Importance of SHG & IGP in the support service for the family of cancer patient.....
For the past few days, remembrance of one sweet girl child- "Tiara'(name changed) of around 7 years old was coming to my mind. That sweet angel who used to come to our organization with her parent as beneficiary of our sponsorship programme. That girl used to run,draw and we all staff were very happy.
One day she became ill,having fiver and later we came to know she was suffering from " cancer". Her parent was in-capable to bear medical expenses. Organization then came forward & every possible step was taken to save that girl child. I could remember those days when "Tiara" came using mask and was under medication. She drew picture and spent some time with us. No one knew that was the last meeting with her.
In spite of all our trying right from financial to mental support we couldn't save her. I could still remember that in spite of all our training & professionalism, we broke down , couldn't resist from crying for a while.
"Tiara" here is one of many children suffering from cancer inclusion of huge number of adults. Among the types of cancer are-- common cancer,breast cancer,cervical,gastric,lung,prostate,gall bladder etc to mention a few types. If we go through data at a glance, risk of developing cancer before age of 75 years--is 9.81% among male and 9.42% among female (approximately).
We all know ---certain factors like -Tobacco, obesity, hormones, chronic inflammation, Lack of physical activity & leading unhealthy lifestyle are actually causative factors responsible for the disease.
I am n't here today to write details regarding causes & symptoms. Many organization are working for reduction /prevention & eradication of that deadly disease. There are number of civil society organizations working with this aspect through their prevention/research/capacity building & support service and really these are appreciable -no doubt.
With this connection, I would like to emphasize the importance of having "Self help group"(SHG) and internalising this with Income generation programme(IGP).
We just can't ignore the importance of creation of this group.
There are support group which are formed among the "cancer survivors". Often support services are being rendered to them by counseling, creating an opportunity for meeting to share their feelings and discuss dos and do -not's extending of clinical services, nursing,awareness regarding nutrition etc. Here comes the formation of SHG, providing training, knowledge- enhancement regarding production, linkage establishment of product & market, availability of loan scheme etc. "Tiara" was still lucky because she at least got help from the organization to continue her fight against the disease. But there are many families which can't access......
As we know that as per sec 135 of companies act-- every qualifying company requires spending of at least 2% of its average net profit on CSR activities. Every organization is doing their best for reduction of economic burden of their beneficiaries. The motto of social work is to help people to help themselves. To help them to be self independent in all ways. With limited resources ,services can't be rendered for a beneficiary for long term basis. He or she or their family members must be self independent after a certain time.
If member from families ,belongs to low income group within the target group can be selected for the programmes of SHG, IGP-- then those families will definitely get courage to fight against the disease.
Awareness regarding the disease along with step towards inclusion of economic self independency programme can be fruitful.........
What do you think???????
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