Swasthya Swaraj Society is a grassroots level health rights organisation working specifically in Kalahandi, one of Odisha’s most underdeveloped, tribal-dominated districts. Its Comprehensive Community Health Programme is run in 79 villages, covering over 14,000 people from the poorest households in the region. One major aspect of the Society’s work is direct clinical services: it runs...
SEARCH was founded in 1986 in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district with the vision of “arogya swaraj” – empowering people to take care of their own health. The organisation provides quality, affordable healthcare to the rural and tribal people of Gadchiroli, empowers marginalised populations and conducts research to shape local, national and global health policies. It operates...
Access to affordable, quality healthcare is a basic right for all, and the Healing Fields Foundation believes that women can serve as ideal change agents to make that vision a reality. The organisation, therefore, works in some of the poorest states in India to train and support women as health change agents in their own...
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Right from the time it was founded, Karuna Trust has been dedicated to “reaching the unreached” and improving public healthcare in rural India through partnerships with the government and the public sector. Its first such project was with the Government of Karnataka, which entrusted the organisation to run a Public Health Centre (PHC) in Chamarajanagar...
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Stree Mukti Sanghatana started out in 1975 as a theatre troupe staging travelling street plays about women’s rights and gender equality. In the years since, it has established itself as one of Maharashtra’s leading social justice organisations that works to empower women, adolescents, children and the working classes, particularly waste pickers. One of SMS’s early...
The Tata Trusts have been involved in running mental health programmes in India for over four decades, and started its Udaan initiative specifically to tackle issues of mental health. Udaan’s programmes have helped to develop and strengthen rescue, recovery and rehabilitation work for people across the country, particularly among lower-income and marginalised communities who have...
Founded on the principle of “raising health for all”, SNEHA works to holistically address preventive and promotive healthcare for the urban poor, especially vulnerable women and children. It helps to strengthen the capacity of local communities to access public healthcare, while simultaneously working with public health systems to ensure that they provide quality services. SNEHA...
