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YOUTH A M D O N V A E N M A E K N E T V I M V Y I S M O A R E W S SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOUTH MOVEMENT (A registered Society) Non-Religious, Non-Political, Not-for-Profit Hanchipura Road, Saragur, H.D. Kote Taluk, Mysore Dist, Karnataka 571 121 INDIA Tel / Fax: 91-8228-265 412 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] T H E Website: www.vivekamysore.com GOVERNING BODY FOR THE YEAR 2002-2003 President: Dr R. Balasubramaniam Vice-president: Dr M.R. Seetharam HOSPITAL Secretary: Dr (Flt Lt) M.A. Balasubramanya Treasurer: Dr U. Vivek Padvetnaya Joint Secretary: Dr C. Anil IN THE Executive Committee Members: Dr Avinash, Dr K.N. Chandrashekar SVYM’S DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS H.D. Kote: FOREST Chief – ROHINI: Dr M.R. Seetharam Chief – Education: Ms M.R. Mamatha Chief – Accounts & Systems: Dr U. Vivek Padvetnaya Chapter Co-ordinators: Mysore: Dr Avinash Kodagu: Dr K.N. Chandrashekar Dakshina Kannada: Dr Geethaprakash Project Director: Vivekananda Institute for Leadership Development – Dr (Flt Lt) M.A. Balasubramanya ASSOCIATES Chartered Accountants: Manian Suresh Sundar & Vittal, Bangalore Legal Consultants: Mr O. Sham Bhat, Mr J. Purushotham, Mysore Communication Consultants: Resource Communications, Bangalore Architects: Ms Tara Murali, Bharath & Associates, Chennai Bankers: Canara Bank, Jayalakshmipuram, Mysore Bangalore Office: Mysore Office: Dr Deepak Haldipur, ENT Specialist Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Chord Road Hospital Pvt Ltd CA 2, Hebbal Industrial Housing Area 100, II Stage, LIC Colony, West of Chord Road Mysore 570 016 Bangalore 560 079 Ph: 91-80-322 5848 / 322 5858 T e l e f a x : 9 1 - 8 2 1 -241 5412 An inspiring real-life story New Delhi Office: of what can happen Ms Lalitha Kaushik, Advocate 703, Nilgiri Apartments when young people with ideals No. 9, Barakambha Road, New Delhi 110 001 Ph: 91-11-2371 1667 / 2372 3551 believe they can make a difference This brochure is wholly sponsored by Simova-Resource, Bangalore, Writing, Design and Production & A MYTEC-SIMOVA TRIBUTE Mytec Process Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, Processing and Printing TO THE DEDICATED MEMBERS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOUTH MOVEMENT in appreciation of the exemplary social work done by SVYM The People of the Forest... MUMBAI (BOMBAY) BANGALORE MYSORE CHENNAI The remote forests around the Kabini river were home to (MADRAS) Hunsur taluk k u l a t several unique groups of tribals: the Jenukurubas, Kadukurubas, e r o s Paniyas, Yeravas and Soligas. From time immemorial, they had y k M u l made a livelihood through hunting, shifting agriculture and the a ore t Mys t y to e Wa p gathering of minor forest produce. j a r i Their lifestyles were utterly simple. They lived for the day at V hand, with no thought of tomorrow. Each group had its own Heggadadevanakote customs, traditions and culture. They took no dowry. No widow ER RIV A was ostracized, no child uncared for. There was no concept of K A R A individual ownership. In its stark simplicity, it was an idyllic METIKUPPE T FOREST ER k Saragur IV KABINI U R u N GU l existence. a DAM t NUGU d Their life changed dramatically in the 1960s, when their u DAM g KAKANAKOTE n VER a FOREST I RI j habitat was submerged under the waters of the Kabini reservoir n KABIN a d N and they were forced to move. Ten years later, their new i R d Kenchanahalli a v a Brahmagiri wandering grounds were declared a protected area under d n na Hosahalli ‘Project Tiger’, which aimed at saving this threatened species. Ma And once again they were evicted. On neither occasion were they suitably compensated or viably relocated. K E BEGUR R FOREST AINURMARIGUDI A FOREST taluk L et up A dl A tribal family Gun Living in small settlements called haadis, they had no access to the forests that had provided them the only living they knew. In this unfamiliar, inhospitable environment, they were not only economically stricken, but socially alienated too. Malnutrition, illiteracy and under-development threatened their very survival. The comfort of the past was closed to them. They could not fit into mainstream society. And yet, A tribal haadi unless they could assimilate, they were doomed. Out-patient Clinic ysore to M Way Zone 5 Vivekananda Viveka Tribal Centre Heggadadevanakote Memorial Hospital for Learning Zone 4 HANDPOST 60–bed hospital ER Zone 6 ...and the doctors who came their way F irst to Tenth Standard; RIV KA A More than 400 students, R A residential and day-scholars T METIKUPPE VER Zone 3 KABINI SARAGUR NUGU RI FOREST DAM d NUGU i R d DAM a R v VE It all began when a group of medical students at Mysore a RI d NI n BI a KA Zone 1 an Medical College became increasingly aware that the career in M KENCHANAHALLI Zone 2 medicine they dreamed of pursuing was very different from the Brahmagiri Community Development HOSAHALLI practice of medicine around them. Centre for Tribals Vivekananda Memorial Hospital Agricultural and vocational BEGUR And so the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), a AINURMARIGUDI FOREST training for tribal men and women FOREST 10-bed hospital voluntary organization, was born. Its initial assets were high ideals and all the positive benefits of inexperience. The year H. D. Kote taluk has been divided into six zones to make administration and operations more effective. was 1984. SVYM has also opened new centres at: Mysore City (H.Q of Mysore Dist, 50 km north-east of Saragur); Gonikoppal (45 km north-west of Saragur) to serve Kodagu Dist; and Vittla (170 km north-west of They made a modest beginning by supplying physician’s Saragur) to serve Dakshina Kannada. Swami Vivekananda samples to poor patients, arranging for blood and providing 1863-1902 assistance was required by a greater number of people in more counselling. SVYM then moved on to running weekly rural and different ways. clinics. Outstanding thinker SVYM began by setting up a small, 10-bed hospital at and humanitarian of And then, in 1987, destiny brought the doctors to 19th century India, Kenchanahalli. They soon realised that the greatest need the Heggadadevanakote (H.D. Kote) Taluk, one of the most who gave a clarion community faced was easy access to a dependable, high-quality call to the sleeping backward taluks in Karnataka state—the home of the displaced, multi-specialty hospital. At the time, people had to travel to nation to, "Arise ! dispossessed tribals. Mysore for specialised medical care. Limited transportation and Awake ! Stop not till SVYM set up a primary health clinic at Brahmagiri, in the the goal is reached ". communication facilities made it a very difficult journey. midst of the tribal colony. The local Zilla Panchayath (District The 60-bed Vivekananda Memorial Hospital at Saragur Council) loaned them a building, a local family gave them a was completed in 2002, with a tremendous amount of local cow. The doctors spent their days clearing the building of weeds support at every stage of its creation. With a full-fledged and carrying out repairs. At times they slept in empty water operation theatre, ICU and multi-specialty services, it can pipelines. Bad roads and tough living conditions made it all provide comprehensive healthcare to the 2,50,000 population of harder. H.D. Kote and beyond. Mobile Health Units augment the Appreciative of their work and perseverance, the services and reach provided by the hospital. A simultaneous YOUTH A M Deputy Commissioner of Mysore granted them five D O focus on community health has helped raise public awareness N V A E acres of land at Hosahalli. Their lives, and those of and given true meaning to the idea of comprehensive N M .... So long as the A E the tribals, were now irreversibly linked. K N healthcare. “ E T millions die in hunger V I M As time passed, SVYM realised that and ignorance, I hold V The Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning, a semi-residential Y I S healthcare was just one aspect of bettering the every man a traitor M O school at Hosahalli, provides modern education to over 400 A R who, having been E W tribals' lives. Sustained enrichment could be S tribal children. The Viveka School of Excellence has recently been educated at their achieved only through education, a steady started at Saragur. In addition, a consortium of over 321 expense, pays not the earning and saving capacity, a broader social government schools brings a large number of children and least heed to them ! outlook and a realisation by the tribals that their teachers into the ambit of SVYM's activities. ” NON-POLITICAL — Swami Vivekananda tomorrow could be better than their today. 1863 –1902 NON-RELIGIOUS Community Development Programmes—aimed at The rural poor of H.D. Kote taluk lived in creating self-sufficiency through pooled resources, networking NOT-FOR-PROFIT circumstances often as pathetic as that of the and education—are constantly being developed, refined and tribals, and were as much in need of help. Increasingly, SVYM's promoted. A Bird’s Eye-View of SVYM’s Activities in Heggadadevanakote Taluk VIVEKA TRIBAL CENTRE FOR LEARNING, HOSAHALLI Canteen (ESTABLISHED BY SVYM IN 1988) Hospital Resource Centre for Vocational Training, Teaching Aids Production and Community Development 5-acre Campus Auditorium Dormitories Dining Residential Dairy Units for Staff Kitchen Production Centre Classrooms VIVEKANANDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, KENCHANAHALLI (ESTABLISHED BY SVYM IN 1990) Training Centre • 2-acre campus • 10 beds • 24-hour emergency wing, out-patient clinic, pharmacy, clinical laboratory, Reproductive & Child Health Services, Diet services Residential Units for Staff • Ultra-sound scanner, x-ray, ECG, laparoscope, nebulizer Agricultural Mobile Health Units • Multi-disciplinary specialist services Demonstration Plot Dairy for Students (Commenced in 1988) • Training Centre Entrance Office • Mobile visits to colonies • Proposed telemedicine link • Camps • IEC activities New School Campus at Hosahalli (Inaugurated by the Hon.