Health wise

Martha,for example,a doctor from Spain and Lenneke Tol from Netherlands,recently joined as

interns with DIR to work for the next four months.

Martha,who has done volunteer work in Africa and the US,is looking forward to her work that will focus on first aid and emergency medicine. “A new country provides a different point of view. I am happy that I am getting an opportunity to give something back,” she says. Tol is enthusiastic about sports and health and is working with several DIR projects.

“We encourage volunteers but only if they are serious and are willing to work long hours in the heat and dust. The idea is to make them aware and generate fresh ideas and inputs,’’ says Shaw.

Shaw shared the findings of an impartial evaluation of DIR’s activities. The findings reveal that Shaw and his team have been able to achieve their targets for immunisation,improving malnutrition,reducing infant and maternal mortality and increasing awareness on health and hygiene. “We have worked hard for the last five years and we are happy that the efforts are yielding results. Our nutritionists and doctors attend 200 households everyday. The rate of malnutrition in children has declined from 87 per cent to 54 per cent,” says Shaw.

Shaw points out that DIR’s nutrition programme is a big hit,where two nutritionists share inexpensive,healthy and inventive recipes with women of the colony to address the persistent problems of malnutrition.

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