Sukarya is a non-profit and non-governmental organization established in 1999 in Gurgaon, Haryana, aimed at improving health services for underprivileged populations, particularly women, adolescents, and children. The organization conducts various health programs, awareness campaigns, and community development activities to empower these groups and improve maternal and child health, while also providing humanitarian assistance in disaster-affected areas. Sukarya's approach includes grassroots interventions, health promotion camps, and partnerships with local and national health initiatives to achieve better health outcomes in the community.

1. SUKARYA BEHTAR SWASTHYA BEHTAR SAMAJ

2. Sukarya ● Non-profitable and non-governmental organization based in Gurgaon,Haryana. ● Established in 1999 ● Aim of providing better health services to the poor and needy. ● Vision is to unleash people's energy and self awareness for a better and healthier society. ● Run by volunteers driven by a spiritual and emotional commitment to help those in need of succor and salvation.

3. VISION Our vision is achieving sound health for the poorest section of the society, especially women, adolescents and children by not just providing access to health care but empowering them to create a healthy society through promotion of efficacious and affordable methods of disease prevention. We seek to empower particularly the women and children for ' Behtar Swasthya Behtar Samaj'

4. Our Objectives ● To advocate, encourage and guide positive 'health-seeking behavior' with special emphasis on mental and spiritual health. ● To improve maternal and child health through training, awareness campaigns, workshops, and health related education. ● To advocate, promote and sensitize communities on Primary Health Care, Reproductive Child Health and Community Health issues. ● To empower women by strengthening their physical, mental and emotional well-being and economic security. ● To initiate and implement social and community development activities in the field of healthcare, income generation for women as well as education for the weaker sections of society. ● To provide humanitarian assistance in areas affected by natural calamities such as cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

5. OUR TEAM The team of Sukarya includes volunteers, professionals, consultants, doctors and the working staff.

6. The list of volunteers is as follows: S. No. Name Designation 1. Ms. Meera Satpathy Chairperson 2. Ms. Kumkum Bhatia Trustee 3. Ms. Shipra Shukla Co-ordinator Public Relation and Networking 4. Mr. D. S. Kataria Co-ordinator Mobile Diagnostic clinic project 5. Mr. Asit Tarkhad Co-ordinator Health Centres & Physiotherapy unit 6 Ms. Pushpa Indernath Project Co-ordinator Spice Making Project 7. Ms. Renu Sood Co-ordinator Saath Saath Project 8. Mr. Naresh Wadhawan Core Volunteer 9. Ms. Varsha Tarkhad Core Volunteer 10. Ms. Madhu Kataria Core Volunteer

7. Advisory Committee Mr. C.B. Satpathy , Retd. DGOI police ,Working as advisor corporate strategy and security Mr. S.K. Kain, I.P.S., Retd. DG Police, Worked as special commissioner WIP services, Delhi, Member, PGC Delhi Dr. Aasha Kapur Mehta, Professor Economics in IIPA, lecturer since 1975,Delhi University, Reader in IIPA 1997- PRESENT Dr. Suraj Kumar, National Programme Officer, UNDP, India Country Office, Delhi.

8. Sukarya initiated its activities in 1999 by conducting various Health Camps, Health Melas and Free Medical Services including free distribution of medicines in various slums of Delhi and Gurgaon with the help of expert team of doctors. Subsequently Sukarya has been implementing Income Generation and Life Skills Projects in Gurgaon and covering JJ slum clusters in DLF Phase-V and villages of Kanhei, Wazirabad, Ghata, Tighra and Shamaspur.

9. VOLUNTEERS OF SUKARYA

10. SUKARYA VOLUNTEERS

11. SUKARYA VOLUNTEERS

12. PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES ● GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION ● PERI URBAN INTERVENTION

13. GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION Reduction in the prevalence of Anemia – an important factor of maternal mortality and morbidity B. Improving Reach and Access of RCH and FP services with Quality of Care C. Men as Partners in Improving the health Status of the Rural Communities

14. D. Promoting Rural Health by Health Promotion Camps E. Better health through Community based health centre F. Women empowerment by strengthening self help group and micro enterprise development

16. ANAEMIA FREE INDIA HEALTHY AND STRONGER INDIA WAKE UP ANAEMIA IS CAUSING RED ALERT

19. The project reaches a population of 30000 in 10 villages of Gurgaon district in Haryana. The project was initiated in May, 2006, aims to reduce the “Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia” among adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers. The project is supported by Population Foundation Of India, New Delhi. This project finished in July 2009. The end line survey of the project was done by a third party and Sukarya was successful in reducing the prevalence of Anaemia by 65%

20. Achievements till now Till September, 2009, the project has reached out to 1674 pregnant women, 2087 lactating and 2979 adolescents. The project has educated and brought awareness on anemia, nutrition, safe motherhood, safe delivery and post natal care to 10000 women and their families. 2176 pregnant, lactating and adolescents have undergone hemoglobin tests by Sahli’s method. 2439 pregnant, lactating and adolescents has been provided with iron folic acid tablets 1255 adolescents has been de wormed from the project on a regular basis

21. 757 lactating women has been de wormed from the project 2047 pregnant and lactating women has been counseled by doctor and nutritionist during the anemia camps 297 pregnant and lactating women have bought and are using iron pans on a regular basis. 605 families are using double fortified salt on a regular basis 419 serious anemic cases (pregnant and lactating) has been referred and treated in the project. Liasioning with the health department on a regular basis for better coordination and utilization of the local level health services like regular availability of IFA Tablets from the PHC, availing the services of the government ANM and availing the facility of delivery huts.

23. This project is a direct implementation project by Population Foundation Of India with active partnership of Sukarya. The project is of 3 years period and covers a population of 50,000 which includes 27 villages of Nuh and Tauro Block of Mewat District. The goal of the project is to improve the reproductive and child health and family planning status in Mewat.

24. Men As Partners

28. Major activities till now A baseline survey has been conducted by an external organization to understand the health status prevailing in the area in the month of June, July and August. The project reaches to a population of 29000 in 13 villages of Tauro Block of Mewat District. 13 male health groups have been formed and are functioning 2336 females and 2228 males have visited the camps and have been benefited Diagnostic test like X-ray, ECG , blood and urine test has been conducted for 400 people

32. Promoting Rural Health by Health Promotion Camps

33. Achievements ◄ A total of 18 camps were held in which total 651 men and 738 women were benefited from the camps. ◄ Improvement in the health seeking behavior was observed in the community. The people took their initiative to attend the camps, complete the course of medicines and follow up with the doctors. ◄ More number of people from the community was aware about the government services and was benefiting from the service. ◄ More number of women were going for their pre natal check ups and taking the TT injections.

34. ◄ More number of women were opting for institutional deliveries ◄ The community became more cognizant about nutritive diet ◄ The elderly people, including both the women and men were benefited by the inputs by the physiotherapist, who regularly took the physiotherapy treatments for their joint and arthritis problems

38. Achievements till now More than 3500 household from the village benefited from the services of the Health Centre like health check ups, provision of quality and effective medicines, counseling by the doctor and the medicine in charge and time to time follow up by the project staff. 3000 patients have received the treatment during the last two years including 995 women and 746 children. Patients are benefited by the mobile health clinic services. More than 70% of the patients paid the user friendly fees of Rs.10 in the health centre. Counseling and one to one interaction has been conducted with at least 50 % of the patients visiting the clinic. One to one counseling on health has lead to improvement in the levels of personnel hygiene amongst people in the community.

39. Increase in the awareness level regarding good health, nutrition, safe drinking water, sanitation, immunization and pregnancy care. Increased heath seeking behavior in the community. Patients started visiting the health centre and the government dispensaries for primary health care services. The women from the community were particularly satisfied with the visit of 2 lady doctors twice in a month in the health centre. This opportunity gave them ample scope to discuss their health problems freely with them.

43. OUTREACH CAMPAIGN

44. PERI URBAN INTERVENTIONS Reaching to the urban slums by Sukarya Sehat Centre Health check-up of students in schools run by other NGOs Saraswati Kunj Slums Physiotherapy Unit – An alternative Treatment Women's Income Generation Group - Spice Making Project

47. Sukarya Sehat Centre was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya ’ s premises at Sushant lok. Since then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work and is well known for its service to poor and needy people. A general practitioner is available 3 days a week between 10:30-1:30.

50. Schools Visited by Sukarya

51. MAJOR ACTIVITIES A general practitioner regularly attends to children (5 -15 years) from a non- formal education centre called Sankalp based in slums of DLF phase V, Gurgaon . On Saturdays, the doctor of the health centre goes to the Saksham School, Sushant Lok for a check-up of all the 120 students and teachers of the school. Sukarya provides health check up facilities and counseling to all the HUMANA People to People India non-formal schools running in Gurgaon. These schools are running in Chakarpur, Jharsa, Sector 39, Basai Road. Sukarya provides health facilities to approximately 700 students of various HUMANA schools. Sukarya is providing health check up facilities to 300 students in a school adopted by ICF (India Citizen Forum) in Nathupur.

52. SARASWATI KUNJ SLUMS

53. SARASWATI KUNJ SLUMS

54. SARASWATI KUNJ SLUMS

55. Saraswati Kunj Slums has a total of 640 juggis with a population of 6040. Sukarya is providing basic health care facilities to Saraswati Kunj slums through a sehat centre. Counseling sessions are also done on a regular basis. A health card is maintained for each family. Activities Formation of men and women Health Groups one men and one women group in the village (Swasthya Samuh) Capacity building of health groups Development of IEC materials and wall writings Health education sessions in health groups Health education sessions in schools Individual and group counseling sessions Organizing Health camps and Diagnostic Health camps, and visits of specialist doctors Networking and linkages with government health institutions like PHC, sub centers, delivery huts, CHCs, government hospital Networking and linkages with charitable and private clinics Strengthening the referring system

56. General Health camps will focus on: Health Check up by doctor Free distribution of medicines Close follow up of patients Health education sessions Diagnostic Health Camps will focus on: Free consultancy and check ups by doctors Free distribution of medicines by well trained medicine dispensers Lab test facilities like the blood, stool, urine, ECG and X- Ray has been provided by the mobile clinic for the community. Free haemoglobin check up for all women in the camp was held to understand the anemia status in the villages Health education to women, school children and men on nutrition, personal health and hygiene, community sanitation, safe deliveries and immunization by talk shows, documentary films, leaflets and pamphlet distribution in the community was held. Referring serious patients to government hospital Counseling sessions of serious patients were conducted on a regular basis.

59. In the last two years, 1630 patients has been benefited by the physiotherapy treatment

60. GENERAL MEDICAL CAMPS

61. SPECIALISED MEDICAL CAMPS

62. PULSE POLIO AND MOBILE CAMPS

63. CLEANLINESS DRIVE

65. INCOME GENERATION PROJECT

66. INCOME GENERATION PROJECT

67. RELIEF WORK FOR NATURAL CALAMITIES

68. RELIEF WORK

69. RELIEF WORK

73. TOT of Sukarya Volunteers

74. FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES

75. Meera at Siri Fort

76. Fete in Vasant Utsav

77. NEWS'S CLIPPINGS OF SUKARYA

78. NEWS'S CLIPPINGS

79. News's Clippings

80. News's Clippings

82. Sukarya has been supported by the following corporates: ● Godfrey Phillips India Ltd ● Incentive Destinations, Gurgaon ● Amadeus, Delhi ● Bird Group, Delhi ● RDM, Gurgaon ● BPCL Mumbai ● Gujrat Ambuja Cement Ltd., Delhi ● Hughes Systique, Gurgaon ● Maruti Udyog Limited, Gurgaon ● TATA, Mumbai ● IDFC Management Company, Mumbai ● Kusmunda Coal Transport Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

84. Sukarya has been supported by the following funding organizations: ● Population Foundation of India ● Charities Aid Foundation, India ● Concern India Foundation ● Give India

85. ORGANIZATIONS SUKARYA HAS WORKED WITH

86. Sukarya has worked with the following organizations: ● National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) New Delhi ● Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of Government of India ● Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi ● South Delhi Medical Association ● Delhi Psychiatric Society ● Escorts Heart Care Centre ● Sir Ganga Ram Heart Care Centre ● Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Medical Sciences Centre for Diabeted and Life Style Diseases ● Chetana, New Delhi, ● Prayatana, NGO New Delhi

87. SUKARYA STRIVING FOR A BETTER SOCIETY