Save Lives of Snakebite Victims in Rural India

  Awareness camps are intended to make the community aware of the pros and cons of a particular thing. Yes, we are doing the same making people aware of the importance of SNAKES and the dos and don'ts during snakebite. A community comprises several hierarchies, like children, boys, girls, men, women, etc. all these are part of this wonderful dynamic universe. Getting them equipped with a particular topic is a somewhat tedious but interesting thing, quoting “if you are interested". TIES along with our passionate ISBI volunteers is trying hard to teach the community and especially during this period, we focused on the young, sprouting generation-our little champs. An education from the base has more effect than from the top. We just followed the same from child to elderly people. They are the next generation and they can do many things, even above what we expect. 

During this period, specifically from September till December we conducted around 82 awareness workshops around the Northern part of especially, Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal. Students from 1^st grade till 12^th grade were focused and we also included tribal schools and community in our campaigns, as they can add up to our campaigns and we can reconstruct many misconceptions prevailing in their communities. More specifically said 7562 people were taught about snakes, snakebites, etc. Along with students we included forest staff, veterinary staff, village gatherings, farmers too.  The students were so excited and they attended the session with much interest and that gave us a feel of fulfilled and we are happy that there will be a great change tomorrow 

Let’s hear something from the volunteers:

“On the occasion wild food festival we conducted snake awareness workshop. Tribes used herbal plants for curing snakebite, we collected information about that plant. It was an interactive session with tribal women about myths, misconceptions, and snakebite management.”

“9th class students were attended our workshop from school. One of the girl's mothers from this group got bitten by Spect. Cobra some years ago. So I discussed about her case study for snakebite awareness and management”

“We conducted randomly a workshop in the village temple. We got an overwhelming response from villagers. We even didn't invite to anyone just stick the banner and people's joined. In that workshop identified two snakebites Case's. One the 18 years old boy got bitten by Russel viper one month ago. He got just remedies from local traditional healers. But necrosis seems fatal. We suggested to them for proper hospital treatment.”