Improve Children's Health and Development

A GLIMPSE OF NEED PROGRESS ON IMPROVE CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ID: 1182 Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (NEED) is implementing the project “Improve Children’s Health and Development” in the poverty stricken and very populous states of Uttar Pradesh & Bihar with a holistic mission with the help of Global Giving donors. NEED, the social, economic, political, cultural franchise has been directing its constant efforts in order to upgrade the health condition of the children living there and to generate awareness among the entire households regarding hygiene and sanitation. NEED has generated a visual impact of the sanitation and hygiene regime. Various constraints like Maternal Mortality rate, Infant Mortality rate, and Child infanticide, ill being of the individuals owing to ignorance about leading a healthy life are slowly getting reduced and sorted to a large extent in the regions where NEED is working.

This project comprises of the following strategies in order to improve the health and development of these children, particularly with a focus on girl children, who are often victims of gender discrimination: • Vaccination against Polio, Khasra, BCG & DPT • Action Training for Women Village Health Guides with a focus on children health • Awareness through Wall writing, posters, hand bills (safe drinking water and sanitation practices) on children health issues • Health & Sanitation Campaign at Non Formal Education Centers and Primary Schools promoted by NEED • Reconstruction and repair of hand pumps and wells (beautification work undertaken including plantation) • Health & Sanitation Camps • Construction of Toilets & Bathrooms • Bathroom Construction • Role plays on critical issues of health • Training camps for adolescent girls • Subsidized distribution of safe drinking water kits • Sensitizing campaign on nutrition and balanced diets, promoting back yard kitchen gardening • Distribution of health manuals, including information about HIV/AIDS prevention and consequences of child marriage

The following are modest achievements on this front: • Number of Children Vaccinated against, Polio (9998), DPT (7095), BCG (2858) & Khasra (3458) : Total 23,409 • Number of adolescent girls vaccinated: 9,534 • Medical Check up of children: 2750 • Medical check up of adolescent girls: 1650 • Number of children to benefit from our nutrition campaign: 18,3522 • Number of adolescent girls to benefit from out nutrition campaign: 10,565 • Number of toilets constructed: 566 • Number of bathrooms constructed: 113 • Number of sanitation campaigns: 412 • Number of Health Camps Organized: 150 • Number of safe drinking kits installed: 5,000 • Total number of beneficiaries benefited by health provisions: 70,200 These statistics illustrate the success of the project so far, nonetheless there are still many children within Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who desperately need health services and provisions; NEED endeavors to serve these children through our work but we need your help too! A relatively little amount will go a very long way to improve the health services available to these poor children, which will consequently improve their lives in an incalculable manner.