"Noon meal for the aged"scheme aims to serve the aged who are deprived, deserted by families and who are unable to take care of themselves.

No. of people fed every day – 15

People who are fed - Aged (above 50 years) who are deprived, deserted by families and who are unable to take care of themselves

Place - 123, Aaladi Sami Madam, Alagar Koil Road, Tallakulam, Madurai- 625 002, Tamilnadu, India.

Menu - Diet menu are obtained from a consultant for healthy and nutrient combinations.

Future Plans:

• In short span, monthly get-together for the members and a host speaker will be organized.
• This programme will be extended to minimum 2 times a day in course of time.
• Health care will be provided in the long run for the beneficiaries.

HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT?

Donate materials: Groceries and vegetables.

Volunteer your time: Serving, cleaning and just talk to the beneficiaries. Volunteers have to inform prior to their visit.

Sponsor: Approximately the cost for daily food to feed for 25 people will be around Rs.500. Even a single rupee with consideration is of great value to the Programme

• Overview
• Our work
• How can you help us?

Overview

At the present situation, there is no exact estimate on the exact number of people affected by Thalassemia in and around Madurai, the second largest city in TamilNadu. There is no specific medical facility available at present either in private or the Government. The cases handled by Government Rajaji Hospital are the only indication to the people affected by Thalassemia in the southern parts of TamilNadu. The data conforms to the state percentage of population affected by the disease which is around 8% and the percentage in Madurai District is around 11%.

There are some pediatricians running private clinic taking care of some of the patients. There are only few sophisticated private hospitals having specialized Haematologist across the State. There is no specific independent facility for Haematology available in any of these hospitals.

Thalassemia the lesser known disease in this part of the State is not properly addressed by any forums, not focused by Hospitals or clinics in the whole of TamilNadu excluding Chennai. Besides, the patients reporting to the Government Hospitals are economically backward and not even affording to visit the hospital for treatment. At present there are around 45 children undergoing Blood Transfusion in the Madurai Government Rajaji Hospital. Some of the patients are travelling from places of 100 kms radius. The number may be three or four times cared by private clinics in various towns.

The immediate minimum requirement for the poor children undergoing treatment in Government Hospital is to have a separate ward with Blood Transfusion facilities and making the availability of medicines for Iron Chelation.

The Government doctors have little time to spare for proper care of children affected by Thalassemia. An exclusive ward may help this facility to the children improve.

Nivethan tries to set up a forum or welfare association to follow up the need of the patients more effectively and make necessary association for wider publicity for awareness creation and prevention.

The most modern facility, a sterile blood transfusion centre with few beds, can be the need of the hour. This facility will improve awareness, better treatment, prevention and an exclusive care for ailing children. Nivethan makes the best possible efforts to accomplish the need of the region in making the lives of the children better.

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Our work

Blood Donation: Free blood donations with the support of our Nivethan Volunteers for the Thalassemic pateinets during blood transfusion every 21 days. Nivethan also regularly organize exclusively blood donation programme for Thalassemic Children in Madurai.

Database of Thalassemia Patients: Database of around 66 Thalassemic children has been gathered and a new book for monitoring has been distributed to all identified patients.

Guidance and support to patients: With the support of Ms.Revathi Raj, Appollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai & Dr.Shanmugasundaram, Madurai Government Hospital, we have been involved in providing guidance and counseling to parents of the patients in going about control and treatment.

Medicine distribution: With the support of our volunteers and individual donors, free medicines (kelfer tablets) are being distributed to 66 Thalassemic children every month.

Bone Marrow Transplant: Nivethan has supported financially and facilitated two children from underpriviliged families in Tamil Nadu to undergo Bone Marrow Transplant in Chennai Apollo Hospital. Bone Marrow Transplant is the best possible cure for Thalassemia.

Thalassemia Association- Madurai: Nivethan has initiated the process of forming Thalassemia Association- Madurai with patients, their parents, doctors and other voluntary organisations.

Screening and cure of Thalassemia: With the support of Cure2Children Foundation, Italy, Nivethan has initiated screening and cure of Thalassemia. Nivethan in 2010 has signed an MOU with Cure2children Foundation for screening, prevention and cure of Thalassemia in Madurai.

Thalassemia awareness:

Nivethan as part of its Mission Thalassemia Programme is involved in many ways to spread awareness and knowledge sharing about Thalassemia among general public at large across the world and in this connection, a documentary film on Thalassemia for wider dissemination and mass screening was produced with the support of Cure2Children Foundation and was released in English and Tamil. An exclusively website for knowledge sharing about Thalassemia was also developed by Nivethan.

• Thalassemia website – www.thalassemiafreeindia.ning.com
• Documentary film - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTKyneuuDEE

How can you help us?

Make a donation: The cost per child per month is Rs 3000 for life saving chelation medications alone. Think of people from very poor economic background who cannot afford for this.

Blood donation: Thalassaemia is a genetic condition where the children need monthly blood transfusion lifelong. The cost of blood is unaffordable. Replacing blood donors for obtaining blood is an option. But, sometimes parents have a difficulty to find a blood donor for their child. We urge people to donate blood for thalassemics. You can also donate blood during our blood donation camps at Madurai which will be organised twice a year. For more information, please contact us at nivethan.mdu@gmail.com

Be a sponsor:

Sponsor a bone marrow transplantation for a child - Bone marrow transplantation is the only curative option. We need 10 lakhs per child for this procedure.

Sponsor a blood on rotation system - The timely requirement of blood transfusions is a life and death situation. In this blood rotation program, a group of volunteers “adopt a patient” meaning whenever a patient requires blood, one of the group members is available for the blood donation.

Sponsor establishing a blood transfusion centre at Madurai - We hope to get to schools and colleges to raise awareness and provide a centre for transfusion, testing and counseling.

Spread awareness:Learn more about Thalassemia and join us spread the world. You can participate in our work and also join us in our facebook and ning platform for wider understanding and dissemination.

Make you donations to

“NIVETHAN TRUST”

State Bank of India

Tallakulam Branch

Madurai-625002, Tamil Nadu, India

S.B.Account No: 30437489626

IFSC Code: SBIN0000253

There are number of cases these days in urban and rural areas who are not able to continue education after completing their SSLC successfully. The basic reason for not continuing education is being mostly economic issues. There are number of cases in this period where a student who scores as high as 90% is not continuing education and getting struck with local jobs. It has been our concern what gem or stone lies in these kids forbidden by the society. Nivethan has been assisting those people regularly who have asked for help. Now Nivethan has decided to implement a formal and regular way of assisting needy students and helping them in reaching their personal goal of continuing education further. Every year Nivethan Trust has planned to provide educational assistance to 25 meritorious and needy students from economically disadvantaged families in Madurai. Nivethan will now review the applications received and if needed will visit the home of the students applied with the support of its volunteers. Based on the merit and need, Nivethan will finalise the list of deserving students and distributes the scholarship amount which are to be raised this month by Nivethan from its supporters and partners. A detailed document of selected students along with a photograph of the student's home will be prepared and sent to the respective donor. Nivethan Trust will communicate periodically with the donors on the academic progress of the students selected.

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Students Leaning Center (SLC) of Nivethan provides computer training, library and reading room facilities and coaching classes for the deprived student communities. Nivethan presently run a student learning center in association with Potramarai Trust in Sellur slum of Madurai. The center has three computes donated by Infosys, Bangalore and a reading room with library books aiming at inculcating reading habits among the students. A coordinator has been placed by the Potramarai trust for providing computer training to the students. More such students learning centers will be initiated by Nivethan in 2011.

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