2. DEFINITION
VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCY
A voluntary health agency may be
defined as an organization that is
administered by an autonomous board which
holds meetings, collects funds & expend
money for providing care, health education, &
research works.
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3. Voluntary Health Agencies
In the field of health…
They are playing a significant role in
Promotion of health,
creation of awareness among people about the
various measures to prevent sickness
provision of welfare for the victims of different
types of disease.
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5. National Health Agencies
1. Indian red cross society
2. Central social welfare board
3. Kasturba Gandhi memorial trust
4. Indian council for child welfare.
5. Bharat sewak samaj
6. All India blind relief society
7. Hind kusht nivaran sangh
8. All India women’s conference.
9. Family planning association of
India.
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6. CONT………..
10. Saint john ambulance
association
11. Tuberculosis association of
India.
12. Professional Bodies.
13. Smile
14. CRY Child Rights and You
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7. INTERNATIONAL Health AGENCIES
1. WHO
2. UNICEF
3. International red cross
4. FAO of the United Nations
5. WORLD BANK
6. CARE
7. USAID
8. UNFPA
9. UNDP
10. ILO
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8. THE INDIAN RED CROSS
SOCIETY
Established: 3rd march 1920
Headquarter: Delhi
700 branches throughout India
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10. Relief Work
When disaster strikes any parts of the country in
the shape of earthquakes, floods, drought &
epidemics etc.
Red cross society immediately mobilizes all its
resources & goes to rescue of the affected
people
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12. Milk & medical supplies
A number of hospitals, dispensaries, maternity & child
welfare centres, schools & orphanages receives
assistance from society every year.
The assistance given consists mainly of milk powder
medicines, vitamins & other supplies.
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14. Armed forces
The care of the sick & the wounded among members of
the forces is one of the primary obligation of red cross.
The society runs a well equipped hospital, “ The Red
cross Home” in Bangalore for permanently disabled Ex-
Servicemen.
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15. The centre is provided with an operation
theatre, Physiotherapy Department,
recreation room, Library and diversionary
therapy all free of cost.
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16. • IRCS provides service for sick and wounded men of the
defence forces.
• Trained IRCS Lady Welfare Officers run welfare
services for these people in military Hospitals.
• The officers run and maintain amenity stores and
libraries as well as diversionary therapy programmes
such as teaching handicrafts & encouraging ailing
soldiers to participate in recreational activities and to give
Psychological support for their disability and sickness.
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17. Maternal & child welfare services
There is large number of maternity & child
welfare centres all over the India.
There is Maternity and Child Welfare Bureau
They run various Hospitals, Bal Vikas
Kendra’s , urban health centers,
MCW Polyclinics and MCW Centers
Orphanages / Rehabilitation Homes
Schools
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18. Cont….
Red Cross Blood
Transfusion Centre for
Thalassemic Children
Antenatal Screening And
Prenatal Diagnosis
Programme For
Thalassemia/Sickle Cell
Prevention
Medical camps – in slums & give
free medicine
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19. Sewing Centres
Youth Peer Education
Programme (Y.P.E.P.) -
HIV/AIDS/STI
“Training of Trainers
programme on Child
Protection and Safe
Environment
Malaria Prevention and
Control Programme
Polio Eradication
programme
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21. Blood bank & first Aid
Provision of blood banks
The St. John Ambulance association, India which is
part of Red cross has trained several lakh men &
women in first AID.
The Blood Centre provides 90% of total collection
of blood free of service charges to the patients
admitted in the General Ward of Govt.
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22. • The Indian Red Cross is a pioneer in the field
of blood services and one of the largest
voluntary blood banks in India since 1962.
• IRCS regularly conducts motivational
campaigns to organize Voluntary Blood
Donation Camps.
• It has more than 100 blood banks all over the
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23. HIV / AIDS:
• The IRCS is very active in the prevention Of
HIV / AIDS.
• It trains youth to disseminate information
about the prevention of HIV / AIDS through
Youth Peer Education Programme.
• It also has programmes and projects for
children of HIV positive mothers, to provided
comprehensive care.
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24. Tracing Activities:
IRCS helps people trace or send massage to
missing loved who have been separated ones
through forced, unseen and inevitable
circumstances when all other means of locating
them have not yielded results. It also reunites
families who have been separated under similar
circumstances.
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25. Nursing:
• The Red Cross MCW units teach home nursing
skills to auxiliary nurses, midwives and
housewives.
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26. YOUTH PROGRAMME
IRCS launched Youth Program in 2015 with the
support of ICRC in around 88 school/colleges, 44
communities from 22 districts in 11 State Branches
[Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil
Nadu, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Manipur,
Nagaland, Meghalaya, West Bengal].
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27. objectives
The program has three key–
• To enhance the understanding about the Red Cross Red
Crescent Movement & its Fundamental Principles and
promote peace and harmony among the youth and the
selected communities.
• To strengthen the capacity of the YRC in the area of
Hygiene Promotion, Household Water Treatment, Basic
First Aid and Promoting Peace and harmony.
• To contribute towards increasing the awareness of and
behavioral changes in the selected communities on
Hygiene Promotion, Household Water Treatment and
basic First Aid.
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28. Activities of YRC
• Trainings to selected teachers and students on Red
Cross, Youth program activities as well as on Hygiene
Promotion, Water & Sanitation and First Aid.
• Initiation of preparation of visibility activities (wall
paintings, posters etc) and printing of behavior change
communication material etc.
• Initiation of behavior change communication sessions
in communities on WASH, First Aid and Health.
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29. • Celebration of special days in school/ college and branch
levels with focus on increasing community awareness on
Red Cross and Health issues, e.g. – World Red Cross
Day, World Health Day, World Water Day, World Health
Day, World Malaria Day, International Youth Day,
International FA Day, World Toilet Day.
• Exposure visits of selected Community members/J/YRC
Members to other villages to observe community
development approaches.
• Initiation of Providing WASH materials (e.g. water filter,
soap)
• Initiation of clean school/college- Healthy school/college
and clean village- Healthy village campaigns.
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30. CENTRAL SOCIAL
WELFARE BOARD
• Establishment-GOI 1953
• 33 State Social Welfare Board
18,000 NGOs -financial assisted
• Function under –
1. Department of women & child
development
2. Ministry of human Resource
development
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31. Aim
To carry out welfare activities for promoting
voluntarism, providing technical and financial
assistance to the voluntary organisations for the
general welfare of family, women and children.
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32. Mainly focus on 3 areas
Empowerment through education
Economic empowerment
Support services
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33. Services
Scheme of short stay home for women and girls
Condensed courses of education for women and
girls
Rajiv Gandhi national crèche scheme for the children
of working mothers
Innovative schemes - Poverty reduction programme
,Gender equality in access to health, education and
training , Child labour ,Children or Women trafficking.
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34. Activity
Teaching about following
Literacy class
Computer courses
Craft
Handloom
Weaving
Social education
Adult education
Nursery teacher training
Vocational training
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36. • Also Providing
Maternity aid for
women
• Balwadies,
• Mahila mandal
Progarmmes
• Creches
• hostel for working
women.
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37. KASTURBA GANDHI MEMORIAL
TRUST
•Established -1945
•By- Mahatma Gandhi
•For- Women Empowerment
•Central Office -Kasturbagram,
Indore
•22 branches
•500 centres
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38. Activity/ Services
Towards women’s Awareness - enhance self-
reliance, Self-confidence & self respect in
women.
Health services – Helping & serving rural mass,
mainly in the field of health & welfare of rural
women & children's
Works for Leprosy eradication
Training
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39. Child welfare activity
Educational programmes-
school,college
Hamara School’ project-
Smile Foundation goa
Village service centre (gram
seva kendra)
Child welfare centre (bal
seva kendra)
Creach (jula ghar)
Training for block
worker(gram karykarta
prasikshan)
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40. Cont….
Nursing training
Maternity centres.
Health centre (Arogya kendra)
Hospitals
Nutritious food centres.
Welfare centres for children and
women
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41. INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CHILD
WELFARE
Establishment:
1962
Head office – new
Delhi
For- orphan &
destitute childrens
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42. Child welfare activity
National bravery awards
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Learning to live together camp
National painting competition – (honoring
child artists)
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43. • Rajiv gandhi national creche scheme
Promoting and facilitating the adoption of
orphaned.
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44. • Indira gandhi holiday home;-
Toys, clothes and books bank
Street children project-6-16,
Sponsorship programme 6-
18,income<5000’
Rehabilitation of street children, working
children & children of Prostitute.
Vocational training for school dropout girls.
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46. introduction
1952 -National Development Agency
sponsored by the Planning
Commission, Government of India to
ensure public co- operation for
implementing government plants.
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47. Aactivities
Welfare Extension Project (rural and urban)
Crèches and Day Care-centres;
Holiday Home
Maternity Centres.
Crafts and Vocational Centres for
women or girl
Occupational Therapy Institute for
physically and mentally retarded
children.
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48. Cont………….
Home homeless and neglected children
Pre-Primary and nursery schools
Libraries and reading rooms
Dispensaries
Milk distribution centres
institutions for handicapped
children
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49. Educational Institutions
2330 schools - poor and middle class children
age 3 to 5 yr
3 - vocational and IT Education programs
Sponsor Many Girls Institutions, Junior and
High Girls Schools have been
Jabalpur Girls High Secondary School-1500
students are admitted
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50. THE ALL INDIA BLIND RELIEF
SOCIETY
Established: 1946
Head office - Lajpat Nagar, Delhi
Services:
Co-ordinates the work of different
institutions working for the blind.
It organizes eye relief camps and other measures
for the relief of blind.
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53. Objectives
• To carry out research on various aspects of
leprosy.
• To provide short courses of training, treatment of
leprosy.
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54. Activities
• Production & distribution of health education &
publicity materials.
• Publication of Indian Journal of leprosy.
• Observation of anti-leprosy day on 30th January
every year to create mass awareness regarding
leprosy.
• Conducting training courses of 9 month for
physiotherapy.
• Organizing conferences & exhibitions
• Providing assistance
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56. Child welfare
LITERACY AND EDUCATION
Promote school dropouts and other
under privileged children to return to
mainstream education
primary education for school drop out
girls
education and day care services -
street children
condensed courses - women and girls
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57. HEALTH, FAMILY WELFARE AND
POPULATION
Mobile Health Vans
Provides special care to expectant
and nursing mothers, and children
Educates women - health, nutrition,
sanitation, hygiene and family welfare
Day care centres -leprosy patients
children.
Anemia camps
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58. Crèches for children
Craft & textile – sewing & painting
Legislative role
Sarda Act
Hindu Code Bill -Adoptions and
Maintenance Act
Devdasi prohibition Act
Factory and Mines Act
Maternity Benefits Act
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59. INSTITUTIONS SET UP BY
AIWC
Family Planning Centre (estd. in
1937, now the Family Planning
Association of India)
Save the Children Committee
the Indian Council for Child
Welfare)
The Amrit Kaur Bal Vihar for
Mentally Retarded Children
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61. SERVICES:
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Gynecological services
Infertility services
Gender Based Violence
related services
Laboratory services
Contraceptive services
(MTP)Medical Termination of
Pregnancy Services
HIV related services-
test,counselling,treatment
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62. CONT……
Maternal and child care services
Urine pregnancy test
Antenatal care including injection
TT and supplement, counseling ,
post natal care and counseling
immunization services for children
general clinic for mothers and
children
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63. SPECIAL PROGRAMMES
Small Family By Choice Project-acceptance of
family planning
Youth Education on Sexuality Project awareness
and education in SRH issues
The Girl Child and Prevention of Female
Foeticide Project
Disha - Disha Centres/young people/meet, discuss
healthy lifestyles
Movement Youth to Youth-RH
education/adolescents Girl/ Madrasas
Spandana-educational project /RH issues
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65. ACTIVITIES
Organize Training Programme For
First Aid
Home Nursing
Hygiene & Sanitation.
Mother craft & Child Welfare
Disaster Management.
Provide Service
Ambulance & First Aid services.
Awareness programmes
Arrange of first Aid Post & duties on
various Occasions.
relief works during the calamities
organizing blood camps
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67. ACTIVITY
Providing quality diagnostic and
treatment services
Complementing supplementing RNTCP ,
DOTs services of Government of India
(GoI ) No new units are to be established
to avoid costs and duplication.
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68. Professional Bodies
Health professionals such as nurses, doctors,
pharmacists & many other are regulated and
licensed by regulatory bodies.
Ex.
INC
Indian medical association (IMA)
Indian dental associations
TNAI
GNC
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70. Programmes and activities
MISSION EDUCATION - underprivileged children
Crèche , Pre-school ,Non Formal
Education,Remedial Education,Bridge Course
Family Life Education for adolescent girls.
Educational project
Integrated Community Development in Guna
Vidya Jyoti Primary school -chhatisgarh
Jyotirmaya Dumb and Deaf School at Barwaha
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71. Cont…..
Health care -
Smile on wheel
Smile health camps
Livelihood – smile twin
e-learning programme
Girl child and women
empowerment
Swabhiman
Pravertan
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72. Cont………
Film production -
I am Kalam
Choone Do Aasman
Nanhi Nazar
Short Cuts
Journey so far
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73. SOS CHILDREN S
VILLAGE
Established -Austria in 1949
in India - 1964 at Faridabad.
Now in India - 41 SOS Children's
Villages
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74. activities
Child care
programmes
Family based care (fbc)-
Family strengthening
programme (fsp)
Protect child right
Educational services
Emergency response
in disaster and help
children
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75. (CRY )CHILD RIGHTS AND
YOU
Established -1979 by a 25 year
airline purser, Rippan Kapur and
his seven friends.
Head office - Mumbai
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76. working areas
The right to survival, to life, health,
nutrition, name and nationality.
The right to development of
education, care, leisure, and
recreation.
The right to protection from
exploitation, abuse and neglect.
The right to participation in
expression, information, thought
and religion.
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77. Activities
Bringinging together
donation, time, recourses
Mobilizing communities to
stand up and demand for
their rights
Implementing awareness
building measure
Partnering with small NGO
all over India
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78. CRY's impact in 2010-11
122,898 infants have been immunised
415 new ICDS (anganwadi) centres opened
19 new PHC and 38 Sub-health centres opened
21,676 children (6-18 years) who had dropped
out of school have been enrolled
Child labour prevented in 648 villages
1152 villages were freed of child marriages
103 govt schools prevented from closing down
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79. CHILD IN NEED INSTITUTE
(CINI)
Established - 1974 by Dr Samir Chaudhuri
(paediatrician working in Kolkata)
Headquarter - Kolkata
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80. Activities
Education
Shikshalaya prakalpa and mid-
day meal
Eliminating child labour in
calcutta
Health and nutrition
1. Adopt a mother and save her
child
2. National aids control program
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