Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 1: Under its community outreach project ‘Anant Gram’ a winter Health and Wellness awareness programme organised by Kalamkari Centre Society (KCS) was held here today.
The programme was held under the guidance of a specialist Doctor.
Free medical consultation, health awareness, counselling for preventive health care for women, personal hygiene interaction and distribution of medicines and vitamins along with refreshments was sponsored by the Society.
KCS under its Health and Wellness Initiative has been working towards improving the health and nutrition challenges amongst both the children and the women of the community.
Connecting pregnant and lactating members of the villages, with the health experts for improved pre and post-natal care, organising Health and Wellness camps with medical experts for awareness such as dengue, viral etc and organising workshops on personal hygiene, safe drinking water and waste management.
It has adopted innovative training tools to reach out to the vulnerable women who are often not educated and children such as plays, puppet shows and audio visual presentations.
The KCS was founded by Purnima and Umang Sagar Chaudhri in 1983 and is continuing to bring improved social impact amongst the rural communities and initiated its Anant Gram outreach project in the year 2021.
Natasha Chaudhri and the team have worked towards entrepreneurial training for women besides setting up an effective learning centre and a mobile library for the young Village children.
The Anant Gram Project at Village Panjgrain is a pilot initiative and it is Purnima Chaudhri’s vision to continue the initiative at regular intervals & to scale it to other villages across social issues.
The programme was attended by the local village elders, women and children along with Gagan, Subash and other members of the society.
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