Health on Wheels:

Health-on-Wheels is a basic health-check vehicle being proposed for early testing, detection and treatment referrals for non-communicable diseases. This project is providing a doorstep (inclusive) health check-up facility.

There were criteria defined where these camps can be organized which prioritized Covid affected rural vasti and tribal areas in the Pune district, with a focus on the adult population. Visited the locations, discussed and took permission from local authorities, explained the need for check-ups, and finalized camp dates with location potential of 150-to-200-person turnout.

Promotional material and disease awareness material was printed and distributed. Identified and finalized pathology lab vendor and an agreement was made. Within 3 days’ time, printed pathology reports were provided over to the beneficiaries Medical consultation was given on the basic findings of the report.

Micro Enterprise:

One of the major impacts of Covid and lockdown was people losing their livelihood. We intend to empower these individuals to develop them as entrepreneurs. As a part of this program, setting up various micro-enterprises to provide alternate livelihood with a focus on agriculture/farming to individuals who can further motivate others to do the same was the main objective.

Telephonic conversations were planned with local voluntary organizations/self-help groups to explain the program and evaluate their willingness to participate. Based on initial discussions specific locations were identified. Our coordinators physically visited these locations with local coordinators and meetings were held with village groups/ families. Simultaneously, another team was working on procuring a portable rice mill, dal mill, hatchery unit, tamarind processing units and cashew processing units.

Our team made a visit to the respective supplier plant physically/virtually to understand the technicalities of these machines and orders were placed with selected suppliers and followed up for timely delivery of a total of 12 machine units.Some of them were installed and beneficiaries started utilizing them. Some were in the process of installation and got delayed due to lockdown restrictions. Face to face or virtual machine tours including training, operation and maintenance was provided to all beneficiaries.