By Debadutta Dash | Board Member, Sukarya USA
Warisa who is 26 years old and a mother of 5 children lives in Lapala village of Alwar district with her husband Abid who works as a truck driver to make their living.
She visited our clinic when she was extremely depressed and with no hope to live further. She was stressed out due to her tough economic condition compounded by the health condition of her triplet daughters who were suffering from extreme conditions of malnourishment, diarrhea, skin and ear infections and abscess. Warisa herself was detected with anemia with just 8.5 gm hemoglobin.She received immediate attention from the team of Sukarya through counseling and treatment for her triplets. It was followed up by home visits ensuring that she visited Anganwadi centre for nutrition supplements.
After a couple of months during her last visit to the clinic, she described how overwhelming she was by the personal attention and support she received from the team of Sukarya at the very critical situation in her life. She was overjoyed to see the progress in the health of her girls, who now weighted 4.1 kg, 4.4 kg and 4.3 kg respectively. She saw herself out of anemic condition and her hemoglobin count had improved from 8.5 to 11.4g now. " I have a new life and hope for a brighter future of my girls", she says, " I am for ever grateful to the entire team of Sukarya for their continuous support and dedication". A story ended with so much of happiness and sense of accomplishment.
Progress Summary in brief: During the last quarter, the focus of the project was to train & build the capacity of PRI [Panchayati Raj institution] system to link the governmental schemes with community. Girl Child Education campaign was also kept as one of the important activities 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. Similarly, computer & English classes with Life skill sessions under VTC [Vocational training centre] were launched in each 3 villages. Strengthening of SHGs [Self-Help Groups] by linking them to banks were undertaken and 2nd round of tailoring training was started in order to generate livelihood options for associated women group. Additionally, under IEC [Information, Education and Communication] wall writings were done on thematic aspects on health, education, environment, sanitation and girl child education to ensure mass awareness leading for behavioral change.
Some important numbers to share: During the last quiarter 621 patients treated through 9 health clinics, 149 women received counseling on maternal and child health care, 122 women attended nutrition awareness / cooking demo sessions, 261 people received knowledge and awareness through health sessions, 407 patients received home visit /follow ups services, 160 children and people participated in Girl child campaign, 542 people connected & benefited through schemes, 63 women are registered member of SHGs, 5 SHGs are strengthened and linked with banks, 33 children enrolled in the computer education cleared the exam and received certificate from NIIT, 35 participants received knowledge on environmental issues and trained with sanitation session, 33 students cleared English exam, 39 wall writings done on thematic aspects for awareness camapaign.
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By Debadutta Dash | Executive Board Member, Sukarya USA
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