What We Do
1. Supporting Education for children of ground level staff:
As ground level staff are forced to work in remote areas, away from their families and not paid adequately, their children are often deprived of lack of good education facilities. This results in poor education.
We can help such children by providing scholarship and additional support to access quality education. This will encourage them to progress well in their education and there by enable them to get better jobs once they complete their education.
As a model, we had identified a boy, son of a forest watcher, as a bright prospect and provided scholarship to him, amounting to Rs. 25,000 per year for the last five years. This helped the student in gaining access to better educational facilities, resulting in better academic performance and eventually Helping the student to join “Bachelor of Engineering” in a reputed educational institution in the state. Currently he is in 5th Semester, securing an average of 80% marks in “Bachelor of Engineering”, having a bright prospect for a job. This has given us immense pleasure and motivation to carry out many more such initiatives Similar support can be provided in larger scale to the children of the ground level staff working at Bhadra Tiger Reserve.
To support education for 150 children of the ground level staff working in Bhadra Tiger Reserve, following cost will be involved:
Students Age Scholarship Per Student Number of Students Total
Depending on the funds available, we can choose to vary the number of students we support, who can be selected based on merit/current academic performance, age group etc. Hence, this project can be scaled based on the funding available for this welfare activity.
2. Supporting families of ground level staff to earn additional income:
As ground level staff are forced to work in remote areas, away from their families and not paid adequately. This results in leading a poorer quality of life.
We can help such families generate additional income by supporting them in creating/running small occupations such as livestock farming, poultry farming, milk production, tailoring, candle making etc.
Small & very low interest loans can be provided to families to start such small occupations, and arrangements shall be made to recover the loan in a periodic manner. As and when the loan is repaid, more families can be supported with the same funds.
Approximately, Rs. 50,000 loan can be provided to a family, which can be recovered over a period of 1 year and the same amount shall be used to support new family in the next year.
Depending on the funds available, we can start with supporting 20 to 50 families per year and continue with the support year on year with the repaid loan.
3. Providing health coverage to the families:
In association with GT Foundation medical wing, we could extend the health care facilities to these families who are cut off from the real world. As we have adopted the nearby villages, we could extend the wellness facility to the ground level staff families with an additional minimum expenditure. In this context we shortly are distributing ‘First Aid Kits’ to these families.
The medical wing of GT Foundation has a vision of providing health services to the community and continued medical education to the local practicing doctors, paramedics and health care workers.
We would achieve this target through:
Conducting regular health education programs to patients addressing issues like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity and also infectious diseases. Our services include creating awareness, detection, assessment, management and referral services. We aim to cater people with lower socioeconomic background and especially would like to reach suburbs and villages – where our roots lie – unfortunately the weak link in our society
Continued Medical Educations to Physicians, Diabetologists, Postgraduate students, General practioners, Nurses and Diabetes educators with a purpose to keep abreast with latest developments in medical science. We would like to specially emphasize and reach people who live around cities and who cater rural areas – An unmet need
Design course for MBBS graduates, Diabetes educators and nurses in specific fields of diabetes management enabling to sharpen their skills and to give patient centered treatment
Formulate guidelines for our local population based on recent clinical data and international guidelines – tapering to our local needs, customs, and socioeconomic strata.
Generated data and publications from our clinical practice and awareness programs.
We look forward to achieve our goal with our esteem panel of doctors, their knowledge and commitment.
We also look forward for patronage from Pharmaceutical companies, Government and Non governmental organizations.
Regards,
Dr. Manohar KN
Medical Director.