Health & Education Services

Girls Gaining Ground

Supported 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.

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SNEHA Shakti

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:

1. To provide outpatient medical services to the economically poor at nominal costs
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To create a work force that can be support staff to nurses to provide for better care to the ill & infirm

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.

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