:: HEALTH, HYGIENE & SANITATION ::
Health, Hygiene and Sanitation present one of the most critical issues concerning the basic needs of rural society. Awareness and access to the basic health facilities and services is still a distant dream to a vast majority of the rural masses, especially those in scheduled tribes and castes. NBJK-India aims to address this issue by generating awareness among the masses on health, hygiene and sanitation; facilitating improved access to health services and products and advocating and influencing policies to improve services for the rural areas.
WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Since 2005, WaterAid-India has been sponsoring the integrated water, sanitation and hygiene program in 20 urban slums in the Ranchi municipal area. The project aims to improve the overall sanitary conditions and civic amenities in the areas as well as provide safe drinking water, individual toilets and renovation of community sanitary complexes. In 2008, 3,500 slum dwellers have directly or indirectly benefited from the program by gaining access to safe, quality sanitation facilities.
LOKNAYAK JAY PRAKASH EYE HOSPITAL - CHOUPARAN
There is a significant need for eye care in Jharkhand, yet the majority of the population is without access to facilities causing blindness from curable and preventable diseases. To fill this need, NBJK-India established the Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Eye Hospital in Choparan. The goal of this facility is to provide quality and affordable care to the most vulnerable in society. With 40 beds, this facility is capable of serving performing thousands of eye surgeries a year, at no-cost or at a reduced cost to provide much needed eye care to the rural poor. With the help of Sight Savers International, UK, patients have access to low cost eye care services and are being served from areas all over Jharkhand and Bihar. The hospital is managed by qualified and trained doctors, medical staff and is well equipped with all the modern eye care devices necessary to reduce the prevalence of cataracts in the project area.
LOK NAYAK JAY PRAKASH EYE HOSPITAL - D U M K A
The success of the eye hospital in Chouparan, led to the opening of The Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Eye Hospital in Dumka to the fill an even more dire need as Dumka is one of the poorest and most neglected districts in Jharkhand. It is now one of the premier eye care centers of the Santhal Pargana region and has been running successfully since April, 2008. The Center is equipped with modern equipment thereby providing the best services possible to the people of the region. Further, employed are well qualified staff, including an ophthalmologist and optometrist, OCAs and other staff highly devoted to their work. Since the Santhal Pargana region is a backward region consisting of poor and illiterate people, the hospital aims at providing the best service to the people, especially those most in need.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
Mental illness is an often unspoken problem in India due to stigma and a general lack of awareness. To address this problem, NBJK-India developed a mental health program in 11 Districts of Bihar and Jharkhand. The program aims to provide treatment to mentally ill patients in their homes with regular follow-ups. The project has also established psychiatric units and provides economic support to its beneficiaries for income generation. The program provides the community, parents and caregivers information regarding mental health issues in an attempt to sensitize and bring about much needed awareness of mental health. Under the project there are several mental health camps set up across Bihar and Jharkhand to provide additional services to those in need.
SAHIYA
SAHIYA was created in 2008 to reduce the infant and maternal mortality rate under the National Rural Health Mission by the government of Jharkhand. Currently the project has intervened in three districts of Jharkhand namely, Hazaribag, Ranchi and Khunti, covering ten blocks. After training, the Sahiya's are able to inform their community members by visiting each home in their village and telling them about health camps going on in their area. NBJK-India has trained over 2,000 Sahiya's.
SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES
With the financial assistance of CAPART, New Delhi, the socioeconomic empowerment program for people with mental illness has been a great success. NBJK-India seeks to provide treatment to mentally challenged people at their door step, which aims at increasing their income generation. The project also seeks to increase linkages between NBJK-India and the government to improve community sensitization on mental health issues. In this program NBJK-India works in eight blocks in five districts of Jharkhand.
INTEGRATED WATER , SANITATION AND HYGIENE , RANCHI
The overall objective of this project is to improve overall sanitary conditions and civic amenities in 20 slums of Ranchi and to create facilities for drinking water while training and educating people on slum development and waste management.
COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Since July of 2007, The Volkart Foundation, Mumbai, has supported NBJK in the implementation of a Community Based Rehabilitation program in Hazaribag. The objective is to create a disabled-friendly Chouparan Block of Hazaribag. To date, the project has identified 1,200 persons with disabilities in 30 villages in the Chouparan block of Hazaribag. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, UK supports a disabled-friendly initiative in Sadar Block of Hazaribag District with a goal to get it replicated in other blocks of the district as well. The project aims at providing immediate support to Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in terms of their certification and access to government services, such as programs and benefits, leadership and organization development, employment generation and the provision of aids and appliances.
INTEGRATED HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROGRAM
The Integrated Health and Nutrition Program (INHP III), funded by CARE Jharkhand, was formed to reduce the infant mortality rate and malnutrition rates in the age group of 12-23 months. The project, running in the Sadar, Chouparan and Ichak Blocks of Hazaribag and the Mandu and Patratu Blocks of Ramgarh, has aimed to increase government health care services and increase the supply of vaccines available to the rural poor.
PRAYAS
The overall objective of PRAYAS, Rights Based Sexual Health Program for Adolescents is to contribute to the reduction of poverty through improved sexual and reproductive health status and reduce the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS of children and young people (C & YP) ages 10-24 in Jharkhand, including the Bishnugarh Block covered by NBJK-India. A variety of activities are done each year involving children and young people to educate them and give them the ability to engage in health seeking behaviors including diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, accessing voluntary counseling and testing centers, adopting safer sexual practices (negotiating safer sexual behaviors including consensual sex, consistent condom use or abstinence), accessing and using contraceptives, and seeking safe delivery and antenatal, postnatal and post abortion care. Along with educating children and young people, training is also conducted for service providers, health centers, village youth adult committees and project staff.
COMMUNITY BASED NRHM AND MONITORING
Funded by PFI, New Delhi & technically supported by CINI Jharkhand; the project is being implemented in Churchu, Ichak & Katkamsandi Blocks of Hazaribag. The project provides health services to reach to the poorest of the poor and has identified 15 villages in each block & developed health profiles and health plans for the region, which are being monitored through a community based framework for monitoring.
JAGRITI
In 2003, the David & Lucille Packard Foundation of the United States, began assisting NBJK-India's JAGRITI project. This project is a sustainable community program for improving reproductive and sexual health of young adults between the ages of 15 - 30 by organizing youth groups and identifying leaders. JAGRITI is currently operating in 600 villages across four districts of Jharkhand state. There has been tremendous success in promoting awareness and empowering the youth, especially girls to make safe decisions about their sexuality and reproductive health.
SOL ID WASTE MANAGEMENT - CLEAN JHARKHAND
The Clean Jharkhand Project, which operates under the Solid Waste Management Program is one of the most innovative solid waste management programs implemented in the country. The program is currently being implemented in 14 municipalities in Jharkhand without any external funding. The project complements waste management services of the Ranchi Municipal Corporation by offering a door to door waste collection service. The project has been so successful that other municipalities have begun similar services to encourage better sanitation through garbage collection. The Resource Recovery Division of the project then takes the collected waste and recycles it into millboard and compost, which is then sold at a profit making the project self-sustainable.
Vermin Compost Plant
In conjunction with the Clean Jharkhand Project, NBJK-India has created a Vermin Compost Plant in Chuttu Village, Ranchi. By using the non-paper waste collected as compost, the plant produces over 228 MT of fertilizer per year, which is then sold at a 97% sales rate. The branded “Lok Vermi Compost” is sold to farmers through retail agents and shops in Ranchi and its surrounding areas.
Green Mill Board Plant
Along with the compost, NBJK-India also established the Mill Board Production unit in Chakla Village, Ranchi. The facility is equipped with modern machinery and infrastructure and uses the collected paper waste to produce 16330 bundles of cardboard or "Mill Board" per year. The product has been branded “Green Mill Board” and is sold all over Ranchi.
Plastic Chopping Unit
The remains from the compost and mill board production is then recycles by NBJK-India as well. There is a plastic chopping unit in the Chakla Center where waste plastics are graded, chopped, washed, dried, packaged and then sent to recyclers for further recycling. This means that all garbage collected is utilized either by NBJK-India or sent to be recycled further, thus reducing the amount of waste prevalent in Jharkhand.
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