1. Title of the Practice : Health and Nutritional Awareness in Girls.
Objective of the Practice : -
Mata Jijabai Government Girls P.G. College Indore Madhya Pradesh has the biggest number of Girl Students in the Indore region and quite a number of them are from ST, SC, Economically weaker and underprivileged section. According to Census 2011 49 of population are female and they have considerable contribution in GDP of our Country. Besides the well being of our 'Matra Shakti' is very important from cultural and humanitarian point of view. According to W.H.O. report 80 Indian women are Anemic. If the Girls are healthy they will grow up into healthy women. A Healthy Lady will deliver a healthy baby. So the objectives of practice are: a. To create awareness among Girls about health so that they can prevent themselves from various diseases. b. To improve health status of underprivileged girls. c. To create awareness for HIV/AIDS. 3. Context: Various Health Checkup Camps and Awareness Lectures are organized in the Institution from Time to Time: a. Every year 01st to 07th August is celebrated as Breast Feeding Week b. Every year 01st to 07th September is celebrated as Nutritional Week. In this week various health checkup and lectures are organized like Hemoglobin Test, Cancer, Osteoporosis and Cardiac Test. The Institute gets cooperation from N.G.O.'s, Clubs (like Lions and Rotary) and many Hospitals. 4. Evidence of success : Hemoglobin tests enables the Institute to identify the girls with Iron deficiency. Iron tablets are distributed and they are educated about the right and proper diet. Thus there is an increase in the health awareness and health status 5. Problems Encountered and Resource Required: The institute generates resources from N.G.O.'s, Clubs (like Lions and Rotary) and many Hospitals (eg. Shalby Hospital). Besides many Doctors voluntarily step in and provide free services to the girls and staff. Resources Required: The Institutional premises has Three Hostels in which almost 500 girls are residing. Looking to the large number of students and staff it is essential to have one Dispensary in the campus along with a Doctor who may treat the emergency cases of girls and staff as well as perform the general health checkup.
2. Empowerment of Visually Impaired Students
53 Visually Impaired Students were admitted in different classes 1.Ten days self defence training was organized for visually Impaired girls from 25.7.16 to 5.8.16 12. Workshop was organised to teach the visually impaired girls about the use of smart phones by Arushi Institution Bhopal on 21.9.16. 3. Visually Impaired girls were educated about financial Literacy on 25.1.17 4. The Institution Conducted Training of Microwave cooking for the students on 28.1.17 ( IFB Company conducted the programme ). 5. Placement of Five Visually Impaired Girls in Bank of India , Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank and Railway Bharti Board 2. Environment Protection by Recycling 1. Recycling of Used pen. on 160 kg Plastic was collected and sent for Recycling 2. Recycling of used copy project Started , Till Dec 2016 , 500 kg Paper Stationary have been Collected and sent for recycling
