BLIND, LAME, LIMBS TWISTED or missing, deafmute, brain-damaged, with hare-lips, cleft palates, webbed fingers, cerebral palsy, tumours where should be eyes, these are Bhopal’s children. The living children. The still-born often can not be recognised as human. If you want to break your heart, look at their pictures. They were damaged in the womb by chemicals leaking from the same Union Carbide factory that killed thousands in 1984. Carbide left the plant without cleaning it. The "Polluter Pays Principle" applies in India as in the US, but Carbide and its parent Dow Chemical flatly refuse to clean the factory or pay a cent towards a clean-up. More here
A history of the "horrific births" in Bhopal | Amir's story | Adil's story | Raju's story | Please help by contacting your Euro MP
Join volunteers and staff of The Bhopal Medical Appeal and Sambhavna past and present for the London Asics 10k run.
Glastonbury Festival has kindly given the Bhopal Medical Appeal a further 20 places for 2010, bringing the total to 70 and making us the 4th largest charity presence at the festival. We are currently researching places to park the bus so that we have a solid information base as well as serving the usual free Bhopali chai. Places are going fast so if you’d like to be part of a committed team please email beckymoss@bhopal.org ASAP. If you don’t use email we can post you the forms and information, please call us with your address: 01273 603278. We look forward to hearing from you.
Three Part Blog: Our very own Colin Toogood spent Christmas in Bhopal. Here’s what he made of the city and it's people.
Union Carbide factory causes history's worst industrial disaster.
Learn about the work of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal.
Traditional Indian ayurveda is very effective for gas victims.
Derelict Carbide factory is now poisoning a whole new generation.
Cares for the hundreds of children born damaged in Bhopal.
Browse through the BMA newsletter archive from 2003 to 2008.
Click here for a series of photos from the report, as well as of the local community and the abandoned Union Carbide site.
Click here to tune into the Bhopal Medical Appeal Youtube Channel