SUKARYA

BEHTAR SWASTHYA

BEHTAR SAMAJ

Sukarya

Sukarya, is a non-governmental development

organization working on issues affecting the

health status of rural and urban communities in

Haryana since 1999. Registered in 2001, the

focus of our work is primarily to improve the

health status of urban and rural poor by making

primary health care services at both preventive

and curative levels accessible to underserved and marginalized communities.

VISIONThe Vision of Sukarya is health for all- 'Behtar

Swasthya Behtar Samaj’; a society where

everyone has access to basic health care

services and the fundamental development

need of communities are adequately met. Our

interventions are aimed at ensuring equitable

access to quality health services to all

including the poorest sections of the society,

especially women, adolescents and children.

Our Objectives To advocate, encourage and guide positive 'health-seeking

behavior' with special emphasis on overall health and well-

being.

To improve maternal and child health through training,

awareness campaigns, workshops, and health related education.

To advocate, promote and sensitize communities on Primary

Health Care, Reproductive Child Health and Community Health

issues.

To empower women by strengthening their physical, mental and

emotional well-being and economic security.

To initiate and implement social and community development

activities in the field of healthcare, income generation for women

as well as informal education for the weaker sections of society.

To provide humanitarian assistance in areas affected by natural

calamities such as cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

OUR TEAM

The team of Sukarya includes volunteers,

professionals, consultants, doctors and the

working staff.

Board of Trustees

Ms. Meera Satpathy Chairperson

Ms. Kumkum Bhatia Trustee

Mr. Debabrata Satpathy Trustee

The list of volunteers is as follows:

Mr. D. S. Kataria

Mr. Asit Tarkhad

Ms. Pushpa Indernath

Ms. Renu Sood

Ms. Shipra Shukla

Ms. Neelam Kapur

Ms. Santosh Sharma

Ms. Reva Puri

Ms. Varsha Tarkhad

Ms. Rashmi Narayan

Mr. Naresh Wadhawan

Ms. Madhu Kataria

Advisory Committee

Mr. C.B. Satpathy, Retd. DGOI police ,Working as advisor corporate strategy and

security

Mr. S.K. Kain, I.P.S., Retd. DG Police, Worked as special commissioner WIP services,

Delhi, Member, PGC Delhi

Dr. Aasha Kapur Mehta, Professor Economics in IIPA, lecturer since 1975,Delhi

University, Reader in IIPA 1997- PRESENT

Dr. Suraj Kumar, National Programme Officer, UNDP, India Country Office, Delhi.

The list of Project staff is as follows:

Mr. Shahnawaz Shahid – BCC Coordinator [RCH Project]

Mr. Dharmveer Yadav – Assistant BCC Coordinator [RCH project]

Mr. Satnam Singh – Programme Manager [SHG & Health Initiative Projects]

Ms. Renu Bisht - Coordinator [SHG Project]

Mr. Devendra Sharma – Accounts cum Administration Officer

Mr.Fahad khan - Field Supervisor [RCH Project]

Mr.Pawan Kumar - Field Supervisor [ RCH Project]

Mr. Bunyad Ahmad - Field supervisor [ RCH project ]

Mr. Naresh Kumar - Field supervisor [ RCH Project]

Mr. Mohd. Iqbal - Field Supervisor [ RCH Project]

Ms Geeta Sharma - Field supervisor [SHG Project]

Sukarya initiated its activities in 1999 by

conducting various Health Camps, Health Melas

and Free Medical Services including free

distribution of medicines in various slums of

Delhi and Gurgaon with the help of expert team

of doctors. Subsequently Sukarya has been

implementing Income Generation and Life Skills

Projects in Gurgaon and covering JJ slum clusters

in DLF Phase-V and villages of Kanhei,

Wazirabad, Ghata, Tighra and Shamaspur.

PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

● GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION

● PERI URBAN INTERVENTION

GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION

A. Improving Reach and Access of RCH and FP services with Quality of Care

in partnership with Population Foundation of India (PFI)

B. Men as Partners in Improving the health Status of the Rural

Communities, this project is supported by Concern India Foundation

and Amadeus India.

D. Better health through Community based health centre, this project

is supported by Charities Aid Foundation and Incentive Destination

E. Women empowerment by strengthening self help group and micro

enterprise development, this project is supported by Charities Aid

Foundation and Godfrey Phillips India Limited

Improving Reach

and Access of RCH

with Quality of Care

This project is a direct implementation project by

Population Foundation Of India with active partnership of

Sukarya. The project is of 3 years period and covers a

population of 50,000 which includes 29 villages of Nuh and

Tauro Block of Mewat District. The goal of the project is to

improve the reproductive and child health and family

planning status in Mewat.

List of village for direct Implementation in Mewat

Cluster no. Sl.no. Block Village Population(2001)

Cluster-1

1Taoru Bissar Akbarpur 2823

2Taoru Para 867

3Taoru Kalwari 2562

4Taoru Sheikhpur 292

Cluster-2

5Taoru Hasanpur 2746

6Taoru Sabras 1108

7Taoru Guddhi(Guddha+Nihalgarh) 1089

Cluster-3

8Taoru Khark 193

9Taoru Sunthaka 51

10Taoru Beri Nisfi 361

11Taoru Jafarabad 904

12Taoru Goela 1123

Total population 14119

Cluster-1

1NUH Untka 965

2NUH Murad bas 1608

3NUH Baroji 489

4NUH Bai 1728

5NUH Meoli 5569

6NUH Kherla 3161

7NUH Khori nuh 126

Cluster-2

8NUH Salamba 5093

9NUH Salaheri 3848

10NUH Ferozpur Namak 5102

11NUH Cahndni 3026

12NUH Saidan 702

Cluster-3

13NUH Palla 1278

14NUH Sonkh 1018

15NUH Biwan 625

16NUH Tapkan 2429

17NUH Rehna 2734

Total population 39501

G.Total population 53620

Under the community health program, Sukarya is implementing a project

in the most backward and the deprived district of Haryana, Mewat.

Mewat is the land of the Meos, who have their genesis in the Meo tribals,

who are basically an agriculture based society. The area has a distinct

ethnic and socio-cultural tract. Historically, the region has had an

extremely turbulent history and has been subjected to repeated invasions.

The destruction and devastation over the centuries has resulted in

backwardness and gross underdevelopment both in the area and its

people. Sukarya initiated its work in Mewat District from June 2008. Our

project objectives focus on male partnership and participation in

improving the overall health status of rural communities. The thrust of

the project focuses on health education and awareness. Male health

groups will play a key role and will provide platform for health education

to identify health issues and problems and to take actions at the ground

level for seeking health products and services.

Major activities till now

• A baseline survey has been conducted by an external organization to understand

the health status prevailing in the area in the month of June, July and August.

• The project reaches to a population of 29000 in 13 villages of Tauro Block of

Mewat District.

• 8 male health groups have been formed and are active.

• 2336 females and 2228 males have visited the camps and have been benefited

• Diagnostic test like X-ray, ECG , blood and urine test has been conducted for

400 people

Better health

through

Community based

health centre

A number of programs have been initiated by policy makers in India since its

independence to bring about positive change in the health of the citizens of India. A huge

amount of money has been spent to provide quality health services to the rural population

of the country. However, there is still a large proportion of rural population that is

deprived of it. For instance Bandhwari, a village with a population of 5000, which falls on

the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, 18 kms from Gurgaon, has residents who were entirely

dependent on quacks for primary health services. There was no clinic or dispensary in the

village. Even the transport facilities in the village are very poor. Taking these facts into

consideration, Sukarya started a small but important joint venture in the village with the

support of CAF and Incentive Destinations.

The goal of the Project was to increase awareness and improve in the overall health of the

gram panchayat of Bandhwari. In order to achieve the goal in a perfect manner, we worked

with a well planned strategy. A health centre was established for the people of Bandhwari,

with an M.B.B.S doctor and a medical dispenser, active five days in a week. To strengthen

community participation, four community health workers were selected from the village

itself. These health workers played a vital role in bringing needy people to the health centre

and in conducting the follow-up of these patients. To address the issues related to

women’s health, visits by a female specialist doctor were scheduled twice in a month.

Further, IEC material is also being developed to generate awareness related to health and

sanitation.

Achievements till now

• More than 3500 household from the village benefited from the services of the

Health Centre like health check ups, provision of quality and effective medicines,

counseling by the doctor and the medicine in charge and time to time follow up

by the project staff.

• 3000 patients have received the treatment during the last two years including 995

women and 746 children. Patients are benefited by the mobile health clinic

services.

• More than 70% of the patients paid the user friendly fees of Rs.10 in the health

centre.

• Counseling and one to one interaction has been conducted with at least 50% of

the patients visiting the clinic. One to one counseling on health has lead to

improvement in the levels of personnel hygiene amongst people in the community.

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• Increase in the awareness level regarding good health, nutrition, safe drinking water,

sanitation, immunization and pregnancy care.

• Increased heath seeking behavior in the community. Patients started visiting the

health centre and the government dispensaries for primary health care services.

• The women from the community were particularly satisfied with the visit of 2

lady doctors twice in a month in the health centre. This opportunity gave them

ample scope to discuss their health problems freely with them.

Women in the rural areas of Haryana have very little control over their lives.

They have no power to take part in the process of decision making in family

matters. Dependency on male members of the family can be seen in almost

every sphere of their lives. These facts have motivated Sukarya to do something

for rural women in the economic front, as economic self reliance has been

considered a crucial factor in realizing the goal of women empowerment. A

pilot project on women empowerment by strengthening self help groups and

vocational training was an ambitious step toward this direction. Three self help

groups and one vocational training group were formed under this project.

Apart from the saving, two self help groups are involved in income generation

activity of spice and cereal making. The prepared spices and cereals are sold by

putting stalls at various corporate offices, housing societies and at the village

level.

An adolescent group having 15 members underwent six months training of a

beautician course under an experienced and a trained teacher. The Beauty

Parlor course was provided to the adolescent girls with an objective to provide

them with the basic skills of a beautician.

Achievements

• Bank linkages have been created for 3 self help groups. 2 self help groups have been

given a revolving fund of Rs.11,000 each

• 44 women directly and almost 220 people indirectly are getting monetary benefits.

• 2 self help groups are running their spice centers successfully in Bandhwari and Waliawas

villages.

•There is an increase of Rs.500 in the monthly income of the 16 women involved in the

spice and cereal making enterprise.

• 15 Adolescent girls have successfully undergone the vocational training on Beauty

Culture.

• The women now have a platform where they can discuss their problem and find a

solution. They get opportunities to recreate themselves as a group.

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• There is a significant change in the confidence and mobility of the women who belong to self

help group. Now, they have the capacity to go bank independently. The same women who had

the hesitation to come out of the four walls, now with immense confidence go to the corporate

offices and sell the spices.

• There is an active participation from the community through this empowerment program.

Firstly, the training venue has been a contribution to the project from the villagers. Secondly the

SHG women and their family members were active participants in the program by directly

involving in the program. The rest of the community was actively participating by their

supporting the promotion of the products (spices) by regularly buying them and building more

customers.

• There is an increased awareness among the self help group members about health, nutrition,

personal hygiene, numeric and calculation skills, self confidence and mobility.

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

A. Reduction in the prevalence of Anaemia – an

important factor of maternal mortality and morbidity

B. Promoting Rural Health by Health Promotional

Camps

Under the reproductive child health program, Sukarya is implementing a pilot

project to reduce the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women, lactating

mothers and adolescents. The project aims to reach 30000 people in 10

villages of Gurgaon distict in Haryana. It was initiated in May 2006 and its

projected duration is of 3 years. The project focuses primarily on behavior

change communication to effectively motivate the target group and high risk

people. This is done by promotion of knowledge, by encouraging the

adoption of healthy practices and the provision of needed health products

and services at the community level for anaemia reduction. This project is

supported by the Population Foundation of India, New Delhi.

Achievements

• Till July, 2009, the project has reached out to 1674

pregnant women, 2087 lactating and 2979 adolescents.

• The project has educated and brought awareness on anemia,

nutrition, safe motherhood, safe delivery and post natal care to

10000 women and their families.

• 2176 pregnant, lactating and adolescents have undergone

hemoglobin tests by Sahli’s method.

• 2439 pregnant, lactating and adolescents has been provided with

iron folic acid tablets

• 1255 adolescents has been de wormed from the project on a

regular basis

• 757 lactating women has been de wormed from the project

• 2047 pregnant and lactating women has been counseled by doctor

and nutritionist during the anemia camps

• 297 pregnant and lactating women have bought and are using iron

pans on a regular basis.

• 605 families are using double fortified salt on a regular basis

• 419 serious anemic cases (pregnant and lactating) has been

referred and treated in the project.

• Liasioning with the health department on a regular basis for better

coordination and utilization of the local level health services like

regular availability of IFA Tablets from the PHC, availing the services

of the government ANM and availing the facility of delivery huts.

The end line survey of the project was done by a

third party and Sukarya was successful in reducing

the prevalence of Anaemia by 65%

Sukarya has been implementing a project titled “Delivering Health Services by a

Mobile Diagnostic Clinic” in six villages of the Pataudi block from April 2007 to

May, 2008. This was the first intervention where Sukarya has initiated the mobile

clinic services in the rural areas of Haryana. Before the intervention of the

project, meetings were conducted with District commissioner, District

Development and Panchayat officer and Chief Medical Officer to seek their

support and guidance for implementing this project.

It was a conscious decision taken by Sukarya to work in the Pataudi Block. It was

the first mobile clinic intervention with Sukarya’s initiative, without any support

from donors. After visiting the villages in Patuadi Block and conducting a few

group discussions with stakeholders, six villages were short listed for the

implementation of the project. The list of the villages is as follows:

Source of data: CHC, Pataudi

Sl.

N

o

Name of the village Population

1 Bapas 1110

2 Titarpur Dhani 317

3 Pahari 2011

4 Nanukhurd 1033

5 Daulatabad 1066

6 Khetiawas 1068

Achievements

◄ A total of 18 camps were held in which total 651 men and 738

women were benefited from the camps.

◄ Improvement in the health seeking behavior was observed in the

community. The people took their initiative to attend the camps,

complete the course of medicines and follow up with the doctors.

◄ More number of people from the community was aware about the

government services and was benefiting from the service.

◄ More number of women were going for their pre natal check ups

and taking the TT injections.

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◄ More number of women were opting for institutional deliveries

◄ The community became more cognizant about nutritive diet

◄ The elderly people, including both the women and men were

benefited by the inputs by the physiotherapist, who regularly took the

physiotherapy treatments for their joint and arthritis problems

PERI URBAN INTERVENTIONS

A. Reaching to the urban slums by Sukarya Sehat Centre

B. Health check-up of students in schools run by other NGOs

supported by Concern India Foundation and the Bird Group

C. Pahal project in Saraswati Kunj Slums Aector 53, DLF Phase-V

Gurgaon supported by Concern India Foundation and the Bird

Group and Hughes Systique

D.Physiotherapy Unit – An alternative Treatment

E. Women's Income Generation Group - Spice Making Project

“Better health–better society“ is the one line statement of Sukarya.

So, in order to strengthen its statement, the Sukarya Sehat Centre

was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya’s premises at Sushant lok. Since

then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work and is well

known for its service to poor and needy people.Sukarya Sehat

Centre was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya’s premises at Sushant

lok. Since then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work

and is well known for its service to poor and needy people. A

general practitioner is available 3 days a week between 10:30-1:30.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES

A general practitioner regularly attends to children (5 -15 years) from a non-

formal education centre called Sankalp based in slums of DLF phase V,

Gurgaon.

On Saturdays, the doctor of the health centre goes to the Saksham School,

Sushant Lok for a check-up of all the 120 students and teachers of the school.

Sukarya provides health check up facilities and counseling to all the HUMANA

People to People India non-formal schools running in Gurgaon. These schools are

running in Chakarpur, Jharsa, Sector 39, Basai Road. Sukarya provides health

facilities to approximately 700 students of various HUMANA schools.

Sukarya is providing health check up facilities to 300 students in a school

adopted by ICF (India Citizen Forum) in Nathupur.

Saraswati Kunj Slums has a total of 640 juggis with a population of 6040. Sukarya is

providing basic health care facilities to Saraswati Kunj slums through a sehat centre.

Counseling sessions are also done on a regular basis. A health card is maintained for each

family.

Activities

Formation of men and women Health Groups one men and one women group in the

village (Swasthya Samuh)

Capacity building of health groups

Development of IEC materials and wall writings

Health education sessions in health groups

Health education sessions in schools

Individual and group counseling sessions

Organizing Health camps and Diagnostic Health camps, and visits of specialist doctors

Networking and linkages with government health institutions like PHC, sub centers,

delivery huts, CHCs, government hospital

Networking and linkages with charitable and private clinics

Strengthening the referring system

General Health camps will focus on:

Health Check up by doctor

Free distribution of medicines

Close follow up of patients

Health education sessions

Diagnostic Health Camps will focus on:

Free consultancy and check ups by doctors

Free distribution of medicines by well trained medicine dispensers

Lab test facilities like the blood, stool, urine, ECG and X- Ray has been

provided by the mobile clinic for the community.

Free haemoglobin check up for all women in the camp was held to

understand the anemia status in the villages

Health education to women, school children and men on nutrition, personal

health and hygiene, community sanitation, safe deliveries and immunization

by talk shows, documentary films, leaflets and pamphlet distribution in the

community was held.

Referring serious patients to government hospital

Counseling sessions of serious patients were conducted on a regular basis.

The Physiotherapy Unit was started on 15 August, 2005, and operates in the premises of

Sukarya. The unit caters to 200 patients from rural and urban areas per month on average. It

has been functioning successfully for the last three years. The unit is open five days a week

from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm. We have a well motivated team that consists of development

professionals, a physiotherapist, volunteers and a support staff who execute their tasks in an

efficient manner. We serve almost 200 patients in a month. We use our organization’s vehicle to

bring marginalized people into the physiotherapy center. Our chief beneficiaries are the people

residing in the slums of Gurgaon. Neemtala, Nalapur, Saraswati Kunj, Sector-56 and Phase –V.

Our main focus is on the women who remain work continuously through the day domestic

help, at farms as laborers and at home. They suffer from various problems such as back pain,

cervical and body pain. The ignorance of these problems may lead to serious ailments such as

a disc prolapse or spondylolisthesis. In the last two years, 2630 patients has been benefited

by the physiotherapy treatment.

Started in 2004, this is a modest step towards assisting women of marginalized

communities in generating additional income for meeting their household needs, by

utilizing their skills in the production of unadulterated spices, pickles and chutney.

Sukarya provides women with space, capital investment, and other required

resources for grinding fresh spices (including Besan, Dhania, Haldi, Chilly, Jira,

Curry powder, Garam Masala) and packaging them. They are given wages for their

labour. The money received from the sale of the spices is used to keep the Project

running. The Project has benefited several women of Wazirabad and Kanhai

villages. Apart from production of spices we have also expanded our range of

products to include Papad, Achar and Chutney so that we can involve and reach

more families through this work.

Sukarya has been supported by the following

corporates:

● Godfrey Phillips India Ltd

● Incentive Destinations, Gurgaon

● Amadeus, Delhi

● Bird Group, Delhi

● RDM, Gurgaon

● BPCL Mumbai

● Gujrat Ambuja Cement Ltd., Delhi

● Maruti Suzuki India Limited

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● HCL Infosy6stems Limited

● Hughes Systique, Gurgaon

● Maruti Udyog Limited, Gurgaon

● TATA, Mumbai

● IDFC Management Company, Mumbai

● Kusmunda Coal Transport Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

Sukarya has been supported by the following funding

organizations:

● Population Foundation of India

● Charities Aid Foundation, India

● Concern India Foundation

● Give India

Sukarya has worked with the following organizations:

● National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development

(NIPCCD) New Delhi

● Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of Government of India

● Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi

● South Delhi Medical Association

● Delhi Psychiatric Society

● Escorts Heart Care Centre

● Sir Ganga Ram Heart Care Centre

● Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Medical Sciences Centre for Diabeted and Life

Style Diseases

● Chetana, New Delhi,

● Prayatana, NGO New Delhi