‘PAHAL’ is presently working in the field of Education, Primary Health Care, and livelihood. Our main target is to improve the condition of deprived living in poor human condition in slum cluster of Delhi NCR and for poor in rural areas in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh (Bundelkhand Region) Rajasthan and Haryana. Our main projects are

Healthcare facilities

PAHAL launched its mobile dispensary Programme in New Delhi on 16 June 2007.

Vision behind the Project: PAHAL launched the programme as part of its Endeavour to introduce healthcare awareness and contemporary healthcare, sanitation services to the underprivileged.

Services provided: Healthcare for children and women is one of the prime concerns of our organization. A referral service network for them also needs to be developed. A counselling service is being provided for creating awareness on health and hygiene. Our family planning programme with emphasis on condom usage for safe sex and spacing methods is in the final stage of implementation. This programme would also ensure organizing regular healthcare camps, including minor surgical interventions.

Free healthcare camps for slum dwellers

We have organized about 30 free camps at various locations in slums in Delhi and National Capital Region over the past few months. We have empanelled qualified MBBS, MD and Gynecologist with our team. These camps have become very popular. On an average we treat about 50 patients in our every camp. We give them free medicines, free consultations and counseling besides discounted diagnostics with various health centers.

Counseling services

Under our counselling project we have a number of volunteers. They closely interact with the people living in slum clusters and visit them often for giving them counseling on various topics such as –

• Career Counselling
• Family planning
• HIV/AIDS awareness
• Women’s participation in decision making for managing family finances
• Family relations
• Abstain from consuming alcohol and drugs
• General hygiene and health
• Income generation
• Alcoholism and addiction

Yoga Promotion

We believe in what Mahatma Gandhi said many years ago – “Nature Cure is so simple, easy and cheap…..this system of treatment should be used.”

Naturopathy is a system of medicine aimed to diagnose and treat any human ailment, pain and injury through the use of natural elements, mainly five in numbers – Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. Naturopathy believes that all forms of disease are due to the same cause, that is, the accumulation of

waste materials and toxins in our bodies that are steadily piling up. The people we target at usually have confidence in naturopathy because of their original roots in rural areas where naturopathy is still a preferred way of curing ailments.

Yoga provides for an extremely beneficial and complete method aimed at total body and mind health. In our yoga promotion programme we have organized more then 15 camps in different slum clusters.

Non-formal Education and Tution classes

Although there are many schools which children can attend in Delhi, there is a big problem with non-attendance, low literacy and a high drop out rate for children from the lowest socio-economic groups. This is due to parental ignorance and fear, the need to care for younger siblings, need to work, lack of social skills, prejudice and discrimination.

PAHAL has opened non-formal education centres and tuition centres in some of the most inadequate and deprived localities in the slum clusters of Delhi. These centre’s aim to provide free education to the children affected by poverty, migration, calamity or child labour. We also aim to provide quality education coupled with the all-round development of the children.

The children attending centres are living in slums, or are slum dwellers from Delhi NCR who have migrated from poor rural areas and in their children have received little or no education. For boys without education only unskilled day labour will be available to them. Girls are even more likely to be uneducated as they often carry the burden of childcare, domestic and paid work.

There are now five centres are running with five teachers, volunteers and a few other staff. They teach about 200 children who are being prepared for mainstream school. Last year we enrolled 100 children in local government schools on to full time education, and come for extra tuition in the afternoon.
In our centres around 200 children from different areas attending the class regularly and improving their education level. Through our non-formal education classes and tution classes hundreds of working and drop outs children especially girls are getting benefits. To the success of our classes we are thankful for the support of local community.

Cloths and blankets Distribution
 

On the occasion of Christmas Day PAHAL distributed cloths and blankets to the people who are sleeping across the road on foot paths, bus stops and living in slum clusters. Volunteers identified needy people, widows, mentally and physically challenged and aged who are sleeping road side without proper covering in the winter. Our distribution programme helped nearly 200 people. Many poor people ware in the need of clothes especially widow’s, mentally challenged and old people.