HESVC

Sun Flower has successfully completed project namely “Health and Education Support to Vulnerable Communities (HESVC) in partnership with Muslim Charity, Helping the Needy, UK from 1 September 2016 to 30 August 2018. The project aims to implement maternal and neonatal health services among the former enclave inhabitants. The enclave dwellers were deprived with all kinds of health facilities as they were not the citizen of Bangladesh. Now a day, as they become the citizen of Bangladesh they are entitled to receive all kinds of government medical facilities, but the lack of transportation and roads facilities reaching to health services is still the far cry. The UHC is almost 12 kilometer and Mother and Family Planning Services is 5 kilometers from the enclave and there are no community clinics within 20 kilometers. Several maternal deaths have been occurred due to lack of transportation and road facilities and it is about 50% of the emergency cases. Normally the maternal cases are handled with untrained birth attendance within the enclaves. Children always face diarrhea, dysentery, seasonal fevers and worm related disease.

Due to lack of accessing resources and facilities, most of the men and women of Dinabazar village used to sell their labor at agricultural fields. Neither Parents have the education to teach children foundation literacy, reading, nor are mathematical skills nor they equipped to meet the demands and impersonal routines of formal schooling. Pre Primary Education program provides a basic academic foundation and the crucial emotional and physical development required for success in primary schools enrollment. Children are not being prepared for primary school at the age of 6 as they don’t have the chance to have some basic education like knowing the alphabets, numerical knowledge. The government primary schools are free to enroll but dropouts are prevalence due to children is less attentive in schools and the parents are not aware of the importance of education. Hundreds of elementary school goers face academic trouble when they are directly enrolled in class one without school preparedness and are hardly ready for entering into the domain of learning.

Doctors are providing treatment to the community people

Project Location:

Village:     Dinbazar.

Union:      Chilahati

Upazila:   Debiganj

District:     Panchagarh

Country:   Bangladesh.

Blood Testing Camp.

Objectives of the projects:
Develop community-based maternity practitioner to act as community health worker (CHW) and community health volunteers (CHVs) to initiate for referrals to the improved government and nongovernment health facilities for the former Shalbari, Kajol Dighi, Beluadanga, Natoktoka (SKBN) enclave dwellers within 2 years project period. Introduce Ambulance facilities to send emergency patients to the improved government and nongovernment health facilities for the former Shalbari, Kajol Dighi, Beluadanga, Natoktoka (SKBN) enclave dwellers within 2 years project period.
Prepare underprivileged 20 to 30 former enclave dwellers children aged between 4 to 5 years in preprimary school, to ensure entry in mainstream primary schools with one to two years preprimary education. Provide all the necessary care and education to 20 to 30 children that will help their development through physical, cognitive, language, social, and emotional growth and changes; with due attention to children of disadvantaged groups, children with special needs.

CHW is providing service to the women.

Leading Activities of the Project:

1. Deploy 1 Community Health Worker (CHW) in the former SKBN enclave.
2. Arrange appropriate training for the selected Community Health Worker (CHW).
3. Provide equipment and counseling center for the Community Health Worker (CHW).
4. Purchase one ambulance for the former SKBN enclave dwellers.
5. Deploy 5 Community Health Volunteers (CHV) from the adolescent girls from the community to act as information channels of CHW and for awareness rising on basic health care, sanitation, ministerial hygiene, seasonal disease etc.
6. Arrange weekly meetings with Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in identifying the pregnant mothers, ill and malnourish children and awareness rising on basic health care, sanitation, ministerial hygiene etc.
7. Formation of community health management group to supervise the activities of CHW and CHVs and ambulance management.
8. Arrange the monthly meeting with community health management group to discuss health situation and activities of CHW, CHV, and Ambulance.
9. Inventory of pre-primary education materials aligns with the Bangladesh government preprimary curriculum.
10. Recruit female teachers for school from locality with minimum completion secondary education.
11. 5 days’ basic professional and skill training for the recruited teachers from Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE).
12. Field based teacher refreshers in each month.
13. Formation of Mothers/Parents/Guardian Committee for school to ensure participatory management of schools.

Project Results:

1. CHW is recruited under the project support in the former SKBN enclave.
2. The recruited CHW is trained with appropriate medical services providing curriculum from a government recognized medical training institute.
3. The CHW is well equipped with required medical tools (i.e. BP Machine, Weight Machine, Pregnancy Test Tool Kits, Thermometer,
   Medical/First Aid Box) to provide maternal and neonatal health care support among the enclaves dwellers and providing regular
   counseling supports among the enclave inhabitants.
4. One ambulance is ready to provide transportation support for emergency patients to an improved government or nongovernment hospitals.
5. 5 CHVs are functioning as health activist and supporting the hand of the CHW within the enclave.
6. Every month health situation of the enclave is discussed in the weekly meeting to plan for next week interventions.
7. Approximately 20 Students are capacitated to enroll in primary schools.
8. Parents of 20 families become anxiety free related to children education.
9. Malnutrition related problem of children is reduced to some extent.
10. The social environment is enhanced among the intervened villages in lights of child education.
11. Parent’s behavioral patterns related to basic health care, hygiene practices are changed towards the better social environment which
    will lead to change about 200 families of these villages.
12. Children dropouts rate in local primary schools is reduced.