We provide health services through OPDs for the local slum population. We provide holistic health care to senior citizens at preventative and curative levels as well as with social, recreational and skills-oriented activities. In addition, we work with adolescent girls from slum communities to educate them about health, nutrition, & life skills and to train them in skills that will give them opportunities to earn higher incomes to support themselves and their families.
Girls Gaining GroundSupported By: Bhavishya Alliance
Date of Inception: May 2008
Status: Ongoing
Target Group: Adolescent girls (11-19 years of age)
Project Area: 4 slums of N-Ward, Ghatkopar, covering 516 girls
Goal: To empower adolescent girls so that they are well informed and can reduce the problem of child malnutrition in their families and communities, and contribute towards improving the nutritional status of children in the state / country.
Objectives:
To empower members of adolescent girls’ groups to become self confident, well informed and responsible decision makers, by creating awareness especially in the context of health and nutrition, building their life skills, and equipping them with some vocational skills.
To address and advocate for issues of child and adolescent health and nutrition at the community level through the members of the adolescent girls’ groups.
Methodology:
- Conducting training sessions with adolescent girls on life skills education, health & nutrition through a team of trained community facilitators.
- Assessing vocational needs of adolescent girls and directing them to the appropriate system.
Supported By: Tech Mahindra, Bombay Community Public Trust, Fees from services
Date of Inception: November 2003
Status: Ongoing
Target Group: Local slum dwellers, senior citizens, and adolescent girls
Project Area: Slum communities in and around the Shastri Nagar and Gazdar Bandh areas as well as for adolescent girls across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai
Goal: To provide holistic healthcare to local slum dwellers and to offer vocational training to encourage income generation.
Objectives:
To provide outpatient medical services to the economically poor at nominal costs
To provide holistic health care to senior citizens on a preventive and curative level as well as to provide them with social, recreational and skill oriented activities, to enhance their well-being.
To provide short-term vocational training opportunities for adolescent girls with limited formal education to develop specialized skills to enable them to earn higher incomes to support themselves and their families
To create a work force that can be support staff to nurses to provide for better care to the ill & infirm
Methodology:
Community mobilization and outreach through surveys, health camps and awareness programs for senior citizens
Recreational and holistic facilities – like yoga and lifestyle programs – for senior citizens
Medical & homeopathic outpatient services
Physiotherapy & pathology lab services
Tailoring classes for adolescent girls and young women
1-year course to train adolescent girls from slums as healthcare personnel to care for the ill and infirm by providing them the knowledge, skills & attitudes to work through theory and practical training and job placement assistance
