Present Projects

Women health workers: Sanjeevini

2011-2013

Supported by TdH Germany

Alongwith 6 partners in 3 states of India, we are training 150 village women to be first contact health service providers. In addition, these women will be specifically trained in women's health, being able to identify reproductive tract infections, do breast and speculum exams. The women will act as change agents being able to mobilise for better and more rational health services in the villages in which they live.

Body Literacy

2010-2011

Supported by the Narvottam Sekhsaria Foundation

Now with the support of the Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation, these workbooks are being translated and tested in Marathi.  The next step is to integrate the workbooks into schools across Maharashtra. 

It is for the first time that age appropriate workbooks for children (especially younger children) on gender and sexuality are available in the Indian context.  The workbooks allow children to explore issues around growing up and the world around us, experientially, using minimum facilitation from teachers.  Good facilitation from teachers will however, greatly enhance the use of the workbooks.

Each book also includes a section on how to stay safe from abuse including child sexual abuse.  The Body Literacy perspective stresses on learning to make friends with the body and the mind, places sexuality education within the body and mind, relationships and gender equality.  It addresses both girls and boys.  Its sole purpose is to start children on a path to access useful information and to make their own decisions.

Maitri: Mobilising Women to Access Safe Health Care through health education

2010-2012

Services reimbursed by Partner Organisations

Quarterly 3-day training of women’s self-help group leaders.  It is visualised that the women will act to take the health trainings back to the self-help groups through small planned surveys of health facilities, health practices and also mobilise to ensure access for women to health care facilities, and rational practice in particular areas of women’s reproductive health  - abortions, pregnancy and childbirth, menstruation, contraception, and nutirition.