Five Past Midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre [150]
2. The assumption of total and continuing financial responsibility for 125 handicapped children in the Mohitnagar and Maria Basti homes, near Jalpaiguri.
3. The construction and equipment of the Backwabari home for severely mentally and physically disabled children.
4. The extension and reorganization of the Ekprantanagar home in a destitute suburb of Calcutta, which provides shelter for 140 children of seasonal workers at the brick kilns. The installation of a source of clean drinking water has transformed the living conditions in this home.
5. The creation of a school near the Ekprantanagar home to educate both the 140 children who live there and 350 very poor children from the nearby slums.
6. The reconstruction of several hundred huts for families who have lost everything in the cyclones that have hit the Ganges Delta.
7. The assumption of total financial responsibility for the Banghar SHIS medical center and its program to eradicate tuberculosis, which reaches out to more than two thousand villages. (Program staff holds nearly 100,000 consultations annually.) The installation of X-ray equipment in the main dispensary and the creation of several subsidiary medical centers and mobile units providing diagnostic X-rays, vaccinations, medical treatment and nutritional care.
8. The establishment of four medical units in the isolated villages of the Ganges Delta, which provide vaccinations, treatment for tuberculosis, programs in preventative medicine, patient education and family planning, as well as “eye camps” to restore sight to patients with cataracts.
9. The sinking of tube wells for drinking water and the construction of latrines in several hundred villages in the Ganges Delta.
10. The launching of four floating dispensary-boats in the Ganges Delta to bring medical aid to the one million isolated inhabitants of fifty-four islands.
11. In Belari, the assumption of financial responsibility for a rural medical center that serves more than 90,000 patients a year from hamlets devoid of any medical care; the construction and assumption of responsibility for the ABC center for physically and mentally handicapped children; the construction of a village for 100 destitute or abandoned mothers and children; with a home where mentally sick women are taken care of.
12. The creation of several schools and medical (allopathic and homeopathic) in two particularly poverty-stricken slums on the outskirts of Calcutta.
13. The construction of a “City of Joy” village to house homeless tribal families.
14. The installation of solar-powered water pumps in ten very poor villages in the states of Bihar, Haryana, Rajasthan and Orissa, to enable the inhabitants to grow their crops even in the dry season.
15. The assumption of financial responsibility for a job-training workshop for leprosy sufferers in Orissa.
16. The provision of medicines as well as 70,000 high-protein meals for the children who live at the Udayan Resurrection home.
17. Various undertakings for the underprivileged and leprosy patients in the state of Mysore; abandoned children in Bombay, in Palsunda, near Bangladesh and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; as well as the occupants of a village in Guinea, Africa, and abandoned and seriously ill children in a hospital in Lublin, Poland.
18. The creation and financing of a gynecology clinic in Bhopal to treat underprivileged women who are survivors and victims of the 1984 chemical disaster. The purchase of a colposcope to detect and treat cervical cancers.
19. The dispatching of emergency teams and aid to victims of the terrible floods in Orissa and Bengal; an ongoing program to house thousands of families who lost everything.
20. Since 1998, the assumption of financial responsibility for part of Pierre Ceyrac’s education program for 25,000 children in the Madras region.
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