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Dream Trust

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Diabeties Research Education And Management Trust
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1995
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
<10
Number of Clients Served: 
395 children as of 2007
Summary: 

Dream Trust offers comprehensive health care to the type 1 insulin dependent, underprivileged diabetics, especially children, and with a particular focus on diabetic girls.

Key program components: 

DREAM Trust is a charitable institution working towards making the life of diabetic children, especially girls, more bearable and more meaningful.

The main objective of the Trust is to offer comprehensive health care to the type 1 insulin dependent, underprivileged diabetics, especially children, and with a particular focus on diabetic girls. Each patient receives highly purified mostly human insulin whose supply and frequency depends on the distance they have to travel (i.e. monthly for patients of Nagpur district, every 2 - 3 months for those living farther away). The goals of the Trust are the following:

• Reducing the morbidity and ensuring the survival of diabetic children • Reducing the long-term chronic complications of diabetes • Rehabilitation, including vocational training • Creating better awareness & education of children and their parents (Picnics, etc)

Program history: 

Many people in India are not medically insured and have to buy insulin injections, syringes and other accessories required for treatment. Poor families find it difficult to commit a quarter of their monthly income for the medicine and health care required by a diabetic child. This is why they try to find short cuts which they wrongly believe will make treatment less expensive. Debilitating, social, cultural and economic factors in India continue to discriminate against women and girls in appalling ways. This is why the Trust gives just and deserving priority to girls. This project of sponsoring these children was conceived after experiencing two shocking incidents of losing diabetic girls. Parents of these girls had stopped giving them insulin as they simply could not afford it any longer.

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