Harinakshi-our first beneficiary-update

This is Harinakshi. Her next chemo-session is due during the second week of March. We have decided to meet the expenses of this the treatment by directly paying for the medicines and other hospital charges.

Meanwhile, we visited Kidwai Hospital once again and found that the system there is not very transparent. The Social Welfare Dept. does not let us approach the patients directly. We have left words with the Paediatric Oncologists and they said they will get in touch with us, when they come across a genuine case needing help.

The journey is quite slow but we are not giving up. We need pep talks from all our well-wishers. Please do subscribe to this blog and leave your comments. Otherwise, how will we know that you are all with us?

LET'S HELP HARINAKSHI

Harinakshi is a 39-year-old mother of two sons. Her elder son is doing his B.Sc. at Mysore, while she was leading a simple, peaceful life with her husband Mrithyunjaya and 4-year-old second son at Kushalnagar. Mrithyunjaya works for a retail shoe shop besides selling footwear to schools as an agent. His monthly income is just around Rs.5000/- to Rs.6000/-. The son at Mysore studies well and shares a small room costing Rs.800/- a month with three other friends and cooks his own food. He had to leave Kushalnagar as there is no college there.

All of a sudden fate opened its ugly eyes and Harinakshi was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a surgery in Mysore, which failed and she rushed to Bangalore because she wants to live for the sake of her little son. She is now undergoing treatment at M.S.Ramaiah Hospital (at the Section meant for poor patients). The treatment is subsidized. She has already gone through five cycles of Chemotherapy and is left with another 3 cycles. Thereafter she is advised to take radiotherapy too.

So far, she has been meeting the expenses out of borrowings from friends, relatives and private money lenders. Every time, she has to come to Bangalore for the Chemo session, which also involves expenditure. Left with very little options, she has approached the Hospital authorities for further subsidy and they have referred her to SAHYOG.

The doctors say she has reached them at the right moment and she has to fight out for the sake of her little son. She will recover. She puts up with the painful treatment and the gory side effects, all with that hope.

She may require roughly around Rs.15000/- to complete her treatment and SAHYOG trustees feel this is a genuine case to take up. We have made our background survey and feel by helping her, we will be helping the entire family.

Donors interested in donating for Harinakshi either in part or full, please let us know. Your donations will be eligible for exemptions under Section 80G of the IT Act.

Though we do have a little fund to help Harinakshi, we thought we should inform friends in advance so that people who want to specifically sponsor this case are given an opportunity.

Our e-mail id is sahyogblr@gmail.com and our telephone number is 080-28461316.

OUR FIRST ACTIVITY

We decided to announce our birth in a unique way and organised an 8-day accupressure-cum-magnetotherapy camp for the benefit of the local public of Yelahanka Satellite Town, Bangalore from 3.1.2010 to 10.1.2010. The camp was conducted by a charitable institute namely Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia Arogya Jeevan Sansthan, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. Five trained professionals under the stewardship of naturopath Dr.Pankaj Kaushik manned the camp and quite a few of the local residents benefited from the treatment. The feedback was very encouraging and many of them wanted us to extend the camp. Our intention of making waves in the local community about SAHYOG and its actual intentions was served well.

We now plan to concentrate on beginning our actual work. We have got in touch with the Social Welfare Officers of Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology and M.S.Ramaiah Hospital (the section that caters to the poorer people) and are getting enquiries. Watch this blogspace for our further progress and support us in full.

All the pictures are self-explanatory except the fourth, which is that of the trustees of SAHYOG.

Birth of SAHYOG

SAHYOG was born out of a small spark that one of the blood donors lit in the year 2008. 8-year-old Mahesh, the son of a poor maid was diagnosed of blood cancer and admitted to the Kidwai Memorial Hospital, Bangalore. Thanks to the tens of kind-hearted well-wishers who helped this kid with money, blood, physical and moral support, today the kid is under remission and is attending school. He will be under observation for another 2 years to be labelled 'cured' but it is nice to see him out of the 'danger zone' and we hope with the prayers of so many, he will live a long life. This inspired us to register SAHYOG, a charitable trust to see many more such children, as well as adults belonging to the poorest of the poor classes, who may be able to get treated for serious illnesses, if only they get financial aid.

SAHYOG operates from HIG 1212, 8th B Cross, Yelahanka Satellite Town, Bangalore-560106, India

The trustees are - Srilakshmi Renganathan, T.V.Raghavendran, Sadhana M Bhat, R.V.Narasimhachar, Sudha Narasimhachar

The primary objective at present - to extend financial assistance for medical expenditure to the poorest of the poor

The trust account is no. SAHYOG ACCOUNT NO. 694104000002592 with IDBI Bank, Yelahanka New Town branch.

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