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 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 with the [Read More...] 
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.  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 [Read More...] TRAINING In September, we conducted four, three-day long trainings for new health activists. We trained 79 new activists in all REPLICATION Our project manager visited Phoolpur in [Read More...] Our training program has had one positive effect. In the beginning of this program, about 18 months back, we encountered some difficulty in motivating even one volunteer to attend our training session. But that has changed. Now, many more volunteers than we reach out to show up for our trainings. And we train them all, [Read More...] One of the objectives of the Save-A-Mother program is to scale up and replicate it in other regions. To fulfill this objective we conducted a ‘train the trainer’ program for 35 preselected leaders from 23rd to 28th June, 2009 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi was our training partner. The participants [Read More...] |
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