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Kripa staffs are
“God’s Gift” says Fr. Joe at plenary session of 4-day workshop
All
staff working at Kripa Foundation’s facilities across India and select locations abroad are “God’s
Gift,” to the organization and have made several personal sacrifices to ensure
that the NGO ranks at India’s
topmost in the field of de-addiction and rehabilitation, Father Joseph H.
Pereira, Founder Trustee, said in Mumbai on December 20, 2012.
Addressing
the plenary session of the 'Kripa Model of
Recovery: Training Program for Standardization' workshop at the Diocesan
Pastoral Centre in Bandra (West), Mumbai, Fr. Joe said, scores of staff at
Kripa had departed from the organization, tempted by higher wages or other
pecuniary reasons but those who have remained with Kripa are a gift from God
and their relentless dedication to the Kripa cause has played a pivotal role
over the last 31 years in ensuring the NGO’s success while securing it’s
position as the foremost in the field. “There are no other organizations in our
field anywhere in the world which are staffed by recovering addicts helping
those suffering from substance abuse,” Fr. Joe, added.
He noted that Kripa is now standing at crossroads where every
individual facility can become a self supporting and financially autonomous
unit, following a standardized operating procedure. “Thus, care and services
offered at any center in India
will be consistent, ensuring greater benefits for patients,” he added.
Dr. MS Menon, Director-Medicine at Kripa, in his speech at the
closing session said, modernization had made imminent standardized operating
procedures. “Clients today are better informed than as earlier times in history
of kripa”. Standardization of processes is not an isolated event. But it can be
achieved simply by applying the prescribed processes daily in our operating
techniques,” he added.
Fr.
Joe, later gave away certificates to participants who had arrived from the Kripa
network across India.
Christabelle
Edwards of Kripa Darjeeling delivered a vote of thanks on behalf of the Kripa
Family Nationwide to Fr. Joe and the team for the excellent programme and
logistics arrangements for each of them. Indeed a memorial visit to Kripa Head
office.
Submitted by
Ashwin Honawar
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