Reproductive Health

Through Reproductive Health Program, efforts are made to build an understanding among men and women to see woman’s Reproductive and Sexual Rights as Human Rights, enabling her to make decisions regarding her reproduction and sexuality.

Program seeks to make men and women aware about gender disparity, bigoted community attitudes, social and political dimensions of relationship between reproduction and women’s health, all forms of violence against women and range of intersecting discriminations that affect women’s health.

Child Health

Children in the slums are the victims of premature death, malnutrition, diseases and brutalities. Sanchetana focuses on the health of the children below five years of age in view of the high mortality rate among them.

Women health volunteers, who are organized into Community Development Volunteers, are given training on the issues of child-care. They educate the caregivers on the adoption of healthy behaviours of child-care to enhance the survival prospects o children below five years.

Closer working relationship with the Local Health Administration ensures complete immunization and adequate access to health care.

Adolescent Health

Adolescents are highly vulnerable to changes in social conditions. The socio-cultural context in which adolescent development takes place has an overwhelming impact on their health. Our Adolescent Health Program seeks to enhance the capacities of adolescents so that they are in a position to take wiser decisions for their future and achieve self-respect and sense of worth.

Adolescent girls in the age group of 10 to 13 and 14 to 18 are given necessary skills to deal with physical and psychological changes that they undergo as well how to make responsible decisions regarding their sexual behaviour.

Gender awareness trainings sensitize the girls on violence against women and the ways to combat it. Education to enhance their leadership skills such as effective communication is also part of the program.