Maitri

This is a day where we can raise awareness about this treatable and manageable disease. In December 2021 this mother arrived at MAITRI with her daughter after being rejected by her husband due to the social stigma. Her body was disfigured by severe type 2 leprosy reaction. After 5 months of intensive treatment at MAITRI […]

Our friends are helping us raise much needed funds for the new Director’s accommodation and office building. The current building is dangerously damaged and leaking. Our friends in Australia, including Tree of Compassion, are helping MAITRI Charitable Trust with this Chuffed fundraising campaign. If you donate on 15 November, Lhabab Duchen, the merit from your […]

The drawback of the rainy season is the great care that we have to take to protect our old buildings, with particular regard to the director’s residence and office. The condition of the building is such that a new one will have to be constructed at the earliest opportunity. To this end we are setting […]

The last three months have witnessed a progressive transformation of the weather – from relentlessly scorching hot to humid hot to wet warm, which ushered in the monsoon season. Although rain has not been as abundant as required and much of the rice saplings have wilted, the temperature has been such that simple ceiling fans have been […]

Intense heat, a bad accident, but MAITRI activities continue! The common feature of the two months is the searing heat that has relentlessly enveloped all of North India. Although very high temperatures are characteristic of the season, it is the fast rise of the mercury that has particularly hit people. 45C and over would be […]

Distribution of food, school reopens and stupas repainted. In both months our activities went on in full force with particular boost to the distribution of food materials to needy under-treatment patients. In fact on a monthly basis we gave food and supplements rations to 84 TB patients, baby milk powder to 80 infants, cereal powder to 24 […]

In the last month of the year we succeeded in reaching and even exceeding the target of 1,000 blankets that we distributed to selected poorer people identified by our field workers in the entire district in addition to our direct patients from the leprosy, TB, and mother care programs. The total number of blankets is […]

In October and November there occurred the two major Hindu festivals of Durga Puja and Diwali, the festival of lights. Among other things both festivals require the offering of sweets. At MAITRI they were both celebrated for two days although the major event for us was certainly Diwali, when we decorated the stupas and other […]

The month of August brought the blessing of plentiful rain in an area which is traditionally water deficient, but the overabundant monsoon wreaked havoc on our garage block and on July 10 at 3:30 pm half of it collapsed. Fortunately there were no people nor animals or vehicles in that portion at that time so […]

The most important feature of this period is the end of the lockdown on June 10 and the resumption of our activities in the field on June 11. The following day on Saturday we held again our Mother and Child Care clinic at MAITRI. Read more…