Strengthen 1000s of Indian Families w/ Healthcare

Dear Donor,

We had an eventful Fall at Save Kids Trust. We enhanced our menstruation clinics by adding ‘teams’ of young women from the same neighborhoods coming together to support one another. Each team has a lead who helps guide & clarify group discussions to make the clinics even more effective at educating young women and giving them a safe forum to ask questions.

We’ve seen numerous challenging cases in our three permanent clinics and pop-up street clinics. We had multiple cases where prior treatment elsewhere (or lack of treatment) resulted in incomplete healing and made the situation worse. Along with the other doctors and nurses, I demonstrate proper wound care and, in some cases, ask patients to return to one of our clinics daily to refresh their wound dressings. We also saw multiple work-related injuries.  With workplace injuries, the daily wage earner may not be able to work for some time and, in those cases, in addition to treating the injury, we provide nutritional support for the patient and their families until the patient is able to get back to work. Our dry-ration supplies, which we added during the Covid pandemic, continue to be crucial in numerous situations.

It is our hope in 2023 to open a new clinic for families who live farther from the center of Jaipur. I have a location identified and possible donors who would assist in purchasing the site. We are very hopeful that this will happen soon.

Meanwhile, I’m planning our annual winter teaching & gift events for the children of several informal housing areas! Look for these updated stories, and past stories, on our website as the new year rolls in.

Thank you for your continued support! As your gifts to SKT bless those in Jaipur, may we wish you many blessings this winter season.

Yours Truly,

Dr. Sharwan Saini

Executive Director, Save Kids Trust

Links:

• More stories are available at our website

Save Kids Trust’s work in Jaipur this summer has been steady and effective.

Street medical camps have tackled many common seasonal ailments. These included treatment for fever, vomiting, boils, shingles; occurrences that patients didn’t know how to treat on their own. We also provided training as well as treatments whenever appropriate. The mosquitos of summer also bring an education opportunity helping parents understand easy ways to keep children healthy - like making sure ankles are covered since that is where children are most often bit. This is hard to do in the heat of the summer but so important in the fight against malaria.

With the monsoon rains starting in late July, there was some relief from heat, but rain also brings life threatening water borne diseases apart from the monsoon flu. To help marginalized families, health awareness meetings providing preventative health techniques, including water cleanliness and healthy diet, are especially important for the young and old.

In the slum areas, the women suffer more in the rainy season. This moisture puts women at an increased risk of urinary tract, reproductive, and yeast infections. The team at SKT held preventative awareness clinics for women to help them keep these issues at bay. One menstruation clinic this summer was sponsored by a medical team from Saigon and held in an indoor facility that everyone really enjoyed.

The desire to open a fourth clinic in Jaipur is progressing. An area has been located and Indian donors are focusing on how to secure land and a building. The clinic leadership is also still looking for an opportunity to replace their old vehicle with a more reliable newer mode of transportation.

We will sign off this newsletter with a photo of one of the SKT Teams. Your donation support and these men and women are the reason we can help so many individuals in Jaipur! Thank you!

Links:

• More stories available at our website

Save Kids Trust India has been working hard in their communities and your support has been instrumental! Thank you! Our clinics have been busy and our pop-up street clinics and educational opportunities have reached hundreds this winter.

Anemia treatments and menstruation training are going very well. We are starting to see individual young women coming to the clinic, outside of educational training sessions, to seek our assistance. It is good sign that with good information at hand, women are getting more comfortable asking questions and seeking assistance with our health leaders.

We had two opportunities to catch up with families we helped in the past. Maryam introduced us to her new grandson and caught us up on the livelihood of her family we initially assisted in 2012. She has worked hard, and been very blessed, that the vocational assistance we provided then is still a primary income source today, The medical intervention her children needed made a positive difference in thier lives as well. Ira, who suffered from breast cancer in 2019, also came in to say hello and she is doing well!

Late this winter, we also took time to gather data and reflect on how we have helped women and families with vocational trainings. Maryam’s family was an early example, but we have also helped women with developing tailor services by providing sewing machines, and even setting up women with carts to sell seasonal goods in their communities. All of these efforts began as medical interventions but then, through additional support, have provided economic stability for the families.

Save Kids Trust’s mission is to help children and their families by caring for current medical needs and enhancing generational family health though education, nutritional health, and vocational support. It is a blessing to see examples of this every month!

For the expanded stories mentioned above, go to our website at www.savekidstrust.org

Sincerely and with Thanks,

The Team of Save Kids Trust

Links:

• Expanded stories on our website

One year ago we asked you to support Save Kids Trust (SKT) and to help us gain access to the GlobalGiving platform. You responded and we are so grateful for your help. We have found the resources and assistance provided by GlobalGiving to be so helpful for a small non-profit like ours, that we have set a goal of raising our entire annual operating budget in 2022 using the GlobalGiving platform. Those goals, and ways you can participate in them, are described in our new 2022 project, linked below.

Despite the unique challenges this year, Dr. Saini and SKT has kept all three clinics operating normally and have helped thousands of people.

Here are some notable stories from the last several months: An 8-year-old girl was able to get treatment for an infection that affected her hair growth. A young man who lives in a different state in India but learned about SKT from a friend, traveled to Jaipur to get a new artificial hand after his second hand became unusable. A sixty-year-old man needed help for hypertension but didn’t have money – SKT stepped in and he believes it saved his life. An 87-year-old widow woman, who registered with SKT seven years ago, came to the clinic with her original card to seek care. Dr. Saini and his team were proud to learn that she takes such good care of it. She said all her neighbors know where she keeps it in case they need to help her come to the clinic. 

These are merely samples of the daily activities at each of the three permanent clinics as well as the numerous street clinics that SKT operates. None of it is possible without your help. For a more in-depth look into the action, please go to the Stories section of our website, linked below. 

The fighting menstruation taboos clinics have been quite successful and have opened the door to many new opportunities to help young women.  Dr. Saini reports they have taught more than 1600 young women thus far this year and the lessons learned are helping him develop exciting new programs for 2022.

Your support during this year has allowed SKT to provide uninterrupted support to people whose lives have been completely disrupted by the pandemic – Thank you!

Links:

• New Project for 2022
• SKT Stories at Savekidstrust.org