Sunday Health Camps

Poverty in DLF City
In the slum areas of DLF City, a family's average monthly income is less than $50. Most families include three or four children; their parents are unskilled laborers at construction sites. Housed in shanties that provide little shelter from rain, cold, and heat, most are undernourished and inadequately clothed. As a result, many experience health problems and come to Quota International of DLF City's medical dispensaries for treatment.

Program for Weekly Intervention
DLF City Quotarians realized that these children did not just need the occasional cure, but rather regular care. In response, they have developed a Sunday Health Camp to provide children with the nutritional and general health care they need. The camps approach children's health from all angles, addressing clothing, nutrition, and medical needs. During winter months, children are given blankets, warm clothing, and shoes. In January 2007, the club launched a milk program to provide children with five ounces of milk daily—lack of milk is the primary reason for their malnutrition.

The project has been an enormous success: 300 children attend the camp each week. The club seeks funds to sustain these programs, but also to add an immunization clinic (especially for DPT, polio, and tuberculosis) and workshops on basic hygiene. They also envision a day school component to the program, as many of the children do not attend school.

Club-to-Club donations will fulfill the children's most basic needs, purchasing food, medicine, clothes, multivitamins, and doctors' services.

• If you wish to donate to this project, please click here.
  
  
• To read about DLF City's 2006 Club-to-Club accomplishments, click here.
  

• To learn more about India, click here.
  
  
• To return to the Club-to-Club World Service page,
  click here.