The document discusses several national and international voluntary health agencies in India. It begins by defining a voluntary health agency as an autonomous organization that promotes health, health education, and medical research. It then lists several prominent national voluntary health agencies in India like the Indian Red Cross Society, Central Social Welfare Board, Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust, and Indian Council for Child Welfare. It provides brief descriptions of the activities and services provided by these organizations, with a more detailed focus on the Indian Red Cross Society and its relief work, hospitals, blood banks, and other programs. It also lists several international health agencies like WHO, UNICEF, and international non-profits.

1. NATIONAL HEALTH
AGANCIES
BY
Astha K. Patel
C.H.N Speciality
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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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4. International
Health Agency
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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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9. Activities of Indian Red Cross
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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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20. Family Planning
Several states in India are running family planning
clinics under IRC.
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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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45. BHARAT SEVAK
SAMAJ
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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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51. The Blind relief
association Delhi
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52. HIND KUSHT NIWARAN
SANGH
Established :1925 –care, education to leprosy
patient
Head office - New Delhi
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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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55. ALL INDIA WOMEN’S
CONFERENCE
 Established: 1925
 Head office :- Delhi
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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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60. FAMILY PLANNING
ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
Established: 1949
Headquarter - Mumbai
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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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64. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
Established – 1992
Headquarter - dehli
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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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66. TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
 ESTABLISHED - February, 1939
 HEAD OFFICE – New delhi
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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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69. Smile foundation
Establishment: 2002
Head office - Delhi
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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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