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Green Tara Trust (pdf 293KB)

Dr Jane Stephens Photo Peter Cogger

What's new

December, 2009. After much research, we've decided to use funds collected in memory of Jim Meyers for Green Tara Trust (GTT) to run a mass event (to be held in the northern spring) and continuing education for traditional healers, both in Nepal.

Aims, mass event: To deliver health promotion messages through another medium apart from groups, and to attract people who may not otherwise be hearing perinatal health messages.

Traditional healers refresher training. GTT adapted this program to include perinatal care from one produced a few years ago by the government and Save the Children. Most women in the area prefer traditional healers to Western medical staff.

Project proposal and budget (78 KB)

Green Tara Trust

Dr Jane Stephens started Green Tara Trust (GTT) in Nepal to bring about change through a community-led, participatory approach to health promotion. She says that working in this way optimises community participation in all levels of planning, recruitment of local staff, fundraising and decision-making.

BODHI donates A$1,500/ cUS$1200 a year to GTT for Dr Stephens' administrative expenses. We realise how vital and scarce such donations are. Dr Stephens works as GP in Britain for half the year to support her work in Nepal for Green Tara Trust and Mitini Nepal.

Two Green Tara Trust aims and activities

* To train nurse-midwives as health promoters to provide extra support and expertise, working alongside the local government health system in project areas to deliver the programme, and

* To reduce the incidence of diarrhoeal disease & acute respiratory illness in under 5s, the main killers in this group.

Contact details: 4 Canal Cottages, Parnell Road, London E3 2JU. Phone: +44 (0) 793 061 3413. Email:doctorjane99@hotmail.com.