What
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The 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.
Activities
Organisation 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 Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,530
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $43,470
Total Funding Goal: $50,000
Additional Documentation
Resources
Why
Potential Long Term Impact
Reduction 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.
- Renu Tiwari, Project Incharge- Immunization
Who
ContactNeelima Khetan,Chief Executive Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta Marg Old Fatehpura Udaipur, Rajasthan (INDIA) 313 004 India +91 294 2450960 Email: Project SponsorManish Bapna |
Organization
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Where
Country
This project is located in 
India
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Health.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
When
Last Updated
This project was last updated on September 05, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 01, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
Update for July month
By Ms. Priyanka Singh - In Charge Health Program, September 05, 2008 04:15 PM
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Seva Mandir, India!
We are grateful to all our donors for continuing their faith in our work and for standing by us. Through this letter I would like to share the update for our Immunization Program, which you have been supporting.
Seva Mandir has been conducting immunization camps since April 2007. In the month of July 66 immunization camps were held against the targeted 68. We had to cancel two camps due to heavy rains that made these two villages inaccessible. 380 children were given immunization shots and 182 expecting mothers received Tetanus shots in these 66 camps.
From July 2008, we have also been training our nurses who conduct immunization to treat simple ailments in children and conduct full Antenatal check up. This has increased the benefits to both mothers and children, in many cases helped over major fatality as in the case given below.
Gavri who is in her mid twenties lives with her husband in village Bilwan Khetra. She got two tetanus shots in Seva Mandir run immunization camp during her fourth pregnancy. In her eighth month of pregnancy she began to experience lower abdominal pains. She consulted the TBA (the traditional birth attendant trained and supported by Seva Mandir) who brought her to the immunization camp where the nurse conducted the Antenatal check up. The Nurse could not hear the heartbeats of the baby and so referred Gavri immediately to a hospital where she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
Our model of conducting immunization camps seeks to address both the supply side constraints by ensuring regular supply and also boosting demand through giving incentives to parents. By and large these camps are very successful in benefiting pregnant women and young children yet there are challenges with which we are still grappling. One such is inability to reach out to more children who have not been vaccinated.
Thank you again for your support. For queries and suggestions please do write to me at priyanka.singh@sevamandir.org
With regards,
Sincerely,
Priyanka Singh
In Charge Health Program
Seva Mandir, India
