By Kshitija | Project coordinator
Dear Friends,
Greetings!
IDEA has been running skilling courses and entrepreneurial training for underprivileged women since the past 10 years which helps them in their journey towards financial independence and empowerment. Another important component in this journey are the various life skill sessions which lead to holistic development. Recently we are focussing on women’s health and importance of self-care. Recently we organized many health sessions for girls and women from our skilling courses and other educational programmes.
Health awareness on Women’s Day!
Our team wanted to gift something special to our many women beneficiaries on the occasion of international Women’s Day and what better than gifting “Good Health”. We got in touch with doctors who are experts in women’s health issues and they conducted an informative and interactive session with women. The following topics were covered during the session –
1. Journey of womanhood
2. Female health cycle according to age mile stones covering childhood diseases, vaccination, and adolescent health issues -menstrual cycle, menstrual hygiene, and marital issues.
3. Pregnancy related health issues, ANC care and Family support
4. Menopause - physical and psychological components of an important milestone in a woman’s health cycle
5. Commonly faced health issues by women in India - Malnutrition, Anaemia, Menstrual Problems
6. Impact of non-communicable diseases such as - hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cancers on physical and psychological well-being of women
7. General health guidelines to stay healthy - Role of nutrition, exercise, how to tackle stress.
8. Role of Preventive health screening tests - Mammography, Pap - Smear, sonography and their importance in preventing various cancers in women.
After the session, sanitary napkins were gifted to the women who were grateful to the doctors for conducting such a helpful session.
Self - care for adolescents!
While we need to emphasise on creating awareness about self-care in women, equally important is imparting the teachings to adolescent girls hence, we conducted a programme on sexuality awareness for needy girls from std. 6th to 10th from various schools. The talk was very helpful for the adolescent girls who were happy to receive menstrual hygiene kits. These bright girls are from IDEA’s educational sponsorship programme which is helping them get quality education along with career counselling and life skills on health and nutrition.
Friends, Please DONATE to this project so that we may continue to improve women’s health!
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