1. CHILD HEALTH PROGRAM in ESK villages
Why this Program:
Health problems interfere with students' ability to come to school, stay in school and make the most of their opportunity to learn. Highly prevalent nutrition and health conditions among school-age children are important determinants of educational outcomes.
For Example:
- Children with nutritional deficiencies such as Protein energy Malnutrition could affect schooling.
- Poor attention in the classroom could reflect a cognitive dysfunction such as is often observed among hyperactive children, or it could result from a lack of perseverance in an otherwise healthy child.
- School aptitudes among three- to six-year-old children are affected by iron-deficiency anemia. These effects continue into the school period if the nutritional deficit is not corrected.
- Vitamin-A deficiency is the major cause of partial or total blindness among pre- school-age children.
Objectives:
- Improve The Health conditions of the children in the focus village
- Increase awareness about healthy nutrition practices among the children
- Provide Promotive, Preventive and curative services to the people and motivate them to increase the use of these services
- Early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of defects
- Formation of Health care providers network in the region
Location: Banavaram, Lathur and KV Kuppam.
No.of Villages: 35
Brief of the Activity: In this project we intend to improve the health status of all the children between 0 and 3yrs and from 3 yrs to 15 yrs to the children who attend our Eureka SuperKidz program.
Key focus area of the project: Health & Nutrition of the children and the adolescents, prevention and cure of common diseases like diarrhea, worm infestations among other common diseases, and personal hygiene. Each child will be issued a Health report card. Information related to health and nutrition of the particular child will be recorded in the Health report card. Series of Health Camps will be organized for all the children attending our Center. Apart from this work we will try to network the nearby hospitals and clinics for referral service.
Aspects of Child health program:
Some aspects of the services are summarized as follows:
- Health appraisal of school age children
- Remedial measures and follow-ups
- Prevention of communicable diseases
- Immunization & Nutritional services
- First aid and emergency care
- Mental Health
- Dental health
- Eye Health
- Health Education
2. Awareness on Reducing under Nutrition from Pregnancy through age Two –1000 Days approach
Supported By UNICEF
Why 1000 days very important?
Maternal and child nutrition during the 1,000 days of pregnancy through age two shapes a child’s future. With adequate nourishment in the earliest years of life, children have an opportunity to grow to reach their full potential. There is a critical window of opportunity between pregnancy and age two during which nutrition can have a measureable lasting impact on growth, brain development, incidence of disabilities and susceptibility to disease or infection. The full long-term effects reach beyond health—with poor early nutrition leading to limited educational achievement and decreased lifelong economic opportunity
Therefore the 1,000 days comprising the prenatal period and the first two years of life are a critical window of opportunity to prevent under nutrition and its consequences and break the inter-generational cycle of under nutrition in India; once these 1,000 are gone, the window of opportunity closes for life.
This project is being implemented in Krishnagiri district.
AROGYAM - Community Initiatives to Improve Health & Nutrition |
