Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Reduction in mortality rates; Immunisation against Tuberculosis/ Tetanus/ Measles/ Diphtheria/ Polio and Pertusis/ Immunisation becomes a norm.

Project Message

Regular Immunisation camps can raise the total immunization rates from 2% to 40%. This makes the camps a highly significant intervention.
- Renu Tiwari, Project Incharge- Immunization

Who is Running This Project

Seva Mandir's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Send a Child in India to School for a Year	Profit for Poor Farmers	Improving Food Security for Tribal Farmers	Fellowship Programme for Tribal Community Leaders
Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Health.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 01, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Update for July month

By Ms. Priyanka Singh - In Charge Health Program, September 05, 2008 04:15 PM

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Seva Mandir, India!

We are grateful to all our donors for continuing their faith in our work and for standing by us. Through this letter I would like to share the update for our Immunization Program, which you have been supporting.

Seva Mandir has been conducting immunization camps since April 2007. In the month of July 66 immunization camps were held against the targeted 68. We had to cancel two camps due to heavy rains that made these two villages inaccessible. 380 children were given immunization shots and 182 expecting mothers received Tetanus shots in these 66 camps.

From July 2008, we have also been training our nurses who conduct immunization to treat simple ailments in children and conduct full Antenatal check up. This has increased the benefits to both mothers and children, in many cases helped over major fatality as in the case given below.

Gavri who is in her mid twenties lives with her husband in village Bilwan Khetra. She got two tetanus shots in Seva Mandir run immunization camp during her fourth pregnancy. In her eighth month of pregnancy she began to experience lower abdominal pains. She consulted the TBA (the traditional birth attendant trained and supported by Seva Mandir) who brought her to the immunization camp where the nurse conducted the Antenatal check up. The Nurse could not hear the heartbeats of the baby and so referred Gavri immediately to a hospital where she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

Our model of conducting immunization camps seeks to address both the supply side constraints by ensuring regular supply and also boosting demand through giving incentives to parents. By and large these camps are very successful in benefiting pregnant women and young children yet there are challenges with which we are still grappling. One such is inability to reach out to more children who have not been vaccinated.

Thank you again for your support. For queries and suggestions please do write to me at priyanka.singh@sevamandir.org

With regards,

Sincerely,

Priyanka Singh
In Charge Health Program
Seva Mandir, India

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