Doctors come to the roadside settlements

By January 2015 the Foundation had adopted three Gadhiya Lohar settlements on Bareilly's roadsides — at Delapeer, Kudesiya Phatak and Transport Nagar — and opened an evening school in each. The next need was plain to see: the children had never been examined by a doctor.

So the Sundays of early 2015 became medical camp days. Dr M.D. Chhabaria held camps for the children of the Delapeer settlement on successive Sundays in late January and on 1 February. On 7 February Dr Murli Chhabaria, with doctors of Rohilkhand Medical College, held a camp for the children of the Transport Nagar settlement, and the same day the children of its evening school, opened a month earlier, received their first books and notebooks. On 13 February Dr Ruchin Agarwal held a second camp for the children of Kudesiya Phatak.

The camps were small, but they set a pattern that has lasted: whenever an Indradhanush child falls ill, the Foundation arranges and pays for the treatment.