the Gypsy Village Meets ECHO (EC Group Health Outreach)
If you’ve been keeping up with our outreach news, you’ve seen that we’ve been doing a lot of activities with the Gypsy village not far outside of the city of Chennai. Our last visit was for our Christmas party celebration. We visited again last week, this time as part of the annual EC Group medical […]
Beach Day
Spring finally arrived in Michigan this week. Good thing, too, because we were all starting to get cabin fever. It didn’t help that everyone in the India office (where it’s nice and sunny 365 days a year) got to go on a family beach outing. (Some of us Michiganders considered a beach outing for ourselves, […]
Little Hearts Visit
This Monday our office had the day off to celebrate Republic Day–what a better time than to go visit the people at Little Hearts?! Approximately 6.5% of the Indian population has some form of serious mental disorder. These people are marginalized not just by society, but also their own families. Parents will often abandon their […]
Sharing the Joy of Christmas with the Gypsies
In the Thiruvallur District, about 30 miles from Chennai, there’s a village of 186 people who are referred to as the Gypsies. These people are marginalized, considered to be the lowest members of Indian society–untouchable according to some Indian communities. They are popularly called Narikuravars, or nomads. Most are illiterate, uneducated, and marry among themselves. […]
Road Safety & First Aid Seminar
Every 4 minutes, one death is reported on the streets of India. India holds the highest number of deaths due to road accidents. Tamil Nadu (the state our office is located in) tops the list with 16,175 deaths in 67,757 accidents. The crucial time between the accident and getting the victim medical attention can often […]
Home for the Aged — Shanthi Bhavan
There are two categories of people who are at the Home for the age in India. First, ones who were abandoned by their families. Second, ones who had left their families on their own, fed up with the humiliation and ill-treatment from their family members. We in EC Group visit such elderly people in a […]
Blood Donation
Every year India requires about 40 million units of blood, out of which only a meager four million are available. To bridge this gap, EC Group, along with Cross Blood Foundation, conducts a Blood Donation camp for the Government Children’s Hospital during summer when the shortage of blood is acute. Volunteers both from EC group […]
Parenting Seminar
Women in urban India are becoming increasingly career oriented. Due to work pressure and long hours spent at the office, many parents do not spend quality or quantity time with their children. Children without sufficient parental care can become wrongly influenced by their friends, movies, television, along with countless other things. With this in mind, […]
Seminar on Physical Fitness
How many seminars have you been to where it required exercise? Probably not many, but this week all of our Datasoft employees got to do a bit of huffing and puffing at a seminar on physical fitness. If you’re a developer, you can relate to the feeling of sitting in front of a computer all […]
