Welcome to Bastar, Part II
Please refer to “Welcome to Bastar” for part 1 of this 2-part segment! This is posted on behalf of Vina Seelam, our Project Manager in India: I returned to Bastar last month excited to share the progress the developers at BeeHyv and I had made so far on the newly dubbed “Tika Tracker” (the word...
Unlocking the potential in mobile phones for Cancer Care
Written by Jay Evans, Senior Advisor, Global Health Unit, American Cancer Society Walk into almost any corner store in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Mexico, or Tanzania and you will find cell-phone top-up cards for sale. Corner stores and markets and even street vendors understand that mobile phones mean business. There are now more than six billion wireless...
Welcome to Bastar
Posted on behalf of Vina Seelam, our Project Manager in India: In 2009 the complete vaccination coverage rate for children aged 12-23 months in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh was 57.3%. Among “scheduled tribes,” however, the complete vaccination rate was even lower, at only 46.3%. Scheduled tribes (STs) are geographically and culturally distinct indigenous...
Artist in Arms: Sahartara
A fat and smiling baby is supported on a slab of stone by her mother and encircled by close family. The fair skin of the child reflects in the faces of the father and grandfather. In a month or so the child will have learned the greeting and gesture of “Namaste” and will utter...
Artist in Arms: Raha
A small gauntlet of community health volunteers gathered on the other side of the school’s stone gate to preside over our departure. As we stepped before the group we bowed our heads and one by one they took their thumbs and pressed a pink tika into the skin between our eyebrows and up onto...
