Maitri

Friends in Australia have launched a fundraising appeal for MAITRI. As you know, the situation in India is terrible. We have had to stop outside services during this latest lock down, except TB and Mother & Child program patients coming for weekly rations. Our inpatients and the animals still require our care, and the desperate […]

The major event of the two months was the celebration of World TB Day on March 24, on which we carried out mass health education by touring several provinces by jeep, while the teachers led the pupils of our Fulchatar school in a rally through 7 villages, population 3,038. As we had done for World […]

The stigma of leprosy is mainly due to the deformities caused by the disease. Their occurrence is not sudden and they develop through a series of untreated reactions, when finally peripheral nerves are affected and permanently damaged.

December has been busier than this time of the year usually is. Besides reaching the goal of 1,000 blankets distributed in just 1 ½ months we also had at MAITRI 42 children selected from our Fulchatar school whom we gave warm underwear and a blanket. It was all in a very festive mood as there […]

December has been busier than this time of the year usually is. Besides reaching the goal of 1,000 blankets distributed in just 1 ½ months we also had at MAITRI 42 children selected from our Fulchatar school whom we gave warm underwear and a blanket. It was all in a very festive mood as there […]

A number of projects have been realized with the contribution of Otto Per Mille of the Waldensian Church since 2004, including MAITRI’s TB program 2020 and Mother & Child program 2021. Our sincere thanks go for this ongoing life changing support.

There is no real way to capture the many ‘actions of MAITRI’ over a year. Sometimes just a single grateful smile of someone who could so easily have slipped through the cracks is worth a thousand words. Still, the annual report is an important way for us to share with you what we are doing […]

Read our November news in full here. The needy remain our priority. As the seasons change from monsoon to the much cooler winter, our programs also adapt. We have started the yearly blanket distribution. The MAITRI way is to identify individuals through the work of the paramedical workers in the field. Those identified will come to […]

Our most fervent wish is that we have all the funds, staff, equipment and good fortune to be able to help every individual who comes into our care and free them from suffering. We have no wish for accolades as helping others really is the most satisfying reward. However, it cannot be said that the […]

Please read our news update in full here. The various lockdowns, the government services’ concentration of activities on Covid 19, and the consequent fear of infection among the medical community as well, have left the poorer levels of the population with no resources to turn to in case of need. Moreover the staff in primary […]