Caring for survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster - The Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

Since 1996 we have helped provide free medical care, education and community support to those suffering the effects of Union Carbide’s gas disaster, and to families still being damaged in their thousands by ongoing water poisoning.

We promote community-led practices that can be adopted by those affected by industrial disasters around the world. We support activities to prevent future such disasters.

We believe Carbide's owner Dow must finally accept responsibility for Bhopal. Until then, the survivors continue to turn to each other, and to us.

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Raghu Rai

Raghu Rai

This famous, terrible and tender picture was taken by Magnum photographer Raghu Rai on the morning of December 3rd, 1984, after the night of horror in Bhopal when a huge cloud of poison gas 500 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide spewed from a factory belonging to Union Carbide Corporation.

Thousands died in hideous ways. As the sun rose on streets full of corpses, Raghu found himself in a graveyard where a man was burying his young daughter. The father had covered the tiny body but then, unable to bear parting from her, brushed the earth away for one last look.

For the Bhopalis this picture has come to symbolise over 30 years of unimaginable suffering, an injustice never righted, crimes unpunished, and a community that most of the world has forgotten.

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Children of Bhopal

Children of Bhopal

Something very shameful is happening in Bhopal and hardly anyone knows about it. Children are being born dead and malformed in numbers not seen since the spate of horrific births that followed the gas catastrophe of 1984.

Mention Bhopal and most people think of the horrific events of 3rd December 1984, when the city was devastated by a huge leak of poison gas from a pesticide factory owned by US chemical giant Union Carbide.

Thousands died in agony, choking, blinded by gas that burned their eyes and seared their lungs. More than half a million were injured. Today in the city, upwards of 150,000 people are still chronically ill from the injuries suffered on that night. The death toll has reached more than 25,000.

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Watch Our Webinar

Watch Our Webinar

Bhopal's Endless Disaster In The Time Of Covid-19

On the 36th anniversary of Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster at 3pm on 2nd December, we hosted a live webinar on the plight of gas survivors now.

We heard from health workers operating on the front line in gas-affected neighbourhoods, as well as medical and technical experts, to learn about the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster's unremitting impacts, why survivors are left gravely at-risk to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how their selfless efforts to protect each other by means of a demanding and dangerous 'community shield' program carries important lessons for every community.

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Leeds University Wins Wellcome Funding for BMA Project

News

We are delighted to announce that the Bhopal Medical Appeal have partnered with a team of academics from Leeds University’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Culture to explore the health impacts of the Bhopal disaster as part of the LivingBodiesObjects project, which has just received £1 million in funding from charitable foundation Wellcome! The Leeds […]

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Chemical Engineers Renew Call for Bhopal Clean-Up Effort

Industrial hazards, Media Coverage, Water Contamination

In an article published in The Chemical Engineer on Thursday April 1st, chemical engineers Ken Patterson AMIChemE and Fiona Macleod CEng FIChemE discussed the ongoing contamination at the factory site in Bhopal after a letter sent to the Indian Government last year by the President of The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Stephen Richardson, received […]

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