Come and pay a visit to Chhattisgarh, a jungle area in central India, where The Tulsi Trust is working alongside the local population of indigenous tribes and resettled Bengali refugees to provide basic healthcare and education where it is most needed.
This mother brought her ten day old infant for a check up. The baby - her fourth - was in good health. As is often the case in their environment of high demand and poor nutrition, the mum suffered from exhaustion, following iron and vitamin deficiency. Nutrition advice and supplements are two of the most handed out items in our daily stock list.
This young lady is suffering from goiter - an enlarged thyroid gland. Our team are providing the necessary treatment and checking up on her regularly.
This young lady is suffering from goiter - an enlarged thyroid gland. Our team are providing the necessary treatment and checking up on her regularly.
Local villagers are becoming more and more used to seeing the members of the Tulsi Trust team out and about (at least two of our team tour the jungle every day providing door to door healthcare). We still have a lot of potential to uncover when it comes to working together with the local community, but being able to train up and work together with indigenous volunteers is making it more and more clear to people that The Tulsi Trust are not here to suppress their customs, or steal their land, but that our aims are to help them support themselves and become a healthier, more empowered community.
Our Dr. Debashish cleans and dresses the wounds of a man who fell off his bicycle.
Without basic healthcare knowledge and supplies, simple accidents like these can lead to people becoming crippled - often entirely unnecessarily!
Without basic healthcare knowledge and supplies, simple accidents like these can lead to people becoming crippled - often entirely unnecessarily!
Taking a break in the shade. Our team of volunteers is working day in day out to provide help and care. Especially hot days spent in the glaring sun on a village square seeing patient after patient can be very draining. Thus we are happy to be reminded to look after ourselves by the example of this sensible friend. :)