We’ve spent the last few days working with Lifespring Hospitals. Lifespring builds their hospitals in rural areas and offers relatively cheap services for normal delivery, C-sectio
n, hysterectomies, and tubectomies. On Friday they’ll be putting on a Sreemantham Festival at the new branch of Lifespring Hospitals that opened in Boduppal (a little town right outside of Hyderabad) 2 weeks ago. The Sreemantham Festival is a sort of baby shower that is held for women who are 6, 7 or 8 months pregnant. They will be given little gifts as part of the ceremony, but the main reason for the one we’re having on Friday is to
promote prenatal checkups and hospitals births for the women of Boduppal. Lifespring is very organized; for the past few days we’ve been going out and making house visits with their outreach workers, as well as visiting immunization stations and children’s schools to recruit wome
n for our festival. Nilu and I have been working on making a nutrition poster and brochure for the women at the festival, and all of us have been helping out with making posters/publicizing/getting everything ready for the festival! Boduppal is really far away and our driver, Sai, drives like a psychopath... but it's okay, every ride is an adventure. We always pass this gargantuan black monkey statue on the way to/from Boduppal with a ridiculous expression on its face, and I swear it makes us laugh every time :)
n, hysterectomies, and tubectomies. On Friday they’ll be putting on a Sreemantham Festival at the new branch of Lifespring Hospitals that opened in Boduppal (a little town right outside of Hyderabad) 2 weeks ago. The Sreemantham Festival is a sort of baby shower that is held for women who are 6, 7 or 8 months pregnant. They will be given little gifts as part of the ceremony, but the main reason for the one we’re having on Friday is to 
promote prenatal checkups and hospitals births for the women of Boduppal. Lifespring is very organized; for the past few days we’ve been going out and making house visits with their outreach workers, as well as visiting immunization stations and children’s schools to recruit wome
n for our festival. Nilu and I have been working on making a nutrition poster and brochure for the women at the festival, and all of us have been helping out with making posters/publicizing/getting everything ready for the festival! Boduppal is really far away and our driver, Sai, drives like a psychopath... but it's okay, every ride is an adventure. We always pass this gargantuan black monkey statue on the way to/from Boduppal with a ridiculous expression on its face, and I swear it makes us laugh every time :)
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