Feb 2007, Joe Maumkel, a man who served St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai, India for 60 years languished in a hospital. The news of his hospitalization spread across the alumni community via the internet prompting ex-students based in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, UAE and India to raise funds worth 1.70 Lakh rupees for Joe through their alumni portal www.stanislites.org
Joe's illness gave birth to The Stanislaus HealthCare Initiative; a project of St. Stanislaus Ex-Students Association - an organization that represents the thousands of St. Stanislaus High School alumni who have since graduated in its long and illustrious history. The initiative has successfully provided a healthcare policy of Rs 2 Lakhs each for 100 existing and retired teachers of the school. The policy would give cashless hospitalization, including a pre-existing illness cover to all teachers. In addition to the Bajaj Allianz healthcare policy, the healthcare team has also secured a comprehensive accident policy for non teaching staff members. The healthcare initiative also includes on-site health camps for teachers to be conducted by alumni doctors.
St. Stanislaus High School is a 143 year old school located in Bandra, Mumbai. It has produced many illustrious alumni like Cardinal Ivan Dias currently serving at the Vatican, Dinesh D'souza (former policy advisor to U.S President Ronald Reagan), Joaquim Carvalho (Hockey) -currently Head Coach of the National hockey team, Salman Khan (Actor), Shaan -Shantanu Mukherjee (Musician) , Major General (Retired) Eustace D'souza, Lt. General (Retired) Francis Dias and Viren Rasquinha (Hockey).
The healthcare initiative brought together a unique blend of technology, passion, business innovation and a huge dose of a sense of social responsibility. The team utilized collaborative technologies to shape this project across time zones, online payment technologies for transparent fund-raising and social-networking to network with Stanislites who could help but more importantly, this is a story of passion for wanting to "give back".
The virtual team is headed by Gerry Mascarenhas (Class of 1977), a businessman in Mumbai and Vikram Moorjani (1985); a consultant based in Southern California who lends his expertise in the business analysis domain and whose brainchild this is. The team was recently joined by Mahavir Chopra (1996), Co-founder at Bonsai Insurance Broking, makers of India's first neutral Insurance portal www.InsuranceMall.in who played a key role in negotiating the best Insurance product for the healthcare initiative.
The St. Stanislaus Ex-students Association is now planning a special program called 'Teach the Teacher Program' which will provide returning alumni an opportunity to conduct one day workshops in the fields of leadership, personal finance, technology, arts etc.
The healthcare cashless cards of the insurance company will be presented to the teachers, retired teachers and staff in presence of the school and media on 28th November 2007 at 11:30 am at St. Stanislaus High School Bandra, school museum.
St. Stanislaus Ex-students Association: mc@stanislites.org
The Stanislaus HealthCare Team can be reached at healthcare@stanislites.org
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