Mission

Bharulata is undertaking this formidable challenge to be the voice for millions of voiceless girls.

She is undertaking this tough challenge spreading the message of “Save girls, educate girls” and promoting woman empowerment, which greatly affects many parts of society, particularly in India. She hopes her driving challenge would contribute significantly in the movement of "Save Girls, Educated Girls". Bharulata is supporting two UK based cancer charities and two India based charities through her driving challenge.

This drive will be a small contribution as a British national of Indian origin in strengthening the goodwill, friendship and trade between the UK and India. This initiative would become part of a wider generation UK-India initiative, and a perfect fit within UK's wider collaborations with India. Our nations have so much in common and we share many traits. This drive is about bringing the people of our nations closer together. This drive would also spread a message of goodwill and friendship to the countries she will traverse.

The UK-India relationship is strong, with a shared history going back centuries, and now a shared vision of the future. We are two strong democracies, connected with cultural institutions and the English language. The Indian diaspora, which totals about 1.5 million people and is the largest ethnic minority group in the UK, has a very important role to play in helping to strengthen the links between our two nations.

This is an effort to highlight the strong people-to- people links between our two nations. I hope the next generation of people of India and UK, will be inspired by this effort.

Bharulata believes that every girl has a right to life and should have right to education. The origin of a girl child is an origin of a mother of the next generation. Mothers are the first educator of their children and educator of next generation. Educated girls are the force to move forward the world. Education is the way to change the world. Education sustains human values. It forms the foundation for learning and critical thinking. Education also provides skills for girls to become more self-reliant and provides them with more opportunities.

This drive is an enormous undertaking and a contagious thirst for discovery of the grandness of all that is possible in the world, so that other humans are inspired to discover and fulfil their utmost potentials. It is showing the power of an individual, and what we are all proficient in doing, if we follow our heart through our action. This drive also supports the fund raising mission for the provision of medical care to the poor and underprivileged in rural India, girl’s education in India and fund raising for cancer support in UK. Any funds raised through the ‘world record attempt’ will be used to support two of her chosen cancer charities in UK, bring beneficial changes to ‘save the girl, educate the girl campaign, tribal girl’s education and to the provision of medical care to the poor and underprivileged in rural India.

Bharulata saw her grandfather die on a hospital bed due to the lack of adequate health care facilities in town. She is determined to bring world-class health care facilities to her native region. Bharulata has closely witnessed the sufferings of people from her region and witnessed that the people needed to travel many hours for the major tertiary care facilities. The health care project is borne out of Bharulata’s determination and commitments to ensure that the underprivileged and poor have greater access to good health care within the vicinity. Bharulata is determined to make a difference in the area of health care and is undertaking fundraising activities as the world record drive from the UK to India in order to bring these health care projects to fruition.


SAVE GIRLS, EDUCATE GIRLS


Save Girls is a campaign in India to end the gender-selective abortion of female foetus (female foeticide). Female Foeticide is an act of killing a female foetus outside of the legal channels of abortion. It occurs in India and many other parts of the world for assumed cultural reasons that span centuries. Female foeticide has led to a sharp drop in the ratio of girls born in contrast to boy infants in some states in India. Discrimination against girl infants, for several reasons, has combined with the technology to result in a rise in abortions of foetuses identified as female during ultrasonic testing.

In traditional Indian culture, sons are looked upon as assets - breadwinners and caretakers of their parents in their old age. In many sections of the society, parents feel that daughters are “paraya dhan” or that they would go away after marriage. In many sections of the society, girls are regarded as a liability because parents have to give a dowry when she marries. Studies show that since ultrasounds made sex determination possible, as many as 12 million girls may have been aborted during the past four decades in India. It is a collective responsibility of everybody to wake the society up to realize the responsibility. It is due to family and societal pressure that girls are killed in the womb.   Read More


PRISH FOUNDATION TRUST

The trust was set up with an aim to bring about a paradigm shift in the way health care is delivered in South Gujarat region (Major tribal region). A mission to assimilate the finest in medical and surgical talent and technique, to bring them closer to the common man, poor and underprivileged. It was nurtured in the heart of the founders, who laid the foundation of this project back in 2010. A few motivated professional formed the core of the team. Detailed plans are formulated to construct tertiary care hospital. The main goal is to blend technology with human skills and ingenuity by providing state of the art equipment, assembling a team of talented and committed professionals and creating an atmosphere comparable to what exists in foreign countries to dispense quality health care to poor and underprivileged at no cost.

Between years 2010 to September 2015, a period during the project grew. The most significant and heartening aspect is that enormous variety of valuable work carried out. None of the activities would have been possible without the personal commitment and willingness of team members. They give unstintingly of their time, their energy and their skill to support the work towards this project.   Read More


HEALTH CARE IN INDIA

India has a population approaching 1.3 billion and need of a better healthcare system. Currently, 700 million people lack access to affordable medical care in rural India. 80% of hospitals are in the urban areas. Smaller cities, semi-urban areas and rural areas do not have access to specialized healthcare services. Demand for the specialised healthcare is on the increase as chronic adult diseases such as cardiovascular illnesses, diabetes and cancer are on the rise in India.

Healthcare costs can be financially devastative when the healthcare infrastructure is underdeveloped. For the majority of Indian lower to middleclass nationals even one hospital admission can cost at least 58% of their annual income, which leads to long-term financial devastation.

There are other factors that increase the need for affordable medical provision in India:

• demand for low cost, high quality healthcare.
• need for Minimal Invasive Surgery training
• changing disease patterns, which result in the need for specialised care.
• absence of quality hospitals providing tertiary healthcare in many rural and tribal regions.
• The advances in medical technology are such that it is essential for the medical infrastructure to keep abreast of the changes.