Community mobilization and awareness is a crucial part of Swati’s ongoing contribution to the welfare of slum dwellers
We conduct competitions, community meetings, youth meetings, rallies, street plays, video shows, counselling sessions and use other innovative methods, to reach out to the slum dwellers and create awareness on various critical issues.
Our Awareness Generation Programmes have been well received and we can say with great pride that a transformation has taken place, in the mindset and lives of slum dwellers on many of the issues mentioned above.
Some of the issues addressed by us include:
• Importance of sanitation and personal hygiene,
• Sources and uses of water,
• Need for immunization,
• Post and prenatal care,
• Child labour,
• Child sexual abuse,
• Domestic violence,
• Rights of women,
• Gender discrimination,
• Gender balance,
• Female foeticide,
• Menstrual health and hygiene,
• Need of education,
• Air pollution,
• Importance of nutrition,
• Anaemia,
• HIV/ AIDS,
• Birth registration,
• Benefits available to physically challenged children,
• Participation of children in society,
• Road safety,
• Admission to government schools,
• How to prepare for exams.
