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Julie and I are so excited to have the opportunity to take a team of 14 to visit Asha in Delhi. They are all from Yeovil Community Church and vary in age from 16 to over 60 (ish) We will be going out on 14.02.08 and returning on 23.02.08.
Asha (hindi for "hope") is a Charity working in about 45 of the hundreds of slums in the capital city of Delhi in India. It seeks to provide health care and community and environmental development to the urban poor. Many families migrate to India's cities from rural areas in search of work, and then find themselves living in cramped and dirty slums with poor sanitation. These poor living conditions produce health risks.
Julie and I are so excited to have the opportunity to take a team of 14 to visit Asha in Delhi. They are all from Yeovil Community Church and vary in age from 16 to over 60 (ish) We will be going out on 14.02.08 and returning on 23.02.08.
Asha (hindi for "hope") is a Charity working in about 45 of the hundreds of slums in the capital city of Delhi in India. It seeks to provide health care and community and environmental development to the urban poor. Many families migrate to India's cities from rural areas in search of work, and then find themselves living in cramped and dirty slums with poor sanitation. These poor living conditions produce health risks.
Asha was started in 1988 by an Indian paediatrician, Dr Kiran Martin, in response to seeing children die from simple treatable illnesses such as diarrhoea. Kiran borrowed a table and set it up under a tree, and there was her first slum clinic!
Our team will be re-furbishing a community building in one of the slums, which includes a children's resource centre and a clinic. We hope to be able to make the environment bright and cheerful, by painting murals of jungle and under-water scenes.
Two GPs on the team will also be teaching the doctors who work in the slums on topics relating to Care of the Elderly. While we are there we hope to be able to visit the Taj Mahal in Agra! 
Pictures:
Top - Dr Kiran Martin chats to some of the slum children
Middle - Children in a slum lane
Bottom - decorating a clinic building in 2005
You can find out more about Asha at: http://www.asha-india.org/
...and more about Yeovil Community Church at: http://www.yeovilcommunitychurch.co.uk/UntitledFrame-7.htm
...and more about Yeovil Community Church at: http://www.yeovilcommunitychurch.co.uk/UntitledFrame-7.htm
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