By Bala Iyer | Manager Programs
The objectives of the project are:
Training on Pollution, renewable sources of energy and environment awareness: Air is already heavy with toxic muck before Diwali. There is no room for more pollution either in our air or in our lungs. Like the festival itself, the buzz around its pollution aftermath has also become an annual ritual. The usual excuse for not saying no to crackers is that it is a matter of only one day and how can we deny our children the fun. But let us remember that after high intensity cracker bursting the toxic smoke disappears within few hours but pollutants settle invisibly all around us—in soil, vegetation, crop and water. What we put out comes back to us through our food chain.
Awareness on the utilization of locally available resources, thereby cutting down on the usage of gas cylinders, firewood or kerosene was given to the beneficiaries. One of the common occupations among villagers is animal rearing, and with the access of resource like cow dung, they can use it as an alternative for cooking purpose on a daily basis, which in turn reduces environmental damage and becomes very economic for the villagers.
Trainings on the accessibility of renewable and natural economical sources, pollution and overall environmental awareness was imparted to the recipients.
Awareness on Mental Health & Depression: Mental health is a major concern worldwide and India is not far behind in sharing this. Without mental health there can be no true physical health. Progress in mental health service delivery has been slow. Barriers include the existing public-health priorities and its influence on funding; challenges to delivery of mental health care in primary-care settings; the low numbers of those trained in mental health care; and the lack of mental health perspective in public-health leadership. Therefore, through these awareness sessions, it becomes an opportune to explore the paradigm of mental health awareness as a means of combating stigma, enhancing prevention, ensuring early recognition, and also stimulating simple and practical interventions within the community. Some of the strategies that were shared in these sessions, to target awareness and address stigma around mental illness included participation by family members, sensitization to treatment and social inclusion.
Refresher CHW training course: Capacity building of health workers is needed for enhancing health outcomes. Refresher training was given to the health volunteers/workers for updating and upgrading the knowledge and skills to deliver comprehensive and integrated services and to increase female involvement in the healthcare delivery system and also to develop self-help mechanisms at the community and family level. The course included generic skills/topics like public health, lifestyle, healthy nutrition, universal precautions, infection control, communication skills and office procedures like reporting and documentation besides subject specific skills. The training methodology included interactive lectures, narratives and informal discussions with participants.
Awareness Activities
A total of 4 rallies were organized in Vaghpura, Parsund, Jamwada, and Ganjisar for creating awareness regarding health and hygiene activities in the village. A total of 518 students participated in these rallies. A cleanliness drive was conducted in the village of Vaghpura in which 132 students participated.
Observation of International Days
World Sight Day was celebrated on 10th October 2019 to draw attention to blindness and vision impairment. The aim is to reduce avoidable visual impairment as a global public health problem and to provide access to rehabilitation services for the visually impaired. Free eye screening camp was conducted for the villagers of Bamroli. The objective of this program was to spread awareness on eye disorders, their early detection and to detect refractive errors and eye ailments. Free medicine, eye drops was distributed to people with eye related ailments and spectacles would be given to the hyperopic patients.
World Diabetes Day was celebrated on 14th Novemeber 2019 in Dabhi village. The aim of the camp was to spread awareness and to provide information regarding diet, exercise and medicines were prescribed according to their ailments.
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