Project Name | Promoting healthy behaviours to prevent illness and promote nutrition and health |
Amount Utilized (INR) | 250000 |
Project Description | This component of the organisation's efforts are aimed at motivating slum women, families, children
to adopt healthy practices such as washing hands with soap and water after passing stools, before
eating, before feeding child, before cooking, eating protein and iron rich foods, covering food,
This effort was undertaken through the following input: i) nutrition demonstration sessions with
sprouted, cooked black gram and spouted cooked peas, and with dry roasted black gram, peanuts and
puffed rice Mixture; ii) hand-washing demonstration sessions in slums clusters involving basti
children as motivators and demonstrators using soap and water; iii) Women’s group members are
trained to motivate other families in their slum to a) approach ANM or nearby health centre for
check-up and vaccination of babies and children and pregnant mothers; b) build low cost toilet and
connect to sewer line; c) wash hands with soap and water after toilet, before feeding baby or child, before
cooking, d) keep food at elevated place in house and keep it covered to prevent flies from sitting on and infecting food; e) segregate wet and dry garbage
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Locations | Agra > Uttar Pradesh (UP),Indore > Madhya Pradesh (MP) |
Causes | Health > Preventive healthcare |
Beneficiary Group | Children,Women,Elderly,Others |
Beneficiary Description | Children - about 40,000
Women and girls - about 50,000
Elderly - about 10,000
Men - about 50,000 |
Impact | Practice of washing hands with soap and water has increased; vaccination of babies, children, pregnant mothers has increased, more slum households are constructing toilets in program slum populations in Indore and Agra. |
Activities Conducted
No | Activity / Item / Beneficiaries | Quantity / Number, if applicable |
1 |
Capacity building sessions with members of slum women's groups on promoting health and nutrition practices at household level |
30 |
2 |
Hand-washing demonstrations in slum clusters |
6 |
3 |
Motivation to construct toilets |
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