SARDS believes that Health is right which is not a privilege.Mobilizing communities towards accessing Health services, organizing orientation and sensitization meetings have enabled communities to seek healthy behaviors.SARDS, has commendable experience in working on facilitating the target communities to address their contemporary Health and its related issues through a strong community mobilization and advocacy interventions for making them available, accessible and affordable basic health care facilities and effective service delivery mechanism in its operational area.
SARDS designs and implements its interventions with in the Human Rights frame work and also contributes for the realisation of sustainable development Goal 3 (Ensuring healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages) and Goal 5 (Achieving Gender equity and Empower all women and Girls) in its operational area. The interventions are designed to promote positive health behaviour as well as strategic responses to the health-care needs of the target population especially children, adolescent, young women at various levels of care and service provision.
To respond to health needs of our target group in a holistic manner, the strategy is realigning its approach to focus on health promotion and prevention models rather than provision of clinic based curative services only. The strategy aims to institute a comprehensive package in addressing a range of children, adolescents and youngsters’ health and development needs through provision of information, commodities and services with mapped out referral linkages through the multi-tier public health system.
SARDS implements a set of interventions (health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and referral) across all levels of care in the areas of Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, child and Adolescent health, mental health, gender-based violence, non-communicable diseases and substance use etc. These interventions and approaches work towards building protective factors that can help children and youngsters to empower themselves to raise their collective voices to demand for Child and youth friendly mainstream health and development services and also develop ‘resilience’ to resist negative behaviours and operate at five major levels: individual, family, school, work placeand community.
SARDS always promotes Convergence efforts for mobilising all possible resources and services related to products & information on Mother and child care, Immunisation, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Reproductive and sexual health, prevention and control of HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria etc; in its operational area.child led advocacy shall be initiated to demand, access information, services and products related to adolescents’ health and development. Special Focus shall also be laid down to improve the gender relations at home, school and community level to create a supportive environment for promoting awareness, knowledge, skills, behaviours and practise for ensuring healthy lives and wellbeing of children, youngsters and other vulnerable in the project area.
SARDS is currently implementing hygiene education in schools, school solid waste management, municipal solid waste management, reproductive and sexual health, health and sanitation for tribal communities, prevention of HIV/ Aids, Care and support etc with the partnership of Samhita social ventures, ITC private ltd, AGS, SCIMMU, MA & UD, GoAP, APSACS, NRHM, NABARD in its operational area. It has already implemented Reproductive and Child Health, Community based health care,children health and Nutrition project, water and sanitation, care and support for children infected and affected by HIV/Aids, CBR of children and persons with disabilities, establishment of RO water plants, Over head Tank with the partnerships of CARE, Plan international, GIZ Germany, HIVAlliance, HLFFPT/BMGF, FHI, NIMHANS, Dalmia foundation, CBM Germany, Mobility India, ADD India, Miblow Switzerland, Caritas India, IGSSS, Miserore Germany MMM Switzerland, SLF Netherlands, SKN Netherlands MHFP, GOI etc. in its operational area.