Beawar, Rajasthan, 14 July 2023: Smile Foundation has launched its popular mobile healthcare
project named ‘Smile of Wheels’ in Beawar district of Rajasthan. The project will cover 10
identified villages initially and 45,000 people directly benefit from primary healthcare
services. USA-based organisation Pushpa and Val Sapra Family Foundation is supporting the project
in Beawar.

The mobile healthcare unit was flagged off at Suhawa village by Shri. Padam Singh,
Sarpanch; accompanied by Shri. Maan Singh, Deputy Sarpanch; along with Shri Vasu
Khilnani from Pushpa and Val Sapra Family Foundation, Shri. Rajeev Sharma from Smile
Foundation, doctor, paramedics, project management personnel, ward members and
villagers.

Beawar Sarpanch, Shri Padam Singh said, “On behalf of our village and the region, I thank
Smile Foundation, and Pushpa and Val Sapra Family Foundation for this noble cause. The
villagers will get primary health care services at their door steps at free of cost.”
The uniqueness of this mobile healthcare project is its 3A model; meaning availability,
accessibility and affordability. In availability, the project will have a qualified doctor,
paramedic staff, diagnostic equipment and medicines. Under accessibility, all these medical
facilities will be made available to villagers at their doorsteps. The schedule of the mobile
healthcare unit will be made available to people in advance. In affordability, all the services
mentioned above, including OPD and medicines, are free of charges.

Shri Val Sapra, Founder of Pushpa and Val Sapra Family Foundation expressed, “Sapra Family is
grateful to Smile Foundation for fulfilling our dream to initiate Smile on Wheels mobile
healthcare project in the villages around Beawar, our ancestral birthplace.”

The Smile on Wheels mobile healthcare unit will work in coordination with the government.
This will help the government efforts to improve the health status of pregnant and lactating
mothers, children, raise awareness about immunization, antenatal/postnatal care, and
support access to secondary and tertiary government healthcare services.

Shri Santanu Mishra, Co-founder & Executive Trustee of Smile Foundation said, “We thank
our supporter for showing confidence in us. The participation of villagers and community
leaders from the very beginning of the project is really encouraging and inspiring. Together,
we will complement the government’s efforts in making primary healthcare available to
people, especially to children, young mothers and the elderlies.”

These project in Beawar will also aim to reduce vulnerability to diseases and promote health-
seeking behaviour among the villagers. In addition, Smile on Wheels will seek to improve
maternal health, promote institutional deliveries, increase diagnostic rates, and improve
overall community health in coordination with the government efforts.

Smile on Wheels is a national-level mobile healthcare initiative from Smile Foundation that benefits
underserved remote rural and urban communities. As of today, Smile Foundation has been
operating 75 Smile on Wheels projects covering 868 villages and slums in 52 districts across 16 states
of India. Till date more than a million children and their families have received free healthcare
services across India.

About Smile Foundation
Smile Foundation is an Indian development organization directly benefiting over 1.5 million
children and families every year through more than 400 welfare projects on education,
healthcare, livelihood, and women empowerment spread across 2,000 villages and slums in
25 states.