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| Name
of organization |
Northeastern
Community Health Association (NECHA) |
| Year
of establishment |
1986 |
| Date
of registration |
22nd
August,1986 |
| Legal
Status |
Registered
under Societies registration act. XXI of
1860 (Imphal) India.
Registered with Income Tax Dept. under section
12A
Registered with Ministry of Home Affairs
under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
(FCRA) 1976 |
| Chief
Functionary |
Fr.
George Parackel, Director
NECHA Building
Post Box No. 40, Six Mile,
Khanapara P.O, Guwahati –781022
Assam (India)
Ph. 0361-2221794; 2224818
e-mail: directornecha@rediffmail.com |
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Genesis
Fr. K.C George, a diocesan priest
from the Archdiocese of Imphal, who was convinced
of the philosophy of community health and the practical
approach of alternative systems of treatment in North
East, was instrumental for conceiving the idea of
NECHA in the North-East. In fact he is the founder
father of NECHA. A team of nurse sisters was his support
in the initial stages.
Two dioceses Imphal & Dibrugarh picked up the
spirit of community health in the beginning and went
ahead with a lot of activities for the well being
of the rural populace of the dioceses and by and large
got the recognition of the diocesan authorities. The
committed leaders in these two dioceses who made the
rural health ministry the part and parcel of the diocesan
activities is carried forward even today.
The services rendered as presidents of NECHA by Fr.
KC George, Rev. Fr. Thomas Mekalath (A Homeo doctor
from Aizawl diocese), Sr. Barbara SCCG, Sr. Elizabeth
Edattukaran FMA should be recognized by the well-wishers
of NECHA. The struggle of Fr. Kurian Joseph, a diocesan
priest from the newly-formed diocese of Miao (Arunachal
Pradesh) as its director, in buying land and setting
up a permanent structure at Guwahati was a marvelous
effort.
The dedicated and committed nurse sisters of the NECHA
Member Institutions (MIs) who are rendering their
services in the rural areas where there are neither
hospitals nor doctors available are the real backbone
of NECHA.
What was lacking with these institutions in the past
and to a great extent even today is the absence of
a visionary perspective and approach. They lacked
the benefit of sharing of information and experience
because they were not organized as one entity. And
institutions both at micro and macro levels must have
a long term vision and a mission to make it viable
and effective currently as well as with future. This
need was felt and shared by many and the result was
the birth of NECHA. It has been trying to provide
a visionary's impetus to the working of its member
institutions at various levels and in different ways
in the past. It has been able to provide a regional
framework to the effects being made by its members
through management structures created at regional
and diocesan levels.
Today NECHA has, to some extent, achieved the status
and means of a regional organization and member institutions
have increasingly come to look for support and help
from it.
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Geographical Area of Intervention
NECHA,
through its member institutions represents seven states
of North East India. Ecclesiastically the same is divided
into 15 (fifteen) dioceses at present
Organizational Set Up |
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CHRONOLOGY
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Name
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Tenure
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Ecclesiastical
Advisors
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| Rt.
Rev. Lumen Monteiro CSC, DD |
| Rt.
Rev. Thomas Pulloppillil, DD |
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Presidents
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| Fr.
K. C. George
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| Fr.
Thomas Meckalath |
| Sr.
Barbara SCCG |
| Sr.
Elizabeth Edattukaran FMA |
| Sr.
Maria BS |
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| 1985-1996
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| 1996-1999 |
| 1999-2002 |
| 2002-2005 |
| 2005- |
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Directors
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| Fr.
Kurian Joseph |
| Fr.
Lazar Kakkassery |
| Fr.
George Parackel |
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| 1997-2002 |
| 2002-2006 |
| 2007- |
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Administrators
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Sr.
Gemma Sebastian MSMHC
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Martha SCCG |
| Sr.
Mary Kuttala |
| Sr.
Gulielmina SCCG |
| Sr.
Jocelyn SMI |
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1996-1999
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| 2000-2003 |
| 2004 |
| 2005-2007 |
| 2007- |
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Annual General Body
Meetings
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Dates
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Venue
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Theme
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1
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14-09-86
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DonBosco
Hall, Shillong
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Constitution
& formation of diocesan units
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20-09-87
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Dibrugarh
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What
do you mean by community health?
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2-10-88
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Mt.
Tabor Retreat House, Kohima
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Strength
of the diocesan unit is the strength of
NECHA.
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31-12-89
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Little
Flower School, Dibrugarh
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Community
health care through community participation.
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5
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18-12-90
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Mercy
Home, Shillong
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Health
orientation & health education.
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6
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26-2-92
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Mercy
Home, Shillong
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Community
organizing & people’s participation
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10-11/10/94
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Don
Bosco Hall, Guwahati
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Reach
out to the poor, through community Health
care approach. |
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27-28/11/95
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Pastoral
Centre, Shillong
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NECHA
for the grassroots |
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9
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4-5/11/96
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Doomdooma,
Tinsukia |
People’s
Health in People’s Hand
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10
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5-6/2/97
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Mancotta,
Dibrugarh
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Bring
happiness through healing |
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11
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20-21/10/98 |
Don
Bosco Hall, Guwahati
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Safe
Motherhood-Right of every women |
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12
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8-9/9/99
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Seva
Kendra, Silchar |
Malaria
the Killer |
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5-6/5/00 |
Good
Shepherd Seminary, Dimapur |
Globalization
& Health of the poor |
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8-10/2/’01 |
Cathedral
Hall, Shillong
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Health
Care and Empowerment-a challenge |
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15
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20-21/4/02 |
St.
Joseph’s Convent, Tezpur
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HIV/AIDS
a Challenge to health care |
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27-28/2/03
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Parish
Hall, Panbazar, Guwahati
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Role
of Trained Health Personnel in the Changing
Health Scenario of Northeast
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19-21/1/04
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Auxillium
Convent, Tura
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Universal
Access to Health Services, women & Children
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28-29/1/05
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Bishop’s
House, Bongaigaon
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Universal
Access to Health for the displaced
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6-7/11/06 |
Jirsong
Asong, Diphu |
Malaria
Epidemic-A Challenge for Northeast |
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FACILITIES
NECHA
has a training centre cum conference hall with accommodation
and Fooding facilities for twenty people comfortably.
AREA
OF EXPERTISE
NECHA
has got well equipped and experienced resource team
on the following subjects: -
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Herbal Medicine
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HIV/AIDS
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VCHC Formation
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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
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Self Help Group
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Peace Building
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Interpersonal Communication
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Leadership Building
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Malaria Control
STRENGTH OF NECHA
NECHA has its own land and building for the office
work, stay of its staff and to conduct training programme
for small groups.
All the diocesan 15 units of NECHA are well established
with its own executive body.
NECHA has got a strong and vibrant executive body
of its own with the diocesan unit presidents as its
own board members.
It has a Bishop as an ecclesiastical adviser who is
the chairman of the health commission of North Eastern
Catholic Bishops Conference of India.
Though the region is infested with insurgent groups
and others find it difficult to move in the remotest
corners of the region, NECHA's member sisters are
welcomed and respected by the villagers.
The North Eastern Regional Units of 'Sister Doctor's
Forum' and 'Catholic Nurse's Guild' were formed at
the initiative of NECHA.
A well established library with a mine of information
on health is a great asset for NECHA.
Qualified and competent resource persons with long
years of experience is the back bone of NECHA.
ACHIEVEMENTS
400+ community leaders trained on the VCHC concept,
leadership, herbal medicines and community health.
259 health workers and community leaders trained to
diagnose simple diseases and dispense ordinary, harmless
medicines.
79 persons trained to find out the local existing
conflict situations in their areas and make the local
people capable to handle certain conflict situations.
1085 persons were made aware on the different issues
of health in the three parishes of Tezpur Diocese
alone in the recent past.
NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION
NECHA
is sharing good relationship with the following regional,
national and international bodies.
GOVERNMENT
National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child
Development (NIPCCD) Assam State AIDS Control Society
(ASACS)
INGOs
International Service Association –India (INSA-India),
Bangalore.
United Nations International Children Education Fund
(UNICEF).
Cordaid – The Netherlands
Misereor – Germany
Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS)
NGOs
Catholic Relief Service (CRS) Guwahati.
AIDS prevention Society (APS), Guwahati.
National Alliance Mission (NAM) Guwahati.
Bosco Reach Out (BRO), Guwahati.
Rural Research & Training Centre (RRTC), Shillong.
Guwahati Gana Seva Society (GGSS), Guwahati.
North Eastern Diocesan Social Forum (NEDSF), Guwahati.
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Copyright
© 2006, North Eastern Community Health Association
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