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X no. of patients in remote villages were helped with cataract surgeries from Jan to Mar 2022 by Operation Blessing India.

Key Personnel

PRITI A. CHOUDHRY

Regional Director, South Asia

Priti has served on the Board of Operation Blessing India for nearly a decade, leading programs in clean water, health and education across the region. She has worked extensively with staff at the grass root level to reimagine development with them in the communities they serve. She believes that while we may not be able to help everyone, for those we do, we must dare to dream big.

Notable amongst programs she has initiated, is The Tree of Life Medical Clinics, to give excellent medical care to the needy in urban slum areas. Disasters in Nepal and India have had her leading from the front with Operation Blessing providing much needed relief and restoration of livelihood. Over the years, Priti has forged close partnerships with mission hospitals in the nation that made life saving medical assistance possible for many during the deadly second wave of the pandemic. Operation Blessing India champions inclusion and Priti is especially privileged to work with differently abled artisans.

Priti is a media professional with several years in mainstream media, producing for Star TV, BBC World, CNN before CBN. She works with Humanitarian and Creative teams to develop and communicate community strengthening Awareness Programs, all while maintaining a strictly reuse, recycle and reduce org culture.

Priti has Masters Degrees in History and in Mass Communication. She lives in Delhi, where she was born and raised, is learning to farm in the Himalayan mountains and is a kickboxing enthusiast.

A FAMILY’S CRY FOR HELP
DEOGARH DISTRICT, JHARKHAND – Meet Dular Murmu, a 30-year-old woman from Pandanatan village of the Deogarh district in Jharkhand, India. She belongs to the Santhal tribe, the third largest tribe in India. The occupation of the Santhals revolves around the forests in which they reside. Their basic needs are fulfilled from trees and plants of the forests. They are also engaged in hunting, fishing and cultivation for their livelihood. Dular lives with her husband and three children. Her husband works as a daily wage labourer. Her family became an outcast in the village due to caste issue and were prohibited to fetch water from the community wells. ​