{"id":12161,"date":"2022-02-08T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i3tk.org\/demo2\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:16:24","slug":"santa-visits-children-in-orphanage-to-celebrate-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i3tk.org\/demo2\/ongoing-events\/santa-visits-children-in-orphanage-to-celebrate-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa visits Children in Orphanage to Celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Christmas is very much different for Raghu (Name Changed). He stays in this Orphanage (name withheld) located in Kolkata since he was two years old. This indeed is a different Christmas with Cakes and lot of Gifts and a tasty full meal for all his friends too who stay and share the joy & challenges of life together!<\/p>\n

Pradip and Kumkum Ghosh Family Foundation is committed to change the lives of millions of such children through social outreach initiatives. On the occasion of pre-Christmas celebrations, researchers and volunteers from the foundation visited one of the oldest orphanages of Calcutta to celebrate the festival of cakes with the kids. A cake cutting ceremony was followed by song, dance and lot of gifts (including winter clothing and blankets) amid claps and cheerby the crowd. After that all had the hot tasty full meal. Every smiling face was beaming with Christmas joy and happiness!<\/p>\n

Such moments in their lives are not very often. Though they are taken care off by the orphanage, but social and goodwill interventions of such kind lifts their spirits up. India needs bigger interventions in this domain to change the lives of millions of such children. Corporates should come along to this cause.<\/p>\n

Under the aegis of Pradip and Kumkum Ghosh Family Foundation, International Institute of Innovation and Technology (I3T) was inaugurated on January 1, 2018 with a vision of serving the healthcare needs of the public in West Bengal and in our country at large. I3T is a partner of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, the leading university of public health in the world. This alliance is first of its kind in India, where Johns Hopkins is establishing the Johns Hopkins University Maternal and Child Health Center India (MCHI) and the Vaccine Research Center, along with International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC). This collaboration with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), USA is for various Research and Public Health initiatives. The institute aims to provide educational and research programs in the public health domain for the first time in Eastern India.<\/p>\n

Pradip and Kumkum Ghosh Family Foundation has been involved in different initiatives in health sector in India since 2014 through its various social outreach activities. Amidst the crisis of COVID 19 during the second wave, Foundation tried to implement the Rapid Antigen Services in the rural centre of Shreenagar PHC in collaboration with AIIMS-Kalyani and also around 300 oxygen concentrators were handed over to state health department, ESI hospital, Police Stations, Bharat Sevashram Sangha, various complexes & NGOs. Foundation is committed to impact and change the lives of millions of Indians through education and public health initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>