real backward classes...

Sunday I had gone for a camp at an orphanage. The NGO involved had adopted a village for health check up… since I too keep camps occasionally I was aware of the ppl involved and thought this might just be one of the publicity gaining camps.. but when I saw the village people I was shocked to c the state of nutrition in them, their poverty… there were all grades of malnutrition in them… all had some or the other skin diseases… would mention few cases here… one man’s wife died a day before and he was going to attend a wedding the next day as he would get to eat!!!! The camp was at 4 pm and almost half of the kids hadn’t eaten till that time… a man had an infection in one eye and the infection progressed till he lost the whole eye and the treatment taken – covering of that eye with a handkerchief… the pain was borne… there were 5 leprosy cases among 30 kids…such a high ratio… one ‘book picture’ case of leprosy, an orphan of 14 yrs age was working for a salary of Rs 200 per month… and there was ‘real hard work’ involved…
these are the real ‘backward people’ and these need to be taken care of… the good thing was that the NGO was going to follow up them around twice a month… I on my part volunteered to take care of their eyes… and also volunteered to operate ppl who had cataracts free of cost... these are people who need care.. and I felt all camps I had taken till date were so useless as I had been attending to people who compared to these adivasis were sooooo rich…. Real poverty lies in these adivasi villages…
Through this blog I appeal to people who can and wish to sponsor cataract operations. They can contact me and ‘even attend’ the surgeries of the people they have sponsored. We are working out the minimum cost but it definitely won’t be more than a 1000 rupees for one surgery. So please if possible visit Ambarnath so that I can show you these adivasi villages. After you see their plight with your own eyes I know you will have tears in your ‘heart’… and ya, ur donations wont have any tax, 80c or any other benefit , but then I assure you, you will leave with millions and billions and trillions of good wishes from these people… and a satisfied mind and heart…