I had been to a wild Animals' Orphanage run by Dr. Prakash Amte, at Hemalkasa, Dist. Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India.
These people are doing a great job there. Ther's a pair of tiger cubs who have lost their mother. One of these cubs is a bit limp in one leg. These cannot survive in the wilderness, so somebody has to look after it for its rest of life. Similarly, there are many such animals, which are brought up here, and without a proper training of hunting for prey, these - now grown up animals cannot survive in the jungle. There is a pair of fox, wolves, snakes, wild-cat and so many others.
These people are running a hospital for tribals and a residential school for their children. They are trying to divert the tribals from hunting wild animals, develop habit of farming and eating food other than wild animals' meat, inculcating education and civilized life style, so that their dependency on jungle will be reduced and an assured better life will be lead.
I want to appeal the readers to help these people - in money or material form.
As I obsewrved I find 3 basic needs -
1) Computerization of hospital data has just started. But computers of better configuration, software and hardware expertise is needed. Someone should sponsor the travel expense of such experts.
2)The residential school has received a good donation of 19 compputers. But some sort of furniture / at least wall-mounted platforms and chairs are needed to place these computers. These are a set of assorted pieces of monitors and KBDs and Mice and CPUs. Someone from urban area is neede to go there and assemble and load the necessary drives and set-up the whole computer lab. for tribal school children. I have convinced a few experts from Pune. But sombody should sponsor their travelling expenses.
3) Some system to manage the Orphanage's data should be thought of - either digitalization or manual handling of this data.
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- Nutan