Support Poor Couples to Access Family Planning

Dear Donor,

We would like to thank our global giving donors for providing continuous support our Project “Poor Couples to Access Family Planning”. Your kind contributions are giving them chance to understand more about Sexual and Reproductive Health.

In this report, we would like to share the story of Sita, a 28 year old woman with multiple sclerosis who requested a contraceptive method with a lower failure rate as she already had 4 kids due to the failure of condom usage.

Sita and Rakesh got married at very early age. She was pregnant with her first child when she was 21. Both husband and wife happily welcomed the blessing in their life. They had decided to have two children only for their family. But Sita got pregnant with the fourth kid after 5 years. Rakesh and Sita were concerned because of failure rate of their contraceptives. Rakesh is the sole bread earner in the family. Big size of the family was limiting the resources for survival. They had never consulted a doctor because of the cost and distance. In 2018, Our Merrytarang worker who started covering their area Saidpur also, became the helping hand for the family. She showed them the path and referred them to a nearby facility that will not charge anything and provide them right choice of family planning method. After discussion about potential risks and side effects, an IUD was inserted. Both of them are very much happy that she had decided to adopt this method.

This kind of facilities has been possible because of your kindness. It would be very hard for us to reach and serve the underprivileged area without your support. But there are still many untouched area in India especially in Uttar Pradesh where community needs the guidance at right time and for making right choices in their life. To serve in every hard to reach area, we would require your support.