tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411707191387053432024-02-18T19:27:44.759-08:00HopeReach BlogNews from HopeReach, a charitable work presently focusing on working with the underprivileged in IndiaHopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-2167023524450494142015-12-03T21:16:00.003-08:002015-12-03T21:17:52.929-08:00Free Eye Camp and Cataract Operations<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: 'open sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-10907198945828272952015-08-13T22:08:00.002-07:002015-08-13T22:08:27.549-07:00Activity-based learning<br />
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The children are making good progress with activities which engage them in the learning process and hold their attention, so they both enjoy their lessons and learn more readily. </div>
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The attendees of our preschool enjoy learning with a variety of fun educational activities.</div>
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-17454280247948398162015-06-18T00:55:00.000-07:002015-07-26T00:59:21.356-07:00Mountain View School for the rural poor now open!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our preschool for poor village children officially opened on 15th June, which is the beginning of a new school year in India. It is an English medium school and our goal is to set these children on the road to success through modern activity-based learning methods, taking advantage of the extraordinary capability to learn that children have up to the age of five or six. The human brain develops more rapidly between birth and age five than during any other subsequent period, and appropriate, hands-one, interactive, educational activities contribute dramatically to a child's development.</div>
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-28821799908375363952015-01-05T05:30:00.001-08:002015-01-05T05:30:09.687-08:00Christmas FestivitiesMore than 120 students and all the staff participated in a Christmas celebration on Christmas eve. A formal Christmas speech was given by PCO. Then cakes were distributed to the participants. Cultural activities like dances and songs were performed by the students, who had lots of fun and expressed their gratitude for the program.<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-74437430101729020142014-11-28T10:00:00.000-08:002015-01-05T05:09:27.173-08:00Assistance for Two More Nursery Schools<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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These awareness programs may save lives. TB and diabetes are both serious problems in our area--often left untreated until too late, with devastating results. We have held awareness programs in several villages to cover these topics.<br />
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"India is facing an epidemic of diabetes. At present, confirmed diabetes patients in India are 67 million, with another 30 million in prediabetes group. By 2030, India will have the largest number of patients in the world. Diabetes is not only a blood sugar problem, but brings along other complications as well," warns Dr Arun Bal, diabetic foot surgeon. In our intervention area we found many people affected by diabetes. So this month we started diabetes awareness programs, and conducted the program for self-help group members and tuition students on 17.9.14 and 27.9.14.<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-35503715617898688182014-07-12T02:43:00.002-07:002014-07-12T02:45:58.456-07:00Work in a new anganwadi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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We have started work in one more anganwadi. The children in all of the anganwadis where we are working are making good progress. It's lovely to see them 'come to life' with all of the new input and activities. We have also provided mats for the children so they don't sit on the bare floor.</div>
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The summer camp successfully came to end on 24.5.14. Drawing and elocution competitions were conducted and prizes given to the winners. Children also participated in a dance program.
All the children received Certificates.</div>
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<br />Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-10459356146349985762014-05-19T06:45:00.003-07:002014-05-19T06:45:43.904-07:00Summer Camp for Village ChildrenWe are presently holding a summer camp for the children from our evening study centres, as it is presently the summer school holidays. We are placing emphasis on teaching them English, which is very important for further education in India, but we make sure they have fun also.<br />
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<br />Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-23212866966453061762014-04-29T12:28:00.003-07:002014-04-29T20:16:19.534-07:00Awareness Programs for Adolescent Girls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This month, we started awareness programs for teen girls. At our first meeting, in a small village, 13 girls participated. Health and hygiene topics were covered, and we read with them the Meena story, 'Free from Worms'. (Most people in the villages are infected with parasites.) The importance of iron intake was also covered as studies conducted in India of micronutrient deficiency confirm the high prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls and women. Iron and calcium tablets were distributed by the village health nurse and arrangements were made with the nearest primary health care centre to distribute de-worming tablets.<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-29793249847030995272014-04-27T19:35:00.000-07:002014-04-27T19:43:56.105-07:00New Evening Study Centre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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These beautiful girls are from a Dalit Colony (Untouchables), despised by society and separated<br />
even from the rest of their village. Last month we started an evening study center<br />
in their colony. They and the other children in their colony will receive regular help with their<br />
studies, and enouragement to finish high school. Education can provide them a chance at a better<br />
life, (especially as girls,) and a path out of extreme poverty. Here our program coordinator,<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-17554820574011160382014-04-03T11:51:00.000-07:002014-04-29T12:29:21.718-07:00Meetings for pregnant and new mothers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We are continuing to visit different villages to hold awareness programs with mothers. At our latest meeting, we learned that the average birth weight of the children was 2 to 2.5 kg (4.5 to 5.5 lbs.) indicating lack of nutrition during their pregnancy. Also several mothers were giving cows milk to their babies which was causing them to be sick often . They were explained the importance of nutrition and breast-feeding, and encouraged to take children for their regular medical check-ups at the local government clinic.<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-38446906804254733832014-03-07T20:14:00.000-08:002014-04-29T20:14:32.157-07:00Meena Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'open sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Meena stories are colourful comic books, produced by UNICEF. Meena is a fictional character, a young girl growing up in rural India, who educates the children of South Asia on issues of gender, health, and social inequality through her stories in comic books. These have not yet been translated in Tamil so HopeReach has undertaken the task of translating them. They are proving to be an invaluable tool for our awareness programs and the young people who attend the awareness programs with love them. </span><br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-5309185945575179112014-03-05T19:28:00.000-08:002014-04-27T19:28:50.223-07:00Awareness Programs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'open sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">We have started awareness programs in the villages where we have tuition centres. The first topics we covered are health and hygiene, and importance of education. For these meetings we have undertaken to translate into Tamil the Meena comic books produced by UNICEF. Meena is a fictional character who educates the children of South Asia on issues of gender, health, and social inequality through her stories in comic books.</span><br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-90610311686348182042014-02-20T18:12:00.000-08:002014-04-27T18:14:53.400-07:00Assistance for Village Nursery Schools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After setting up a good preschool program in the Mercy Home, we decided to see how the local village nursery schools (angnwadis) were doing. We discovered that they had little or no supplies, and the children mostly just lay around listlessly on the floor waiting for the midday meal supplied by the government. The situation demanded action. We obtained permission from relevant government authorities to start helping the anganwadis with educational materials and to send in a volunteer once of twice a week to do fun educational activities with the children, and to train the regular carers.<br />
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-39486170161333552492013-11-26T20:30:00.000-08:002014-04-29T20:30:34.811-07:00Free Medical Camp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last Saturday, we held another medical camp at the SHE centre, this time a general health camp, with doctors from Madurai who volunteered their time and also provided medicines</div>
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Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41170719138705343.post-15715577622812844572012-02-04T02:26:00.000-08:002012-02-04T02:27:22.160-08:00Article on the Status of the Girl Child in IndiaThe following article appeared in today's edition of the <a href="http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorials/neglecting-girl-child-a-shame-to-india%E2%80%99s-past/359907.html">New Indian Express</a> newspaper.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Neglecting girl child a shame to India’s past</span><br />
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That the badge of being ancient civilisations cannot always be worn with pride by India and China is evident from the finding of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs that even in the 21st century the female infant mortality rate in these two countries is higher than that of the male infant mortality rate. Not only that, this dubious distinction was ‘achieved’ when the figures were compared with 148 other countries. What is distressing about such statistics is that not only has the advent of the modern, supposedly more enlightened, age failed to improve the condition of girls, but has even caused a worsening as the falling male-female ratio in India shows.<br />
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Female foeticide is a main reason for the skewed ratio which can have damaging social consequences. Yet, the fact that it is the well-to-do who indulge in this patent illegality shows how little awareness there is even among the educated classes of either the moral or the social imperatives. Such brazenness is even more shocking than the desperate acts of the poor who often kill their infant girls or abandon them because they look upon the female child as a financial burden. As the continuing instances of dowry deaths have shown, laws are not a solution to the deep-rooted problem, which is related to a traditional bias against women who are expected to remain subservient to their fathers in childhood, husbands in their youth and sons in old age.<br />
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If the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostics Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act has not been a notable success, the reason is the hidden social sanction for preventing the birth of a girl child. Hence, the mushrooming of illegal clinics where sex determination tests are done. In addition to further strengthening the punishment for families opting for such tests, it is the overall uplift of the status of women that can save the girl in the womb and ensure her well-being in later life.Hopereachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034676032120036908noreply@blogger.com0