Mehar Baba Charitable Trust
Mehar Baba Charitable Trust (MBCT) is a registered not for profit organization (reg. No. 3568) formed on 16th Sept 1998. As a policy MBCT keeps equidistance from all religious connotations and is non political. Empowering rural women and providing Medi-care, Edu-care, and Socio-care services by serving the population base of 2,09,339 underprivileged living in 186 villages in district Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India.
The Trust’s vision is to bridge the Urban-Rural gap in education, medicare, employment opportunities and to support children of parents below the poverty line in Punjab. MBCT develops women and youth through skills & computer training, health care, social awareness and much more.
MBCT is dedicated to empowering women in rural areas by making them independent and knowledgeable entrepreneurs and preserving a rich heritage. The women become breadwinners. This is achieved through vocational training, computer studies and spoken English programs. Women are trained in a marketable skill such as Garment Making, Phulkari Craft, Machine Embroidery, Aari Zardozi Embroidery and Rug Making. Already more than 500 women are in gainful employment working from their homes and in local boutiques, and few enterprising women have started their own garment boutiques. Some women have formed Self Help Groups to produce Phulkari Garments & imparting training to women.
The Trust has built 20,000 Sq ft community centre, farmhouses and a high tech high school is in development too. The community development centre in Punjab at Bassi Pathana which holds a computer centre, language lab, vocational centre, Women empowerment Enterprise and convention centre.
Women empowerment Enterprise, also known as ‘Phulkari Makers of Bassi Pathana’, where women are encouraged to work towards gaining commercial knowledge of their product like packing, finishing and marketing.
In 2009, MBCT opened a hockey nursery which promotes the game of Hockey to under privileged children between the ages of 6-10. Former National and International players are the program’s coaches developing new talent for the game.
Vision and Mission
1. A manifestation of earnest aspiration of its founders to work for renaissance of the Rural India.
2. Bridging the yawning Urban-Rural gap in opportunities for Education, Medicare and Employment.
3. To Support Children of parents “Below the Poverty Line”.
4. All things equal special effort for Women Empowerment & Female child.
Village Health Management Program
Home Village Health Management
Mehar Baba Charitable Trust
Mehar Baba Charitable Trust is actively working with some of the top names in medical professions (PGIMER-SPH) to provide free Medi-Care services to the under-previleged people of 187 Villages falling under Fatehgarh Sahib District.
Our team of field workers regularly visits these villages to do the pre-registration of patients. All pre-registered patients are then brought and catered at our monthly organised OPD at Bassi Pathana MHKCDC.
Medi-Care Activities
Health Awareness Roadshows
MBCT holds 4 to 6 Health Road shows in villages every month.During a road show, the Trust carries out IEC Activities providing health related information, educating the villagers, and communicating the ways to combat diseases. Free Tests are conducted to screen the villagers for high blood sugar, and blood pressure; and anemia in girls as well as pregnant women.
Weekly Health Clinic
Weekly Health clinics are oraganised by MBCT with preliminary tests at MHKCDC and checkups by Doctors from SPH-PGIMER at local community health centre.Every clinic draws over 100 patients from villages and free medicines are provided to the patients from the economically weaker section.
Free Eye Camp
Every Year Two IOL Cataract Surgery camps organised with the support of Rotary Clubs. The eye surgeries carries su by expert doctors from the famous Dr. G S Randhawa Eye Hospital and LASIK Centre Patiala. All the patients go through eye examination and vision testing. The villagers identified for Surgeries underwent blood tests for Sugar, HCV and HIV. During 2015-2016 of sOPD 816 villagers went through eye examination and vision testing and 222 benefited by IOL cataract Surgery.
Contact Info
Mehar Baba Charitable Trust (Regd.)
Mata Harnam Kaur Community Development Centre
Bassi Pathana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, INDIA
Tel.: +91-1763-251000
Email: mbct2005@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.mbtrust.org
RegisteredOffice:
55/2,#2030Sector-21C,Chandigarh-160022,India
Phone:+91-172-2748156,+91-172-6540855
Facsimile:+91-172-2740493
Email: mbct2005@yahoo.com