Programme 06 — Festivals & health camps
The festival is the excuse; the check-up is the point.
Kalam Jayanthi at a government school, Sankranti at an old age home — and a health camp in the same week, with local doctors.
Dr. Kalam's birthday, 15 October, is the one day the foundation insists on: a function at a school, a meal at a home, and a speech that is short. Sankranti and Dasara get the same treatment with less ceremony.
We hold health camps alongside, because a festival gathers the people a camp needs. General check-ups, eyes, teeth, blood pressure and sugar — and a written referral for anyone who needs more than a camp can give.
How it is run
Camps are held only where we already work, with doctors from the district hospital or local practices who give a Sunday. Nobody is charged, nothing is diagnosed that cannot be followed up, and every referral is tracked.
What it includes
The short list, agreed with the school, the home or the household.
How you can help
Three ways that actually move this programme forward.
Send a doctor
One Sunday, in your own district. We handle the venue, the queue and the paperwork.
Sponsor a camp
Medicines, spectacles, consumables and the volunteers' travel for one camp.
Give spectacles
A pair of reading glasses changes an elder's month entirely.
Write to kalamfoundationts@gmail.com or sign up as a volunteer. We answer within three working days.
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