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| Reproductive
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| RCH
Projects with Corporate Sector |
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Adolescent Reproductive Health Project in Jharkhand
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Two projects are being implemented by the Foundation in
association with Parivar Kalyan Sansthan (Tata Engineering
Co.) and Tata Steel Family Initiatives Foundation in the
slum areas of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Each partner is covering
an adolescent population of around 20000 in the age group
of 12-19 years. The main objectives of both the projects
are to:
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Provide
sexuality education through adolescent reproductive health
sessions in schools & kishore/kishori groups. |
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Provide life-skills to increase
their decision making power and negotiating skills. |
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Promote use of condom amongst
the youth. |
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Create awareness about STD, HIV/AIDS. |
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Promote gender equality and
equity. |
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Create responsibility of child
spacing and child bearing amongst males & females. |
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Provide wide and informed range
of contraceptives through clinics. |
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Provide youth friendly atmosphere
in the clinics for kishores and kishoris. |
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Refer patients to clinics for
reproductive health related problems. |
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After the MoUs were
signed, both the agencies recruited project staff. Social
mapping was done in the project areas with the help of
the local opinion leaders. The small groups of adolescents
called ‘Dals’ – Kishore Dals (boys) and
Kishori Dals (girls) were formed in the communities. The
members of the Dals received Adolescent Reproductive and
Sexual Health (ARSH) sessions from the field workers of
the project. Being a member of a group gives the adolescents
bargaining power and helps in identifying with each other’s
problems.
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| Adolescent Reproductive
and Sexual Health training programmes are conducted in schools
for classes 8, 9 & 10, for both boys and girls, after
holding a sensitisation programme for the teachers. The Teachers’ Programme
helps to build their capacities to act as resources for the
students and to ensure participation of the students in the
Health Melas. Similarly sensitisation meetings were held
for parents and other opinion leaders in the communities
for supporting this programme. |
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| In the Melas, the adolescents
displayed stalls on various topics of ARSH, presented plays,
speeches, dance dramas etc. Special days like World AIDS
day, World Population Day, International Day for the Eradication
of Violence Against Women, International Women’s Day
etc. were observed through IEC activities. Clinical services
were provided at six locations in the Parivar Kalyan Sansthan
project area and at five locations in Tata Steel Family Initiatives
Foundation project area. One general clinic and one antenatal
clinic are held every week at all the six locations. Services
like ANC, RTI/STI treatment and Family Planning were provided
at these centres. |
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