Project Gram Swaraj Sangh (GSS)
- Total Amount Donated
$0
- Donation Goal
$21,051
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Days to goTarget Goal
Campaign Story
About the project
Over its 14-year journey with Gram Swaraj Sangh, CRY has empowered the education system in the Rapar block of Kutch district. Low immunization rates, inadequate access to healthcare services, and prevalent superstitions significantly impact maternal and child health. Community members have limited awareness of essential health care services and institutions. Low birth weight, high infant mortality rates, and child marriage further complicate the healthcare landscape. Additionally, gender inequality has hindered the education and well-being of girls.
Making a difference
CRY America Project Gram Swaraj Sangh (GSS) works to provide health and nutritional support to children, pregnant, and lactating mothers in the 23 hamlets of Rapar block. The key activities include counseling pregnant women on institutional deliveries, providing postnatal nutritional awareness, and linking them to government programs. The project also focuses on forming women collectives, adolescent collectives, and girl child collectives to address issues such as infant mortality, low birth weight, child marriage, and girl education.
The Way Forward
● Sensitization of 24 adolescent girls’ collectives through videos on child marriage & anaemia
● 1 Street play in each of the 23 villages on health implications and legal consequences of child marriage.
● Sensitization sessions on sexual and reproductive health and anaemia for all 402 adolescents
● Conduct 2 block-level consultations and 1 district-level consultation with relevant stakeholders on child marriage and anaemia.
● Ensure regular immunization for eligible 140 children and link them to government health services
● Organize food demonstration every 6 months in 23 villages to prevent anaemia
● Haemoglobin testing of 278 adolescent girls to track anaemia levels & provided health education sessions.
● Ensuring 256 children aged 6-36 months are enrolled in Anganwadis
● Tracking improvement of 8 severely underweight children and preventing regression of their nutrition status.
The Way Forward
● 100% targeted people from reference communities will get awareness training during the project period about COVID-19 & its protection systems
● Survival of newborn children ensured through strengthening preventive and protective mechanisms on maternal and child health
● Reduction in the cases of undernourished children
● Combat child malnutrition through strengthening the livelihood system of the community and also enhancing household food security
● Provide critical education support in this extended gap period, so that children can return to school with confidence
Project Impact
508
children availed of free government health services.
69
meetings conducted with mother groups on nutritional awareness.
402
adolescent girls oriented on child marriage and higher education.
340
adolescent girls received IFA (Iron Folic Acid) tablets at health-check up camp.
46
sessions conducted to promote hygiene practices for safe drinking water
142
children aged 0-1 year received 100% immunization.
26
undernourished children’s health status improved.
60
institutional deliveries ensured
Total budget approved for Jan 25 to Dec 25: $ 30,532
Current Year’s Approved Grant
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