Project Vruddhi - Okhamnadal Taluka
- Name of the Initiative
Project Vruddhi
- Project Duration
November 2023 to March 2026
- Place
44 villages of Okhamnadal taluka, Devbhumi Dwarka District
- Funding Partner
Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development (TCSRD)
- Estimated Beneficiaries
16,242 peoples - (as of November 2024)
Project Vruddhi has five components as follows.
1. Low BMI Pregnant women : Our teams screen every pregnant women in 44 project villages and identify women with low BMI (BMI < 18.5). These women are provided with three rounds of counselling for nutritious diet by our team along with Nutrition kit. We are trying to reduce incidence of Low Birth Weight children among these group of women.
2. Low Birth Weight Children: This group of children are more likely
to continue as malnourished children post six month of age compared to normal birth weight children. our team of counsellors visit mothers of these children and provide them with counselling for breastfeeding and Kangaroo mother care. We also provide KMC bag and handwashing kit to mothers. We have observed tremendous improvement in the child weight with this intervention.
3. Facilitating treatment of SAM Children: CMTC is functional at Sub District Hospital in Dwarka city. We are ensuring identification and treatment of SAM children at this facility. We also provide last mile financing by providing wage loss for the period of 14 days and reimbursement of Transport cost.
4. Adolescent anaemia control program: Leveraging existing Self Help Group (SHG) network nurtured by TCSRD, we are ensuring innovative anaemia control program in the taluka. SHG members will help us in organizing screening camp, mobilizing adolescent girls, daily follow-up of anaemic girls for 90 days and treatment completion assessment as well. SHG members are incentivised to perform this activity and will be certified as nutrition educator prior to this activity.
5. Mobile Medical Van: One of the component of Project Vruddhi is improving community health through strengthening primary health care. We are providing fortnightly care through our mobile medical van in 27 villages. Our MMV is operated by a MBBS medical officer and provides care to the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in the area. Project Vruddhi is an innovative approach of addressing malnutrition through community level interventions. Project does not involve treatment of malnourished children but focuses on primary and secondary prevention.
