PALAV 2019 – A
12/25/19
Look Back
Varad Mulay – Director of Communications
Project PAL AV
Palav.org nchouthai@gmail.com
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1. Team Member Spotlight
2. PALAV Global - Ghana
3. What’s Next?
4. A Small Step
5. Our Sponsors
“Mr. Salecha was so
inspired by his passion,
that he decided on the
spot that he wanted to be
a part of something so
powerfully motivating.”
Volume 3
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Team Member Spotlight – Girish
Salecha
PALAV’s success is all built up by its amazing volunteers
who work tirelessly day and night to ensure that we are
the best organization we can be.
Some volunteers, like Girish Salecha, have been with us since
the beginnings of this organization back in 2012.
While watching our founder, Nitin Chouthai, begin doing
inventory of life-saving equipment in the freezing cold, Mr.
Salecha was so inspired by his passion, that he decided on the
spot that he wanted to be a part of something so powerfully
motivating. Since then, he has joined PALAV as one of our
most dedicated volunteers, by not only handling our finances
and doing whatever else is needed, but also motivating others
like his friends and family to join the cause.
His favorite memories of PALAV over the years include being
able to help such an amazing cause while watching the
organization grow to the size it has today. He especially loves
helping out at the annual PALAV walk and our cultural events,
such as Bollywood Express.
From all of us at Team PALAV, we would like to give a huge
shoutout to one of favorite team members, Girish Salecha!
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PALAV Global – Ghana 2019

From November 6th to November 19th, PALAV’s founder, Nitin Chouthai, went to
visit hospitals in Ghana to expand the impact PALAV has globally as a member of
the Rotary Vocational Training Team(VTT), a signature Rotary event.

While there, he taught the "Helping Babies Breathe Program", which provides
education and demonstration on how to save babies lives. He taught nurses and
doctors how to keep the heart going through cardiac massage, a vital technique
“PALAV was able to
for keeping babies alive. In total, he taught 70-80 people how to keep babies donate $28,000 worth of
breathing in times of struggle. equipment.”

But training was not the only help he offered to these hospitals. PALAV was also
able to donate $28,000 worth of equipment to the Jirapa District Hospital, which
not only assists a baby’s respiratory system, but also diagnoses and treats
jaundice, and helps manage the temperature of a baby.

Dr. Chouthai went with the representative and team leader from Rotary, Dr.
Godfrey Bachieye, as well as Grace Kelly and Lynn Joinville. While there, they
noticed the tragic situation of a young child who had a rare genetic condition
which put a hole in his heart. PALAV and Rotary are working as hard as they can
to bring him to the United States ASAP to save his life.
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What’s Next?

As we head into a new decade, PALAV has many new ideas to

make 2020 our best year yet!

We look forward to expanding our operations both locally, with

our breastfeeding awareness initiative, and internationally,
where we hope to expand into countries that we are not
currently in to ensure that we can help as many babies as
possible.
The representatives from the hospital
In 2020 PALAV hopes to expand into more countries in Asia, in Ghana pose for a picture with Dr.
Africa, the Americas, and wherever else we hear the call of Chouthai and the rest of the Ghana
team
premature babies.

Our goal is to donate over $100,000 worth of medical

equipment, and train more than 500 nurses and doctors about “As we head into a new
lifesaving techniques to ensure the survival of prematurely decade, PALAV has
born babies across the globe. many new ideas to
make 2020 our best
year yet”

A Small Step

Recently, PALAV has supported a baby in a hospital in India

weighing only 410 grams (about 0.904 pounds). Not only is she
about 1/7th of a healthy baby’s weight, but she has also been
born with a rare heart disease that the hospital in India is ill-
equipped to handle.

The monumental efforts of the doctors and nurses on the

ground in India have been able to keep her stabilizes for now –
but she might not stay that way in the future since her
condition could change at any second.

As such, PALAV has taken on the task of bringing her to the

United states, where doctors, advanced medicine, and
technology can be used to nurse her back to health, and
hopefully ensure her a long, healthy life.
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PALAV is an extraordinary organization with an As we approach a new decade, we are always

amazing cause, but they can’t do it alone. All of
their progress would have been near impossible
without the help of their wonderful volunteers,
who donate time and experience in various
different areas. These volunteers are the
backbone of PALAV, and the organization could
not stand without them.
PALAV is always looking for new ways to improve
themselves and expand their community outreach,
and volunteers are an integral part of that.
happy to accept help from any volunteers. If
anyone is interested in volunteering for this
wonderful cause, please contact Nitin Chouthai
at the number located at the bottom of this
newsletter.
From all of us here at PALAV, happy holidays,
and happy new year! We look forward to a great
2020, and we hope you do as well!

Our Sponsors

We would also like to give a huge shoutout to all our

supporters over the last year, especially
1. Mrs. Harvinder Madan and Quest Diagnostics
2. Smrithi Kattethota and the Abhinaya School of
Dance
3. Rotary International Foundation
4. Mr. John Chambers, District 6400 Governor
5. Casa Calibri, Dr. Jay Eastman, and Mr. Ashish
Sarkar
6. Mrs. Carolann Morykwas,
Detroit AM Rotary,
President
7. Sequoia Energy and Mr. Rohit Joshi
8. Mrs. Madhuri Deshpande Project PALAV
Palav.org nchouthai@gmail.com
9. Mr. Walter Greene III of the Detroit Rotary Club 732-710-1798

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