Suadha Ngo

We are a team of professional social workers from Tata Institute of Social Sciences & Nirmala Niketan. After years of experience in different reputed NGOs, we initiated ‘Social Upliftment and Development for Health Action’ SUADHA, in 2006. We wanted to venture into tribal areas of Murbad, Shahapur, Palghar, where few organizations were willing to go. Our expertise lay in cancer awareness, early detection and support to patients under treatment. With seed money from our pockets, we travelled through remote villages of the tribal belt of thane district, guiding, helping cancer patients. In 2009, we opened a small office in the Municipal Hospital at Kalyan. We began with helping indoor patients, providing food, medicines, and counseling. Our cancer awareness campaign and detection camps in the slums of Kalyan and different states and cities, drew support from many individual donors and charitable organizations. During this same period, we began identifying schools in tribal areas for our sustainable support programme. Thousands of tribal children have benefitted with our sustained activities in the ashram schools. We are proud to say that many children have been able to continue their studies due to our support programmes. At the same time, we started a Rehab Center, where destitute women from slums and tribal villages have been encouraged to grow financially independent and it has raised their self-esteem. Products made by these women are sold through exhibitions and corporate orders. Our sustained activities in the field of health awareness, tribal development and women empowerment, has brought us recognition and awards from various national & international organizations. It has been our endeavor to make every ordinary person, be it a cancer patient, a destitute woman or a tribal child, feel special. Our greatest achievement in this decade has been - long work, to give hope for a better future to all those we reached out to!