Strengthen 1000s of Indian Families w/ Healthcare

Dear Donor,

We had an eventful Fall at Save Kids Trust. We enhanced our menstruation clinics by adding ‘teams’ of young women from the same neighborhoods coming together to support one another. Each team has a lead who helps guide & clarify group discussions to make the clinics even more effective at educating young women and giving them a safe forum to ask questions.

We’ve seen numerous challenging cases in our three permanent clinics and pop-up street clinics. We had multiple cases where prior treatment elsewhere (or lack of treatment) resulted in incomplete healing and made the situation worse. Along with the other doctors and nurses, I demonstrate proper wound care and, in some cases, ask patients to return to one of our clinics daily to refresh their wound dressings. We also saw multiple work-related injuries.  With workplace injuries, the daily wage earner may not be able to work for some time and, in those cases, in addition to treating the injury, we provide nutritional support for the patient and their families until the patient is able to get back to work. Our dry-ration supplies, which we added during the Covid pandemic, continue to be crucial in numerous situations.

It is our hope in 2023 to open a new clinic for families who live farther from the center of Jaipur. I have a location identified and possible donors who would assist in purchasing the site. We are very hopeful that this will happen soon.

Meanwhile, I’m planning our annual winter teaching & gift events for the children of several informal housing areas! Look for these updated stories, and past stories, on our website as the new year rolls in.

Thank you for your continued support! As your gifts to SKT bless those in Jaipur, may we wish you many blessings this winter season.

Yours Truly,

Dr. Sharwan Saini

Executive Director, Save Kids Trust

Links:

• More stories are available at our website

Save Kids Trust’s work in Jaipur this summer has been steady and effective.

Street medical camps have tackled many common seasonal ailments. These included treatment for fever, vomiting, boils, shingles; occurrences that patients didn’t know how to treat on their own. We also provided training as well as treatments whenever appropriate. The mosquitos of summer also bring an education opportunity helping parents understand easy ways to keep children healthy - like making sure ankles are covered since that is where children are most often bit. This is hard to do in the heat of the summer but so important in the fight against malaria.

With the monsoon rains starting in late July, there was some relief from heat, but rain also brings life threatening water borne diseases apart from the monsoon flu. To help marginalized families, health awareness meetings providing preventative health techniques, including water cleanliness and healthy diet, are especially important for the young and old.

In the slum areas, the women suffer more in the rainy season. This moisture puts women at an increased risk of urinary tract, reproductive, and yeast infections. The team at SKT held preventative awareness clinics for women to help them keep these issues at bay. One menstruation clinic this summer was sponsored by a medical team from Saigon and held in an indoor facility that everyone really enjoyed.

The desire to open a fourth clinic in Jaipur is progressing. An area has been located and Indian donors are focusing on how to secure land and a building. The clinic leadership is also still looking for an opportunity to replace their old vehicle with a more reliable newer mode of transportation.

We will sign off this newsletter with a photo of one of the SKT Teams. Your donation support and these men and women are the reason we can help so many individuals in Jaipur! Thank you!

Links:

• More stories available at our website