Anaemia control initiatives by BVHA

1. Reduction of Anaemia among
women and adolescents in 6
villages of Mahua Block of Bihar
Bihar Voluntary Health Association,
Patna
Supported by:
Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd.

2. About Project
Goal
Improved Nutritional Status and
Reducted cases of anaemia among
women and adolescent girls in 6
operational villages.

3. Project objective
• To increase the awareness among the beneficiaries
(both women and adolescent girls) about the basic
cause of anaemia and the process of prevention.
• To aware the adolescent girls and school-going
students of menstrual hygiene, hand washing, and
other health-related issues.
• To promote different supplementary activities like
promotion of kitchen garden program, cooking
demonstration for nutritional food preparation,
and distribution of lemon seedlings.

4. Strategy and approaches
Creating Girls agencies and Mothers groups
Behavior change Communication
Promotion of Kitchen Garden
Nutrition Supplement support
Enabling environment
Promote handwash and deworming

5. Key Activities
• Capacity Building of Young girls on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights focusing on anemia
prevention and balanced and diversified food intake.
• Screening of anaemia among women and adolescent and tract on regular interval.
• Counselling of women and adolescents for mild to moderate aneamia.
• Referral of severe anemic patients to nearest public health center.
• Capacity Building of women of reproductive age on anemia prevention, balanced diet, pregnancy
care.
• Promotion handwash at Anganwadi centers and schools and distribution of hygiene and safety kits
to adolescents.
• Demo-based nutrition awareness to the care givers of the adolescents and women.
• Promotion of Kitchen garden through demonstration.
• Plantation of Lemon tree (citrus plants).
• Provide Nutri-Mix to the anemic girls and women.
• Community Meeting to make them aware on anaemia and its prevention.
• Orientation of elected representatives of panchayats, SHG leaders, community leaders on
different Govt. schemes to enable them to facilitate the reach of the beneficiaries to those
schemes.

6. Outcome
• 210 adolescent girls has been screened for Hb testing
and recovered from Anemia
• 40 pregnant and lactating mother recovered from
anemia

7. Project Staff Capacity Building

8. Training of Adolescents on
SRHR

9. Kitchen Garden

10. Lemon Plant
Distribution

11. Discussing with Adolescents

12. Nutri-Mix Distribution to
Anaemic Girls and women

13. Lemon sapling planted by the
Adolescent girl

14. Newspaper Clips