Health Interventions

In accordance with the traditional maxim “ Health is Wealth”. ICECD carriers out health interventions, as good health ensures a healthy mind, which in turn increases the productive capacity of a person thus leading to gainful employment.

	Health exhibitions to create mass awareness on preventive and curative aspects of various health issues.
	Health education and awareness camps for women and children with focus on motherhood, nutrition and child care.
	Medical check up camps/distribution of medicines to directly deal with existing illness in a cross section of the society.
	Follow-up done through mobile vans and doctors to provide medical services.

IMPACT
	While >13270 people have been addressed through the health exhibitions. > 2545 people have been made aware on specific health issues through health awareness camps .
	The health intervention brought improvement in understanding of various health issues and community hygiene among participants
	Generated awareness on preventive and curative dimensions of most common diseases
	Doctors on various health ailments attended to 2460 people and distributed medicine.

Fighting Illiteracy

	ICECD's education interventions have not only upgraded the general living standard of people at individual elvel, but have also sensitized them to various socio-economic and political changes.
	Functional literacy aimed at developing reading, writing and numerical skills of illiterate men and women Anganwadi (Pre Primary School) strengthening aimed at providing proper nutrition to children and imparting literacy skills for entry to primary schools
	Awareness Workshops for teachers and government officials for improving the quality of education

Human Rights Advocacy

	Awareness camps on Human rights look into specific rights of humans with emphasis on women. Education, health, economic structures and violence against women are the key areas of information sharing.
	Awareness camps on Consumer issues like adulteration, less measurement and products with expired dates are organized. Addressing these issues through consumer protection forum and thus taking action against offenders in the focus.
	Awareness of Life and General Insurance Scheme is provided to rural population to cover against natural/accidental death, total/partial disability to the insured or his/her family members, as the case may be.

Water and Sanitation Activities

Access to suffcient and clean water is one of the prime necessities of India's rural population. To facilitate this, various ICECD interventions include :

	Awareness camps on aspects related to maintaining clean drinking water and proper storage of water
	Soak pit development training for facilitating wastewater disposal near one's house
	Community Tree Plantations for better environment
	Rain water harvesting for storage of drinking water
	Kitchen garden development to harness the domestic waste water and thereby obtaining fresh vegetables

Social Security of Women through Insurance

Women, especially the rural poor, have always found themselves at a disadvantage in accessing funds. Some of the reasons could be their lack of exposure to the world outside their homes, a low level of literacy and unfamiliarity with bureaucratic procedures involved in procuring funds.

They, being vulnerable always faced uncertainty like death of earning member of the family, disability, loss of livelihood assets and sometimes-major health problems. One way through which such groups could be protected in such situations was to make them aware of the importance and need of insurance schemes and integrate them into such schemes.

With the experience of previous insurance related work, ICECD joined hands with FICCI - CARE and identified relevant insurance schemes, both for life and other risks, for the women of Kutch. A number of projects had already been implemented to help women by technical training, entrepreneurship training, and development of capacities. Some of these women were already developmental partners of CARE / ICECD / other NGOs in the past and in on-going developmental projects. 

The project covered these partner women under a variety of insurance schemes for life, health, personal accident besides covering their houses and house contents against risks like earthquake/ floods /other calamities