The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point�s South Asia Society and Shama, Inc. are joining hands to help those who lost everything in the recent natural disaster in South Asia.

The organizations are collaborating with Integrated Rural Health Care Hospital in South India at Pavagada, Karnataka. Chair of this health facility, Japanand, came to Stevens Point last August to talk to UWSP students at the University Center and at a yoga studio. He emphasized the natural need to be connected at the global family level. This health care center has special programs for leprosy, blindness prevention and cure, and tuberculosis.

Shama, Inc. was working closely with this health care center even before the disaster. The hospital is planning to adopt two villages that have been severely affected. President of UWSP�s South Asia Society, Ellen DCruz, hails from Kerala, a state in the southern part of India. There was loss of life near her town.

Checks may be written to South Asia Society or to Shama, Inc. and send to Kameshwar Razdan at 2624 Peck Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481.

Shama, Inc. is a local tax-exempt 501 (3) (c) organization dedicated to advancing cultural diversity education in Wisconsin and to help the poor in India. For more information, e-mail Jyoti Chander at j2chande@uwsp.edu or call715-346-3574 or 715-341-2058, Ellen DCruz at 715-252-4562.