EHA

EHA Community Health & Development teams continue to work alongside communities, with government departments, and with other NGO networks to bring about community transformation, and to facilitate the development of healthy communities.

EHA's Community Health & Development programs have steadily been growing in their coverage and in 2008-09 touched the lives of over 3 million people (1 million people directly benefited from the project activities) in eight states of North India. A majority of them were women and children living in 1078 villages.

EHA now runs 29 Community health & development projects that are found in 27 blocks / municipalities of which 22 are rural and are located in some of the most backward regions of our country.

While EHA's vision is for the holistic transformation of these communities, a significant focus of our work remains health. However the health of communities cannot be improved and sustained with out addressing the overall development of the communities and so in most of our units there are programs that work on livelihood issues, saving schemes and micro-enterprise, safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, watershed management, agriculture and literacy.

The projects all seek to empower communities by building their capacity to address their needs, organising them through various groups and committees and establishing crucial linkages with existing public programmes. The overall approach is that of engaging communities' right from the beginning and partnering with them, there by ensuring their participation in most aspects of the project.