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Community Level Action

	Background
	KHOJ Projects
	Parivartan Project
	Project Arunoday
	Project Aparajita, Orissa
	Other Activities

Current Projects -Aparajita, Orissa

Aparajita, Orissa
Aparajita, Orissa is a long term development effort of VHAI for an integrated community development and disaster management.

Presently it is operational in the Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts. Aparajita Orissa organizes and coordinates several health, livelihood and disaster related issues through systematically planned programmes.

The initiative contributes towards the grass root development as well as influence policy for an effective implementation of various micro and macro plans.

Health promotion in urban school

Some of the key activities of the project are:

The Khoj programme in Jagatsinghpur district of Kujanga block focuses on the integrated development of health and livelihood at the community level and addresses the issues relating to climate change and disaster management.
Tobacco Control initiative in the State by Aparajita has joined the national drive for making the State and districts tobacco free.
Government of Orissa has handed over a PHC to Aparajita under the Public Private Partnership programme of NRHM in a remote village of Kendrapara district.
Handicraft artisans’ development has taken up an entrepreneurial approach improving the socio-economic conditions of the respective communities.
Health promotion activities for the children in the schools of slums of rural and urban areas.

Water purification

Primary health care in emergency

Handicraft artisans’ development

The project has achieved the desired success in all its initiatives owing to a strategic planning and committed workforce. Still there is a long way to make health a reality for all.