Health Promotion Trust - Awarded

Health Promotion Trust received a Certificate of Honour from the present Governor of Maharashtra Honourable Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari on 17th October 2022 at the Rajbhavan, Mumbai under the T.B. Eradication Program by 2025 of the Government of India.

The Health Promotion Trust (HPT) of the Archdiocese of Bombay organises  Naturopathy camps every month at Khandala, together with the National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India. The focus of HPT is on "preventive healthcare" to increase awareness of the necessity of healthy living with a holistic approach to avoid the travails and tribulations that accompany ill health. The venue for the Camp is the Convent of Jesus & Mary Villa atop Nun's Hill, Khandala, also popularly known as the House of Prayer. Fifteen health-conscious individuals made it to the March 2023 camp. We boarded a minibus at the Church of Our Lady of Victories, Mahim, on March 10, for a three-night, four-day detox. We were all smiles as we alighted at Khandala, glad to breathe in the clean fresh air, while simultaneously taking in the beauty of the well-tended gardens blossoming with flowers all around.  Read More

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own. (1 Corinthians 6:19)

 Naturopathy and Health: A positive strengths-based perspective

There is a global calling for holistic healing and wellness through health promotion activities in both personal and public domains. Naturopathy, an ancient non-invasive rational system of healing that practises natural elements based on the theory of self-healing capacity of the body, vitality, and toxemia is being revived worldwide as an alternative positive approach to health.  Read More...

HPT focuses on preventive strategies through Natural Wellness. Collaboration with Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, providing succour to impoverished tribal communities 

Since 2009, the Health Promotion Trust of the Archdiocese of Bombay has designed programmes and services that meet the needs of the most marginalised urban and rural communities, regardless of gender, religion, caste, creed, or ideology. In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, HPT identified transgenders as an extremely vulnerable group in need of therapeutic and preventive health interventions. Transgenders live on the fringes of society, and suffer the dual stings of prejudice and poverty. On the 31st World Day of the Sick, His Holiness, Pope Francis, calls for prayer and closeness towards those who suffer, and exhorts us to be a community that truly walks together.  Read More...

A first-ever medical camp for 35 members of the transgender community was successfully conducted by the Health Promotion Trust (HPT) on October 14, 2022, in collaboration with the Health Outreach Cell. This programme aligns with HPT's mission to promote preventive healthcare among vulnerable groups. Participants, who hailed from various parts of Mumbai, received a physical checkup, underwent necessary lab tests, and were able to consult with a panel of eminent doctors, including Dr Roshini Upadahya (Dermatologist), Dr Jarvis Pereira (ENT), Dr Jai Shankar (General Practitioner) and Dr Cheryl Desouza and Dr Giselle Paes (dentists)  READ MORE

MUMBAI: For nearly 12 years since 2010, remote tribal villages as well as poor urban communities of Mumbai, Raigad and Dharavi Islands (not the suburb in Mumbai) have benefited from a nature cure programme devised by the Archdiocese of Bombay. An NGO named Health Promotion Trust (HPT) uses home remedies and herbal concoctions to keep common diseases at bay lest they aggravate and overwhelm the family's meagre resources. A recent impact assessment study by HPT showed how ordinary households find home remedies useful. Medical facilities are often located far from remote communities. Moreover, nature cure is cheap and affordable, and eschews the side effects of chemicals.  READ MORE

Soaring costs of medicines, laboratory tests and hospitalisation trap the marginalised and the impoverished in urban and rural communities in an endless loop of debt, poor healthcare, and an extremely diminished quality of life. In 2010, the Health Promotion Trust (HPT) of the Archdiocese of Bombay determined that education and empowerment at the grassroots is the only compassionate response to lift people out of this pit of hopelessness and despair. Hence HPT began the last decade with a grassroots-centred mission statement: "To ensure better health awareness, strengthen existing health facilities, ensure accountability of the health administration, and lay more emphasis on preventive health by encouraging holistic health therapies for the poor and the marginalised."

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Over the years, India has experienced a major shift in its healthcare approaches. Once viewed as a cradle for the practice and promotion of traditional and natural measures of healthcare, India has now become one of the largest consumers of commercial healthcare products and services. Despite this, the rural and urban healthcare landscape is characterised by deep disparities in the quality and affordability of, and accessibility to, healthcare services.    READ MORE