{"id":4795,"date":"2022-09-19T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2024-10-07T05:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T05:15:20","slug":"padman-is-our-man-on-the-new-outreach-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/2022\/09\/19\/padman-is-our-man-on-the-new-outreach-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Padman is our man (on the new outreach programme)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4795\" class=\"elementor elementor-4795\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06b2e30 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"06b2e30\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-987cbcc e-flex 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menstrual hygiene, family planning, mother and child health etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 5-strong team has been serving 5,000\u00a0 people in 6 slums, but with the arrival of Sobhan is expanding to reach 4,000 more people in 4 more slum areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d21b16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0d21b16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-1-1024x576-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4798 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-1-1024x576-1.jpeg 1024w, 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He said: \u00a0\u201cI conducted a session on menstrual health for CR\u2019s women staff and thus was connected with this amazing charity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now he is part of the NGO himself he said: \u201cI feel great to be able to join the Calcutta Rescue team. I am also learning a lot from much-experienced staff.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He then started to employ women who had lost their jobs during the pandemic and were part of CR\u2019s Restoration of Livelihoods project to pack and sell sanitary pads.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf29eb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cf29eb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4799 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-640x360.jpeg 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 825px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 825\/464;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4799\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shovan-2-1024x576-1-640x360.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/noscript>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cab9092 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cab9092\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Santanu who is the Head of the Outreach Team said, \u201cNow we can reach more beneficiaries. We did baseline surveys of slums before starting the awareness program. No two areas are the same. It helped us to know what type of awareness programmes to focus on in that particular area. Sobhan is a brilliant addition to our team. His expertise in awareness programs will benefit us greatly\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Ghosh, Head of CR\u2019s Medical Department,\u00a0 said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe provide healthcare facilities through our Street Medicine programme but if we can help the beneficiaries understand how they can stop getting the diseases, it\u2019ll be sustainable. If we can make them understand that drinking contaminated water can cause typhoid, then they will avoid it. After all, prevention is better than cure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padman is our man (on the new outreach programme) September 19, 2022 Our new outreach team has got a rather special new member \u2013 Sobhan Mukherjeee \u2013 better known in Kolkata as Padman.\u00a0\u00a0 Sobhan, 26,\u00a0 who became the joint supervisor of the team last month, is famous across West Bengal for his extensive awareness programmes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}