Emmanuel Hospital Association Canada
Help for the hurting, hope for the poor
This is the story of 35 year old S. As is customary in some parts of rural India, S got married when she was 14 years old. Seven years ago, when she was just 24 years old, her husband committed suicide. She had three children already and was expecting a fourth. The sudden death caused …
"Visit to Landour Community Hospital"- An Account by Joy Antonia, Bill and Carol Huggan February 2019 was an exciting month for my family. My brother Bill, sister-in-law Carol and I (Joy), went on the trip of a lifetime to India. We wanted to retrace our parents' footsteps, who about eighty years ago, worked in Landour, India, where they served the poor, in the …
Sunil Kumar Kushwaha is a 19-year-old man from a village in north Bihar. Three years ago, he was involved in a motorcycle accident and injured his spinal cord. From the nearby hospital, he was referred to a hospital in Delhi and after a brief period of rehabilitation, he returned home, facing the life-long challenge of …
On a hot and dusty day, my colleague Silas and I arrive in front of a small house in a rural village in Bihar. Silas and I, working with Duncan Hospital’s Community Based Rehabilitation Project (CBR), have come to meet a child with a disability who lives with her parents and her extended family in …
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"The loneliness of my house would’ve eaten me alive if I hadn’t found Kiran,” says Maya. As a child, Maya enjoyed playing in the homes of her already married older siblings. She never felt anxious about her own future, even as she reached marriageable age. Maya’s mother fell ill and Maya became her primary care-giver, …
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