One! International Health Project
Optometry and Respirology
The One! International children have benefited over the years from volunteer medical personnel visits starting in 2002 when a Canadian doctor made a stop in Mumbia to look at the children and make some recommendations.
Staff in India have formed relationships with local doctors were possible.
One of our rural trained nurse practitioner volunteer proposed a Health Program involving nurse volunteers in the fall of 2010. The program was instituted in April 2011 when Alysha Lust and another nurse from Canada performed medical assessments on all our children and families. Alysha has become the Health Program Coordinator and has set up a number of projects that can be done by nurse volunteers in short term placements. Several projects were completed in 2011 and 2012 including First Aid Training for staff and ongoing assessments.
In the beginning of December 2012 Ajitha Sugnanan, a Dentist from Australia, set up a one week dental camp and examined well over 175 children and adults. These examinations resulted in over 70 extractions, 24 fillings and 84 cleanings. Ajitha has indicated she will return to do further work.
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Fortune again favoured One! International when Canadian Optometrist Sharmin Habib OD and her husband Alim Hirji BHSc, MD, FRCPC (special Respirology) were refered to One! International by long term family supporters the Meyer family. Sharmin and Alim planned a long travel trip to India for personal discovery and charitable work. They formed their own charity to raise funds for projects and needy individuals they knew they would meet on their trip.
Sharmin and Alim were in Mumbai from the end of March to the middle of April 2013. Sharmin was also working at the Lotus Eye Hospital during this time.
Sharmin saw 265 children, staff and parents to conduct eye examinations. She referred 55 of these for further tests and glasses to the Lotus Eye Hospital (a charitable organization in Mumbai, India). A further 26 require glasses.
Alim conducted 66 general medical assessments. He made detailed recommendations for follow-up with 22 of the assessments. Alim was able to utilize the nursing assessments in deciding who needed further assessment, along with referrals by the staff.
This couple also made significant dollar donations from their charity to cover the costs of: the medical assessments and medications given, the costs for the glasses required of approximately $750, and the costs for Kokila's cosmetic surgery, estimated at $1,000 to repair the lip burned in the propane accident of 2011.
One! International is fortunate to have had committed health professionals to care for "our children".
As part of their travels, Shalim and Alim have been taking videos of the agencies and people who have received donations to their charity or work. Below are three descriptions and video links to the videos showing their involvement with One! International in Mumbai. The descriptions and video links were taken from the Make the Change Project website.
Thank you Shalim and Alim.
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Published on Mar 31, 2013
The children at the One! International School in
the Khar Slums of Mumbai are healthy thanks to Nancy and Janice Grossman &
Jessica Wong, who have paid for all their laboratory investigations, medicines
and doctor's consultations for over 60 kids there. Learn more about the amazing
things One! International has done at: www.one-international.com
Published on Apr 8, 2013
Kokila is a wonderful 16 year old girl from the
Khar slums of Mumbai who was burned in a cooking fire in her home made of
plastic.Thanks to Sharla Olsen and Darby Cassidy
& Abid and Farah Dobani, she will be able to have facial reconstructive plastic surgery this summer. Learn about her and the excellent work of One! International.
& Abid and Farah Dobani, she will be able to have facial reconstructive plastic surgery this summer. Learn about her and the excellent work of One! International.
Published on Apr 10, 2013
In the spirit of their upcoming wedding, Ali
Madhani and Nafisa Kassam have donated to the One! International schools in the
slums of Mumbai, to pay for all their eye care. This includes covering the cost
of glasses, follow ups and surgical care for over 200 children who had their
eye's checked by our very own Dr. Sharmin of the Make Change Project!
