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Innovative Outreach Primary Health Care Services for Tribal Communities

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Chakrata and Kalsi are two mountainous blocks of Dehradun district which have the maximum tribal population of Uttarakhand. Both blocks have extreme inaccessibility to basic amenities and healthcare facilities, posing various challenges for the tribal people. Large family size and traditional practices restrict young women to adopt the modern health services hence a large number … Innovative Outreach Primary Health Care Services for Tribal Communities

Scholarship Program

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As the current Covid wave engulfs the nation through encounter with large deaths, the focus rightly has come on the orphans and the need for adoption legally.  Well, it takes us back the memory lane of how we strengthened our scholarship program. Our Founder had enabled set up of libraries in Universities, enabled bright individuals to … Scholarship Program

Reaching out to the Adolescents…

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Once confident that the mother and child programs had gained a certain momentum and continuity, we began the work on the next generation viz the adolescents in the early 2000.  Our first endeavour in this regard began twofold: health and lifestyle management program for 100 adolescents at micro level and at macro level through a … Reaching out to the Adolescents…

International Women’s Day

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This Women’s Day, I am dedicating the blog to two Kritika’s – one who has finished her engineering and working for multinational in one of the major city of India and the other medical student currently studying in our university  in the Himalayan Institute of Medical science. Randomly I asked what would be a key … International Women’s Day

Science and Spirituality

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I called home one day and it was the first time I heard my mom say, ‘I can’t talk to you now – I’m immersed in a fantastic book called Journey Home  and I haven’t been able to put the down since it has come (she was reading one translated into an Indian language).’ Not … Science and Spirituality

Uttarakhand Diaries

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Territorially Uttarakhand is often represented in two different zones i.e. Garhwal & Kumaun. But, this hill-dominant state which apparently seems to be small is actually quite vivid and has too much diversity in its cultures, traditions, dialects, etc. Hence, the quench to know more about Uttarakhand especially the 5 tribes, i.e. Bhotiyas, Thaurs, Buxa, Jaunsaries, … Uttarakhand Diaries

Celebration for children

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It was Mahasamadhi day – Covid ensured that we had to change somethings.  So the children of our flying birds, who were used to having a sumptuous lunch at the bhandara and then playing in the swings, had it differently this time.  Some tried sneaking into the tent from the back, some came in groups … Celebration for children

Let Body be Body’s cure

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[Excerpts from a keynote address given by Dr.S.Rama at a Physicians conference in Madras, September 1992] As COVID-19 continues unabated, we’d like to shareone of the early lectures our founder Swami Rama gave to an elite group of physicians titled ‘Let body be body’s cure’.  In it he laid out that  the sages of India … Let Body be Body’s cure