Nepal Earthquake

Friends of R V Mission’s contribution towards helping recent Nepal earthquake victims including personal donation of Angela Stevenson, David Green, Samir Ghosh and Cheryl Williams being handed over to the Consulate General of Nepal in Kolkata by the Monks of R V Mission

Toilet Facilities

Our ongoing new project of installing a toilet complex and septic tank in this ‘Rahamad Danga’ leprosy colony at Asansol near Purulia, West Bengal, India.  It will be funded by our dedicated supporters, the John of Gaunt Commandery of the Order of St Lazarus, organised by R V Mission Purulia and arranged by Believers’ Church medical Centre, Purulia.

New project to help sensory impaired children at Suryapur Unit of R V Mission

Following our successful project of helping to build hearing test unit and donation of hearing aids to hearing impaired girls at the Sensory Impaired Unit at Suryapur branch of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission  Barrackpore  West Bengal  India  we are planning to purchase more hearing aids to meet their further requirements to comply with our objectives of dedicated help for distressed and needy children of India.

Samir Ghosh  Secretary  Friends of R V Mission

Healthcare

Here are images of recent healthcare programme at Leprosy Village, Purulia, funded by St Lazarus, organised by R V Mission, Purulia and delivered by Believers’ Church Medical Centre, Purulia.

Regards

Samir

Dr Samir Ghosh

Secretary  Friends of R V Mission  UK

Breaking News

In response to the appeal from Swami Nityarupananda  Secretary  R V Mission towards supporting Nepal earthquake victims, Friends of R V Mission has initially donated INR 100,000 to be followed by further donation as we are able to raise.

Samir Ghosh

Secretary

Update

Healthcare at the Leprosy Village

Nutrition at the Leprosy Village

Plaque at the Purulia Library

Picture Quiz

The quiz winner Susan Ackroyd, left, receiving her prize from Edna who sold her the quiz sheet

Mondarmoni

Mondarmoni Health Clinic opened and running now, furnishings sponsored by us

Picture Quiz answers

Many thanks to everybody for taking part in our Picture Quiz, which has so far raised over £700 for our leprosy projects. The winner this year was Susan Ackroyd, from Diggle, Oldham. The answers appear below:

Picture Quiz answers – 2014 (Rivers)
1	Don	21	Irwell
2	Elbe	22	Potomac
3	Rio Grande	23	Humber
4	Danube	24	Sacramento
5	Severn	25	Colne
6	Boyne	26	Yukon
7	Tagus	27	Congo
8	Dart	28	Tees
9	Forth	29	Tyne
10	Cam	30	Yangtze
11	Saöne	31	Tweed
12	Moselle	32	Tigress
13	Exe	33	Wyre
14	Rubicon	34	Murray
15	Nissan	35	Eden
16	Avon	36	St Lawrence
17	Kicking Horse	37	Weaver
18	Clyde	38	Ganges
19	Tennessee	39	Blackwater
20	Dee	40	Darling

February Update

Mondarmoni library at Midnapore Mondarmoni Branch of R V Mission, sponsored by us, now completed with books, computer and other equipments.

Christmas and New Year cake and sweet distribution on 24 December 2014, sponsored by our friend Helen Cruickshank

Parthamura School

The completed kitchen and store room at the school, sponsored by FoRVM

Leprosy Village

A further update from the last few nutritional visits

Leprosy Village

It is some time since we reported on the Nutrition and Health Care provision for the people with Leprosy at the Leprosy Village, Purulia .

Access  to the Leprosy Village in monsoon time is very difficult but only possible for some local people who are used to great hardship, summertime is just as bad as the temperature can go up to 50 degrees centigrade.  So we are very grateful for those people who make the effort to enable our sponsorship to provide care for the stoic people who live in the village.

Samir normally gets in touch with Purulia RV Mission and Believers’ Church at least once a month and sometime more, as much as is possible during the monsoon,  contact has not been cut off mainly due to the duty of care of local people and Monks at the R V Mission with help from Believers’ Church staff members.

Tilak Maharaj, Head of the RV Mission in Purulia says that  the Nutritional and Health Care Programme have been ongoing and in 2015 they are adding fresh fruits and vegetables as those sufferers never normally get these essential items of food.

We are trying to find out if the solar powered street light, which was repaired 2 years ago, is in need of routine maintenance as this is one of the ways the villagers can have improved dignity as well as mobility and safety.