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The first Bhopal Medical Appeal, which appeared in The Guardian and The Observer on the 10th anniversary of the disaster, in December 1994, produced a massively generous response. Our first project was to open the clinic in Bhopal. To this end, the Sambhavna Trust was formed in India to run the clinic. Working together, we were able to buy a building, recruit doctors and staff. The preliminary work, including finding the building and negotiating its sale, and training staff took just over a year to complete and Sambhavna opened its doors in 1996.
Reports on Sambhavna’s progress evolved into a newsletter format called 777. The name arose from an attempt to capture the spirit of the Appeal. Someone suggested, ‘saat, saat, saat’, which in Hindi means ‘together, together, together’, but with a slight twist of the tongue could also mean ‘seven, seven, seven.’ ‘We’ means all of us, all together.
View and download current and back issues of 777.
View and download Bhopal Medical Appeal newspaper and advertising campaigns.
Download the 2009 BMA Sambhavna Bhopal Water Report
