Our organization, Village Development Society, also works on adolescent health Awareness and Initiative. Under this initiative, we actively working Since 2003 the Udaan Arsh, Kisor Kisori pahal &Mahi Project through which we focused on adolescent health Awareness and Initiative. We provided complete information on personal hygiene and adolescent health to young girls and also discussed the difficulties arising from the pandemic. And we are also working on adolescent awareness and motivation, adolescent sexual health and hygiene education, career counseling, and family life education.
A total of 10122 adolescents were mapped in 635 villages from Start of project till end of December.
Once the team was fully trained it hit the field fully motivated and started the training session for the adolescent girls at community and school level. By the end of year.
Activities
- Registration target of adolescent girls for the project exceeds the target.
- 65000 total girls registered.
- 45000 new adolescent girls registered in the Project for itself.
- 945 villages covered/mapped out of 1096
- 56000 school going girls trained sessions.
- 35000 girls trained at community level sessions.
- We covered 9500schools
- Organised 4500 events at ARCs with 10000 adolescent girls participating in these.
- Conducted 1200 training sessions at school level and 5000 at community level in the year.
Case Study
Pooja is an adolescent girl of village Dharkot, Yamkeshwar block. She is 19 years old, she has passed class 12th and not continuing her education any further. Her father’s name is Mr. Gajendra Singh and he is unemployed. Her Mother is a homemaker. Her brother is the only bread winner for the family who is employed with some private organisation. The financial condition of the house is not good. Pooja helps her mother in household chores. Pooja was facing menstrual problems for the last one and half years. Her menstruation cycles were uncertain. Her menstruation was occurring at an interval of two-three months and once it started it would not stop in the stipulated 5/6 day period but continue for longer durations. It became a traumatic experience for her apart from her bad mental health she felt very weak.
Pooja participated in the health training session being conducted by MAHI project on 04-02-2022 in which she shared her problem with AHF Pooja. She was invited by team MAHI to a health camp organized at the community health Centre on 19-04-2022, Adolescent Pooja was examined by Dr. Poonam Doctor Poonam also went through her old reports and based on her diagnosis she prescribed her medicine and also counselled her on healthy diet and exercise regime. Doctor Poonam’s prescription worked wonders for Pooja she has been on medication since then. Pooja is almost normal now she and her family are very happy. Pooja is thankful to team MAHI but her mother is full of gratitude towards team MAHI.
