Arpana Services
Members of Arpana Trust were inspired by their Founder, Param Pujya Ma, to set up effective health and development programs for disadvantaged communities.
Objectives: Arpana works to improve health, provide education and enhance livelihoods through programs covering over 350,000 people in rural Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and in Delhi slum resettlement colonies.
Services
Arpana's health services began when Arpana's First Chairman, Dr J.K. Mehta, visited nearby villages to provide medical care to disadvantaged communities. Arpana Hospital was set up in rural Madhuban in Haryana in 1980, when Dr Ela Anand, a gynaecologist, and her surgeon husband, Dr A.K. Anand, moved to Arpana. It became a training and referral centre for surrounding villages in response to critical health conditions in the area.
In Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh, a medical clinic was conducted in an abandoned Post Office allocated to Arpana in 1977. This became the Arpana Diagnostic & Treatment Centre in 2002.
The Integrated Medical & Socio-economic Centre was set up in Gajnoi, a remote village near Chamba Town in 1994. Molar Bund Slum Development, Delhi Project began in one small slum of 700 people in 1992.
At present, Arpana brings a wide variety of health and socio-economic services to an area of over 300,000 rural folk in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and to 50,000 urban poor in Delhi
Programs include a 135 bedded rural hospital, specialty treatment, medical centres, mobile clinic and outreach camps, and health awareness.
Training is carried out for village folk as health workers and health resource persons, as well as for continuing education for doctors, nurses and paramedics.
Arpana empowers women by facilitating micro credit groups, gender sensitization, leadership training and participatory community development to bring prosperity into rural homes. Presentations of value-based dramas inspire and motivate audiences to aspire to the finest qualities of character.
Educational support is also provided to the marginalized children in the slum resettlement colonies of Molar Bund, Delhi.