Breakdown: A Journey to Uttar Pradesh

Jaya Singh: SAM's India-Based Director of Research and Program Development

It is a hot September day in Musafirkhana, Uttar Pradesh.  We’ve been driving on the Lucknow-Benaras highway for several hours before swerving off onto a dirt path, rice fields on either side, our driver honking away the few bicyclists and pedestrians we

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News From the Ground

News from the Ground

96 Swasthya Sakhis attended one day refresher training workshops in 7 blocks-  Dubey pur, Musafirkhana, Lalganj, Satava, Jagdishpur, Khiro, Mahrajganj

In 27 villages, half-day sensitization workshops were conducted in two districts-Sultanpur and Rae Bareli.

Save a Mother participated in 20 CLA (village organization) meetings and 2 BLA (block level) meetings.

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News From the Ground – Dr. Ganju Reports (February 2010)

We conducted refresher trainings for 92 health activists who are currently working in Bhetua, Shahgarh, Gauriganj, Singpur, Gaura, and Dalmau blocks. And, 42 new health activists received the 3-day induction training in Kurwar and Chatoh blocks in Sultanpur and Raebareli districts of Uttar Pradesh.

We expanded to two new districts

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News From the Ground - Dr. Ganju Reports (December 2009)

Ten one-day refresher trainings were conducted in eight blocks of Uttar Pradesh during December ’09. A total of 83 Swasthya Sakhis (Health Activists) received the refresher trainings. We conducted a three-day induction training of Swasthya Sakhis in Rahi block. 21 Swasthya Sakhis were trained and 15 other local women attended the training. We

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News From the Ground - Dr. Ganju Reports (December 2009)

I visited our project in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh and attended two training sessions in our oldest training block, Shahgarh and in the newest, Sereni. I was overwhelmed by the eager participants: our village women. They are smart, inquisitive, and open to new information. Our lively discussions ranged from hand washing to menstrual ailments. Their candor was a revelation and the transformation of activists that has taken place in Shahgarh in the past 18 months – since we started there – is encouraging.

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News From the Ground - Dr. Ganju Reports (October 2009)

TRAINING

In September, we conducted four, three-day long trainings for new health activists. We trained 79 new activists in all We conducted eight refresher training courses for those already in the field We are now working in 459 villages and will reach our target of 600 villages by the end of December 2009

REPLICATION

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