Monday, February 12, 2007



Details of the field agency

Name: Rural & Urban Socio-cultural Help. (R U S H)
Address Of The Agency:
Upper Nua Sahi
Puri-752001
India.

Contact Person: Debasis Rath. Director

Address: Upper Nua Sahi, Puri
Pin- 752001.
Tel: (06752) 225203, 229999, 229990
Cell: (0)9437037203, 9861063489(director)
Cell: (0)9337667398 (Chief Coordinator)
Email: indrush@gmail.com
Email: childline1098@hotmail.com

Area Of Operation: State Of Orissa.

Area Of Expertise: * Health
1. HIV/Aids – Malaria-TB
Rush works at length in the promotion of the right of the People Living with HIV/AIDS. The Orissa aids solidarity forum is a network of 30 member institutions working across the state to monitor livelihoods of the people affected and infected with HIV/Aids.

Before the inception of its broader move Rush was working with several aids working agencies across the Sub-Saharan Africa for the last 15 years and integrated AIDS, MALARIA and TB in the intervention processes undertaken in the most vulnerable parts of the state. Besides this rush works as a trainer agency for several INGO and their development aid partners. Agencies like Action Aid, American Red Cross, Save The Children UK, ISS, Oxfam GB, Concern Worldwide, Cif are in the regular clientele groups in this process. Rush has also partnered the NICP-I, NICP-II and in the recent National Aids prevention activity.
Integrating AIDS, MALARIA and TB also lead the agency to campaign for universal access of the ARV for the Hiv+ people who are at the symptomatic stage of AIDS. In this context the agency is building rapport with researchers of specific academic interest to develop innovative strategy with reference to the current trend of drug and insecticide resistance and due to social and ecological changes. The research cell provides opportunities to cater the need of the down trodden and poor. The Trans-disciplinary approach of the intervention always needs placement activity through knowledge-interns and personnel from different academia.

2. Education.
Rush is engaged in the governance and research on primary education in the state. A state network comprising 30 partners are implementing the research phase of the education governance project running under Common Wealth Education Program. Rush also works on the state policy of education by means of budget analysis. In the remote areas of access rush implements bridge camps for the drop out children and extends other environmental supports to retain more children in school.

3. Child Rights
In response to the implementation of CRC rush promotes child rights taking into account of the fundamental rights of children. A national toll free telephone helpline caters emergency need of the children in distress keeps the database of the children on the street, support systems available for the abandoned and neglected. The help network extends medical support and sponsorship to children in emergency basis. Besides this Rush works as a hub of international networks like CACL, CACT, OASF, CIF to redress the need of the marginalized children.

4. Volunteer support and internships.
The field area though vast enough and the management policy is transparent and democratic, scholars from several parts of the world have free access to the internships and field level research programs.

5.
The women’s consortium
It deals in supporting women victims of violence through a massive network of women activists and correlates all the activities of the agency though equal participation and works as a watch dog committee for the issues like sexual violence against women, gender sensitivity, equal dignity for HIV positive women, women’s initiative in enterprise and so on.



6.
Research:
The research core group comprises some research aspirants and scholars of multiple disciplines those are engaged in some social, scientific research activity being funded by indigenous and external research agencies.

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