Immunization for Tribal Children and Young Mothers
WhatProject Needs and BeneficiariesThe prevalent rates for complete immunization is around 5%. This results in high mortality rates. Seva Mandir's intervention has raised to 37% and continued intervention can raise this further. The intervention targets tribal families in remote areas of South Rajasthan. The focus group is children in 0-2 years age group, and pregnant women. ActivitiesOrganisation of camps (12 camps on a monthly basis over 1 year per hamlet); Ensuring reliable (timely, correct frequency) immunization, make immunization a cultural norm. Each camp targets roughly 30 persons. Camps are in multiples of 15 hamlets. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: $16,425 Additional DocumentationResourcesWhyPotential Long Term ImpactReduction in mortality rates; Immunisation against Tuberculosis/ Tetanus/ Measles/ Diphtheria/ Polio and Pertusis/ Immunisation becomes a norm. Project Message
Regular Immunisation camps can raise the total immunization rates from 2% to 40%. This makes the camps a highly significant intervention. Who
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For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India. WhenLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on August 17, 2009. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 01, 2007. Latest Update from the FieldWorld Bank- Development MarketplaceBy Ms. Deepti Ameta - In Charge - Reporting and Communications, August 17, 2009 03:55 PM
August 13, 2009
Greetings from Seva Mandir! Dear Friends, Thank you for your continuing support to our programs. I am writing to share with you a bit of news. Seva Mandir has recently won a Development Marketplace Grant Competition, organized by the Word Bank. The competition was exclusively for grassroots initiatives in South Asia to address the problem of undernutrition. The Seva Mandir's project on 'Addressing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Rural Rajasthan through Iron Fortification of Flour at Village Level' was one of the 21 projects that won the competition in Development Marketplace. We are all very excited at this achievement. If you have any queries on this project then please do write to me. We are very happy to share this news with you. Thank you for all your support and contributions. We really appreciate it. With warm regards, Deepti deepti@sevamandir.org |
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