Dear Friends,
As the severely stretched health system in India prioritizes COVID-19 related activities in a desperate attempt to contain the pandemic, non-COVID related health services have been being inadvertently side-lined. This has an enormous impact on poor and vulnerable groups, including young women.

FPA India continues to offer facility-based essential, time-sensitive reproductive health services in spite of the lockdown. Yet, a large number of needy people are unable to reach to our facilities. Similarly, due to social distancing and suspended public transport, community based development work is severely affected. This hampers delivery of contraceptives, menstrual hygiene products and other essentials to stranded migrants, young women confined in their own homes and the marginalized rural poor, who don’t have the means to access clinical services. There is a dearth of protective gear for our frontline clinical teams.

Your support will go a long way in mobilizing additional resources to secure protective gear and transportation costs for our frontline teams and reach out to our communities during these difficult times. We also propose to open ‘positive health clinics’ offering diet and lifestyle modification with interventions improving the immunity, screening for COVID-19 and non-COVID related essential health services.

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Adv. Avlokita A Mane, President of FPAI Pune branch, recipient of Manav Adhikar Puraskar (2014) and Swayam Siddha Award (2014) is a Past President of Poona Women’s Council, Past President of Rotary Club of Pune Far East, Dist. 3131. Past President of Chitari Academy of Fine Arts, Co- director of rotary youth Exchange.

An Advocate by profession and an artist by passion, is into social work for the last 40 years. Special and visually challenged children are very close to my heart. Working for upliftment of the less fortunate women and children and their rights in society is my Mission.

Education is the birth right of every child and “We are Responsible for it”.