By Amber Toth | Grant Writer
Villages in rural India still suffer from the lack of quality healthcare infrastructure, a dearth of qualified medical functionaries, and low access to basic medicines and medical facilities. Our Health and Hygiene programs provide residents of targeted villages with the opportunity to access and afford health services through initiatives such as the Bal Health Mela, primary care, dental care, Gynec camp, eye care, and public health services.
In 2021-2022, we held 610 Eye Camps, and reached 39,806 with our in-person health camps, check-ups, vaccinations, medicine, and other essential health services. To date, 15,500 children have attended our health camps.
In the past two months (July - August), we have held 26 health events and served 456 through general health checkups and awareness camps.
Health camps typically attract 500-2,000 people at a time. These events have two main objectives – provide necessary healthcare services and educate beneficiaries on preventive health measures to promote positive behavior change. We organize two camps per year, per village. All of our medical practitioners have formal education and are certified to practice medicine and provide healthcare services.
Through additional funding, we seek to expand health camps and hygiene efforts to the surrounding rural villages of the Marathwada region of Nanded and the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra.
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