2019 Activities

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 15-Dec-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 32 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Post Diwali, once parents of kids are generally free from their work on their farms, we arrange meeting with parents in all our schools. In parents meeting, we try to cover multiple topics including taking few basic hygiene related care, noticing few health relatedread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 18-Nov-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 34 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

The schools were closed for 3 weeks on account of the Diwali Vacation. We decided to start of with the school visits after the vacations were over. We visited Talyachapada and Guravpada on 16th Nov 2019. Apart from discussing the day to day issues, we had a plan toread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 22-Oct-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 28 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

We conduct eye checkup in three stages. First stage deals with the teachers doing the first round of screening at their schools. The suspect cases are brought to Vikramgadh for the testing by professional optician. The cases of high myopia or any other complex eye read more

Initially, we tried various options for eye checkup. Earlier, we used to take a combination of ophthalmologist and optometrist to the schools. This model was ok, if we had to check around 60 to 70 in a day. However, when we had to cover 500 odd kids, it was impossiread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 24-Sep-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 32 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Our aim is to complete all the medical camps by August End. However, due to record breaking spell of rains in Maharashtra, the closure of medical camps got delayed. We finally concluded the medical camps with the visit to Barafpada and Khomarpada. Barafpada has read more

Nandelpada school was part of the supported school so far. Due to the transfer of both the sirs and delays in the appointment of the teachers, we had to delay the start. Two madams, who were transferred to Nandelpada, commute from Kalyan, which takes almost 3 hoursread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 28-Aug-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 35 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

We had our next leg of medical camps on 25th August covering 4 schools. First leg was held at Khandeghar, wherein we examined 55 kids. Interestingly, the kids, who had left the school last year, too were present to volunteer and support the teachers.  The medical cread more

Maan Ashram Shala at Vikramgadh has been in existence for last five decades. It is rated as one of the best maintained Ashram Shala in the region. It has 625 students till class 10th. Out of which, 425 are residents. Living conditions are much better than the otherread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 01-Aug-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 41 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

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When we started medical camps across all the schools in 2013, we planned to get all the schools at one place. This was not a success since moving 500 kids on topsy turvy roads became a bit challenge. Moreover, we had to rush through the checkup to cover very high nread more

Our desperation for rains was much more this time to see the effectiveness of the dam. During this period, we even connected with a group, who work towards the promoting the tree plantation. They preserve saplings and seeds and distribute in the areas, wherein the read more

We decided to cover Khandeghar school. As a part of the transfer process, both the teachers from Khandeghar were transferred to different village. We were lucky that the incoming teachers were associated with Suhrid foundation already. Hence, we did not have restarread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 04-Jul-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 36 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

The start of the academic session was quite different than the earlier ones.  Quite a few teachers from our schools had completed 10 years at the same school. Hence, they had to accept the transfer at different school. A few of schools were badly impacted since allread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 07-Jun-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 32 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

As you may already know, we have adapted 10 schools/villages till today in tribal area of Vikramgad in Palghar district, roughly 100km from Mumbai. In this region, there is an average rainfall of upwards of 200 cm in a year which is ideally sufficient if water consread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 11-May-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 28 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

The academic session ended much before the scheduled time this year due to drought and the training of the teachers for the parliament election. We decided to focus on inducting new schools and community related work. Khomarpada, which is on the west of Vikramgaread more

In this article, we are sharing the story of another Kid, Atul Wangad, who went through a major eye surgery in the second week of April 2019. Atul Wangad is 10 year old kid from Wangadpada (Taluka Vikramgadh). He is from a poor family. His father is out almost 6 toread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 14-Apr-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 34 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

The last leg of the camps included medical checkup at Toplepada and Janathepada. Additionally, we visited Kaspada to meet the ladies of bachatgat (Self Help Group) to discuss different avenues to make earning during their free time. We had started our journey wiread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 17-Mar-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 42 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Second leg of the year end camp was organized at Barafpada and Kaspada, wherein we covered 250 kids from four schools.  The distance between Barafpada and Nandelpada is hardly 1 kilometer. However, Nandelpada has availability of water throughout the year, wherein Bread more

We completed the medical camps at Bahirampada,  Khandeghar and Guravpada on 9th March, 2019.  Bahirampada kids reflected relatively poor status on the health. Most of the kids had cough and cold. A few had measles as well.  De-worming was not adequate either. Khandread more

Suhrid Foundation has been working with Kaspada school & village for last 5 years. In April 2016, Suhrid Foundation had supported the project of Kaspada villagers on building a check dam. They already had broken check dam which we had reinforced with stone, claread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 18-Feb-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 36 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

Chetan Tokare is a tribal kid from Kaspada in Palghar district. We generally carry out the first level screening for the poor vision at the schools only. Subsequently, the kids are taken to Vikramgad to a trained optician, who determines the actual number with refrread more

We organized school visit and camp at Palavpada on the same day.  Palavpada is a small school, located in Dadade.  It is difficult for the teachers to take the students to different venue for the medical checkup. Hence, we prefer to handle the kids at their school read more

Almost all the key members of Suhrid Foundation stay far away from the catchment area. While we keep visiting them every alternate week, the execution of the activities in health, education and environment related area is done by teachers. Apart from managing the rread more

Suvarna Prashan camp was arranged on 21-Jan-19 (in Pushya Nakshatra as per Hindu Calendar) in Kandivali, Mumbai. 43 children were administered with medicine and were also provided with free consultation. Suvarna Prashan Sanskar is one of the 16 essential ritualsread more

The main objective of the trip was to conduct the follow up camp at Dadade Ashram Shala. We had conducted earlier camp in Sept for around 350 girls, wherein the main finding was linked with the skin diseases across the girls. The primary reason was linked with the read more