Activities from April 2004 to March 2005

• Every alternate month, Sanvedana Foundation arranged sharing meetings, where Sanvedana members discussed their problems and their views on epilepsy. That was always useful for the new epileptic patients how to cope–up with epilepsy. Around 40–50 patients and their parents came to every meeting.
• Sanvedana Foundation is running ‘Epilepsy Counseling Centre’ on every Tuesday evening. Up till now around 300 people have visited to the counseling centre for their epilepsy problem. Many a times, people get scared to speak in the group about their disease. So they can speak openly in counseling centre and they get a proper direction for the treatment as well.
• Sanvedana Foundation arranged some special meetings for Youth. The problems of the youngsters, suffering with epilepsy are different. So these meetings were very useful for them. For some meetings Ms. Renutai Gavaskar was invited as a guest.
• Sanvedana Foundation invited Dr. Nandan Yardi, (Epileptologist), and Dr. Surekha Rajadhyaksha (Epilepsy Paediatrician), to know the medical view about Epilepsy.
• Sanvedana Foundation arranged one lecture about ‘Yoga and Epilepsy’, i.e. How Yogavidhya is helpful for epileptic patient. That lecture was with practical training, so all the patients and parents liked it very much.
• One lecture was on ‘Diet and Epilepsy’, which was given by Dr. Vijaya Sathe, (Dietician). According to her, an allopathic medicine does the job of repairing during an illness, whereas nutrition & diet does the job of servicing. The topic of her talk was on nutrition therapy for epileptic patients. The medicines, which patients take for these diseases, contain foreign chemicals, which may be harmful to our kidney, liver & brain. These medicines never reach the root cause of the diseases. So instead, if the epileptic patients have a proper diet with right vitamin supplements, their health will improve.
• Dr. Maya Tulpule was invited to talk about “Shweta” – A support group started by her to bring together people suffering from Leukoderma. This is an illness in which the patients suffer from white patches on the skin. Sanvedana arranged this meeting because people suffering with epilepsy should know, that epilepsy is not one problem, there are so many other problems in our society and people are still living with those problems.
• Sanvedana Foundation arranged a workshop of hobbies. In that workshop patients realized how hobbies help them to divert their mind from the disease.
• Sanvedana Foundation arranged a trip to ‘Surya Shibeer’, near Varasgaon Backwater. This outing and get–together was just for enjoyment, relaxation with nature & not for discussing epilepsy and issues. All Sanvedana members and their parents really enjoyed this picnic. Sanvedana members walked in the jungle, and a guide gave them information about the plants, trees and the nature as well. This was a very good experience for them.

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