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Women Empowerment
Women Empowerment
Thrust-I: Adolescent reproductive rights:
- Formation and strengthening of Peer groups among adolescent girls and Capacity building of Peer Educators on reproductive rights and self-defence, those who are the change agents.
- Brought change in the attitude of frontline functionaries and local governance on issues of early marriage, reproductive, Sexual Health and Rights, the urgent needs of adolescents, exercising rights among the adolescents under RIGHT to EDUCATION.
- Creating an enabling environment amongst community, traditional leaders, parents of adolescents, service providers & women self-help groups on the merits of delaying child marriage and importance of education for the future of the Girls. Today’s GIRL is tomorrows MOTHER.
- Increase knowledge based at family, community and local level about laws pertaining to Education of Children, child marriage and need of education for girlchild.
- Campaign against trafficking of girls andchecking distress migration.
Thrust-II: Literacy and Education:
- Educatingwomen and girls on the need and importance of Education at village level through special awareness campaign, performing Street Play shows in each village and several meeting and dialog with Village Education Committees (VEC) members.
- Community involvement in the management of Education institutions and creating demand for residential education to girls.
- Organised alternate integrated and residential bridge course/ school for drop out girls &non formal education for the working girls . Employing women Parateacher working on a mission mode to make the village become literate. They are now trained and are the village guide in promoting gender equity.
Thrust-III: Women in Health & Nutrition (with special focus on Adolescents, Women & Children):
It is the mothers who bear the pain in developing the child to adolescent, from adolescent to young. Women from the Adivasi &Dalit community were supported and provided with skills for child care and nutrition, with importance of promoting institutional health seeking behaviour and hygiene. The focus over the years has been …
- Training women on Health, hygiene and Nutrition through awareness campaigns in each village withappropriate IEC and BCC activities on a regular basis to make community understand the need and importance of health and nutrition and preventing them from various diseases and care services.
- Introduce the system Para male health worker
- ( barefoot doctor) to be available in each village like the ASHAs for all different basic medical requirements as an alternate strategy, and be a knowledgeable person to be in-charge in each village for those not accessing institutional health care.
- Women are now active in the management of the Gaon Kalyan Samitis (GKS) and Anganwadi Centres andare sensitized to their role and function to monitor community health & nutrition services.
- Improvement in the health seeking behaviour of women and women friendly Reproductive and Sexual Health services are now available, accessible and affordable.
- Sensitizing the traditional health care Providers to their role in a village and on the importance of modern medicines. Interventions for better coverage of health care at village level, since they are from the Community only.
- Organizing Traditional healers and skilled them with scientific use of herbal preparations. Bringing change in the community from the believe of witchcraft.
- Training mothers to use locally produced food items as their daily used domestic food to get all different food requirements needed for the children starting from energy food to protein, valuable vitamins, minerals, fibber, and other nutrients including water etc.