Balwadis
(Pre-School Centres)
Environmental
Education in Schools
Gram
Pustakalaya (Village Libraries)
Sandhya
Kendra (Evening Centres)
Computer
Literacy
Kishori Shikshan
(Adolescent Education)
Women’s
literacy and education
Preventive Health Care and Education
Gram Shikshan Kendra (Community Learning Centres) |
Preventive Health Care
and Education |
Local
community based organisations-CBOs supported
by us, create awareness of health issues
through puppet shows, plays, songs, village
meetings, exhibitions and workshops. The
girls and women engaged in this work are
trained by us.
In most cases, these activities represent
the first-ever attempt to discuss health and
nutrition issues, particularly reproductive
health, openly in a village forum. Finding
appropriate ways of doing this has been a
great challenge and much is being learned in
this respect by the CBOs involved and by our
own workers. In the beginning of the
programme, a survey of the health status of
children (birth to 15 years of age) is done,
and some of the factors that affect
children's growth identified. This generates
a lot of interest and discussion in
villages.
The programme has prompted parents of
underweight children, especially girls, to
take recommended measures to overcome the
problem. Health camps are organised where
needed. Use of local herbs and home remedies
is promoted in remote villages where no
proper health care facility exists.
To facilitate meetings in villages, posters
and folders relating health to nutrition and
hygiene have been developed. Written in
simple language these folders have become
very popular in villages. Further, to
educate communities about human anatomy,
special aprons depicting the body organs are
used both during training and workshops with
women and adolescent girls. |
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