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Dear friends, We are pleased to present SEWARural's 37th annual report for the year 2016-17. We are near the completion of 4 decades of service. We told you last year that some young employees who have dedicated their life to SEWA Rural are now also shouldering added responsibilities along with their assigned work. Among them, Dr. Dhirenbhai Modi (MD, Preventive & Social Medicine), Dr. Shreybhai Desai (M.D. Medicine, MPH, USA) and Dr. Gayatriben Desai (MD, Gynecology, USA) have been appointed trustees of SEWA Rural. Thus, the future of SEWA Rural looks quite safe and bright. There have been many ups and downs in our 40 year journey. We constantly make efforts to preserve the quality of work in the organization and make sure it remains geared to the poor and downtrodden. To find if the intensity, approach, goals or value-based work of SEWA Rural has changed with time, a systematic study is being conducted by Shri Vinayak Tripathi under the guidance of the faculty of the Indian Institute of Management in Indore. An overall evaluation of SEWA Rural is also being done by the internationally renowned organization 'Dasara' of Mumbai. We try to increase the capability of the staff and so hope to have a more effective management in the coming years. We will be happy to share the results of these studies with you. We are grateful for your support and hope your suggestions, advice, guidance, and warmth will continue to shower on us in future too. Please do visit SEWARural as per your convenience. On behalf of SEWARural family, Yourssincerely, PankajShah15th January2018 Bankim Sheth SEWA Rural, Jhagadia TheYearataGlance · We had informed you last year about 56 new employees was organized on the seven ex-employees who had 28th and 29 th September 2016. The been protesting for a couple of years workshop was on how the goals of outside the hospital for various dues respective department were related and had various allegations against to SEWA Rural's overall mission, and the organization. The issue was gave information about benefits, satisfactorily resolved and all of them leave, Provident Fund, gratuity as had taken back all their complaints. well as SEWARural's family spirit. We had heaved a sigh of relief at this The third phase of the workshop was happy end of the conflict. organized on 28th and 29 th December Unfortunately, they have started 2016, during which the new again complaining and making employees visited other allegations against the organization departments of SEWA Rural in in various governmental and non- groups, collected information and governmental organizations. So this gave a presentation. Afterwards issue is still trying all of us. there was a discussion with Drs. · As a part of “Svastha Karyakar Anilbhai and Lataben Desai on the Svastha Sanstha'' (Healthy spiritual perspective of our work. Employee Healthy Organization), a · A self-development workshop was camp was organized on 13th August organized for members of the st 2016 by Nisargopachara Kendra coordination committee on 31 st (Naturopathy Center), Vadodara at December 2016 and 1 January 2017 SEWA Rural. Useful information on at staff development centre at Asa how to lead a healthy lifestyle was village. How to improve the roles and given by Dr. Bharatbhai Shah responsibilities of these members, (pediatrician) with the help of strengthen the connection between videos, slides and reading material. various departments, what is Johari Also, different activities such as yoga window, new developments of the classes, games, sports and medical pastfiveyears,futureplansandhow check-ups of all the employees were to strengthen the organization was conducted during the year. discussed with the help of · The second part of a workshop for the presentations. 02 · We are very much grateful to Wagh value education among children of Bakri Cha Group (Ahmedabad) nearby schools. for their generous contribution · The birth anniversary of Sri (under CSR) to establish state of art Ramakrishna was celebrated in “Mahila Talim Kendra” at SEWA SEWA Rural's temple on 18th Rural's Shardakunj Society Campus February 2017. The importance of in Jhagadia. This centre has state of prayer and spiritual reading was art facilities of Class Room equipped talked about. Employees gave their with audio visual facility, Skill Lab, spiritual questions in writing which Nutrition Lab and Computer Lab were answered by Swami along with hostel for trainees and Nirvikalpanandaji on 20th and 21 st few staff quarters. This centre was February. formally inaugurated in April 2017 · On 16th March, an educational tour by renowned writer Ms. was organized for sweepers, peons, Himanshiben Shelat in the august drivers, watchmen, and maids at presence of all directors from Wagh Nirlobhi Ashram at Asa village. Bakri Cha Group along with their Later they enjoyed an excursion to family members and other friends Malsar village. Such outings help and well-wishers of SEWA Rural. foster comradeship and good This Mahila Talim Kendra will relations. become extremely helpful in · On the two-acre campus of SEWA accommodating large no. of local Rural, medical, educational and rural, poor and tribal girls and in economic activities are conducted mastering them for different of and about 1500 people daily come professional / vocational skills and go. For the past two years we eventually resulting into their have tried to take appropriate steps empowerment and overall for their safety. We got a safety upliftment of entire family. We are survey by Gujarat Safety Council, also grateful to Wagh Bakri Cha Vadodara done, provided fire Group for offering a mobile extinguishers in the hospital and educational van t o w a r d s around campus and installed a promoting scientific attitude and hydrant system. We also bought 03 various instruments to enhance Management System in May 2017. electric and general safety, visited This project which has maintained a other hospitals to obtain more safety good standard inspires other knowhow and also made a safety departments within SEWARural. committee of senior workers. The · More and more needy people are responsibilities of each member of being benefited from SEWA Rural's the safety committee in the event of a Kasturba hospital. As a result of this, fire or accident were demarcated. the problem of shortage of space in The rest of the staff was also given the hospital and campus increases training in safety. To make sure day by day. everything ran smoothly, we got Along with this, to improve the advice from safety consultant Shri quality of patient care, we built a new Yagneshbhai Nayak of Surat and 20 bedded NICU (Neonatal Intensive appointed a safety supervisor. Care Unit) which was inaugurated on · On 21st January 2017, on the occasion 17th February 2017 by the collector of of the 60th meeting of National Bharuch district, Shri Sandip Sangle Human Resource Development (IAS). This is the largest NICU in Network, SEWA Rural was felicitated Bharuch and Narmada districts. Also, in Bharuch. The meeting was a new 50 bedded ward was attended by representatives of inaugurated by Swami various industries, government Raghavendranandaji (Ramakrishna officers and experts from different Mission, Gwalior) in the presence of fields. The certificate given to SEWA Rasilaben Mansukhbhai Shah, a Rural is given on page no. 06 of this generous donor. annual report. · More than 50% of our patients are · SEWA Rural's Community Health tribals. The genetic disorder, Sickle Department (CHP) is running a joint Cell, is highly prevalent among them. project, 'ImTeCHO' with the health So a special Sickle Cell clinic has been department of Gujarat government in started and an indoor bed reserved 750 villages of Bharuch and Narmada for such patients. With the help of districts. The ImTeCHO project was specialists, we have also developed a certified for ISO 9001:2015 guideline for treating it. 04 · The experiences of SEWA Rural's though we also believe that one Health Training Center are being should not be totally dependent on published in various technical such corpus funds. Till now we have journals. We have given the details in received financial aid from different the research section of this report. sections of society. But we also · In these 4 decades of SEWA Rural's received technical guidance, other journey, all its departments have support and especially expanded considerably. In 1980 our encouragement and love from all. hospital which had 30 beds, has now · SEWA Rural has more than 65 200 beds. Also, the Community employees who have been working Health Project which was started in for more than 20 years. The majority 1982 covering 10 villages, now of them will retire in the next five covers 750 villages. Expansion has its years. To replace such dedicated perils and challenges. There is also staff with appropriate new staff is a the danger of becoming sidetracked predicament for us. We have started or lukewarm. Hence, we try to to prepare employees who have maintain the original spirit and already been working with us for 5 ideology of SEWA Rural and keep to 10 years to fill these gaps. The the poor in the centre of all our senior employees who will retire, work by ongoing discussions in will mentor these employees before different meetings and workshops leaving. This way we hope that the with new employees. beautiful work they have been doing · Due to SEWA Rural's expanding for so long shall continue activities, financial needs have also uninterrupted. For this, we also increased. As donations under the receive help from various experts. Income Tax Act 35-AC have stopped, “This life is short , the we try to get funds through CSR Vanities of the work are (Corporate Social Responsibility). transient, but they alone live Around 256 full-time staff and their families are dependent on SEWA who lives for others, the rest Rural.