Save sons of Mother India.

Read today’s news from Maharashtra, the most developed state in India.

363 farmers in Vidarbha (east Maharashtra) committed suicide last year due to huge debts and this number is rising every day.

There are officially 6, 88,089 malnourished children in six districts of Vidarbha.

There are officially 700 malnourished children in the huts of Nagpur city.

Just compare this news with ‘one British hostage freed/killed by militants’. This is international news currently. Even the Indian media have highlighted this news as very important news. But, unfortunately they haven’t given serious attention to suicide issue in our own country.

The main news in our media currently is resignation by Mrs Gandhi and explosive statements by our nonsense politicians. Every other news agency is busy covering this news. The suicide news gets place in small heading in local news papers, but no proper place in our news channels.

What can we do to help these sons of mother India?

We, Global Indians owe a lot to our motherland. We can help in lots of ways. I have few suggestions-

Forward this message to all Indians and NRIs you know.

Donate the good organisations working for the great cause. Donating to temples and churches won’t help improve the situation.

Encourage education- whenever we go home we can encourage people to have at least basic education. Girl’s education is especially important for the overall progress of family. This is not the short term process, but even small steps would help to achieve the goal.

Direct help to the affected population in the form of money, material, basic facilities like building public toilets in villages. This can be organised when you visit India. You can directly give money to build toilets or similar facilities in your village. Believe me it doesn’t cost much to construct single toilet there.

Have organisation of your own- you can support small developmental activities like women’s self employment, financial awareness of the farmers, youth groups to help the farmers in need. To have an idea, please see the example of one such organisation below.


Mental health support- we don’t care of the psychological aspect of the problem. Chronic depression is very common in Indian rural society. Frequently, our females are labelled as being possessed by evils and subjected to inhuman torture by the society. That is the reason, I think, awareness in the field of mental health needs to be increased. To do this we can support such organisation or organise mental health awareness programs in our areas. Local psychiatrists could be involved to address the issues in the community, to give lectures in schools and colleges.

Volunteer group- to identify at risk persons and help them come out of depression or suicidal thoughts. These could be dome in the form of organising gatherings, meditation courses, formal discussions and sharing the thoughts.

We can right to our local MPs and MLAs regarding these issues.

Write letter to newspapers. Most of the newspapers have online editions and they do publish opinions sent be email. This will help improve campaign in this field.

I run a small organisation back home. Please visit www.samyaktrust.blogspot.com to know in details. One of my friends is IAS officer. Both of us are planning to organise a volunteer group which will try and help at risk people. Our organisation also supports girl’s education in rural area.

Please feel free to share your views on these issues and email me your suggestions on Noopisang@aol.com

Please forward this message to other Indians, so that we can spread this message across the world. This might lead to more and more help for these unfortunate poor rural farmers.

Jai Hind.

Jalmad
Indian.