Reports

Strategic Planning W'shop for NLEP of Bihar, 14 - 18 Dec 2010

New Deputy Director General of Leprosy, Dr. C. M. Agrawal inaugurated a state level result based planning workshop from 14^th – 18^th December 2010, in the Republic Hotel, Patna, with facilities suitable for participatory methods; both plenary and small group discussions took place in one hall.

NLR Annual Updating & Review Meeting - 8 - 9 Dec 2010
Annual updating and review meeting of all NLR staff in the year 2010 was organized at Hotel Tarangi Ramnagar in the state of Uttarakhand on Wed, 8^th & Thu 9^th December 2010. More...

Health Camp - 11.11.2010
Health camp was held on 11^th November 2010 at Jagat Mata Kushth Ashram, Tilak Nagar, West Delhi. People Affected by Leprosy (PAL) hesitate seeking services from health care facilities because of fear of being ostracized by the general public. This health seeking behavior of PAL leads to the neglect of their health.

Potential in Community - 1 Nov 2010

“What is the cost of this goggle, I need 3 pieces?” This question was asked by Mr. Ghanshyam Dikshit, Self Care Coordinator, NLR, to a person standing in an Optical shop of Yusuf Sarai Market in Delhi. A lady came out from inner room and asked “3 pieces? Why you need 3 pieces”.

‘Not for me but for persons affected by leprosy. We, at NLR, provide them services from donated money” Mr. Dikshit briefly apprised her about the NLR functioning. She immediately said “take these 3 goggles as donation from my side”.

Visit of Ms. Wievenlien Punt 21 Oct 2010

As part of the process to establish a country wide result based monitoring system for NLR, Ms. Wievenlien Punt, Consultant (Monitoring & Evaluation) from NLR Amsterdam, visited India for about 5 weeks in the month of October 2010. During her stay in India, she had many productive discussions with NLR staff, programme officer at district and state level and with National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) officials. More..

Reconstructive Surgeries performed - 13 - 14 Oct 2010

NLR India facilitated a Reconstructive Surgery Camp at Dehradun, Uttarakhand, where 8 persons, with deformity, due to leprosy, were operated for correction of their deformities and healing of ulcers. Other 5 cases were given minor surgical treatment. Dr. A. K. Singh from King George Medical College, Lucknow, was invited to operate in Government institution - Coronation Hospital at Dehradun. . more..

Visit of Dutch student to Leprosy Colonies- 17 Aug 2010

On Tuesday the 17^th of August two students, Suzanne & Eva, from 'The Netherlands' came to visit NLR. They are here with AIESEC. They choose to come to NLR. They visited two of the Leprosy colonies namely Lok Mata colony at Shadipur Depot and Jagat Mata colony at Tilak Nagar in Delhi, where they tried to get a view of how everything works over there and what NLR Foundation does for these people

Health Camp - 21 July 2010

People Affected by Leprosy (PAL)’ hesitate seeking health care from health care facilities because of fear of being ostracized by the general public. This health seeking behaviour of PAL leads to the neglect of their health. Realising the health care need of PAL, an initiative of holding health camps in Kushth Ashrams of Delhi has been taken by NLR India. One more such health camp was held on 21st July 2010 in Satya Jivan Kushth Ashram, Srinivas Puri, South Delhi. - -> More

Updating & Review Meeting of NLR staff, 7 - 8 Jul 2010
This was the second review meeting of all NLR staff in the year 2010 organized at Dhanbad, Jharkhand, in which all NMSs, account officer from Branch office staff, participated in this meeting. This meeting was for two days to accommodate different topics. Purpose of this meeting was four fold:

To review the progress made till end of second quarter of the year 2010
To update them with recent advances/information e.g. Advocacy and Counselling writing skills, Epidemiological analysis etc
Follow up and recapitulation of topics discussed in last meeting eg.Computer skills, file management ,accounts formats and procedures etc
To discuss the problems faced by individuals/team & to introduce new appointees Mr Mantosh Mahto NMS

Updating & Review meeting of NLR staff, 3 - 5 May
This was the first meeting of all NLR staff in the year 2010. All NLR LPAs, all NMSs, all Branch office staff, participated in this meeting. This meeting was for three days to accommodate different topics. Purpose of this meeting were to review the progress made during first quarter of 2010, to update them with recent advances/information, to discuss issues in light of audit observations and come to a consensus to improve our functioning, to introduce new appointees and visitor Mr. Bart

Support to Leprosy Colonies

NLR is supporting persons affected by Leprosy residing in isolated Leprosy colonies. NLR is training them to take care of their disabilities themselves. While visiting these colonies, NLR realized that Leprosy doesn’t affect only the persons but their dependents also. Support these children...

Visit of Mr. Jan Van Berkel, Director NLR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Our new Director, Mr. Jan van Berkel paid a visit to India along with Mr. Daan Ponsteen, NLR Project Coordinator for India and Mr. Jo Swachten, Treasurer of the NLR Board. Purpose of their visit was to apprise themselves with NLR functioning in India. Their travel programme was planned in such a way that they are provided with interesting information & insight into the Leprosy problem, the Leprosy programme, the NLR’s involvement therein as well as the role of other stakeholders.

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