Project: Reproductive Health Services
Since July 2014 Women’s Hope International is partnering with LAMB (Luthran Aid Medicine Bangladesh) to implement a holistic community health project in the subdistrict Parpatipur, in the North of the country.
Purpose of program
Pregnant mothers, youths, disabled children and women with an obstetric fistula all belong to the target population. In the ten Unions of Parbatipur, with a population of approx. 300’000, the implementation of the program is carried out in close collaboration with the local government units and the local government health services. The holistic design of the program integrates the following components:
Sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents
Maternal and child health services on community level
Citizen’s participation and women’s initiatives on community level
Identification, treatment and rehabilitation of disabled children and women with obstetric fistula
Goal
Increased health and resilience amongst mothers, children and youth from the poorest section of the population.
Objectives
Eleven safe delivery unit are active and are open 24 hours per day.
Each of the eleven safe delivery units is manged by a management team composed of unsalaried members.
The majority of pregnant mothers will go to antenatal clinics and give birth at a save delivery unit.
600 women’s groups take on responsibility for community health actions.
1,100 adolescents are trained as peer educators and take on responsibility regarding reproductive health issues, particularly against child or forced marriages.
600 disabled children are getting physical and social support, including access to schools.
300 women with obstetric fistulas receive surgery and new livelihoods.
Programm Manager
Swapan Pahan is the Director of the Health and Community Program at LAMB. He has the overall responsibility. Pronoy Ganguli (see picture) is the Program Manager of the WHI-supported program.
Some glimpses of the project
Project location:
Subdistrict Parpatipur, Bangladesh
Project location:
Subdistrict Parbatipur, Bangladesh
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