The Relief India Trust Gives a Heartbeat to Children

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Many children are born with heart problems and others may develop these complications as they grow, this is not limited to children alone. This calls for medical intervention in the form of heart transplants. A heart transplant is the removal of a damaged and diseased heart to replace it with a healthy donor heart. This is a demanding procedure that calls for a number of procedures for the exercise to be successfully conducted. Relief India Trust NGO has rolled out programs that ensure the relevant institutions have an easier time in carrying out this exercise.

Funding.

A heart transplant is an expensive exercise that is elusive for the needy in society. It is also a sad reality that it is the needy that are affected by this condition of heart disease or heart failure.

Relief India Trust works to ensure that children who need this surgery and are not able to afford it are attended to by availing funds for them. The organization also makes it possible for patients to meet citizens with a big heart willing to pay for the surgeries.

Awareness campaigns.

The organization organizes organ donation campaigns in the community for people to go for checkups and for donors to help their loved ones. For heart transplants this means that those who have heart problems can be identified and shortlisted as potential candidates for transplants. The identified candidates are then taken to health care centers for further attention.

Pre surgical preparation.

Once the patient has been brought to the hospital, there are a number of things to be done before surgery. The donor has to be identified in this case, brain dead people or those who have died but the heart is still beating. The patients have to be taken through psychological and physical tests to check their mental health and the ability to use a new heart. The evaluation and psychological preparation also includes pre surgical medication. Immuno- suppressants are administered to the patient to ensure that their immune systems do not reject the new organs. All this is done while the surgical teams remove the donor heart and conduct thorough examination. The Relief India Trust supports all this by availing nurses and medical teams to these hospitals.

During the surgery there are nurses that help the surgeons with the equipment, blood, and the general smooth running of the theatre and the operation procedure. These may also be sourced from the organization’s personnel.

After the surgery.

Patients after being successfully operated, need critical attention for them to recover fully and continue with normal life. Medication has to be administered and proper nutrition is important. All this needs committed individuals to monitor the patient and help them where necessary. Workers at Relief India Trust are available in various hospitals to do this. This care extends to homes when the patients are discharged to recover at home.

Therapy may be required by some patients in order for them to respond and adjust to the new hearts. Physiotherapists are engaged in this exercise to avoid any complications on the final stages of the healing process.

Relief India Trust: Unforgettable Financial Assistance

Sunidhi a one year old baby had a hole in the heart which was identified immediately after she was born. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital quoted a huge bill which her parents knew they would never be able to pay. When then approached Relief India Trust, the surgery took place in due time and all her hospital expenses were covered through Relief India Trust PAN. Happiness now prevails in Sunidhi’s family as she has been given a new lease of life by Relief India Trust NGO which they can never forget all their lives.

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Ensuring Effective Campaigning At Relief India Trust

Any campaign initiated at Relief India Trust becomes a campaign for the entire team. To make the campaign as effective as possible, team members invest much time. It is during the weekends that many of the activities of volunteers take place. Depending upon the availability of time, studies and research can be done; online networking and giving updates to the group of volunteers can be done whenever time is available.

Not only the employees who work on a full-time basis but even students can become volunteers for Relief India Trust. Professionals such as photographers, musicians, film makers, dancers etc. can use their skills to mobilize talent in an effective manner to advocate the cause – protecting rights of children and the needy; with the support offered by Relief India Trust.

Working as a volunteer is easy and convenient, being possible from the comfort of home. In order to remain in touch with ground realities, many of the volunteers also engage themselves in field work as well. It is the sheer conviction and effort put in by the volunteers at Relief India Trust that helps in bringing about a positive change in children’s lives.

There is no certificate issued to the volunteers for commitment towards this social work, but the level of satisfaction speaks volumes. However, after completion of one year as a volunteer, a certificate or letter of appreciation is certainly awarded to volunteers if needed, for being engaged in voluntary services at Relief India Trust. There is no salary paid but any kind of expense related to photocopying, traveling etc. is certainly reimbursed. An authority letter is provided if required to indicate proof of being a volunteer at Relief India Trust.

Relief India Trust volunteers can help in mobilizing core competencies while volunteering at NGO and with professionals in the corporate industry. Volunteering based on community strengths is facilitated via NGO work. From skillful expertise to addressing different communities through non-government organizations, skill based volunteering is facilitated by the volunteers at the Trust. For Corporates, community events are also facilitated by Relief India Trust, and more directly for communities and NGO.

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Community Based Organizations ‘ Place in Relief India Trust

Community based organizations are essentially nonprofit making organizations that operate within the grass root level in the local community. They are also subsets of larger nonprofit making organizations like Relief India Trust NGO.

These are bottom up organizations and are more effective in addressing the needs of the community than the larger charitable organizations. They fall into different categories, including but not limited to; educational; personal help and improvement; social welfare; health; community service and action.

Relief India Trust in its awareness of the important roles played by these organizations, has come all out to partner and work with them to bring about the much needed change in the community. The trust has over the time used these communities based organization as its point of contact and mouthpiece in the community thus ensuring contact with the most remote localities to which these organizations are able to reach. It is also through these organizations that the trust is informed of the real challenges on the ground. With this knowledge Relief India Trust is able to adopt the best strategy for carrying out its operations.

There are a number of ways that Relief India trust has helped these organizations become stable and effective in their diverse causes.

The monetary issue.

It is important to acknowledge the fact that funding is what keeps these organizations up and running. These organizations rely on individual fund raising to get money. Community fundraisers therefore take a people-focused approach to fundraising. Relationship building is a key part of the people-focused approach to make sure people identify with what they are being called upon to do. Relief India trust helps to communicate the important roles played by the organization in the community. This is done through open days, street processions and other such forums.

Non monetary support.

Relief India Trust is also keen to help these organizations carry out effective operations and therefore has to engage in its running. Though the structures may be somehow different, the trust helps to ensure effective and proper management. Some of these community based organizations have formally incorporated constitutions and boards of director called committees while others are much smaller and more informal. Whichever the case, these are closely monitored, the personal is given training and supplied with necessities that will see smoother running of their operations. Relief India Trust has over the time organized seminars for stakeholders to learn more about how best to approach the issues they are addressing.

To be able to ensure more people are reached by the community based organizations, there is a need to form more of them in line with the special needs of particular societies and the unique challenges they face. People are called to forums and informed of how they can come together to address the issues that affect them and this sees the birth of more organizations. The organizations are a sure and sustainable way in this cause as the community is directly involved in the action or operation and whenever monetary and non monetary help is needed. The community is also aware of what affects them and thereby are the best to help alienate the ills that they face.

Relief India Trust Disaster Response Efforts

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Accidents and tragedies are inevitable in the course of life; they are beyond human control and intervention. Humans can only do as much as respond to them in a bid to end the suffering caused by these occurrences and to save lives that have been put at risk. These occurrences happen due to natural causes or human causes but once they happen they leave behind destruction, injuries, and loss of lives, and vulnerability to disease and loss of more lives especially among children. In an effort to safeguard the children, Relief India trust has been actively involved in disaster management and response programs all over the country.This is especially where calamities occur with a higher degree of frequency. There are different types of calamities that befall the society and each of these calls for unique solutions.

Disaster preparedness.

Relief India Trust knows the importance of disaster preparedness and the number of lives that can be saved by preparedness in the society. The organization therefore has in its programs helped more people to be prepared in case of such times. The organization has over the time supplied first aid equipment to schools, children’s homes and selected homes strategically in the community for the benefit of children. Firefighting equipment procured by the government and other nonprofit making organization have also been distributed to strategic areas in the community to make sure that they are well equipped in the case of such emergencies.

Training.

Relief India Trust Noida is actively involved in the training of disaster response teams. Volunteers come to this organization and are taught how best to respond to different kind of emergencies. They are taken through first aid drills, fire fighting skills, rescue and evacuation of victims. Having this skill is important as more lives can then be saved if the rescuers are well aware of what to do and when to do it. Many lives have been lost by poor handling of victims and this is reduced through disaster response training.

Hands on involvement.

During rescue operations it is important to have large numbers of people to help in the evacuation and the hustle that comes with these missions. Relief India Trust has been there to provide the much needed manpower through its volunteer and medical teams. These help to move the victims to safer locations and give them the necessary attention. The medics handle injuries while first aid is administered to prevent blood loss, asphyxiation and freezing. Volunteers also help carry equipment to those areas that are inaccessible by vehicular transport.

After the disaster has been managed the attention shifts to the victims. Most victims are left homeless, orphaned or physically disadvantaged and they need care and attention. Relief India trust has over the time addressed this issue in as far as rehabilitation is concerned. Children are taken into homes and are helped to reunite with their families. In case of parental loss there are procedures put into place to absorb them into child care centers and children’s homes. Child adoption is also organized for such children where possible. In the case of disability these young victims are given treatment and counseling to help them recover. Relief India Trust NGO also helps the victims acquire equipment like wheelchairs and walking aids.

The organization also helps to distribute relief food, medication and clothes in case these victims have to go to camps.

Relief India Trust a Campaign for Women’s Rights

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Women’s rights are the entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide. These rights may be institutionalized or supported by law and local customs or may all together be ignored and suppressed. They differ from the broader perspective of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias of rights by women and girls in favor of men and boys.

Relief India Trust is committed to addressing the issues associated with women’s rights which include, but not limited to, the right to; bodily integrity and autonomy; suffrage ( the right to vote); to work; to fair wages; to equal pay; to own property; to education; to hold public office an to have parental and marital rights.

Women in India face many challenges that impede their advancement socially and economically. Discriminatory family codes illiteracy and cultural stigmas are the main challenges. Heightened campaigns by the Relief India Trust has raised pressure on the government to raise the level of dialogue and reform the institutional treatment of women in a rapidly modernizing society. This has seen more of enforcement of laws that address the plight of women in the society. Government is closely monitored to check laxity and ignorance on issues affecting women. The court system has been put in the spotlight over its approach to cases touching women’s rights violation. There is a more legal representation for women whose rights have been violated and this ensures justice and transparency.

One of the major elements hampering women’s rights progress is the chronically low level of female political representation in parliament. This calls for empowerment of more women to vie for political office. In giving education to the girl child Relief India Trust nurtures leaders for the future by giving them a fighting chance which would be absent if the women were illiterate. The formation of women’s lobby groups has been spearheaded by the trust. This ensures that bills in parliament that address women’s interests go through to bring about institutional change in the legal framework.

At the grass roots level, Relief India Trust together with other stakeholders are working together with the male community in an effort to elevate women in the society. This is done through giving women to ply roles previously held by men and celebrating their success or confidence building.

The cause for women to realize their rights noble as it is cannot be achieved without them (women) being aware of the rights and what the constitution says about them. Relief India Trust has brought on board legal experts to ensure that women are aware of their rights. Civil education forums have been carried out widely in order make sure a majority of women is involved in the championing for their rights, needless to say that knowledge is power.

Economic empowerment is an effective way of ensuring women gains their rightful place in the community. Women dependent of themselves are less likely to be abused. Relief India Trust offers modes of self employment by distribution of equipment like sewing machines and baking ovens to self help groups formed by women. Rights to property ownership have also been advocated for with significant success over the years.

The main challenges are illiteracy, lack of representation and cultural belief that still hinder the advocacy and the realization of these rights. With the stumbling blocks being changed into stepping stones, the realization of women’s rights is not a pipe dream.

Relief India Trust Creating Accountability

Children’s rights are violated all over the world and in India particularly. All the while none is brought to book, no-one is held accountable, no-one is concerned and the children are left to their own devices. To be able to make the society a better place, children’s rights have to be observed. Relief India Trust in collaboration with other organizations of its kind, institutions and individuals that champion children’s rights have joined hands to realize accountability for violation of these rights. The main focus is children of divorce, separation, orphans or born out of wedlock.

Relief India Trust has been able to help in matters pertaining to the Indian family court system and the Indian appeal system as well as prevention of child abduction in India, kidnappings, denial of visitation and access rights, child custody, abandonment and neglect. The court system has been made more effective in handling child right violation cases including sexual abuse, child labor and neglect cases.

The government has been held more accountable in the children’s affairs. More laws are being passed that safeguard the child’s interests and make the society a safer place for them. The government has also improved its compliance to the child right protocol put forth by the United Nations. The protocol requires the nation to implement the laws put there in and give an annual report on the implementation process. Relief India Trust through its children, rights advocacy programs, has been able to monitor the government concerning these protocols and making sure that they are adhered to.

The Relief India Trust has also made accountable parents who violate their children’s rights. It’s the right of children to occupy their rightful places in the family, get provision and security. Many parents and guardians have been known to abuse their children sexually, and also involve them in child labor. The organization has been successful in reducing these cases by bringing to trial the perpetrators while sensitizing the community on children’s rights. There are more channels put in place for children and other members of the society to come out and report rights violations.

Children spend most of their time in school. This makes the school a place where the rights can be realized and at the same time violated. Violence on children is more rampant in schools by their peers and teachers. Relief India Trust closely monitors schools to make sure that children’s rights are not violated. Children must go to school for learning reasons only and any other activity contrary is a violation to their right. Schools have also become a place where children can report cases of abuse and get help as teachers have become more concerned for the plight of children. The teachers have been trained to identify cases of child abuse, make follow up and offer guidance and counseling where needed. It is in these institutions that Relief India Trust has been able to make progress in the championing of children’s rights by organizing awareness forums and sensitizing teachers on these rights.

Basic education is the right of every child and Relief India Trust NGO has made sure that every child that has attained school going age is in school. The organization also plays a big role in removing these children from the streets to the schools where they can get an education.

Relief India Trust Alleviates Child Abuse and Exploitation

In the world over and India in particular, large numbers of people live below the poverty line. This makes many desperate to make ends meet and in turn giving greedy and heartless individuals a chance to exploit the needy. The sad reality is that children are the victims of this inhuman treatment.

Relief India Trust has over the time compiled facts about this reality. For instance 17 million children are employed in child labor with 80% of these children in the metropolis of India. 25% of victims of commercial sex exploitation victims are under the age of 18 years. A majority of the child labor is in the agricultural sectors. Young girls are exploited sexually, a big number enrolled in sex cartels. Many die in this practice due to abuse, infection and even murder.
These are the sad realities that prompted the Relief India Trust organization to involve itself in the fight against child labor, abuse and sexual exploitation.

Child abuse

Children are abused in many ways and in various settings in the society. In their very homes they come from and by the very people that are supposed to protect them, at school by the teachers that are supposed to nurture them and intra-child abuse by their peers.To curb this trend, Relief India Trust has put in place programs that help in creating awareness in the society. People are educated on the importance of children and their place in the society. Children in abusive environments are taken to safe houses and children’s home to make sure they are safe from sex pests and exploiters. Child labor is reduced when families are able to fend for themselves as children won’t be required to chip in to the family budget.

Protecting the girl child

Relief India Trust in partnership with other nonprofit making organization and the government of India have done a lot to protect the girl child against an increasingly abusive society. Girls are given sex education to make them aware of the dangers of indulging in premarital sex, they are also made aware of behavior that is abusive and where to report in case of such scenarios. They are put in schools and homes away from the risky environments. The government has done a lot to create laws to make sure that the girl child is cushioned against exploitation.

Rolling out of sanitary pads has played a role in building the confidence of adolescent girls who require them but can’t afford. In doing this, more girls are able to consistently go to school and also have a competitive edge in sports and academics.

Girls who have already been abused are enrolled in special rehabilitation centers. There the organization is able to offer them treatment in case of infections or otherwise. Counseling and guidance is also given to these girls as virtue is imparted to them.

Both male and female children may be abused if left alone in the world. By the availability of social workers in these environments, these cases are significantly reduced. Relief India Trust has been in the fore front in making sure that the social workers are available where they are most needed, to give that watchful eye, a listening ear, and a caring heart to children.