Along with our NGO partner, Society for Integrated Development Activities, Research & Training (SIDART), in Rajasthan, we aim at addressing child health issues through our interventions, which include training and capacity building of front line workers and care-givers, counselling and monitoring during home visits; health camps and, reinforcement through street plays and school rallies. Interventions like Coloured Beads and Immunization Calendars have helped reduce malnutrition and increased immunization awareness and have proved to be extremely successful in infusing healthy behaviour. Through our various interventions on sanitation we have reached out to over 81,000 people directly and another 15,000 persons indirectly.

In collaboration with our NGO partner, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti, we continue to address the nutrition, immunization and sanitation needs of over 150 remote tribal villages of the Khalwa Block in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. The Ambulatory Service has been very helpful to bridge the gap between the available medical infrastructure and the villagers. Model Anganwadis and Community Crèches have been able to ensure supplementary nutrition and regular immunization of children.

Reaching out to over 1,50,000 people, the key objective of this project is to improve the infant and child health among the rural population by educating mothers, care givers and adolescent girls on various aspects of Maternal & Reproductive Child Health Issues (MCH & RCH). Our NGO partner, Institute for Global Development has been helping us to make a considerable difference in people’s lives in the Nalagarh block through our interventions like group meetings, couple counselling, specialized workshops, health camps, community sessions and awareness events.

In association with our NGO partner, Niramaya Health Foundation, we are addressing issues of child health in the slums of Andheri East. Some of our interventions include health check-up camps, home visits, and the Peer Educator Program, and through our health workers, who conduct home visits to educate the community women on issues such as malnutrition, poor sanitation, anemia and antenatal care.

In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, a need assessment done indicated high micro-nutrient malnutrition. To combat this issue, we started ‘The Lishe Bora Mtaani’ in collaboration with our NGO Partner, Carolina for Kibera and the Health Department. We conduct sensitization workshops for pregnant women and mothers, counselling on issues like pregnancy care, nutrition during breast feeding and hygiene and sanitation.

Complications during pregnancy and child birth can be avoided if the right preventive healthcare information is given to expectant and new mothers. As government hospitals find it challenging to address the huge demand of counselling for the appropriate behavioral change; we have launched mMitra, a free mobile based Health Advisory Voice Messaging Service for pregnant women and mothers along with NGO partner, Armaan and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (Sion Hospital), Mumbai. The voice messages are medically verified and individualized voice messages of 60-90 seconds in the local language are sent directly to the mobile phones of the enrolled women.