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Projects & Activities: Current Projects

New in 2010

Health education progress

Last year BODHI added a health-education component to our support for this SNEHA school. Mr Susanta Chakma writes, 'With the support of BODHI, we started health education programme and provided de-worming medicines to the students. For safety and security of SNEHA, medicines were given to the students in front of the parents.

'Health education in sanitation for instance washing of hands after defecation, causes and prevention of water-borne diseases, malaria, nutrition, etc is provided to the children regularly during assembly, in classrooms, in moral science period and during school weeks. Students prepare different charts and diagrams on different health issues during school week, etc. Different health issues are also part of the syllabus of Science.'

Complete half-yearly report (47KB)

2009

BODHI adds health education & deworming to SNEHA School (pdf 17KB)

Health will improve not only by reduced poverty but also by the greater knowledge and behavioural changes that education (especially literacy) heralds. Health facilities to the Chakmas are very limited but may follow if funds allow. Dysentery, diarrhoea, elephantiasis and typhoid are common.

'The nutritional status of the Chakma children is very pitiable. Pregnant and lactating mother do not get sufficient nutrition. All live in an environment characterised by malnutrition, undernourishment, poor shelter, dearth of safe drinking water and sanitation,' Susanta says.

SNEHA School Diyun, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh (AP), India

Compassionate education for children

SNEHA aims to provide value-based education based on five core universal values of truthfulness, righteous conduct, peace, love and non-violence to Chakma (Buddhist) and Hajong (Hindu) indigenous children in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

These children in AP have very limited access to state-provided education, where teacher ratios are as low as 1:300.

The school stresses the following areas:
* They want their children to be good human beings first. 'Smart' can come later.
* Promoting reading habits in children and their parents
* Creating environmental awareness by planting trees, gardening, discouraging tHe use of plastic, and explaining the consequences of deforestation, which is widespread in AP.
* Instilling awareness of the importance of hygiene, cleanliness and social service and responsibility through cleaning their own campus and the premises of the local Buddhist temple.

BODHI completed its third year of support for the SNEHA School in July, 2009. We funds teachers' salaries and some administrative support for SNEHA's founder, Mr Susanta Chakma and his staff. We have started a library.

More (pdf 429KB)

Reports 2005-09 (pdf 574KB)