• formation of common interest groups interested in aquaculture and provision of technical and financial support to them for aquaculture activities.

• Activities combining small-scale fish production, fish breeding, fry and fingerling production.

• Facilitate access to aquaculture options for women and landless and marginal farmers focusing on fish breeding , fry transport and homestead fish culture.

• Development appropriate technology and its use through FFS.

Income generation through Fishry

• Provision of health and nutrition services to remote villages in Program Area which are not currently served by any health facility.

• Awareness creation on health , hygiene and nutrition particularly for children and pregnant women.

• Recruitment and training of village health volunteers and provision f basic medicines, recruitment and training of health supervisors for coordination with Govt. schemes at block level

Health camp

• Training of traditional birth attendants and provision of basic medical kits

• Establishment of mobile health clinic hich shall visit weekly markets nearest to the villages.

Community Health Volunteers-

A cadre of local Community Health Volunteers has been prepared and is already trained by Chhattisgarh Voluntary Health Association and Ambikapur-Raigarh Health Association, Resource NGOs. They are provided with medicine kits. All the CHVs are from the village itself and are gradually been linked with the health department for the refilling of the Kits. The medicine kit has the following medicines- Paracetamole, Norfloxin, Cotrimoxazole, Chloroquine, Metronidazole and Syringes etc for treatment of common ailment like fever, diarrhea, maleria etc.

However proper arrangement for arranging the health care assistance through NGOs where the community also pays the cost is yet to be introduced. It is proposed to make a beginning in this respect shortly.

Pilot Phase:-

Tradition Birth Attendant (Dai) -

If the services have to be strengthened, flow of information is to be ensured to the service providers. The Maternal Mortality Rate in the operational area is not very satisfactory. During the PRA, the villagers insisted the need for the training of Dais and so Dai training was arranged so as to ensure the information flow to the service providers. Dai training is being arranged by the Health Department. In order to ensure 100% registration of pregnancies, an incentive of Rs. 15 is given to the Dai, she has to fill up the format provided to her and give one copy to the Sector supervisor health and the other copy to the concern FNGO and third copy for her reference and follow up.

Details of Traditional Birth Attendant (Dai) trained and number of safe delivery done by them is as follows :-

 Immunization Campaign: -

During the fact-finding exercise, it came into picture that only 30% registration of the pregnant ladies was taking place in the villages. This was an alarming situation for the safe motherhood and child care interventions. During interaction the women also stressed much on the need of health interventions. Based on the need expressed by the community, Immunization campaign was initiated in the field and 2 rounds of immunization campaign were successfully completed in a space of one month.  During the first round of the campaign the beneficiary was provided with a card so as to keep a record for the follow up.  As the health department played a vital role, this campaign was successful. Nearly 14,393 in the 1st phase and 14925 in the 2nd phase women aging between 15-45 years covered under Tetanus toxide immunization drive against the total survey of 16000 women.