruction to Salim
was to quit drinking and start going to a de-addiction centre
nearby that would help him quit his habit. Through regular counseling
and several days of de-addiction treatments, Salim was able
to quit his habit following which his medical treatment was
begun. It was after regular medication for months, that the
doctors confirmed Salim as completely cured. He has now started
pulling the rickshaw himself once again, and keeps visiting
the Smile on Wheels regularly for check-ups.
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When
the going gets tough, the tough get going
Chaitali's
parents say that she is not less than a son and she herself says
“I am not afraid of dreaming big”. Transformation,
is what truly should be said, happened to this 24 year old in matter
of just a few months.
For Chaitali of Budge Budge,
Kolkata, there was nothing more important than her family. Her parents
with their meager income also, brought up Chaitali and her younger
brother, with great aspirations. They sent them to school and planned
to send both of them to college as well, so they could choose a
better career and life for themselves. But life had separate plans
for the family. Chaitali's brother was taken away from them because
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The sudden demise of the son threw Chaitali's father off his nerves.
But the loss of his mental stability was followed by his job, thus
leaving the family dependent on the mother's meager income of four
thousand rupees.
Raised very protectively herself, the situation
was an emotional turmoil for Chaitali. But the girl stood as the
pillar of strength for the family. She enrolled in the Smile Twin
e-Learning Programme, as the first step. The next six months were
marked with back breaking hard work. But was followed by the sweetest
fruits. Chaitali earned herself a job in a leading firm with a pay
neither she nor her parents had thought she could earn.
Chaitali does not let her mother work anymore.
Her father's condition has not improved, but has not deteriorated
further. He is undergoing good medical treatment now. Chaitali is
sure that the hard work she has put in will be getting her a promotion,
a good incentive and a good hike in her salary this year. She only
wishes her brother was with her today. |
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Suraksha aur Swabhiman
A sensitization campaign – Suraksha
aur Swabhiman, (security and dignity for women) was organized at
Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi. This was an effort to sensitize male
members of the society and to ensure their participation for making
the society safer and friendlier for women. In order to intensify
the issue and to find a proactive solution in the form of involving
men, some sensitizing activates like slogan writing, street play,
poems, one-act play, caricatures, etc. related to the issues of
safety, security and dignity for women were conducted. Few young
boys and girls came together symbolically to show the way towards
making a safer and better place for women. The youth came forward
enthusiastically and participated in the campaign.
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27,919 people treated in three months
Smile Foundation through
its Smile on Wheels programme, has extended healthcare services
to over 27,000 people in just three months.
Apart from the scheduled roaster visits of
the mobile hospitals to the target areas, 14 vaccination and immunization
camps, 9 special health camps and one special awareness session
in Varanasi for women and children were conducted.
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