Community Service
Sequoia supports health, clean energy and cleanliness initiatives in rural Maharashtra, India.
Hemogram testing camp
The hemogram or complete blood count (CBC) is used as a broad screening test to check for disorders such as anaemia, infection and many other diseases. It is a profile of tests that examines different parts of the blood, including RBC count, WBC count, haemoglobin, platelet count and red cell distribution width (RDW).
Sequoia raised funds for Jnana Prabodhini for their hemogram testing camp, held in Velhe Taluka to address women’s health issues.
Jnana Prabodhini has been working in Velhe Taluka of Pune district for more than 25 years. Women’s health is a focus area, and they have run a pre-natal OPD in Velhe for many years. Velhe is one of the most underdeveloped talukas in Maharashtra, and Jnana Prabodhini regularly encounters young children with malnutrition and anaemia. Anaemia is especially worrying in adolescent girls (13–18 years of age), because they are soon going to be mothers, and if the mother is anaemic, the children will be weak too.
Jnana Prabodhini held their first hemogram testing camp at Panshet High School and tested more than 300 girls. The government machinery helped with the camp, and an elected Zilla Parishad member visited the camp and felicitated the Janakalyan team.
Changing rural women’s quality of life with biomass pellet technology
Sequoia raised funds for Jnana Prabodhini to introduce domestic pellet stoves for rural cooking. With the help of Gangotree Eco Technologies, Pune, Jnana Prabodhini introduced smokeless chulhas for a healthier life for rural women.
These stoves burn pellets made from agricultural waste, for example coconut waste, soya bean thrash, coconut fronds, groundnut waste, sugarcane thrash, tree cuttings, leaf litter and agro residue such as rice straw and cotton straw.
Pioneer Medical Research Foundation’s Project Palav
Sequoia raised funds for the Pioneer Medical Research Foundation for their project “Palav 2014”, saving newborn babies with weak lungs. Our contribution helps to save the lives of newborn babies.
Cleaning at Kanifnath Gad
A clean country can only become reality when we keep our public places as clean as our homes. Sequoia took the initiative to clean Kanifnath Gad.
Too often, plastic packets, garbage and bottles are thrown on the roadside from cars and bikes, and the roadside becomes a dumping ground for non-decomposable waste that grows day by day. Even if we cannot clean such places every day, we should think twice before we throw any small waste in public places.
An appreciable effort by the Sequoia team that we hope will motivate people across India to take the initiative to clean India.
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