Sukarya's Center of Excellence for Social Change

REPLICATING THE SUCCESS OF SUKARYA

For the last 20 years Sukarya has been working on the Maternal and child health services which are essential for the overall development of the mother and child by promoting healthy living and preventive measures for a better health. All the programs aim at reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates prevent malnutrition and anemic conditions amongst women and children. We achieve this by organizing health clinics in the slums and villages which is the key foundation works of the organization. The objective is to provide affordable, reliable and efficient services to the target people. Key services includes diagnosis, treatment, medicine disbursement, counseling, distribution of nutrition supplements, referral services and follow-ups.

Sukarya has also been implementing programs that bridge the gap by providing healthcare facilities amongst the vulnerable section of the society. One of the key strategies is to club the health clinic with the government's routine immunization and provide health access to the community under one roof.

Nutrition supplement, Nutrition awareness & Cooking demo is one way where the projects meet its goals in improving the health of the mother and child in the slums and rural areas.

To promote and support the livelihood of the women in the rural areas we are running Self Help Groups (SHG). The women form a group consisting of 10-20 individuals come together for saving and internally helping each other in the time of need. The women in the SHG's are trained and made to take independent decisions for the finances and life. They are motivated to stay healthy and economically independent and socially confident.  

Centre of Excellence:

Sukarya proposes an exclusive trainining & development center with an objective to build the capacities of NGO's & CBO's serving in the area of Maternal and Child Health and other associated issues. The centre of excellence wishes to share its learning's in a structured and systematic manner by providing following trainings/ workshops
• Thematic training on Maternal & Child Health
• Project Implementation
• Behavioral Change & Communication
• Institutional development (planning, policy framework, organisational structure, vision & mission, guiding principles etc).

Links:

• facebook page of Sukarya
• twitter handle of Sukarya
• website of Sukarya

CURRENT SCENARIO

In the existing premises of Sukarya, we have been training members of the PRI [Panchayati Raj institution] for their skill development, build their capacity and link the governmental schemes with the community. The focus of the training includes Girl Child Education campaign along with providing routine services like health clinics, counseling, home visits /follow ups of patients, health awareness sessions, Nutrition awareness/ cooking demos under Health component. This includes training and strengthening of SHGs [Self-Help Groups] and further linking them to banks to generate livelihood options for associated women groups. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of wall writings on thematic aspects on health, education, environment, sanitation and girl child to ensure mass awareness leading for behavioral change.

FUTURE OBJECTIVE

We are proposing to build a new center and are in the processing of raising funds to achieve the following objectives as our long-term goals:

a) To build the capacities of small NGOs & CBOs through customized thematic and project management training. 

b) To build knowledge and understanding of corporate/for-profit companies on CSR and social development sector issues. 

c) To enhance and build the capacities of youths by providing training/short courses directed towards social development sector requirements and provide internship opportunities for university students (both domestic & overseas). 

d) To develop the center into a knowledge resource and research unit. The resource materials,development tools, information modules, study materials, findings, surveys, quantitative and qualitative data, data analysis and impact assessment report, success stories, videos, movies, and other relevant information would be kept as resources and utilized for further studies for replication and research work. 

e) The Center will be developed with modern amenities along with upgraded technologies to attain greater efficiency and efficacy.

Links:

• http://sukaryacoe.org
• facebook page of Sukarya
• twitter handle of Sukarya