Health & Sanitation
The Peoples Trust provides a number of dispensary services for the community. Here is a comprehensive list:
- Referral services for higher medical treatment.
- Regular special camps for Dental, Eye screening and operation for implantation of IOL (Intra Ocular Lens), Family planning, cancer detection, ENT etc.,
- Health and Hygiene education for the Community.
- Reproductive Child Health care services (antenatal care, intra-natal care, postnatal care, adolescent problems, guardian issues, child health, family welfare, reproductive tract infection).
- School Health education and Health check-up for children.
- Immunisation, ANC check up, TT for pregnant mothers.
- Awareness about AIDS, Adolescent problem, Breast feeding, First Aid, ORT, ARI, Ill effect of using Tobacco, Alcohol etc.,
- Training for Local Dais (mid-wives) for conducting safe home deliveries.
- De-worming, Vitamin A, Pulse-polio for children.
- Child Guidance Centre for child behavioral problems (Bio-psycho social scholastic intervention).
- T.B. treatment
- Rational Drug Therapy (dispensing of generic drugs).
- Blood donation camps by community youth.
- Providing safe sanitary disposal facilities.
- Co-ordination with Govt. Agencies for providing potable drinking water for the community.
Early Child Care & Youth Development
The Peoples Trust believes understanding the stages of child development is important. These includes Pre-natal development (conception to birth), Neonatal (Birth to 2 week) - Biological to trio-psychological, Infancy (2 weeks to 2 years) – transition from relative function to psychosocial control and Early childhood (2 to 6 years) – Pre-school period, Gains control over environment, Social Adjustment, learns to talk, learns words, eats solid food, develops conscience.
- Established 23 Pre-school Centers for promoting formal Pre-school Education for 2 to 6 years children.
- Provided indoors and out door play equipments to enable and facilitate child to improve child’s physical and mental development.
- Adopting comprehensive thematic approach to teach children for language learning, physical, mental, social and psychological development.
- Periodic evaluation of child growth through evaluation method.
- Expose children for Social/cultural gathering and environmental awareness.
- Providing nutrition food and monitoring of nutritional status regularly and providing special supplementary nutrition food for II and III degree malnourished children.
- Protect children from 6 killers’ diseases through immunization.
- Support slow learners through child guidance program in order to improve their learning skills.
- Create awareness to mothers about various aspects of ECCD through Mother’s Club.
Women Development
There are a number of programs provided by The Peoples Trust to aid in the development of women:
Micro Enterprise Development
The Peoples Trust provides a number of programs to aid in the development of micro enterprise for villagers:
- Assistance to small and marginal farmers in the form of High Yield seeds and fertilizers.
- Assistance to farmers with Horticulture inputs like vegetable seeds, fertilizers and pesticides etc.,
- Promotion of water shed program, Soaking Pits and bunds, for percolation to improve underground water table and rainwater harvesting.
- Soil testing of farmers land and bring awareness to improve soil fertility.
- Distribution of Fruit and other commercial plants to the beneficiaries to improve their economic conditions.
- Training the farmers on compost manure and promotion and use of earthworm – Vericompost - for preparation of natural manure.
- Training the farmers in various Scientific methods of Agriculture practices.
- Promotion of kitchen gardening.
- Training the farmers in Rabbit rearing, Piggery, etc.,
- Promotion of crop Insurance for farmers.
- Sericulture training for the farmers.
- Awareness among students on Agriculture and horticulture through demonstration crops.