By PADMAJA SRINIVAS | PROJECT LEADER
Samatvam:
Service – Humanity – Journey: 1987 – 2017
“Service to Man is Service to God”.
“Service with devotion” is our motto.
“Power of prevention”is our slogan. Diabetes and its complications are preventable: Heart attacks, strokes, blindness, kidney failure, gangrene / leg amputations are preventable. Angioplasty and bypass surgeries are preventable, to a major extent. The answer is in your hands, ….. ….. Samatvam - Jnana Sanjeevini is there to help you.
“Arise, awake and stop not till your goal is reached.” “Be and Make.” - Swami Vivekananda.
1. Project DISHA:
DISHA (Diabetes Interaction Support Health and Achievement).
Beneficiaries: Type I diabetes [Insulin dependent] children and youth.
Childhood type 1 [insulin dependent] diabetes is a life long, life threatening, incurable and ever painful and crippling disability – the most common chronic childhood disorder world over, including India. Insulin is life saving for these children and youth, and insulin is as important as oxygen and water for their survival. Without insulin injections taken several times a day, these children die within a day or two. Thus, insulin becomes their fundamental birth right, and the government and society have mandatory obligation to ensure that all poor and needy children with Type 1 [insulin dependent] diabetes of India, receive insulin FREE of cost, and that no child will die due to unaffordability of this life saving gift of God.
The highlights of Project DISHA, include:
FREE Childhood Diabetes Clinic,
FREE Insulin and supplies for every child,
“Insulin PLUS Education”: where in possible financial support is provided for their formal school and college education, towards making these youngsters proud and productive citizens of the nation.
Beneficiaries will be economically underprivileged children and youth with type 1 [insulin dependent] and other forms of diabetes [onset before age 18 to 24 years] and their families. Insulin and all round support need to be provided till age 24 years [or ideally till they are able to become self – reliant [ie obtain education and employment, and earn livelihood for themselves, and hopefully their families]. FREE supplies, support and care need to be provided to unaffordable children / families below poverty line [BPL].
Currently 300 children and youths are beneficiaries of the project. 3000 and more are benfited from the project since inception.
2. Project DOSTI
DOSTI (Diabetes Organization Support Training and Interaction):
Beneficiaries: Type II diabetes [Non-insulin dependent] adults
The highlights of Project DOSTI, include:
FREE Adult Diabetes Clinic
FREE medicines: Health for helpless
Health awareness and counseling
Health screening and treatment
Power of Prevention: Continued care
Psychosocial support
Community Diabetes Camps
Currently 500 plus adults are beneficiaries of the project. 5000 and more people are benefited from the project since inception.
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