Independence day celebration at Volontariat crèche and KG
Volontariat is connected since 2008 with a medical group of students in Paris, members of the Association SOLEM they created to provide humanitarian assistance in the field of health.
At Pondicherry, through the social workers of Volontariat, they were aware of the problems faced by the gypsy families Nari Kuruvas who survive at Lawspet, a suburb of Pondicherry. (see our website at: Nila Illam program).
Their living conditions are deplorable and make this population, surely the most wretched of the Territory of Pondicherry:
Location of their homes near the main garbage dump of the city,
Lifestyle random
Pig moving freely on the site,
Public water scarcity,
All smelly and covered with flies, vectors of all kinds of diseases.
A number of their children are already for years in the program Nila Illam at TTK farm.
It is an absolute need to help these people in poor health, suffering from high infant mortality and rejected from hospitals of the city, due to their lack of hygiene and filth.
So, in August 2009, a 5-years agreement was signed by VOLONTARIAT, SOLEM and a private hospital for the purchase of the equipment and the maintaining of a vehicle, specially equipped to be used as a mobile clinic and for the purchase of basic medicines.
Volontariat has a partner who is taking in charge the remuneration of medical and administrative staff, for the first year. We will have to find other donors for the following years.
The budget for this program is available, on request, at Volontariat Pondicherry, for anyone wishing to assist this program that will also benefit people in many remote villages of the region.
