March 2022

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PoB activity for March 2022- Women empowerment at Village Kakaddara   Kakaddara, a small adivasi village with approximately 95 families is thriving to be self-sufficient. With strong leadership guidance from a humble couple (Swapnaja and Amit Dalvi), combined with a team of highly motivated ladies brigade, this village is on its way to progress..   This couple has left their engineering careers and well paid high profile jobs, kids' schooling, and all luxuries in London and have dedicated themselves for developing Kakaddara.   This month, we at Path of Bliss, have helped set up the tailoring unit here. We have given 4 sewing machines, stools, cooler, cupboard, all necessary accessories like needles, threads, bobbins, scissors, and a lot of fabric for tailoring practice.  This will enable economic empowerment of the womenfolk and will create their dignified space and strengthen the women in this village. Thank you PoB family 🙏🏾

PoB activity for February 2022- Tribal women empowerment at SGNP  Tribal women at Sanjay Gandhi National Park are trying hard to be self-sufficient. With the tailoring unit well in place and the tribal kitchen picking up the pace, these women have started loving their independence. We at PoB, along with Seva Charitable Trust, supported this tailoring unit for their new venture into designer fabric items. The donations include kora fabric, taffeta fabric, rubber sheets, colourful threads, zip runners, escalators, machine motors and lots of other accessories. This will empower the women to be more creative and reach out to wider demands. To support the tribal kitchen we had a taste of the wonderful breakfast of upma, idli, sabudana khichdi and tea along with sumptuous lunch at noon of ragi roti, veggies, chutney, thecha, moringa dal, kokam sherbet. It was an awesome activity. Thank you PoB family for all your support and trust 🤝🏾

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY FOR JANUARY 2022 : ALL SAINTS HOME 

Path of Bliss supported an additional Activity in January, 2022 to support All Saints Home. The old age home is a sanguine shelter for 30 inmates who presently reside here. We gave them grocery and goody bags thoughtfully filled with several commodities and they were thrilled with the contents.

PoB Activity 8th and 9th January, 2022: Cataract Surgery for tribal villagers near Vardhamaneri at Wardha.

Day 1

Screening camp at Vardhamaneri- Non-affording rural patients were screened for cataract/ blindness/vision power. Selected patients requiring surgery/treatment are provided free to-and-fro transport to Kasturba Hospital, Sewagram. 

During the screening today, there were 4 patients who were bilaterally blind due to completely matured cataract. They and many others will be gifted with vision after the surgery.

Day 2

Patients who were brought to the hospital are admitted to ward, provided meals. Routine tests (BP, sugar, etc) are performed and the patients are prepared for surgery. 

All necessary medicines, food, Intra Ocular Lenses, glasses and black goggles are provided free of cost to all the patients. They will also be followed up after 2 weeks.

Thanks to all your support that we at Path of Bliss sponsored 42 surgeries for these tribal patients.This was an amazing experience and we are fortunate to have witnessed this. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Path of Bliss December 2021 Activity: Children's Home and disability people

This children's home is at Saki Naka, houses 6 girls and 4 boys and runs on donations.

Path of Bliss supported the children's home with their basic requirements of vegetables, groceries, toothpaste, phenyl, hand wash, toilet cleaner, soap, sanitary napkins and washing powder.

This month, Path of Bliss also supported Bharat Vikas Parishad to help 15 disabled people with artificial legs, arms and callipers. 

On 12th December, the measurements were taken and on 16th January the parts will be distributed.

Path of bliss activity for November: 

Donating School bags to Rzp school, Gathemal, Near Jambhulpada, Taluka Sudhagad

These are Adivasi children  👶 RZP School Gathemal primary government schools whose parents are farmers or daily wagers. Path of bliss donated school bags, note books, drawing books and compass box so that the kids get motivated to study.

PoB activity for October 2021: Bosco Boys Home and Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali

Bosco Boys Home empowers holistic development of the young at risk, who are poor, homeless and runaways. They provide comfortable living conditions, food, clothing, health and hygiene. They also offer non-formal courses like motor mechanics, A/C refrigeration, electrician, plumbing, computers, driving, English language, and some hospitality courses. This gives the children an opportunity to improve their life and become responsible citizens. Today it is a home for 65 boys. 

We provided them groceries like rice, dal, sugar, oil and tea. Father Corlis and Father Francis have thanked Path of Bliss members for our thoughtful and generous support to the Boys Home. Sister Eula mentioned that the Boys Home will always remember our generosity. They will offer prayers for our noble intentions.

We also supported the tribal women of SGNP last year to sustain their livelihood through their tribal kitchen and tailoring projects. As Diwali is approaching, they required raw material for their tailoring project and we donated 500 meters of cloth to them.

PoB activity for September 2021: Accesslife Foundation, Pune

Families come from villages surrounding Pune seeking treatment for their children afflicted with cancer. Their treatment is done at 3 hospitals, Sasoon hospital, Dinanath and Bhartiya Vidyapeeth. 

These families have meagre sources of income and are already burdened with the extensive treatment regime. Furthermore, expenditures on their food and accommodation makes it much more difficult for them. Accesslife Foundation provides such families with clean, safe, comfortable and cost-free accommodation, literally giving them a home away from home. We have supported them at various centres in Mumbai (Chembur, Thane, Bandra). Recently they have started their Pune centre in a lovely apartment at Kalyani nagar with a capacity of 10 kids. 

 Path of Bliss supported this new centre just 2 months old with a washing machine and goody bags filled with almonds, cashews, pista, chana, chaas, Paper Boat chikki and lassi. The kids were overjoyed to get their goody bags and gifted us with their hand made flowers as a token of their love. It was indeed heartwarming to see this humble expression of gratitude from their side...

POB Independence Day Activity 🇮🇳

A very happy Independence Day to everyone. On the occasion of India's 75th Independence Day, we at Path of Bliss were glad to celebrate and bask in the patriotic fervour with the parents and teachers of Adarsh Nagar MPS English School.  Sanitizers and masks were distributed to parents of all the students. We are extremely grateful to our member- Kashmira Ji for her support in this activity.