Project Gramya Vikash Manch (GVM)
- Total Amount Donated
$0
- Donation Goal
$61,707
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Days to goTarget Goal
Campaign Story
About the project
GVM is working on health and malnutrition issues in 18 villages in Assam. Awareness level in the community, sensitization towards accessing health care services including immunization, lack of services like Ante-natal care (ANC) and institutional delivery, balanced diet and hygienic practices influence the poor health and nutrition outcome indices. It was evidently surfaced that retention and regularity of the children in government schools is a compelling issue. Being a flood and waterlogging prone state, schools are vulnerable to physical barriers and thus parents are scared to send their children to school during the rainy season.
Making a difference
CRY America Project GVM is working towards providing access to free, primary healthcare in the intervention areas. The project is working at reducing the rate of child malnutrition in operational areas while increasing the enrollment rate and retention rate in schools. The key activities at the project location are home based tracking of pregnant and lactating mothers, tracking of children for education support, and engagement with children’s groups.
The way forward
● Ensure the development of the Village Health Action Plan by 10 villages.
● Organize 114 sessions to conduct Village Health Nutrition Day (VHND) in 38 villages
● Conduct meetings with 21 Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHNSCs) on health and nutrition issues.
● 15 identified severely malnourished children to eb referred to Nutrition Rehabilitation Center
● 770 6-36 months children will receive Take Home Ration
● Organize sensitization sessions for 33 adolescent groups on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and anemia.
● 217 training sessions for health workers
● Sensitize 448 School Management Committee members on their roles and responsibilities.
● Conduct regular meetings and sensitization sessions for 675 adolescents in the collectives.
● Conduct life skills sessions for 540 adolescents.
● Ensure that all 349 children aged 3-6 years are attending preschool.
● Conduct meetings with 108 parents to ensure regular attendance of their children in schools.
● Ensure the retention of 2,186 children in school
Education support to 147 children in 6-18 year age group
Project Impact
16
public health institutes have adequate access to medical resources.
206
health workers trained in community-based management of moderately malnourished children.
342
women linked to government maternity programs
378
institutional deliveries ensured.
948
children received 100% immunization.
991
adolescents benefitted from capacity building sessions on health & nutrition
260
children enrolled in schools in 12 villages
234
Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) members trained in nutritional management.
2,077
children retained in schools.
6
villages ensured 100% student retention.
20
School Management Committees (SMCs) took action for school infrastructure development.
Current Year’s Approved Grant from Jan 25 to Dec 25: $65,936
Hope, help, and a healthy beginning
During a family planning kit distribution by ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers and CRY America’s project volunteers, Juhi, an adolescent girl from Assam, was identified as pregnant. She was diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy due to her low haemoglobin level and signs of malnutrition. The project volunteers, with assistance from ASHAs, ANMs (Auxiliary Nurse Midwives), and AWWs (Anganwadi Workers), registered her at the Kumarikata Sub-Center (SC).
To meet her nutritional needs, the project members counseled her family about dietary plans while closely monitoring Juhi’s antenatal checkups through ASHA supervisors, ANMs, and Block Program Managers (BPMs). Despite their efforts, the condition of the 15 year old girl worsened, necessitating her referral to Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for advanced care. The project team, in coordination with the medical team, arranged four units of blood for her transfusion. Finally, she stabilized and gave birth safely to a healthy newborn.
Juhi and her child are recovering well under continued monitoring by local healthcare workers and project volunteers.
