MAIN
OBJECTIVES:
(a) To control leprosy and
provide relief and assistance to the afflicted person and their family.
(b) To collaborate and coordinate
with other organisations already working for the control and elimination
of leprosy and also with the organisations working for orthopedically handicapped
in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
(c) To promote social research
and also the research into the causes and treatment of leprosy
(d) To devise means whereby
the result of such research may be communicated effectively to the social
workers, medical professionals and the public.
(e) To establish and maintain
institutions such as clinics, hospitals or dispensaries for the treatment
of patients by uptodate scientific methods, extension of existing institutions
or establishing the new ones wherein cases of leprosy may be treated.
(f) To educate the public
opinion with regards to the disease of leprosy and its control through
latest medicines.
(g) To establish Children
Homes for the Healthy and Non-affected children of the leprosy affected
person.
(h) To establish residential
institutions for the educated Leprosy Cured Aged Persons on subsidised
basis.
(i) To establish training
centers for leprosy and para medical worker.
(j) To establish centers
for Occupational therapy, Physio-Therapy and Meditational Therapy.
HOW WE HAVE
FULLFILLED THESE OBJECTIVES
In pursuance of the
above objectives the Delhi Branch of the Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh
established a colony “Anand Gram” comprising of 400 leprosy affected
persons in the year1961. None of the inmates of this colony liked to go
for begging.
The Hind Kusht Nivaran
Sangh, Delhi Branch constructed 118 pucca tenements for the inmates
of Anand Gram. To facilitate agriculture and for providing drinking water
a tube well was also installed. Roads and streetlights were provided. With
the collaboration of Late Dr. Mrs. Nelson a medical clinic was also set
up to provide treatment of the inmates.
The following socio – economic
rehabilitation programmes were started for cured leprosy affected persons.
1. Production of Handloom
cloth
2. Physio-therapy unit and
plastic surgery
3. Poultry farming
4. Cultivation of vegetables
5. Sewing center
6. Farming etc
After 18 years of its establishment
Anand Gram was handed over to the Delhi Government.
