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Sambhavna News — Sambhavna News - March 2018

The Bhopal Marathon — The Bhopal Marathon - August 2012

Atal Ayub Nagar — Community Report 'Atal Ayub Nagar'- Sambhavna Trust - 2009

BMA Sambhavna Water Report — Analysis of chemical contaminants in groundwater & drinking water surrounding Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) plant site in Bhopal - BMA & Sambhavna Trust - 2009

Sambhavna Medical Research — Briefing Report on Medical Research by Sambhavna Trust - 2003

Asthma World Conf — Effects of yoga practices for respiratory disorders related to the Union Carbide Gas Disaster in 1984-XVI World Congress of Asthma 1999 - Sambhavna Trust

BMA ‘Bhopal Matters’ Newsletter

Bhopal Matters - Autumn 2018

Bhopal Matters - Summer 2017

BMA ‘777’ Newsletters

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777 Winter 2010 — 777 - Winter 2010

777 Winter 2008 — 777 - Winter 2008

777 Autumn 2007 — 777 - Autumn 2007

777 Spring 2006 — 777 - Spring 2006

777 Spring-Autumn 2005 — 777 - Spring-Autumn 2005

777 Autumn 2004 — 777 - Autumn 2004

777 Spring 2004 — 777 - Spring 2004

777 October 2003 — 777 - October 2003

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Amnesty Publications

Irresponsible Investments- September 2018

Amnesty 30 Years Report — Amnesty 30 Years Report - December 2014

Injustice Incorporated - Amnesty Pamphlet — Injustice Incorporated - Amnesty Pamphlet - 2014

Dodging Responsibility - Amnesty pamphlet — Dodging Responsibility - Amnesty Pamphlet - May 2009

The Bhopal Legacy. Greenpeace 1999

Other Publications

Indian Institute of toxicological research (IITR). Analysis of Drinking Water Samples From Bhopal (Ground Water Samples). 12 June 2018.

OHS History — Harsh lessons in OHS history: the Union Carbide disaster - OHS Professional - June 2018

Pesticide News — Dow DuPont: A Contamination Legacy - p4-6 - Pesticide News January 2018

Vision Screening — Vision screening results in a cohort of Bhopal gas disaster survivors - CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 112, NO. 10, 25 MAY 2017

Ethecon Black Planet Award — Ethecon Black Planet Award 2014/2015

IChemE Safety Centre Remembering Bhopal — Loss Prevention Bulletin - IChemE Safety Centre - Remembering Bhopal - December 2014

Crisis Response — The second Bhopal disaster-Crisis Response - December 2014

Safety Layers — Consider the role of safety layers in the Bhopal Disaster - Ronald J Willey - December 2014

Criminal Failure — A Short History of the Bhopal Criminal Prosecutions. Social Justice Vol. 41-1/2. Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism. December 2014

Thirty Years After — Thirty Years After Bhopal: Articles published in The Statesman - December 2014

Aradiumenge Article — ARA Diumenge #30, 30-11-2014.
‘Bhopal 30 Years of Agony’.
Montse Argerich Oró, Jordi Ferrando i Arrufat - 30 November 2014

MFCB Article — Victims of Apathy - Bhopal Disaster's Unenviable Legacy - Medico Friend Circle Bulletin - March - December 2014

Bhopal Horror — Bhopal Horror Revisited - A Jeff Prager Publication - April 2013

Indian Institute Toxicology Report — Indian Institute of Toxicology Research. Analysis of soil and groundwater samples in Bhopal. January 2013

KBlochProcessReliability — Learning from Bhopal: Preventing Catastrophic Process Releases - Kenneth Bloch & Briana Jung - December 2012

Women access — Women's access to healthcare 28 years after the Bhopal disaster: A case study of Jai Prakash Nagar - R.Shadaan - December 2012

Co-op AGM — AGM & Final Agenda Coop Party Conference 2012. Motion 27 passed, condemns London Olympics for accepting Dow sponsorship and using Dow materials for the stadium ‘wrap’.

Cold Type — Olympic Shame by Jack Laurenson - p24-29 - ColdType - February 2012

Legacy Suffering — A Legacy of Suffering - 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster - Visual Anthropology Review - Autumn 2010

Toxic Groundwater — Toxic Groundwater-Bhopal's second disaster - Pesticide Action Network - March 2010

Bhopal XXV — Bhopal XXV - Photographer Stéphane Bouillet curated book with images by Micha Patault and Kostas Pliakos - December 2009

CSE Report — Contamination of soil & water inside & outside the Union Carbide India Ltd, Bhopal - Centre for Science & Environment - December 2009

Pallone Statement — Statement made for the 25th anniversary of the disaster by US Congressman, Frank Pallone - December 2009

Death Trap-Telegraph — Death Trap - Telegraph Magazine - Sept 2009

Int Med Comm — The International Medical Commission on Bhopal: Findings & Recommendations - December 2003

Safer Choice — The Safer Choice - Beyond Pesticides - December 2003

Driving Dangerously — Driving Dangerously - Pesticide Action Network - December 2003

JAMA Paper — Methyl Isocyanate Exposure and Growth Patterns of Adolescents in Bhopal - JAMA, October 2003

Warwick University — Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Global Corporations and Human Wrongs - Warwick University - January 2001

Corporate Killing — Corporate Killing by Tara Jones. Published by Free Association Books / London / 1988

Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work. International Labour Organisation. April 2019

Other BMA Donor Mailings

Winter 2019 Mailing — Winter Letter 2019

Summer 2017 Mailing — Summer Letter 2017

Dow Chemical — Christmas Letter 2015

Farah's 2014 Letter — Winter Letter 2014

Summer 2014 Letter — Summer Letter 2014

Chingari Bazooka — Summer 2013 - Chingari Bazooka

Chingari Bazooka — Spring 2013 - Chingari Bazooka

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bhopalmedicalappeal Nov 25

In the immediate aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, Carbide’s CEO, Warren Anderson, flew to India. He was immediately placed under house arrest by the authorities. But rather than keep him on Indian soil to face justice, the Indian administration urged him to return to the U.S. within 24 hours of his landing.

Anderson was named a person of interest in the culpable homicide case brought against Union Carbide by the Indian authorities, and he was declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gulab Sharma, of Bhopal on February 1, 1992, for failing to appear at the court hearings. An extradition request was filed in 2003, but the United States refused to extradite him. The chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal issued an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 31, 2009. He was never to face justice: Warren Anderson died in his bed on September 29th, 2014, at the age of 92.

Meanwhile, on February 6th, 2001, the Union Carbide Corporation was acquired by Dow Chemical. At the time of the merger, Dow assumed all outstanding legal liabilities of UCC, including those relating to the Bhopal gas disaster. Despite this, Dow refused to appear in the Indian courts to face charges relating to the ongoing criminal case until 2023 – 18 years after the initial summons issued to the company in January 2005.

To this day Dow continue to argue in their court appearances they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Courts, despite having acquired a company, in UCC, that is now responsible for the death by negligence of upward of 20,000 people over the past 41 years. Other than seven Indian managers at the plant who were sentenced to a paltry 2 years in jail and an insignificant fine in 2010, the survivors have never seen proper justice handed down to those responsible for the world’s worst industrial disaster. More than four decade on, they continue to wait.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #justice4bhopal #bhopal41 #charity #ucc

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In the immediate aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, Carbide’s CEO, Warren Anderson, flew to India. He was immediately placed under house arrest by the authorities. But rather than keep him on Indian soil to face justice, the Indian administration urged him to return to the U.S. within 24 hours of his landing.Anderson was named a person of interest in the culpable homicide case brought against Union Carbide by the Indian authorities, and he was declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gulab Sharma, of Bhopal on February 1, 1992, for failing to appear at the court hearings. An extradition request was filed in 2003, but the United States refused to extradite him. The chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal issued an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 31, 2009. He was never to face justice: Warren Anderson died in his bed on September 29th, 2014, at the age of 92.Meanwhile, on February 6th, 2001, the Union Carbide Corporation was acquired by Dow Chemical. At the time of the merger, Dow assumed all outstanding legal liabilities of UCC, including those relating to the Bhopal gas disaster. Despite this, Dow refused to appear in the Indian courts to face charges relating to the ongoing criminal case until 2023 – 18 years after the initial summons issued to the company in January 2005.To this day Dow continue to argue in their court appearances they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Courts, despite having acquired a company, in UCC, that is now responsible for the death by negligence of upward of 20,000 people over the past 41 years. Other than seven Indian managers at the plant who were sentenced to a paltry 2 years in jail and an insignificant fine in 2010, the survivors have never seen proper justice handed down to those responsible for the world’s worst industrial disaster. More than four decade on, they continue to wait.To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate#bhopalgasdisaster #justice4bhopal #bhopal41 #charity #ucc

In the immediate aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, Carbide’s CEO, Warren Anderson, flew to India. He was immediately placed under house arrest by the authorities. But rather than keep him on Indian soil to face justice, the Indian administration urged him to return to the U.S. within 24 hours of his landing.

Anderson was named a person of interest in the culpable homicide case brought against Union Carbide by the Indian authorities, and he was declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gulab Sharma, of Bhopal on February 1, 1992, for failing to appear at the court hearings. An extradition request was filed in 2003, but the United States refused to extradite him. The chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal issued an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 31, 2009. He was never to face justice: Warren Anderson died in his bed on September 29th, 2014, at the age of 92.

Meanwhile, on February 6th, 2001, the Union Carbide Corporation was acquired by Dow Chemical. At the time of the merger, Dow assumed all outstanding legal liabilities of UCC, including those relating to the Bhopal gas disaster. Despite this, Dow refused to appear in the Indian courts to face charges relating to the ongoing criminal case until 2023 – 18 years after the initial summons issued to the company in January 2005.

To this day Dow continue to argue in their court appearances they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Courts, despite having acquired a company, in UCC, that is now responsible for the death by negligence of upward of 20,000 people over the past 41 years. Other than seven Indian managers at the plant who were sentenced to a paltry 2 years in jail and an insignificant fine in 2010, the survivors have never seen proper justice handed down to those responsible for the world’s worst industrial disaster. More than four decade on, they continue to wait.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #justice4bhopal #bhopal41 #charity #ucc ...

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bhopalmedicalappeal Nov 14

In the years after the Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster, once the survivors had buried their dead, burned the bodies of their cattle, watched those responsible flee from justice, and received their pitiful compensation, they were to learn that their suffering was far from over.

The water they drew daily from their local wells and pumps - water they relied upon to drink, bathe in, clean their houses and wash their clothes – began, gradually, to turn a yellow-brown colour, and take on a strange chemical smell.

Those who drank it started to develop new symptoms, including skin problems, headaches, nausea, and stomach pain. Local people around the factory site began to abandon the worst-affected wells and mark the pumps with red paint to indicate they were no longer safe to drink from. Demand for water from the remaining water sources became unsustainable, and soon communities were forced to make the hard choice of who would receive clean water first. Priority went to those already sick from Carbide’s gas, children, and pregnant women, with many others left only with water they now knew to be contaminated.

A study undertaken by Greenpeace in 1999, 15 years after the leak, identified heavy metals and organochlorides from the factory site had seeped into the soil and entered the water supply.

By 2006, many residents were still without clean water. In March that year, 46 Bhopal residents, 39 of them gas survivors, walked the 800km distance from Bhopal to Delhi to demand clean water, justice, and a life with dignity.

The Government did begin, finally, to act on their demands, and in the following years new tanks and taps were supplied to many neighbourhoods. Yet today, nearly 41 years after the disaster, some residents are still fighting for proper infrastructure and clean water. For thousands of people, every fresh drop of water is a blessing earned solely by the tireless efforts of their families and friends over 41 years of struggle.

Our Sambhavna and Chingari clinics are the only places in Bhopal offering free first-class healthcare to gas and water affected survivors. To donate and support their work, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopal41 #waterpollution

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In the years after the Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster, once the survivors had buried their dead, burned the bodies of their cattle, watched those responsible flee from justice, and received their pitiful compensation, they were to learn that their suffering was far from over.The water they drew daily from their local wells and pumps - water they relied upon to drink, bathe in, clean their houses and wash their clothes – began, gradually, to turn a yellow-brown colour, and take on a strange chemical smell. Those who drank it started to develop new symptoms, including skin problems, headaches, nausea, and stomach pain. Local people around the factory site began to abandon the worst-affected wells and mark the pumps with red paint to indicate they were no longer safe to drink from. Demand for water from the remaining water sources became unsustainable, and soon communities were forced to make the hard choice of who would receive clean water first. Priority went to those already sick from Carbide’s gas, children, and pregnant women, with many others left only with water they now knew to be contaminated.A study undertaken by Greenpeace in 1999, 15 years after the leak, identified heavy metals and organochlorides from the factory site had seeped into the soil and entered the water supply.By 2006, many residents were still without clean water. In March that year, 46 Bhopal residents, 39 of them gas survivors, walked the 800km distance from Bhopal to Delhi to demand clean water, justice, and a life with dignity.The Government did begin, finally, to act on their demands, and in the following years new tanks and taps were supplied to many neighbourhoods. Yet today, nearly 41 years after the disaster, some residents are still fighting for proper infrastructure and clean water. For thousands of people, every fresh drop of water is a blessing earned solely by the tireless efforts of their families and friends over 41 years of struggle.Our Sambhavna and Chingari clinics are the only places in Bhopal offering free first-class healthcare to gas and water affected survivors. To donate and support their work, visit www.bhopal.org/donate#bhopal41 #waterpollution

In the years after the Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster, once the survivors had buried their dead, burned the bodies of their cattle, watched those responsible flee from justice, and received their pitiful compensation, they were to learn that their suffering was far from over.

The water they drew daily from their local wells and pumps - water they relied upon to drink, bathe in, clean their houses and wash their clothes – began, gradually, to turn a yellow-brown colour, and take on a strange chemical smell.

Those who drank it started to develop new symptoms, including skin problems, headaches, nausea, and stomach pain. Local people around the factory site began to abandon the worst-affected wells and mark the pumps with red paint to indicate they were no longer safe to drink from. Demand for water from the remaining water sources became unsustainable, and soon communities were forced to make the hard choice of who would receive clean water first. Priority went to those already sick from Carbide’s gas, children, and pregnant women, with many others left only with water they now knew to be contaminated.

A study undertaken by Greenpeace in 1999, 15 years after the leak, identified heavy metals and organochlorides from the factory site had seeped into the soil and entered the water supply.

By 2006, many residents were still without clean water. In March that year, 46 Bhopal residents, 39 of them gas survivors, walked the 800km distance from Bhopal to Delhi to demand clean water, justice, and a life with dignity.

The Government did begin, finally, to act on their demands, and in the following years new tanks and taps were supplied to many neighbourhoods. Yet today, nearly 41 years after the disaster, some residents are still fighting for proper infrastructure and clean water. For thousands of people, every fresh drop of water is a blessing earned solely by the tireless efforts of their families and friends over 41 years of struggle.

Our Sambhavna and Chingari clinics are the only places in Bhopal offering free first-class healthcare to gas and water affected survivors. To donate and support their work, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopal41 #waterpollution ...

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bhopalmedicalappeal Nov 11

In the aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, trees around the factory site became barren, and bloated animal carcasses littered the ground. In addition to the thousands of human bodies that overwhelmed local cemeteries, more than 2,000 cattle, buffalo, and goats were collected and buried. Fishing was banned, and food became scarce as people feared contamination of air, water, vegetation and foodstuffs.

It was not until 1986 that the factory was permanently closed off, with no effort undertaken by either the company responsible or local government to clear the site of chemicals and contaminants, other than those contained in the primary tanks. Repeated testing over the following years showed high presence of organochlorides and heavy metals in the soil and drinking water.

Although food supplies soon returned to normal, many survivors living in the area under the skeletal shadow of the now abandoned MIC and Sevin factory units were left without access to clean water and suffering from exposure to a range of toxic chemicals.

When the Sambhavna clinic opened in 1994, the doctors there resolved to find ways of providing natural treatments that would not further strain the organs of those suffering the effects of Carbide’s poisons. To this end they planted an extensive medicinal herb garden on the grounds, with the aim of creating simple herbal remedies that could be used to treat a range of ailments and symptoms.

So successful was this approach, they established community health teams in local neighbourhoods around the factory and had them plant their own medicinal herb gardens. This regenerative project not only allowed easy access to simple herbal treatments for thousands of local people, it also helped reclaim areas of land ravaged by the disaster. Once again, the survivors showed their resolve to create healing from horror.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari

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In the aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, trees around the factory site became barren, and bloated animal carcasses littered the ground. In addition to the thousands of human bodies that overwhelmed local cemeteries, more than 2,000 cattle, buffalo, and goats were collected and buried. Fishing was banned, and food became scarce as people feared contamination of air, water, vegetation and foodstuffs.It was not until 1986 that the factory was permanently closed off, with no effort undertaken by either the company responsible or local government to clear the site of chemicals and contaminants, other than those contained in the primary tanks. Repeated testing over the following years showed high presence of organochlorides and heavy metals in the soil and drinking water.Although food supplies soon returned to normal, many survivors living in the area under the skeletal shadow of the now abandoned MIC and Sevin factory units were left without access to clean water and suffering from exposure to a range of toxic chemicals. When the Sambhavna clinic opened in 1994, the doctors there resolved to find ways of providing natural treatments that would not further strain the organs of those suffering the effects of Carbide’s poisons. To this end they planted an extensive medicinal herb garden on the grounds, with the aim of creating simple herbal remedies that could be used to treat a range of ailments and symptoms. So successful was this approach, they established community health teams in local neighbourhoods around the factory and had them plant their own medicinal herb gardens. This regenerative project not only allowed easy access to simple herbal treatments for thousands of local people, it also helped reclaim areas of land ravaged by the disaster. Once again, the survivors showed their resolve to create healing from horror.To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari

In the aftermath of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, trees around the factory site became barren, and bloated animal carcasses littered the ground. In addition to the thousands of human bodies that overwhelmed local cemeteries, more than 2,000 cattle, buffalo, and goats were collected and buried. Fishing was banned, and food became scarce as people feared contamination of air, water, vegetation and foodstuffs.

It was not until 1986 that the factory was permanently closed off, with no effort undertaken by either the company responsible or local government to clear the site of chemicals and contaminants, other than those contained in the primary tanks. Repeated testing over the following years showed high presence of organochlorides and heavy metals in the soil and drinking water.

Although food supplies soon returned to normal, many survivors living in the area under the skeletal shadow of the now abandoned MIC and Sevin factory units were left without access to clean water and suffering from exposure to a range of toxic chemicals.

When the Sambhavna clinic opened in 1994, the doctors there resolved to find ways of providing natural treatments that would not further strain the organs of those suffering the effects of Carbide’s poisons. To this end they planted an extensive medicinal herb garden on the grounds, with the aim of creating simple herbal remedies that could be used to treat a range of ailments and symptoms.

So successful was this approach, they established community health teams in local neighbourhoods around the factory and had them plant their own medicinal herb gardens. This regenerative project not only allowed easy access to simple herbal treatments for thousands of local people, it also helped reclaim areas of land ravaged by the disaster. Once again, the survivors showed their resolve to create healing from horror.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari ...

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bhopalmedicalappeal Nov 4

Four weeks from today, the evening of Tuesday December 2nd, will mark the 41st anniversary of the Union Carbide Bhopal Gas Disaster.

Over the next 4 weeks we will share the story of the survivor’s four-decade long struggle through the many consequences of the world’s worst industrial accident.

On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a routine cleaning at the Union Carbide pesticide factory on the outskirts of Bhopal, India, caused water to enter a tank full of chemicals, triggering a reaction that released a huge cloud of deadly gas into the air. In total more than half a million people would inhale the poisonous fumes, and by morning the streets of the city were littered with bodies.

In the aftermath the company responsible, Union Carbide, refused to reveal the exact chemical formula of the pesticides to aid the treatment of those who had survived. With local hospitals overwhelmed, survivors used wood and sheet metal to build their own clinic on the factory grounds. They had learned that sodium thiosulphate injections were a life-saving antidote to cyanide poisoning, and together managed to provide more free injections than all the city’s hospitals combined. The clinic lasted just 20 days: on the 20th day the police, working for a Government that was actively cooperating with the company responsible, raided the clinic and raised it to the ground.

It would be 10 long years, during which the Government reached a pitiful settlement with Union Carbide that left most survivors penniless, before they were able to rebuild what they had lost. In 1994 our first Appeal in the Guardian newspaper saw an overwhelming response from the British public, raising enough money for the survivors to open their own permanent health centre just a kilometre from the factory: The Sambhavna Clinic. Since then Sambhavna has provided free treatment to more than 60,000 survivors of Carbide’s gas. In 2009, this was followed by a second clinic for children: the Chingari Children’s Rehabilitation Centre.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari

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Four weeks from today, the evening of Tuesday December 2nd, will mark the 41st anniversary of the Union Carbide Bhopal Gas Disaster. Over the next 4 weeks we will share the story of the survivor’s four-decade long struggle through the many consequences of the world’s worst industrial accident. On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a routine cleaning at the Union Carbide pesticide factory on the outskirts of Bhopal, India, caused water to enter a tank full of chemicals, triggering a reaction that released a huge cloud of deadly gas into the air. In total more than half a million people would inhale the poisonous fumes, and by morning the streets of the city were littered with bodies.In the aftermath the company responsible, Union Carbide, refused to reveal the exact chemical formula of the pesticides to aid the treatment of those who had survived. With local hospitals overwhelmed, survivors used wood and sheet metal to build their own clinic on the factory grounds. They had learned that sodium thiosulphate injections were a life-saving antidote to cyanide poisoning, and together managed to provide more free injections than all the city’s hospitals combined. The clinic lasted just 20 days: on the 20th day the police, working for a Government that was actively cooperating with the company responsible, raided the clinic and raised it to the ground. It would be 10 long years, during which the Government reached a pitiful settlement with Union Carbide that left most survivors penniless, before they were able to rebuild what they had lost. In 1994 our first Appeal in the Guardian newspaper saw an overwhelming response from the British public, raising enough money for the survivors to open their own permanent health centre just a kilometre from the factory: The Sambhavna Clinic. Since then Sambhavna has provided free treatment to more than 60,000 survivors of Carbide’s gas. In 2009, this was followed by a second clinic for children: the Chingari Children’s Rehabilitation Centre.To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari

Four weeks from today, the evening of Tuesday December 2nd, will mark the 41st anniversary of the Union Carbide Bhopal Gas Disaster.

Over the next 4 weeks we will share the story of the survivor’s four-decade long struggle through the many consequences of the world’s worst industrial accident.

On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a routine cleaning at the Union Carbide pesticide factory on the outskirts of Bhopal, India, caused water to enter a tank full of chemicals, triggering a reaction that released a huge cloud of deadly gas into the air. In total more than half a million people would inhale the poisonous fumes, and by morning the streets of the city were littered with bodies.

In the aftermath the company responsible, Union Carbide, refused to reveal the exact chemical formula of the pesticides to aid the treatment of those who had survived. With local hospitals overwhelmed, survivors used wood and sheet metal to build their own clinic on the factory grounds. They had learned that sodium thiosulphate injections were a life-saving antidote to cyanide poisoning, and together managed to provide more free injections than all the city’s hospitals combined. The clinic lasted just 20 days: on the 20th day the police, working for a Government that was actively cooperating with the company responsible, raided the clinic and raised it to the ground.

It would be 10 long years, during which the Government reached a pitiful settlement with Union Carbide that left most survivors penniless, before they were able to rebuild what they had lost. In 1994 our first Appeal in the Guardian newspaper saw an overwhelming response from the British public, raising enough money for the survivors to open their own permanent health centre just a kilometre from the factory: The Sambhavna Clinic. Since then Sambhavna has provided free treatment to more than 60,000 survivors of Carbide’s gas. In 2009, this was followed by a second clinic for children: the Chingari Children’s Rehabilitation Centre.

To learn more, visit www.bhopal.org, or to donate and support the life-changing work at the clinics, visit www.bhopal.org/donate

#bhopalgasdisaster #bhopal41 #sambhavna #chingari ...

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bhopalmedicalappeal Oct 30

Gentle Asana & Pranayama for Yoga for Bhopal
Sunday 7th December, 10–11am (Online)

To mark the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster and in support of our Yoga for Bhopal project, we invite you to join a special online session led by the wonderful Laura Potts of Yoga for All York.

Laura will guide a gentle practice of asana and pranayama focused on the throat (vishuddhi) chakra — honouring the ongoing call for justice for Bhopal and showing solidarity with the Chingari Clinic, which provides vital speech therapy for children affected by the disaster.

Suggested donation: £15 (enough to fund a month of therapy for one child — more is welcome, less is fine).

To book your place, make a donation, and receive the Zoom link, please see the events page under Support Us on our website: ww.bhopal.org

Find out more about the Yoga for Bhopal project under Support Us via our website.

#yogaforbhopal #BhopalSurvivors #sambhavnaclinic #bhopalmedicalappeal #yogaforgood #yogaforhope #yogaforchange

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Gentle Asana & Pranayama for Yoga for BhopalSunday 7th December, 10–11am (Online)To mark the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster and in support of our Yoga for Bhopal project, we invite you to join a special online session led by the wonderful Laura Potts of Yoga for All York.Laura will guide a gentle practice of asana and pranayama focused on the throat (vishuddhi) chakra — honouring the ongoing call for justice for Bhopal and showing solidarity with the Chingari Clinic, which provides vital speech therapy for children affected by the disaster. Suggested donation: £15 (enough to fund a month of therapy for one child — more is welcome, less is fine).To book your place, make a donation, and receive the Zoom link, please see the events page under Support Us on our website: ww.bhopal.orgFind out more about the Yoga for Bhopal project under Support Us via our website.#yogaforbhopal #BhopalSurvivors #sambhavnaclinic #bhopalmedicalappeal #yogaforgood #yogaforhope #yogaforchange

Gentle Asana & Pranayama for Yoga for Bhopal
Sunday 7th December, 10–11am (Online)

To mark the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster and in support of our Yoga for Bhopal project, we invite you to join a special online session led by the wonderful Laura Potts of Yoga for All York.

Laura will guide a gentle practice of asana and pranayama focused on the throat (vishuddhi) chakra — honouring the ongoing call for justice for Bhopal and showing solidarity with the Chingari Clinic, which provides vital speech therapy for children affected by the disaster.

Suggested donation: £15 (enough to fund a month of therapy for one child — more is welcome, less is fine).

To book your place, make a donation, and receive the Zoom link, please see the events page under Support Us on our website: ww.bhopal.org

Find out more about the Yoga for Bhopal project under Support Us via our website.

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