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Activities 2010

Even though India is recognised as an economic power, a large part of its population continues to be excluded from the development process. In the shantytowns of Jaipur, one in 12 children still dies before the age of five. Since 2007, the Midi-Pyrénées delegation has been involved with the most disadvantaged groups in order to improve their access to healthcare, paying particular attention to mother and child health.

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Even though India is recognised as an economic power, a large part of its population continues to be excluded from the development process. In the shantytowns of Jaipur, one in 12 children still dies before the age of five. Since 2007, the Midi-Pyrénées delegation has been involved with the most disadvantaged groups in order to improve their access to healthcare, paying particular attention to mother and child health.

Mother and child healthcare

11 shanty towns in Jaipur, Rajasthan - Long term

ACTIVITIES

In 2010, the programme in partnership with the Indian organisation JKSMS, trained 50 volunteer community health workers. Training these people, who live in the shantytowns, will perpetuate the activities of the programme and bolster the health knowledge of the community beneficiaries. Nearly 25% of the activities previously set up by the JKSMS social workers have now been handed over to the community health workers.
In parallel, the team has continued to show their presence, almost daily, in the shantytowns and strengthens ties with the Jaipur health authorities. The team continues to raise awareness through interactive theatre, traditional methods and group or individual interactions to improve healthcare access for the populations.

RESULTS

In 2010, 50% of pregnant women chose to give birth in a healthcare setting, compared to only 20% at the beginning of the project in 2007.

OUTLOOK

With the aim of transferring activities and responsibilities, MdM will focus on supporting its Indian partner JKSMS and will strengthen the knowledge of the beneficiary populations. Moreover, a particular effort will be undertaken to convince the Jaipur authorities to takeover the programme, partially or in its entirety.

Life expectancy : 64,4 yrs
IDH : 0.519 ; rang : 119/169 *

Population
Beneficiaries : 3 000

Target : 5 000

Personnel

Local : 9

Expatriate : 1

Co-ordinators :
Programme : Dr Isabelle Hainzelin, Dr Maya Laporte-Vergnes
Field : Willy Bergogné
HQ : Midi-Pyrénées Regional Delegation, Tom Wingefeld

Budget 2010 : €61,348

Funding : MdM, Midi-Pyrenees Regional Council, Une foulée pour la vie association, Solidarité en pays de Save association, Arvel Voyages, business school events

Aalia
Trained as a community health worker

“It’s the first time that we have been given the chance to improve things in the shantytown. So I volunteered to be trained as a community health worker. Now I can convince other women to take care of their health and that of their family. I’ve seen too many women cry over the loss of a child and I don’t want that to happen again.”

_{November 2011}

* _{Source : undp 2010}