Activities During Yaas
With our limited capacity and with all humility, tried our best to stand by the suffering humanity devastated by the 1st wave of corona followed by the cyclone Umphan which made them homeless, and their livelihood was in peril.
In the midst of the catastrophic 2nd wave of covid 19, very severe cyclonic storm YAAS made landfall in Orissa at the end of May 2021 and brought significant impact in some districts of West Bengal as well as in the coastal areas with untold miseries of the people living there. Almost all the islands in the Sunderban area were underwater.
To express our solidarity and empathy to the affected people who lost their homes and livelihoods and were in dire need of support, Kholo Aankhi plunged into action urgently:
Every year on the eve of Durga Puja we gift new garments to all the beneficiaries of the Sahaj Path project.
Kholo Aankhi distributed 20000 halogen tablets in the village of Chotomollakhali in Sunderban devastated by Aila in 2009 through a medical camp organised by Voice of World, a Kolkata-based NGO.
Associated with Special Education and HEPSN [Higher Education for Persons with Special Needs] Cell, Jadavpur University, and Anya Bhuban – a voluntary organisation in recording study materials for visually challenged undergraduates and postgraduate students.
Medical Support: one of our beneficiaries of the Sahaj Path project of Kalyani is a Thalasaemea patient. Kholo Aankhi has taken responsibility for his medical treatment including surgery since 2010. Now he is under the minimum medication and will complete his Diploma Engineering course in 2019.
Aishika Ghosh, a little girl, a patient of Thalasaemea major needs immediate Bone marrow transplantation. Kholo Aankhi is contributing to her regular medication, blood transfusion, and infusion pump and trying to collect funds for the operation.
Updates
You may please remember Aishika Ghosh, a patient of Thalassemia major who needed immediate bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated matching donor as she has no sibling. Tata Medical Centre gave an estimate of Rs.33 lacs for the whole process.
We appealed to you for support. In response to our appeal, many individuals and some organisations extended their support in various ways. Her father arranged for a considerable fund required on his part including one time contribution of Rs.2 lacs from Kholo Aankhi.
Finally, Aishika’s Bone Marrow Transplantation was done successfully on 29th August 2019 at Tata Medical Centre, Rajarhat, New Town, WB.
In the pre-hospitalisation period, Kholo Aankhi bore the cost of blood transfusion, medicines, and chelation therapy with a machine for iron removal amounting to about a lac of rupees in total, which played a crucial role in preparing Aishika for transplantation. We stood by the side of the worried parents throughout the period and arranged for blood and platelets as needed after the operation from our friends and acquaintances. Now, she is under prolonged treatment under periodic check-ups of TMC. It will take at least one year to stabilize her condition under strict care and supervision.
We convey our thanks and gratitude to all of our friends and well-wishers for coming forward with support by donating and arranging blood and platelets and by helping financially to save the life of a little girl in response to our appeal. We wish Aishika’s speedy recovery.
