What are the ant’s present activities in the villages of Chirang?
Currently we work in around 50 hamlets . They can be distinguished into different activities. · Village Health Programme: almost all villages in our area cannot access government health care facilities easily. Thus women volunteers who were selected by the village have been trained to handle about 30 medicines for common ailments. Working as village pharmacists, they provide high quality, low-cost generic medicines at no-profit no-loss basis and benefit the poor, especially women and children. · Weaving Programme: realizing that the women in the area are skilled weavers the ant has tried to market this skill so that it can be an income generation opportunity for women. Moreover, it hopes to create a distinct and positive Bodo identity through the products of weaving. · Jagruti Groups: believing in the concept of self-help groups, these are women groups engaged in small savings and investments. The objective is to lead the women towards consciousness or Jagruti. · Udangshri Dera: or fre
Currently we our work is spread in around 90 hamlets. This can be distinguished into different activities. · Village Health Programme: Almost all villages in our area cannot access government health care facilities easily, although since 2006, the National Rural Health Mission is trying to make a difference. Thus women volunteers were selected by the village have been trained to handle about 30 medicines for common ailments. Working as village pharmacists, they provide high quality, low-cost generic medicines at no-profit no-loss basis and benefit the poor, especially women and children. We also have community laboratories that give correct Malaria results to local people with a 95% technical veracity. Lately we are trying to work with the community to keep an eye on the National Rural Health Mission guarantees and are helping in building the capacity of the ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) of the NRHAM programme. Alongwith ASHADEEP, A NGO based in Guwahati, we are running a
