On the evening of July 7th 2016, multiple tornadoes struck Greenwood County Kansas in both a sparsely populated rural area as well as the town of Eureka, KS. A group of local Embracing the World Volunteers were inspired to come together led by Br. Shantamrita Chaitanya of the MA Center in Chicago, on Saturday August 13th to assist with continued tornado recovery efforts.
In India’s remote villages, providing proper healthcare services continues to remain a challenge. India’s Human Development Index, a tool developed by the United Nations Development Program to assess development based on human wellbeing in addition to economic factors like national income, is low. One of the reasons for this is the absence of quality healthcare services in rural areas.