By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Founder & CEO
After 12 long years, I visited SEARCH, Gadchiroli - this time to conduct a one day workshop on PubMed & Zotero. My earlier visit in 2012, was to explore SEARCH, spend time there, and understand if QMed could help them in any way. I spent a full week and had written some blog posts on my personal blog (which I am afraid I have not kept updated later). But the posts I wrote then are descriptive and interesting :)
This time my workshop was on the 27th of February. I reached there on the 26th and left on the 28th morning. On the 27th, we had around 15 people attend the workshop. The audience had a mix of young doctors, public health researchers and a Statistician, Mr Mahesh who has been with SEARCH for years. I met him last time too and was impressed with all his committed work!
To my delight Dr Abhay - the Founder of SEARCH - himself was present to inaugurate the event. He exchanged a few words with me and introduced me to the audience, after we did a brief lamp lighting ceremony. He then requested all participants to make the best use of the workshop.
The group was extremely committed. They seemed to be on the edge of their chairs all the time - waiting to absorb every input. They participated a 100% - answering questions, solving problems that I set, and more
Ms Roshni was the coordinator for this workshop and did all that she could to make my trip comfortable and memorable. At the end of the workshop - she told the others the most important thing. She said "we are aiming to increase our publications - so that we share our research findings across"! And I thought - if this was an organization that had brought down infant mortality by a whopping 72% - after their founders moved in there, they definitely did need to share how they worked, how they carried out public health research, and more!
At the end of the day, I got to meet Dr Abhay and his gracious wife and co-Founder, Dr Rani once again, after the daily prayer meeting. Dr Rani told me that she remembered my last visit very well. I was very happy to hear that - considering that they have varied visitors on a pretty regular basis. We had a brief chat and they told me that I was welcome to visit more often.
SEARCH is really a place for a quiet "getaway" from cities and stresses. You only hear birds out there! For me it was the perfect combination of a lovely break plus doing what I love doing!
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