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    Working to Improve the Lives of Underpriviledged Women and Children in India

    How You Can Help

    Problems We Address

    Cancer
    Cancer
    India has a 71 % mortality rate. Nagpur has the 3rd highest prevalence of breast cancer and the 2nd highest of cervical cancer in the country.
    HIV / Aids
    HIV / Aids
    For Indian women, low economic and social status, abuse and violence, as well as limited legal and social protection increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
    Mental Illness
    Mental Illness
    Women with mental health disorders in India are invisible - vulnerable to malnutrition, disease and rape. Others are institutionalised against their will, living in insanitary conditions and exposed to sexual abuse.
    Leprosy
    Leprosy
    60% of global new cases detected every year continue to be in India despite a declaration in 2005 that leprosy was eradicated (1 cases per 10,000 population).
    Crimes Against Women
    Crimes Against Women
    848 Indian women are harassed, raped and killed every day. Of course, those are just the reported numbers.
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    Our Projects

    How Do We Make a Difference?

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    How Your Donations Make a Difference

    £7pm

    Provides treatment for a woman with mental health problems.

    £15pm

    Provides a destitute woman with shelter, food and clothing.

    £10pm

    Pays for a doctor to travel into the slums in our mobile unit, giving primary health care to up to 50 women each visit.

    £20pm

    Pays for cooked meals delivered to an elderly leprosy patient unable to cook for herself because of deformity.

    £30pm

    Gives an HIV+ woman life preserving antiretrovirals and symptomatic treatment.

    Become a Stakeholder at £10pm

    • Sponsor a social worker who provides counselling, home visits and accompanies patients to hospital. You can follow their activities and get a personal insight into their work. Monthly salary for an MSW is £150 per month. 

    • Paying for our weekly medical expenses of £75:00.

    The charity takes small groups of women away from the city and all the problems it represents. Groups include HIV+ women and their children, women with mental health problems, or elderly leprosy patients. Total trip cost £150:

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    £60:00 – bus hire and petrol for 160 km round trip

    £30:00 – Cooks hired to cook food in location 

    £30:00 – food ingredients: oil, veg, chapatti flour rice, etc.

    £30:00 hire of large cooking vessels and fired wood

    Pay for a day trip out and picnic for 65 lonely and isolated women

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    Our Story

    "Whilst I often feel like a square peg in a round hole, operating in an environment that challenges me in so many ways, I am privileged to share the tears and laughter of these remarkable women."

     

    Leah Pattinson

    Founder - Women In Need

    "Many Indian women suffer from a multitude of problems, which has led us to establish Women In Need and my continued battle to provide help and seek justice for society’s most vulnerable."

     

    Usha Chandrabhan Patil

    Founder - Women In Need

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    Meet The Team

    Medical Officer
    Medical Officer
    Dr Sulbh Sharma
    Consultant Psychiatrist
    Consultant Psychiatrist
    Dr Avinash Joshi
    Senior Field Officer
    Senior Field Officer
    Rajesh Patil
    Social Worker (MSW)
    Social Worker (MSW)
    Puja Atey
    Social Worker (MSW)
    Social Worker (MSW)
    Rama Meshram
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