NECHA BULLETIN NORTH EASTERN COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION (NECHA) BHOLA BABA PATH, HOUSE NO. 2, SIX MILE, GUWAHATI - 781022, ASSAM VOL - II. NO.6 JUNE, 2021 Editorial *The sparrows make its nests in the same model, shape and pattern, without any change, from the beginning of its creation. God gave it instinct to do it and not reasoning power. *Human beings are given reasoning power to make changes, new models and patterns, new ways of building, innovations, new ideas and so many other things. Most of us imitate the past or old ways and never think of new ways and innovations. *Our kingly attitudes, colonial inheritance, sense of superiority and so on influence us our thinking pattern pride, narrowness, selfishness, imitating tendency and blurred vision. Our reasoning capacity became blunt. *Many of us are affected by these factors and fail to come out of this “imitation tendency” to new thinking, new ideas and openness to changes and innovations. *In a situation like this if we take an “enabling role” in our leadership, our people will become responsible for their health, education, development and spiritual advancement. *It is worth making a trial of “enabling role” and make our people to go forward. We place confidence in our people. They will create leadership and leaders. PARISH ADMINISTRATION MADE EASY We have a set pattern of administration in most of the parishes. The parish priest makes decisions, monitor, take responsibility for everything. A change from the old and present customary practice may be very difficult. PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN
NECHA BULLETIN CREATION OF LEADERSHIP AND LEADERS VOLUNTARY SERVICE We used to hear and even speak of “decentralizing” or “multiply your hands”. These are valid and proved facts. If we can create leadership and leaders in the communities or villages we can multiply our hands and even share our responsibilities. For this no need to wait for calamities. PARISH PRIEST’S ROLE OF ENABLING The village group leaders (CLs), after the Community Through community health and community organizing Health training, will give Voluntary service to the method, the parish priest can enable, engage and families in their group. The families will contribute lead the sisters, catechists, pastoral council and whatever needed for their leadership training. village leaders into action and activities in the Voluntary service to the community is in the custom villages. and culture of the people. We lead the people back They enable the village authority women’s society to their healthy cultural values. The whole and the youth to divide the village into groups of ten programme becomes people’s programme. or more families. Each group will select 4 leaders (2 men or boys and 2 women or girls). PRAISE WORTHY It is highly praiseworthy that His Grace Archbishop EXAMPLE Dominic Lumon with Fr. James Thangshel, the Director A village of about fifty families can have five groups of CMC Hospital has opened facilities for Covid care with 5x4=20 leaders. They may be named as and services, mainly for the Priests, Religious and community leaders (CLs). Train them for all sorts of their parents in the CMC Hospital. activities. After the death of one of the priests in the Govt. Covid Care centre, it was the desire of all to have TRAINING OF CLs on COMMUNITY HEALTH the facilities arranged in our own hospital especially CLs of one or more villages together can be given for the priests and religious. short term or a few days training. NECHA can Our Priests and religious have left their homes, near arrange the Community Health training Team. It is and dear ones and give their dedicated service for advisable to select some leaders having internet the people. The Diocese of Imphal has shown the connection or WhatsApp so that the Parish Priest and unwritten duty and obligation of all the people to NECHA office can keep up communications about honour and assist our priests and Religious in the time health Education, development and so on, needed for of their sickness, old age and other needs. Let us the villagers, can be effectively worked out and hope and pray that similar arrangements may be guided. made in all the dioceses in N.E. Region. I wish all the parish priests take interest in organizing the parishes, after the Covid pandemic, and villages. So many trained community health leaders will be a great asset to the parishes and the diocese itself. PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN
NECHA BULLETIN HEALTH TIPS + NECHA’S INNOVATIONS NECHA Bulletin is for the health education of the people, especially FOOT SANITIZER the youth in the villages. We need to sanitize not only our hands but also legs. We wish to circulate the Bulletin to all the villages in the North Make a wooden frame 2” height, length and width Eastern States. according to the main door or entrance. Make it You may give us the WhatsApp with a plastic sheet so as to become a tray. Place a piece of thick cloth or foot mat inside the tray. No. or Email ID of your people or Soak it with sanitizer or bleaching powder forward it to them. solution. Place it at the main entrance or main door of the house. All those who go in or out, Those who like to begin steps in the tray and sanitize the shoes/ slippers/ Community Organising bare foot. Bare feet and shoes are more infected Programmes in your village may than hands. Foot Sanitizer promoted by NEHCA is contact your Parish Priest or Nurse innovative and precious idea. Sister or Contact NECHA office *CORRECTIONS directly. People speak loud of Covid medicines. It does not Fr. K.C. George, sound well. Arsemicum Alb, Ginger and other Director, NECHA natural remedies raises the immune power or resistance against viruses. It can control the spread Bhola Baba Path, House No. 2, Six Mile, of the viruses. Please make use of natural Khanapara, Guwahati - 781022, Assam. remedies for increasing the immune power. These Mobile: 9678224827 (O), 8974008332 (P) are not Corona medicines. Do not wait for Corona Email: [email protected] to come to look for remedies. Website: nechaindia.org Private Circulation only
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