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Barbara Brožič, prostovoljka v Indiji
Delam v The Northern
Hospital v Cardiac
Procedure Unit in v John
Fawkner Private Hospital
v Intensive Care. Sem
študentka drugega letnika
na Monash University
in študiram za Master of
Public Health. Na praznik
Gospodovega darovanja
v templju, na svečnico, 2.
februarja 2007, grem kot
prostovoljka – medicinka v
Indijo.
On the 2 nd of February 2007,
I will be traveling to India as a
volunteer with the aid agency Equal Health.
Equal Health is a Western Australian based charity
that was established in 1997. The organization
is staffed by volunteers who perform health aid
relief in developing countries. The director of the
organization is Paul Clarke who is an optometrist.
The principal objective of Equal Health is to
provide urgent humanitarian aid to people in need.
This has resulted in Equal Health conducting
various camps over the years. Since 1997, Equal
Health has conducted 3 camps in Indonesia, one
in Zimbabwe, one in Thailand, 3 in South Africa
and 11 in India. Since the program began, 85,000
individuals have been helped with all of the work
being voluntary. Equal Health endeavors to work
with local health people where priority is given to
passing on benefi cial skills to the local community
that can be utilized.
The 2007 camp to India will consist of 81 members
who have various qualifi cations including: doctors,
dentists, nurses, optometrist, ophthalmologist,
optical dispensers, physiotherapists, occupational
therapists, medical students, dental nurses,
psychiatric nurses and a fi lm maker. During
the 2007 camp, Equal Health aid workers will
be involved in testing eyes, giving away new
spectacles, provide dental care, rendering
medical assistance and health education,
developing allied health programmes as well as
providing free cataract surgery.
The 81 members involved in the 2007 camp are
from all over Australia. Members will be leaving
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Perth, Melbourne, Sydney
and Brisbane on February 2,
traveling directly to Singapore,
where we will be staying
overnight and partaking in
an orientation program in
preparation for the next 2
weeks. The following day, 58
members will travel to Chennai
(formally Madras). Tamil Nadu
is the southern most state of
India. The other 28 volunteers
will fl y to the northern India
to Kolkata (formally Calcutta)
to the state of West Bengal.
From here, they will travel 4
hours to the town of Katwa, where they will work at
a home for the mentally ill, called Anandaniketan.
I will be on the Southern team, all 58 team
members have been allocated into sub teams,
which will rotate and work in the following areas.
The Orakkadu Boys home which is situated 28km
out of Chennai and houses up to 150 boys, many
of them orphans. It is directed by Indian Village
Evangelism, which is a Christian group, run by
the John and Pam Timms, who are members of
the Church of Christ in Western Australia. Three
hours north of Orakkadu is another orphanage for
girls, called Andra Pannnur Girls Home, which is
also run by the Indian Evangelism Village group.
The Kyatha Childrens will also be visited and is a
12 hour train journey from Chennai. This childrens
home is also run by the Indian Village Evangalism
group.
One of our bases in India will be Shantivanam
Ashram. It was founded by two French catholic
fathers Jules Monchanin and Henry Le in 1950.
Jubille Memorial Bible College is a residential
theological college for students from various parts
of India. The College has a day hospital attached
and it is here that the cataract surgery will be
performed.
I look forward to writing to you about my journey,
when I return in March 2007.
Lep pozdrav! Barbara Brožič, Melbourne VIC
Barbari želimo srečno pot in veliko veselja in
zadovoljstva pri njenem plemenitem delu!
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