Help improve the health and sanitation condition of a family by giving a hygiene kit, INR 550

Hygienic condition is gateway to healthy families and most of the rural families fail to procure hygiene materials. This leads to ill health which causes more expenses for medicine/treatment and thus family become poort. The vicious cycle continues. But if such families taste its benefits, they will never leave the practice. With this objective, Janakalyan planned to provide with a starter kit to  start hygienic practices in the house with the support of GiveIndia. The kit contains soap, surf, toilet brush, cleanin agents, scrubber, utensil cleaning cake, detergent cake, buckets, mugs, etc. Janakalyan has supported about many families during 2019-20 with GiveIndia support.

The extremely bad condition of health and sanitation is common knowledge. But it is rapidly becoming a major cause for concern in many parts of the country, even more so in flood affected regions. This has become a focal point due to the significant rise in life threatening diseases. Amongst its many endeavors, Janakalyan has taken the initiative to help improve the state of sanitation in ten flood-affected villages.

How It Works

Janakalyan understands the importance and the sense of urgency that such causes warrant. Hence a group of people from the staff has taken charge of this cause and has been working vigorously towards our goal. • Members of the staff personally visit the village.

• They interact with the families, and village representatives to assess the status of the prospective beneficiaries.

• Based on the information gathered, families best suited to receive the hygiene kit are identified and short-listed.

• Families that are selected are given a token and asked to collect their hygiene kits on designated dates.

• Meanwhile, the administrative staff at Aapna Janakalyan buys the hygiene packages and prepares them for distribution.

• The packages are brought to the villages on the designated days and distributed to families that were issued the token.

• Each family receives only one kit.

The Basics

We believe that improving the state of health and sanitation in all parts of the country is a critical step towards ensuring a healthy society. Every family or village that we help takes us one step closer to our goal of a clean and healthy India.

Poor hygiene is gateway to ill-health

Amaramma (26), a labor lives in Pagadadinni camp, an irrigated belt of Sindhanur; Their house does not have a toilet and area is full of paddy fields. She got anemia in her first pregnancy due to less intake of food as she could not attend natural calls during day-hours. After several episodes of diarrhea and malaria, she finally lost her child.

Janakalyan in collaboration with UNICEF is promoting sanitation & hygiene practices; volunteers identified her as a critical beneficiary and helped to get a toilet constructed. Involved her in training programs to teach safe behavioral practices on hand washing, breast feeding, soak pit, water handling, excreta handling, food preparation, flushing toilet, etc. and provided hygiene kit for her family.

Amaramma as well as her old mother-in-law happily live in her hut but proud to show the toilets to anybody who comes to her house; she has conceived again and takes nutritious food as per the direction of ANM. She does regular check up and gets vaccination despite having difficulties at home as she has learnt the importance of hygiene, sanitation, nutrition and vaccination from Apna Janakalyan.