BEST WISHES FOR "  A HAPPY 2017 ". 

With Regards and Best Wishes !

MSF MEET ON 6TH AUGUST AT IHC, NEW DELHI

MSF MEET ON 6TH AUGUST AT HABITAT 

VERY WELL PRESENTED BY ALL FOUR SPEAKERS, ESP. RESHMA ! 

                 BITTU, MY NEPHEW ( AT SAHEED CLUB , BHUBANESWAR ) !

                                                             AFTER THEIR WIN

   
                         WITH BAIJAYANT PANDA AND CRICKETER  DEBASHIS MOHANTY

                                      WITH CRICKETER DEBASHIS MOHANTY

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BAREFOOT COLLEGE AS AN INSPIRATION !

BAREFOOT COLLEGE - An Inspiration :

A vocational training college in Rajasthan, started by well known educator and activist Sanjit Bunker Roy, is responsible for lighting up the homes of thousands of poor villagers across the world.

Tilonia is a small village in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district. On the face of it, Tilonia is like any other village in India. One can see large tracts of semi-arid land, flocks of sheep on the roads, and women whose heads are covered with the pallus of brightly coloured sarees.

However, what sets Tilonia apart is that it is home to the Social Work and Research Centre, popularly known as Barefoot College. This institute is known all over the world for training rural people in vocational skills.

In the 1970s, Sanjit Bunker Roy, an educator and social activist decided to give something back to society and set up Barefoot College in Tilonia.

The college is spread over eight acres and runs completely on solar energy.

Bunker, who studied at Delhi University, says: “My elitist education almost destroyed me. In fact, the biggest reasons why the poor will always remain poor are the literate man and woman — products of the formal education system. This system makes you look down on villages.”

According to him, the formal system of education demeans and devalues the traditional knowledge and practical wisdom that the poor value. He says his real education started during his initial years in Tilonia when he was working as an unskilled labourer — blasting wells for water.

“I lived with very poor and ordinary people under the stars and heard the simple stories they had to tell of their skills, knowledge, and wisdom that books and university education can never teach you. My real education started when I saw amazing people – water diviners, traditional bonesetters and midwives – at work. That was the humble beginning of the Barefoot College,” he adds.

Though the college started with the aim of providing solutions to the water problems of rural India, its mission soon changed to sustainable development and empowerment of the marginalised. In fact, the courses offered at the institute are rooted in the Gandhian philosophy of making villages self-reliant.

“But it was not Gandhi or Marx who inspired the work of the college, but very ordinary people with grit, determination, and the amazing ability to survive with almost nothing,” says Bunker.

Students, primarily women, are selected from the poorest of villages and are taught vocational skills in different areas like solar energy, healthcare, education, handicrafts, and so on. The college provides basic health services to the villages through a team of doctors, midwives, and dentists.

It imparts education to women and children by keeping their different needs in mind. There are crèches for small children whose mothers work all day. There are night schools for children who help in the fields or tend to animals during the day. And bridge courses for those among them who wish to join day school. There is an emphasis on hands-on learning. Even the lessons offered are practical in nature. The children are taught about how democracy works, how to take care of a sick animal, how land is measured, etc.

Barefoot College is probably best known for producing hundreds of ‘barefoot’ solar engineers.

The Better India (4)

In 2003, the college decided to train illiterate rural women as solar engineers. The biggest challenge at the time was to convince donors, policy makers, as well as the male members of the community to accept the ‘impossibility’ that these women could be trained.

“Do you know why we insisted on women? Because training men is pointless. They will grow restless and go to big cities in search of jobs. Women have more patience to learn the skill. And especially since they are from poor families, they will stay back home and prove their worth to their communities,” says Bunker.

This training of women — to teach them how to install, repair, and maintain solar lighting units — did not stop in Rajasthan. Today, the institute trains women from countries like Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Fiji, etc. It boasts of having over 700 solar ‘mamas’ in 70 of the least developed countries in the world. These women, from isolated and non-electrified villages, congregate in Rajasthan for a few months. To overcome the language barrier, they are taught through sign language.

They memorise the permutations and combinations of wires through colour codes.

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Barefoot College brought three women from Afghanistan to Tilonia and trained them. After they went back, their village became the first ever solar-electrified village in the country. These women went on to train 27 others and now there are over a 100 solar-electrified villages in Afghanistan.

The College also trained grandmothers from Sierra Leone. They lit up the first village in the country with the sun’s energy.

The idea caught on and now there is a Barefoot Vocational Training Centre in Sierra Leone.

Under the India Technical Economic Cooperation Programme of the Ministry of External Affairs, the Barefoot College has trained nearly 700 rural grandmothers to be solar engineers and electrify over 20,000 houses in different countries.

Barefoot College is funded by various organisations and grants. Barefoot College applied for the HCL Grant and through this grant, it wanted to implement the Barefoot model of alternate community-based education and skill development in the five districts of Rajasthan, by empowering and educating children, women, and youth and setting up 25 crèches and 50 bridge schools in these districts. To know more about Barefoot College, contact the team on their website.

www.barefootcollege.org

BUDDIES AS GROWN-UPS

BUDDIES AS GROWN-UPS :

Its a pleasure to be with Childhood friends, who have now grown-up. Two childhood friends who were junior to me, by one year from my School days (Sainik School, BBSR ) met in USA in one's home , after many years. It was a great feeling for both ! Tapan Behera and Lalatendu Panda enjoyed each others company in US at Tapan's Home in US !

                                              In San Fransisco , California 

     

   Childhood days, are hard to forget ! More so , if you meet after many years which remind you of those bye-gone years  .

MSF DAY CELEBRATIONS 2016

Public health is an area where both the Indian government and non-governmental organisations are playing a vital role in pushing for better care for patients. Increasingly, effective models of patient care and operational research are coming out of such collaborations and MSF Scientific Day South Asia will attempt to throw light on some of these issues “, said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research.   Dr Swaminathan was speaking at MSF Scientific Day South Asia, a conference organised by the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) India. The conference, now in its second year, brings together field research on public health challenges confronting South Asia with a view to improving patient care, particularly for vulnerable and excluded communities in India and South Asia. MSF has been organising  Scientific Days already for twelve years in the United Kingdom. Recently it started the same conference in South Asia and South Africa.   This year the conference in Delhi featured research from India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan on topics as varied as drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), hepatitis C, febrile illnesses and HIV. In total twelve studies were presented by experts.  Among the studies presented from India were an analysis of the new anti-tuberculosis drugs for patients with complex drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai and a survey on depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the Kashmir Valley.   The event saw the participation and support of reputed institutes such as the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD), India; Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK; and BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal, among others.   Stigma emerged as an undercurrent in the research presented at the conference this year. From assessing attitudes towards sexual reproductive health, to treatment of drug-addicted hepatitis C patients and depression among people living under the constant cloud of conflict, stigma kept reappearing.   Speaking on the day of the event, Martin Sloot, General Director, MSF India said “While there are huge hurdles to jump and we are only scratching at the surface of unaddressed health issues, it is a positive sign that such ‘taboo’ topics are being researched and discussed.”   “With patient care at the forefront of our work, we hope that this day once again serves as a synergic platform through which analysis and debate can improve and further develop the  current medical standards and practices,” he added. 


 - See more at: http://www.msfindia.in/msf-scientific-day-south-asia-optimizing-research-patient-care#sthash.4jxOhoFW.E9TcWs7y.dpuf

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TWO YEARS OF MODI

TWO YEARS OF MODI  ( ORGANISED BY CPA )

LATEST PLASIC SURGERY IN ODISHA

LATEST IN PLASIC SURGERY IN ODISHA  :

SBM Plastic Surgery Hospital(www.sbmplasticsurgeryhospital.com) is the only hospital in Odisha dedicated to plastic surgery. It started functioning on January 2015 and the SMILE TRAIN programme on Cleft Lip & Palate started in June 2015. Less than one year of starting this programme,the plastic surgeons have already operated over 345 patients in different age group with excellent results. 

The Chief Plastic Surgeon Dr. Bibhuti Nayak, has already operated over five thousand clefts in last ten years.The Hospital conducted an awareness programme for cleft children yesterday, that is on 24th of April 2016, which was attended by over 150 cleft children. Some of the children are into professional singing and performed before the other children. This programme was intended to impress upon the other children, that near normal speech is possible, if proper surgery and speech therapy is given. A bright example being a child, Master Premranjan who had a severe cleft lip and palate and was operated at one year of age and is now into professional singing ! He has gone into the mega audition round, in various competitive singing programmes. 

The children born with Cleft Lip and palate have normal development of brain. If they are operated in time, they can lead life at par wIth normal children. The usual timing for cleft lip is 3months and cleft palate is at 6 months. Some patients with incomplete cleft palate are not diagnosed in time and hence report late when speech results are not satisfactory. All new born children should routinely get their palates examined, to get corrected in time. The parents with cleft children should get them for this surgery which is safe and gives excellent results. Some centers even offer this surgery free of cost.

ADDRESS : 

SBM HOSPITAL , NEAR BALIKUDA RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING , 

CUTTACK , ODISHA . PHONE: 0671-2586836. 

www.sbmplasticsurgeryhospital.com

A FEW PHOTOS OT THE EVENT ON 24TH APRIL 2016 :

ADDRESS:

SBM HOSPITAL, BALIKUDA RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING ,
CUTTACK. ODISHA . PH: 0671-2586836 .

website : www.sbmplasticsurgeryhospital.com

Prasanna Captures Newdelhi

                                      Prasanna at India Habitat Centre 

AT VANI VIHAR ON NATIONAL HIGH WAY

AT VANI VIHAR ON NATIONAL HIGH WAY WITH NIHAR :













He is the Controller of Exams at Odisha High School Exams , in Cuttack.

BHUBANESWAR 2016

RANDOM SHOTS IN BBSR :


                                                   
                                                          SABYASACHI WITH SARAT


                         
                                            PRASANNA WITH SUBHASIS





DR. S.C.MOHANTY'S CLINIC AT INFOCITY AREA (OPPOSITE TCS ) IN BHUBANESWAR





                                             ME WITH DR.SARAT MOHANTY 


                       SMART PHONE MAGICS BY THE DUO !


             
                  My Niece Kunmun with Her Mom, at their Residence in Chakei Sihani !





                                    My Nephew Nanu In Sainik School, BBSR

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Cuttack and BBSR visits 0n 21st Jan 2016.

                         With Umesh in Cuttack (OSFC ) !




                                             
                                             SUMAN BEHERA AT CMC , CUTTACK 




                                    WITH TARUN AND PRADEEP IN CUTTACK




                                           WITH CHIDA AND PRADEEP IN CUTTACK