Sharmishtha Patil Email & Phone Number

As the saying goes, 'Health is Wealth', hence I like to help people be healthy, especially Women and Children. In youth impressed by reading many Indian authors, I had decided to work in Rural areas.Here at Gram Seva Trust, Kharel, I get to both the these things, help people get access to health services and generate health awareness in community so that they become healthy and I get to work in rural areas of Navsari and Dang districts of Gujarat, which are predominantly tribal areas. Medical language is difficult for people to understand, so I love to create health education tools in local languages, with easy, simplified, lucid words and pictures or videos. Similarly I love building the capacity of rural health workers using simple tools and language.This has helped me implement projects in maternal and child women's health, adolescent health and geriatric health and train village health workers successfully for the last 20 years.Other than health I like to spend time with tribal children in our hostel and do value based activities for their overall development. I believe in Simple Living and High Thinking and try to inculcate these values in children by personally practicing it.