Promoting health and safety for sustainable outcomes
Swasthya, Suraksha aur Sashakti
Through this intervention, our goal is to focus on the importance of building attitudes towards healthy behaviors and to prioritise holistic health which includes nutrition, mental health and sexual and reproductive health rights, empowering girls and women across our communities to have accessible, quality healthcare and be able to make informed decisions regarding their bodies.
Good health and adequate nutrition during youth lays down the foundation of a healthy and productive adulthood. Being physically fit impacts one’s cognitive and social well-being.
Through our football camps and training, girls participate in physical education activities, which has led to increased strength and stamina. Simultaneously, our life skills interventions aim to cultivate attitudes towards healthy behaviors, empowering girls and women with accessible knowledge about nutrition, body autonomy, mental health and sexual and reproductive health rights. The programme builds intergenerational support systems where boys in the peer group and older women and mothers become instrumental in advocating for girls’ rights to play outdoor sports, participate in public events, on when to get married, to be pregnant and addressing stigmas around healthcare.
Health camps have been one of CEQUIN’s most effective tools for mass mobilisation. For the vulnerable communities we engage with, health and hygiene is a constant challenge for people living in extensive slum areas and informal settlements. Through the years, right from the Gender Resource Centre in 2009, we have also organised large scale health camps, ensuring OPD services with medical professionals and referrals and led mass public awareness campaigns to ensure access to public health services like water and sanitation. We also support, maintain and advocate for public parks and playgrounds, providing our communities with access to green, open, and environmentally sustainable spaces.
Our programmes use a preventive model to address issues such as early, forced, and child marriage, early pregnancy, and to ensure adequate nutrition and healthcare for girls and women from a young age. Our work on advocating for safe public spaces and ending violence against women and girls, has taken many forms, from policy advocacy, to engaging local stakeholders like the police and media, as well as our collective members’ conducting safety audits and leading public rallies for safe and peaceful communities.
Supporters
Key Features:
Experiential Curricula – focussing on cultivating health seeking behaviors about nutrition, sexual and reproductive health rights, sexuality across age groups
Participation in Physical Education – through football camps and practice, leading to enhanced stamina and strength
Health Services – Health and nutrition camps, OPD with ( a gynecologist, general physician and child specialist), referrals to service providers, training community health workers
WATSAN Initiatives – Water and Sanitation audits and initiatives with communities
Sustainable Local Environment – promotion and adoption of green, clean, open public parks and playgrounds in local communities
Gender Based Advocacy for Safe Public Spaces – safety audits, safety walks and public campaigns to build awareness for gender based violence, engaging stakeholders and institutions
Preventive Model – to build awareness and agency to prevent early, forced, and child marriage, early pregnancy, and to ensure adequate nutrition and accessible healthcare for all girls and women from a young age
Highlights
GRC health activities 2009-2011-12
Mewat Health camp, Rozka village, Haryana 2013 at the Senior Secondary School Sakras village, Haryana by the Chief Guest, Mr. Deepander Singh Hooda- Member of Parliament, Guest of Honour, Smt. Geeta Bhukkal (MWCD)
Seemapuri Park Adoption, renovation and partnership with MCD Horticulture Department, 2020-2023
Fitness checks during sports camps to track stamina and strength, Jamia Nagar, 2023
Safety Walk, Seemapuri 2024
An Overview
