AFTER THE GAS Sathyu Sarangi is a metallurgical engineer who on hearing news of the gas disaster, dropped everything he was doing and came to Bhopal to help for a week. Nearly three decades later he […]
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When The Lawyers Arrived in Bhopal… In this, the third extracted story from our ‘Bhopal Marathon’ publication, we get a taste of the opportunistic hawks descending on Bhopal, just days after the disaster, and looking for
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Walking on Bodies At Rani Kamla Pati ka Mahal, the road was so thick with dead bodies that we were forced to step on them. The park between the upper and lower lakes was full of
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Inside Sambhavna.. where the treatment never stops Please continue to support the clinic here You can read the complete Bhopal Marathon publication online here
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AZIZA’S STORY This is the story you hear again and again in Bhopal. A terror experienced individually, shared by thousands. People woke in darkness with an invisible fire searing their eyes and lungs. Aziza Sultan is
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The BMA always uses a figure of 8-10,000 deaths within the first 72 hours and this is, generally speaking, agreed as incontestable. It is the figure used by most credible organisations including ourselves, the combined survivors
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Never mind that the weak British Government refused to ban Dow Chemicals from sponsoring the UK Olympics, here in India the children at Chingari in Bhopal demonstrated a strength and resilience that would put the whole
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The Bhopal Marathon is an ordeal of pain- but measured in miles not years. For more than twenty eight years some of the poorest people on earth, sick, living on the edge of hunger, without funds, wealthy
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Congratulations to photographer Alex Masi for an ‘Honorable Mention’ in the UNICEF photo of the year for his ‘Bhopal Second Disaster’ photographic work. India: Yesterday’s disaster is today’s tragedy In December 1984, a gas tank exploded
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A couple of days ago myself and another volunteer went on motor bikes with two of the Chingari staff to visit children with severe eye problems with the intention of getting medical appointments for referrals to
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The Chingari Trust is a sanctuary for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, many of whom are now children. The center was set up in 2006 by the 2004 Goldman Environmental Award winners Rashida Bee and Champa
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Avril Avril Meyler, a retired holistic practitioner from the UK, is currently volunteering at Sambhavna and Chingari in Bhopal. She is using her skills to massage the children with disabilities at Chingari. Avril is currently raising funds
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