community health development

1. Tyndale Biscoe Mallinson School
Lidder Valley Community Programme
Present by:
M.Sapthagiri,
Project Coordinator

2. About Tyndale Biscoe & mallinson
• Tyndale Biscoe & Mallinson Educational
Society (TBMES) - which has a rich heritage of
131 years of yeomen service in the Valley and
renowned more for its academic and all round
excellence in the field of scholastic education
and which now seeks to spread this same
service in identifying and addressing the social
needs/concerns in the communities

3. About the LVCP project
• Its initiation in April 2004, significant strides have been made
when 12 villages were identified within a radius of 15 Km around
Pahalgam and 12 girls from each village in the age group of 19-23
years were recruited with the help of the village ‘nambardar’
(Village Elders).The criteria for selection was that they should have
completed their Middle/ High School, proficiency in reading,
writing and speaking Urdu and most of all have a commitment to
serve their community selflessly.
• The project has been successfully educating, providing services
through VHW’s to under 5 age group children around 560 and
nearly 10 to 15 pregnant women’s from each village.

4. Objective of LVCP Project
• It is a unique programme of Maternal Health
& Growth Monitoring of Under 5 Children of
rural Kashmir.
• Focus on health related issues of women &
children.
• Skills training for young women and
encouraging them to have self help groups
for sustainability of the programme

5. Organization Chart
Director
HR/IT/
Accounts
Project
Coordinator
VHW’s
MPHW’s
Technical
Support
Village
Volunteers
Skill
Training
SHG’s

6. Project Implementation Areas
LVCP
Project
Pahalgam
Mamal
Laripora Kalan
Laripora Khurd
Brenward
Rangward
Ganeshbal
Athnadon
Frislan
Mandilan
Lidderu
Aru

7. Activities under taken
 Follow up & advice to Pregnant women
Growth monitoring of under 5 children
 Awareness camps in villages & schools
Networking with health agencies
Follow up malnutrition in children & under
nutrition children
Parental Counseling

8. Follow up Pregnant women
• Registration of pregnant women
• Regular follow up and advise on health condition
• Promote supervised child birth at hospitals or other
health facilities
• Awareness of important health issues, referral to
health centers, provide information on Diet,
sanitation and immunization

9. Growth monitoring of under 5 children
• Identifies the under 5 children through door to door
in different villages
• Educate the parents about the importance of child
growth monitoring
• Weighing children and to find normal, under
nutrition & over nutrition.
• Explain to mother his/her child condition
• Educate in the adequate food diet requirement of
his/her child.

10. Skill Training
• LVCP Project has started skill training programme
first in the 2008 for to empower rural women.
• In the year 2008-09 total 65 girls took Tila work
training from LVCP project and project had paid `
200 pm for each girl as a stipend
• In 2008-09 Tila training went in community level
that means the girls learn work in their respective
village
Two types of Skill Trainings are providing for women
1. Tila work,
2. Tailoring

11. • This Tila work training received by 7 village girls ,
in each village LVCP project appointed one
teacher has a trainer with wage of Rs1000 pm
• In 2009-09 total 35 girls from 4 villages are
received tila training work this is also community
based.
• In year 2010-11 ten girls attending Tailoring in
LVCP project office at Pahalgam, this is
completely institutional base.
• Student are not receiving any kind honorarium

12. Training & Capacity building
• No of VHWs trained from 2004 to till date
• 2004-06 – Numbers of VHW’s tainted -15
• 2007 – Numbers of VHW’s trained -1,left from
LVCP and got married – 6
• 2008 – Numbers of VHW’s trained – 1
• 2009 –Number of VHW’s left-1
• 2010- Number of VHW’s left -3 and trained -3
• Due to minimum support from community people
of Lidderoo, LVCP project has facing difficult to
obtaining VHW’s

13. Under-5 Nutritional Status November 2010
• Attendance to monthly clinics is variable from 35.7% to 72.0%
of all Under-5s
• Malnutrition Status of Under-5s is (from past 5 visits):
– Normal 64.1% (Range 59.1-69.9)
– Underweight 21.4% (Range 16.9-27.4)
– Severely Underweight 4.4% (Range 3.2-5.5)
– All undernourished 25.8%
– Overweight 8.9% (Range 6.8-10.4)

14. why they are undernourished
• After 6 month baby moves or shifts from
having breast milk to consuming semi-solid
or solid foods. There is a gradual reduction
in the intake of breast milk and not getting
sufficient iron and calories that solid foods
provided by family /or baby may met with
many health/ disease problems facing due to
poor immunization .
• Their may be ecological problems also
involved

15. Conclusion
Our aim is to work in collaboration with the
Block Maternal and child health and
Anganwadi services complementing each
other and learning form each other.