The Impact India Foundation significantly transforms rural healthcare by preventing and treating avoidable disabilities. Launched in 1983 with UN backing, its pioneering work -most notably the world-first Lifeline Express hospital train and tribal community health programs -delivers vital surgeries, diagnostics, and medical treatments directly to impoverished, remote populations lacking basic access.
Operates a fully equipped mobile hospital on rails, bringing sight, hearing, and orthopaedic surgeries to rural areas.
Targets causes of physical impairment like malnutrition, anaemia, and vaccine-preventable illnesses.
Unites government bodies, corporations, and medical volunteers for mass health interventions.
VFIT has supported a five year safe motherhood and childcare project in the Mokhada tehsil of Palghar. An exhaustive data base covering the population of almost a lakh spread across 4 PHCs has been built and digitised. Through Community Health Volunteers working in tandem with Front Line Workers of the Government, women and children and risk are tracked and treated. The project also focusses on the cognitive development of children in anganwadis.
VFIT appreciates the data driven decisions the project has taken and how it has enabled better outreach of the Government system in providing timely response.
“The Volkart Foundation India Trust's five-year commitment gave us the stability to build a truly sustainable model in the Mokhada block of Palghar district. Long-term funding of this kind is rare, and it made all the difference - allowing us to move beyond short-term interventions and invest in systems that will outlast the project itself. Beyond directly supporting pregnant women and children, this funding enabled us to train a strong cadre of Community Health Volunteers who work closely alongside the government's Frontline Workers, strengthening the last mile of healthcare delivery. The initiative has also created real economic opportunity: young adolescents are being encouraged toward careers in community health, while women in the region are being supported to access roles such as anganwadi sevika, the government's preschool educators for young children. The success of this model has, in fact, helped IIF secure funding for another tribal block - Harsul in Nashik district - allowing us to replicate and extend this work. The impact of this partnership is visible and deeply felt across Mokhada today.”
The Arpan Thalassemia And Sickle Cell Society is a vital non-profit organization providing comprehensive, free healthcare to Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society Anaemia patients across Maharashtra, India. Its significance lies in its holistic approach to patient welfare. Under one roof, it provides life-saving services like safe, NAT-tested blood transfusions, iron chelation therapy, and regular medical check-ups.
Beyond clinical management, the society focuses on eradication through mass community screening and premarital awareness campaigns in schools and colleges. By catching carriers early and managing treatment entirely free of cost, it dramatically improves life expectancy and enhances the quality of life for affected families.
The partnership between the Volkart Foundation Indian Trust and Arpan Thalassemia And Sickle Cell Society provided NAT-tested, and leucodepleted blood bags, to the 300 registered young patients helping them lead much healthier lives with restored dignity and long-term hope.
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