School Children's Nutritional Enhancement Programme
Well fed children are able to combat disease far better than those who are nutritionally impoverished. The clinic records show that the local children are sufficiently malnourished as to effect their disease resistance and cause them to under achieve in school. We therefore provide the children in the local govt school with a daily protein rich snack along with a piece of fruit.

Health Education
Regular health awareness is carried out for the clinic staff and groups of local people by our doctors and visiting facilitators. Workshops, seminars, awareness raising fetes and camps are held whenever possible to ensure that people know important facts about their bodies, prevalent diseases and how to increase their ability to manage family crises. The clinic also provides a facility for medical programmes such as dental, eye and gynecological camps run by visiting specialists.

Combating Water Borne Disease
Filtered drinking water is available from the clinic from three filtration and purification systems set up at strategic points in the village and in the school. They each provide 500 litres of clean water every 24 hours. Tapping points are provided from which water is collected by the children every evening and taken to their homes. Each spring, to avoid the otherwise inevitable gastro-intestinal epidemics we conduct house to house awareness campaigns to remind people that the piped water comes directly from the river and cannot be relied upon. We also work to inform people about hygiene and flies, especially in homes where there are young children.

Education

Dissemination through Participation
Education is carried out through women's groups, youth groups and the local school children. Participatory involvement workshops, meetings and events are organised regularly to disseminate information and encourage people to take an active interest in their own health and related issues. Family planning, sex education for young people and information about STDs are primary focus issues. We have also held meetings about the alcohol problem in the village.

Reaching out for New Knowledge
We encourage and provide means for our staff and local people to attend workshops organised by other NGOs or to visit other organisations and interesting places. In this way we bring information on issues such as Women's health, legal matters, local medicinal herbs, waste re-cycling and useful agricultural practices into the area.

Environment

Generating Awareness
With the school children and youth we generate awareness of environmental issues such as water, wildlife, erosion, re-forestation, and garbage management through nature clubs and events including talks, skits and active participation.

Participatory Garbage Management
The clinic staff all actively takes on the responsibility of segregating and disposing of the hospital waste appropriately. Plastic and paper is sent to nearby re-cycling units. Metal and bottles are collected by traders. Only the medical waste is burned or buried.

Control of Plastic Waste
Plastic collection bins have been set up in the village and the children hold monthly rallies to collect all the plastic from the surrounding fields and drains and sort the collected plastic for re-cycling. Local women stitch cloth bags which are screen printed in our centre with slogans encouraging people to reduce their use of plastic.

Agricultural Issues
We practice organic farming methods, vermiculture and herb cultivation and spread awareness of non-conducive agricultural practices such as the over use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides and the introduction of genetically modified seed. We encourage people to grow local varieties and to make compost.