ಕೋವಿಡ್ -19 ಸೋಂಕಿನ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಶಾಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸದಿರಲು ಮತ್ತು ವಿದ್ಯಾಗಮ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಆದೇಶಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ . ಹಲವಾರು ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರು ಕೋವಿಡ್ -19 ಸೋಂಕಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿರುವುದನ್ನ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದ ಮೂಲಕ ಗಮನಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರುಗಳ ಆರೋಗ್ಯದ ಹಿತದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಿಗೆ ದಿನಾಂಕ : 12-10-2020 ರಿಂದ ಮೂರು ವಾರಗಳ ಅಂದರೆ ದಿನಾಂಕ 30-10-2020 ರವರೆಗೆ ಮಧ್ಯಂತರ ರಜೆ ಘೋಷಿಸಿ ಆದೇಶ ಹೊರಡಿಸಲು ಹಿರಿಯ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನ ನೀಡಿರುತ್ತೇನೆ . ನನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಶಾಲಾ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಶಿಕ್ಷಕ ವರ್ಗದವರೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ ದಸರಾ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು .
By Dr Chirag Thonse,Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Vikram Hospital, Bengaluru
Bengaluru, October 11,2020: The ongoing COVID-19 not only affected our emotional well-being but has also seen an impact on our physical health due to reduction in mobility, daily physical activities and increase in body weight. This inactive lifestyle has a direct effect on joints as well as the bone health. While COVID has limited movement outdoors, people need to be aware of other potential health issues and take measures to avoid health complications like Arthritis. Those already diagnosed with the condition need to be watchful as well.
Arthritis is caused due to reasons like aging, bone quality of patient, heredity etc. Arthritis patients need to be active with indoor activities like stretching exercises and yoga at home. If in a gated community, walking or stationary cycling at home can help keep the joints supple. Restriction of Joint movement leads to stiffness and pain and reduction in daily activities leads to muscle cramps, which is quite troublesome for arthritic patients. The patients suffering from arthritis require care and regular check-ups to manage the disease. Patients with early onset or with mild symptoms should also take precautions and ensure regular consultation for disease management.
While there is no proven connection between COVID and arthritis, post-viral arthralgia may be seen in patients, which is a case with any kind of viral infection. The best way to ensure that you keep the disease at bay is with regular knee and shoulder exercises and it is utmost important to keep your weight in check as it will help in keeping your muscles and joints fit. Consumption and antioxidants and supplements and keeping healthy state of the mind is the right approach in arthritic patients during the pandemic.
IN BAGAVAD GITA LORD KRISHNA SAYS: Who is your life partner ? Mom ? Dad ? Wife ? Son ? Husband ? Daughter ? Friends…? Not at all ! Your real life partner is Your Body. Once your body stops responding no one is with you. You and your body stay together from Birth till Death. What you do to your body is your responsibility and that will come back to You. The more you care for your body, the more your body will care for You. What you eat, What you do for being Fit, how you deal with stress, how much rest you give to it; will decide how your body gonna respond. Remember your body is the only permanent address where You live. Your body is your asset/liabilty, which no one else can share. Your body is your responsibility. Because, You are the real life partner. Be Fit forever. Take care yourself. Money comes & goes. Relatives & Friends are not permanent. Remember no one can help your body other than you. Pranayama – for Lungs Meditation – for Mind Yogasana – for Body Walking – for Heart Good food – for intestines Good thoughts – for Soul Good Karma – for World
Started journey from Karnataka and now it has Pan-India presence
Bangalore, 9th 2020: Highway Delite, a travel tech start-up, that provides information of verified highway pit stops and wayside amenities across 60,000+KMs in India, has won the National Start-up Award in Tourism Sector- Travel Planning and Discover category.
Highway Delite is building digitally connected highway wayside amenities platform to enable tourists and travellers to discover facilities and transact with verified highway services and amenities.The platform enables commuters to have real time location based verified highway services information including facilities and photos of more than 12 categories including verified Restaurants, Dhabas, Washroom, Fuel pumps, Hotels, Mechanic, ATMs, Pharma, Hospitals, Emergency Numbers, Tourist places, Accident Zones, Handicrafts and Handloom and Souvenir Stores. Highway Delite has covered more than 60,000 KMs of highways pan India and have more than 1 lakh verified data points. Highway Delite covers more than 100 facilities list across the above categories including separate women washroom, disabled access, disabled washrooms, first aid kit, digital payments, and others.
“We started our journey from Karnataka and now we are operational in Pan-India. We are thankful to all our customers, highway partners and all stakeholders for their continued support. We are adding new initiatives to make highway travel more safe and convenient and give confidence to travellers and bring back the business for highway restaurants, which have been hit badly with covid effect. We have started the Prime Safe initiative to enable travellers to discover restaurant partners which are following safety and hygiene protocols. Further, we have introduced contact less QR code based food order at the restaurant and dhabas and very soon will go live with pre-ordering of food and takeaway for restaurants. Further, we are enabling all these features to be part of car infotainment system very soon to bring seamless travel experience”, said Rajesh Ghatanatti, Founder, Highway Delite.
Overall, 1641 applications were received for National Startup Awards for 12 Sectors, further divided into 35 categories and 3 special categories. The aim of The National Startup Awards is to recognize and reward outstanding startups that are building innovative products, solutions or scalable enterprises with a high potential to generate employment, create wealth and above all, demonstrate measurable social impact.
Users can download Highway Delite app from both Play store (Android Users) and App store (iPhone Users).
A total of 6,685 children are living and growing up in 32 SOS Children’s Villages spread across 22 States/UTs in the country
Over the year, SOS supported 17,920 children, half of whom were girls, through its Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) and improved their access to education, health and nutrition
October 8, 2020: SOS Children’s Villages of India, an international NGO dedicated to the holistic development of children without parental care and those at the risk of abandonment supported more than 24,000 Indian children and youth with a loving home in FY 2019-20, according to its just released annual report. The organisation also supported 15,000 children during disaster and emergencies and 2,000 youth from underprivileged background for employability. In addition, 8,000 vulnerable families were given support through the SOS Family Strengthening Program (FSP).
Mr Sumanta Kar, Senior Deputy National Director, SOS Children’s Villages of India shares: “Our unique ‘Family-like Care’ model offers personalised care to children by a trained caregiver, called an SOS Mother, Siblings, Family and a community (the Village). This is what sets us apart from other childcare organisations. Children in an SOS Children’s Village are raised with all the inputs needed for their safety, development, participation and path to independence. But most importantly, they develop a strong emotional relationship with their SOS Mother and siblings with whom they stay in the same house for many years. The lasting bonds contribute to a much better physical and mental growth and hence holistic development outcomes for children.”
In FY 2019-20, a total of 6,685 children continued to live and grow up in 32 SOS Children’s Villages spread across the country. Also, 548 new children without parental care were brought to the Villages to a loving SOS Mother. (Interestingly, 25% of siblings in SOS Children’s Villages are biological siblings and are kept together in the same family, just as they would have in their own biological families.) More than 4,600 SOS children continued to attend regular school during the year. About 200 girls and 151 boys graduated from Class 10th, while 146 girls and 121 boys graduated from Class 12th in academic year 2019-20. Also, 1,275 youth (54% girls) under the care of SOS CV India opted for higher education. As many as 180 SOS Children (46% of them girls) also got employment during the year (their first-ever job).
Additionally, 318 youth living in SOS Children’s Villages (54% of them girls) were successfully integrated into the mainstream society, with an average monthly salary of Rs 18,407. The organisation also supported 370 youth for enrollment in higher education and professional courses.
Said Mr Sumanta Kar, Senior Deputy National Director, SOS Children’s Villages of India: “Our Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) supports vulnerable families, including of migrants and single-women-headed households, to ensure their economic empowerment. It helps keep biological families together by improving access to education, health and nutrition for their children. Over the last one year, we supported 17,920 children, half of whom were girls, through this programme, who continued to live with their own families. We also managed to reach 3,862 new children for support. Over 13,000 children from vulnerable families were provided support to attend regular school. Hearteningly, 4,347 families enrolled in FSP saw an average of 132% increase in their income compared to the previous year. Also, more than 1,000 women from vulnerable families were supported by SOS CV India to set up their own businesses.”
As part of its Disadvantaged Youth Skilling Programme, SOS Children’s Villages enrolled 1,200 youth from disadvantaged background at government affiliated skill development institutes. About 375 of them successfully managed to complete their course. A total of 283 of these youth (46% girls) got the first job of their lives in the organised sector, with an average monthly salary of Rs 7,700.
Over the year, SOS CV India also continued to work with 470 children (60% girls) across 32 Children’s Villages who have some form of disability. The SOS Children’s Village Khajuri Kalan in Bhopal is a dedicated Village for children with special needs. It is currently supporting 105 children with diverse needs, specifically those living with Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Autism and Multiple Disabilities.
Talking about the disaster and emergency response of SOS Children’s Villages in the year 2019-29, Mr Kar said: “Children are the first to be affected when a crisis hits. Our teams managed to provide safe, supervised spaces for children during the devastation caused by the Fani cyclone in Odisha and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on long-term recovery, we were able to directly reach more than 15,000 children and 7,820 vulnerable families with assistance and support. In the aftermath of cyclone Fani, our Children’s Village in Bhubaneshwar supported affected families with basic necessities, tarpaulin, food packets and hygiene kits, quickly restoring normalcy for over 600 families and 1,100 children.”
He further added, “We are a self-implementing organisation and depend on our partners for technical and financial support – the government and the corporate sector, civil society, media as well as individuals. We endeavor to efficiently manage our programmes, minimising the administrative expenditures in order to optimise the outcomes in terms of impact on the beneficiaries. We are immensely grateful to our donors and sponsors for their long standing support and confidence in us. Millions of vulnerable children in India are leading a life of neglect, and to change the future of our country, we together need to ensure that we together ensure that not even a single child is left neglected – #nochildalone. We call upon greater collaboration to achieve this.”
Over the year, SOS Children’s Villages entered strategic collaborations with the Gujarat government for rolling out a Kinship Programme for 104 children under the Palak Mata-Pita Yojana, with the Maharashtra Govt for preparing 102 children from Child Care Institutions for employability, and with the Government of Chattisgarh for building capacities of care functionaries for parenting, supporting children dealing with trauma and instituting child safeguarding mechanisms. Along with the Niti Ayog and Duke University, SOS Children’s Villages also conducted a survey of 60 childcare institutions in four states to gauge the gaps in care delivery for children.
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