Health

Health & Wellness Day in KZN

A Heartfelt Thank you to all the Medical Staff and Volunteers for your time and effort at the Health & Wellness Day on Sunday, 18 May 2025. This was held at the Dr Macken Mistry School, Sea Cow Lake in Durban. The services offered was Blood Pressure and Blood glucose consultations.

The team and flow was amazing. A BIG appreciation to our Doctors for taking time off from their practices, Dr. CE Maney, Dr Kalay Moodley, Dr Bianca Naidoo, Dr Mishka and Dr Avatara Ramkilawan who assisted with all the medical forms and patients. Our dedicated Physio, Mr Satish Raghunandan was also on hands assisting.  Vijaylakshmi Sewnarain our pharmacist also organised Immunity Packs consisting of Fizzy C, Flustat & Painamolfor the winter season.

To the Volunteers a truly BIG appreciation for coming in early to set up, organise the food, fruits and water. To Dearest Sithara, Veena Poken and Previn, your meditations, were truly loved and absolutely a hit. Actually was the highlight for almost all that came…. Meditation replacing Medication.

We made a difference to 53 lives today.

IAHV Project Leader Vijaylakshmi Sewnarain from KZN 

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Smile Senior Citizen – Cape Town

Smile Senior Citizens (SSC) is a project of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV). The project focuses on providing meals, entertainment, and blessings to senior citizens. We partner with various organisations to provide our senior citizens with the best experience.

Together with Seniors Connect, we hosted the Year End Picnic at Wynburg Park, Cape Town, on 30 November 2024. Smile Senior Citizens provided delicious party packs for our seniors. Everyone who attended had a wonderful time, playing games, chatting, singing, and sharing meals.

While we bless all our senior citizens to enjoy the festive season and look forward to meeting them again in the New Year, our seniors also bless each and every one of you and wish that you be happy and healthy during your holidays.

 

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Water Crisis in KZN

There are major infrastructure issues in KwaZulu Natal, specifically in Northern suburbs of Phoenix, Verulam, Tongaat and Stanger affecting water supply to these communities for almost 6 months and ongoing.

500 x 5lt Purified Bottled Water was donated at the Verulam Day Care Centre. Furthermore, on a very wet and rainy Human Rights Day, volunteers distributed another 400x 5l water bottles together with a hot meal a veg biryani and Immune boosters, to an impoverished community in Riet River in Verulam. These families do not have running water in their homes and have 1 tap to service +70 families

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Water Crisis – KZN

Many part of the North Coast in KZN namely Tongaat, Verulum, Phoenix & Chatsworth have been without water since the floods and get supplies intermittently. We aim to supply water mainly to the frail homes and Old Age Centres. With the assisting from a generous donor and Chintz , who made the above seva possible, we delivered 250x 5litres of water to the Verulam Day Care Centre.

Furthermore, on a very wet and rainy Human Rights Day, volunteers distributed another 400x 5l water bottles together with a hot meal a veg biryani and Immune boosters , to an impoverished community in Riet River in Verulam. These families do not have running water in their homes and have 1 tap to service +70 families

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Smile Senior Citizens in KZN

The Smile Senior Citizens (SSC) project run by Mr. Shirish Soni held an event in KZN for the Association for the Aged (TAFTA) on the 15 January 2024. 

The seniors were treated to a very special event. They were served with delicious meals, entertained with music and dancing.

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The Inspiring Heath Science Studies (IHSS) Project at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital

The Inspiring Health Science Studies (IHSS) team spent a heart-warming day at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital on Friday 14 July.

The teams mission was 100% fulfilled.  They served a community in need, learnt and engaged with both patients and medical staff.  The next stop is Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

The IHSS is calling on grade 10 and grade 11 students to join the team and make a difference to others.

IHSS = A youth –led initiative to make a difference.

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Breath Water Sound in Laingsburg

A 4-day Breath Water Sound Workshop was conducted this week, 13-16 September 2022, with 10 staff members from the Laingsburg Municipality’s Technical Department.

It is evident, especially during this post-pandemic period, that people have been very stressed and are unaware that it is actually due to stress that they are experiencing depression, anxiety and violent tendencies. It was wonderful to observe that through the breathing techniques they were able to reduce the stress and gain clarity of mind to recognise negative tendencies.

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KZN Flood Relief | Yoga Day 2022

A yoga session held for the children grade 6 & 7 at the Dr Macken Mistry School. This school was completely submerged during the KZN floods.  The children were also given beanies, flip files and some vitamin C, oranges .

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Immunity Packs Distributed in Soweto

A further 200 Immunity Packs were distributed at the Ikageng Itireleng Aids Ministry in Orlando West, Soweto. There have been various testimonies that the flu masala has been making the people with COVID feel better.

Packs were distributed to matriculates who are over stressing for the exams, caregivers, staff members, and the other Front line workers.

You can now contribute to this project: https://za.iahv.org/campaigns/immunity-packs/ 

 

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IAHV’s aim to align itself with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

As many of you are aware IAHV frst received its United Nations NGO status through its incorporation in Geneva in 1997. IAHV is in consultative status with the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOC) of theUnited Nations (UN), and participates in a variety of committees and activities, related to health and conflict resolution.

Internationally and as guided, IAHV’s aim is to align itself with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS).

Set forward by the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) are a collection of 17 global goals aimed at improving the planet and the quality of human life around the world. The call-to-action for people worldwide is to address the critical areas of importance by 2030: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. IAHV, as guided by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, will focus on these 5 key areas by adopting 7 of the 17 SDGS’s to execute as follows:

IAHV SA will begin the process of aligning all its project and programs to meet the above goals. In the coming months we will reect this on our website and project proposals, categorising all our programs & projects accordingly.

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