Leaving India to work in a foreign country was a big decision we undertook for various reasons. Many of us at the time of leaving India planned to return at some point of time and some of us felt that we may not return to India at all. Whatever the future holds for us, our inner self is restless and constantly seeks answer to a question which would have crossed at least once - "How can I help my country?" - It may not be exactly the same question but the meaning is not far from it.

Our physician friends who went to medical school in India, have seen many patients with life threatening illnesses, where they do not receive appropriate treatment due to a combination of inefficiency of the State and greed of public servants.

If the State does not care for the Society, why should the private hospitals care as the private sector does not have a social contract to help the needy? We have to break this vicious cycle of apathy, ill health and poverty. Evil wins if good men and women do not act.

People in developed countries receive health care irrespective of their social background. What about the third world? We see injustice. We sense despair. We sympathise and worse, we do nothing! That is tantamount to not sympathising at all. Reaching the Unreached was a charity born to redress this injustice.