The Bhopal Medical Appeal

Registered charity number 1117526

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£30 provides a month’s physiotherapy for four children

£100 runs a minibus for a month, bringing ten children to Chingari

£250 buys a month’s supply of inhalers for people with asthma

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£10 pays for a child to have one month of speech therapy

£30 provides a month’s physiotherapy for four children

£50 provides special education to seven children for a month

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A Healing Garden Grows in Bhopal

Why your donation matters

In 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked 27 tons of deadly toxic gas. 25,000 have died to date as a result of the contamination and more than 120,000 people still suffer from chronic illness.

For the gas victims, your donation matters enormously because the two clinics which we fund, the Sambhavna and Chingari Trust, are the only providers of entirely free medical care to the accident victims which otherwise might be unnaffordable.

The Sambhavna Clinic and the Chingari Trust, funded by the Bhopal Medical Appeal, together have lovingly treated 40,000 patients in Bhopal. This would not have been possible without the generous and kind donations and fundraising of some of the British people.

We also campaign to make Union Carbide and DOW Chemical accountable.

Case study: donations in action

Amir, the boy whose fingers were fused, lives in Blue Moon Colony, on swampy ground between the toxic ponds and the railway line. In this place, many children are born with physical and mental defects and virtually everyone is ill. The pesticide residues are everywhere.

At times, when the wind gets up, whirlwinds of chemical dust play in the alleys alongside the children.

Amir didn't used to like playing, because he hated being different. He would go around with a heavy frown to make himself look fierce and would hold his hands up and stare through them like a magician, as if to work a spell on anyone who dared tease him.

The Chingari Trust was set up specifically to help children suffering from disabilities in Bhopal. With funding provided by the BMA, the Trust provided a simple operation to separate Amir's fingers. Amir says: "I've grown so used to practising dark looks. It's a habit, but now I am so happy to have good hands, I'll have to learn to smile."

8 year old Amir before the operation