Founded 2002 Location Delhi Website www.brainstroke.org | Focus Healthcare Area served India | |
Founder K G Suresh and Sunita Govind | ||
Subhadra Nambudiri Foundation or SNF is an Indian charitable trust developed to create awareness about brain stroke and diseases leading to it such as Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Based in Delhi, it was founded by K G Suresh, a journalist and Sunita Govind, a media consultant.
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Activities
Over the last seven years, SNF has been working to spread awareness about brain stroke through various programmes. An annual lecture called 'Subhadra Nambudiri Memorial Lecture' has been widely publicized and has generated good response from leading neurologists such as Dr P N Renjen, Dr P K Dave, Dr A K Singh and doctors of other related diseases such as diabetes and blood pressure. Apart from lectures, the foundation has conducted various community interface programme such as interaction with orphans, community interface programmes with leprosy patients, medical and Yoga camps for media persons etc. The foundation has also adopted the method of creating awareness and spreading the latest development in the field of brain stroke through a daily newsletter called 'SNF Brain Stroke Samachar' which is being circulated among neurologists, medical professionals, organisations working on stroke and other related diseases, media persons and concerned people. As part of its efforts to spread awareness about various health related issues, a health section on the popular India specific portal www.sarkaritel.com [1] was supported by the Foundation which was launched by the former Delhi Health Minister and advisor to WHO Dr. Harshavardhan. Several organisations, such as World Stroke Organisation (WSO), have recognized the work done by the foundation in the field of creating awareness about stroke.
Partnership
The Foundation has become a part of the 'NGO Partnership'[2], an initiative of the Planning Commission of India. The Partnership system has been developed in consultation with a host of Ministries and Departments including the Ministry of Culture, Department of Higher Education and Department of School Education and Literacy. Recently, it has also entered into partnership with another NGO Bharat Shodh [3] in their Livelihood & Skills Development Alliance under Million People Programme for giving employable skills to at least a million underprivileged people.