Monday, December 21, 2009

Initiative for a Social Cause

Community-Led Initiatives for Child Survival (CLICS) was accomplished in 2003 with the aim to advance a community-led access that ensures the accouterment of top above and affordable adolescent adaptation and bloom casework for rural communities. The affairs is accepting implemented in three Primary Health Center across of Wardha commune in Maharashtra with a absolute citizenry of about 88,000. It tests the role of Village Coordination Committee (VCC), a apple based institutions in the accumulation of decentralized healthcare.

The cold of the affairs is
•Providing affordable, top above bloom affliction through able partnerships at the apple level;
•Building the accommodation of coalitions of bounded ally to sustain adolescent adaptation activities and bloom gains;
•Refining and testing a amusing franchising archetypal for the accumulation of adolescent adaptation interventions;
•Documenting, disseminating and administration key programmed acquaint and after-effects to facilitate adaptation, archetype and action advocacy.

The Vidharba arena of Maharashtra, of which Wardha is a district, is the atomic arena in the state. Located in a rain-shadow arena of the Deccan Plateau, it is characterized by low condensate and a base ambiance and is decumbent to droughts. Health indicators in the arena are decidedly afflictive and are a allotment of the atomic in India. Clics consistently works for amusing cause. Some of the key issues that the programmed is acclamation include:

•Poor adolescent sex arrangement (883) in 0-6 year’s age group. Acute gender bigotry in assertive villages with an alarming akin of 771 females per 1,000 males in the 0-11 ages age accumulation
•Neonatal deaths anniversary for about 70% of baby deaths.
•High accident (51%) of professionally abandoned home deliveries. Low acceptance (28%) of disposable accomplished bearing attendant-kits for home deliveries.
•Poor acquaintance (8%) apropos affliction and hygiene of low-birth weight babies.
•Delayed admission of breastfeeding with beneath than 1% of mothers agriculture babies aural one hour of birth.
•High appear ante (77%) of adolescence Diarrhea and ARI that go basic in the aboriginal 24 hours. Only 30% of the mothers use articulate rehydration salts (ORS).
•High ante of adamant absence anemia in women. Only 12% of abundant women accept the minimum ante-natal affliction (ANC) package.

Yogesh Kumar
CLICS
for added advice visit- http://www.clics.org.in/

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