Dear Friends,
To know more about the cause, please read ahead...
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In the founder's own words:
In the founder's own words:
"Dear Friends,
Back in June 2008, we started Swasth India - a social business with a vision to provide for healthcare for the poor of India. The last 2 ½ yrs have been challenging, humbling and rewarding. When we started, we had, caught in our overconfidence, assumed that we could provide healthcare to a lot of poor lives very soon. We have moved forward, from idea to implementation, trying everything we first listed in powerpoints & excel sheets, and fixing details in the implementation - and now cover about 13,000 lives in our comprehensive health cover schemes.
However, we have been humbled by the challenges of offering product to the poor - keeping costs low that they can afford, and even when they can afford, convincing them on parting with their hard earned money. We have realized the the effort and learning that has to go into creating awareness about health insurance or preventive care. That led us to form Swasth Foundation in Feb 2009 - with the goal of providing for healthcare for the poor, by building some viable health systems model -
but also involving community & people at large to make it viable. Our motto is "All for Health".
Swasth Foundation currently runs a pilot health insurance scheme in Latur (called "Arogya Suraksha") where we do the last mile community reach directly, supports community health workers in Washim district (as part of a comprehensive health product offering to people), provided health care services to construction workers in Haryana, and now works with Delhi government to improve access to primary healthcare services in 2 slums. Learnings from these projects have started showing up in
Swasth India Services' comprehensive health scheme pilots. I've attached an introductory presentation to Swasth Foundation and a brochure soft copy.
These activities by Swasth Foundation need your support to continue - and I'll request you to support these. Swasth Foundation team (a team of 6 runners) will participate in Standard Charted Mumbai Marathon on Jan 16th 2011 to raise funds for Swasth Foundation. I'll be running the half marathon (21 km) to raise support for the organization.
You can find out more about our marathon fund raising effort at:
We'll request you to support our effort - you can do so by contributing at
The site supports fundraising only for a week only. You can also mail in
checks directly in the name of "Swasth Foundation" to the following address:
Swasth Foundation
615 Palms 2, Royal Palms Estate
Aarey colony, Goregaon E
Mumbai - 400 065
Please do contact for bank account details, if you'll like to make an direct bank account contribution. Your contribution will be income tax exempt under 80G.
If you have any questions about the organization or how can support us -
please do not hesitate to ask me.
or +91 96190 59634.
Looking forward to your support,
Helping Hands Team
God Bless!
