By Faranaz Chowdhury | Social Media Lead
Bringing smiles - Child Rights week celebrated
Spreeha participated in the 'Child Rights Week and Service Fair' in Bangladesh organized by MSS. Child Rights Week is a seven-day call to action, bringing attention to key issues faced by children, including ensuring the security and rights of all children. Along with Spreeha, eight other organizations showcased their services for the underprivileged community; especially children. Spreeha had a booth in this fair with a goal to spread the knowledge and educate people on child rights and the steps Spreeha was taking.
Safe Child Delivery
Huge Achievement – Maternal mortality rate “zero” between July and September 2018. One of the main focus of mother-child healthcare is to aware underprivileged pregnant mothers about the importance of health seeking behavior during pregnancy. A total of 56 deliveries were supported during this period, among which 45 cases (15 – NVD and 30 – C section) were hospital delivery and 15 cases were home delivery (NVD). No maternal deaths were reported among these 56 cases. Maternal mortality number of this quarter was zero.
Case Study – Moriom, 18-year-old fighting her way through
Moriom - Trainee in Spreeha Sewing Training Center, Student at Spreeha Cultural Club. Born in a village, her parents managed to educate her till 5th grade, however, her father’s gambling habits put the family in shambles. To escape her father’s rage, her mother sent her to Dhaka where she lived with her maternal aunt and continued education till 7th grade. Her other paternal aunt though, forced her to leave school and start working at a beauty salon and even managed to forcefully marry her off to a 45 year old man while she was trying to help her family’s financial situation with whatever she made working at the beauty salon. After marriage she ended up in the Rayer Bazar slum and that is how she came to know about Spreeha.
She started coming to Spreeha’s sewing training center when her husband was not home. Moriom also has a passion for dancing, so she is attending Spreeha Cultural Club’s sessions too. Moriom thinks she will be able to fight back if she can start earning again from home and she will never let this misfortune touch her future children. Moriom pointed another reason of coming to Spreeha Cultural Club, she says, “I love to come to Spreeha Cultural Club because I get to meet with friends here who are of my age. Apart from this space, I literally do not get to meet anyone of my age at home, because in the community girls of my age do not talk that much with me because I am married and they think I should belong to another (married) peer group.”
Statistics from 2018 Q3 (July – September)
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