Every once in a while during our work in JMV we come across situations where our personal and professional skills are tested. One such situation arose during a Mothers’ Group meeting in Amradevi village in the Sirauli Gauspur block of Barabanki. This is one of the 195 villages where the Maternal and Neonatal Health program of Join My Village is being implemented.Here I met Malini, who was pregnant. After wrapping up the meeting, I began talking to Mithilesh. In her early 20s, Malini was one...
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“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a dad”.  With this in mind, I set out to look for role models of good dads in our maternal field and came back with surprising results. I visited families which were involved with JMV and those which weren’t. As expected, the men who are involved with the program came across as better fathers, proving that knowledge and information are keys to a healthy society. Name: Sarabjeet Spouse: Neelam Children: 4 girls Sarabjeet is an active member in all...
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As I peek inside the mud-and-brick home, I spot a frail old woman in a crumpled sari sitting on a string cot. “Oh, that is my mother. She hasn’t been keeping too well,” says Manoj.  I was visiting Manoj as part of my hunt for role-model fathers in the villages where CARE’s Join My Village runs its Maternal and Neonatal Health Program. Manoj is a regular at all Male Group meetings and I was told he had become a father of a baby boy 15 days...
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In our blogs for Join My Village we often talk about the women and girls that we help but in this one I want to talk about the team who keep the engine of the program running - our field staff. Rashmi Anand Kapoor is a maternal health and gender trainer who has worked with CARE for more than five years. Rashmi currently provides training to government health workers for JMV’s Maternal and Neonatal Health program in 15 blocks of Barabanki district.The road to becoming...
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The International Women’s Day was celebrated around the world on March 8th but in Join My Village’s maternal health program we celebrated it throughout the month of March so as to cover all the 195 villages in which the Maternal and Neonatal Health program is being run in the Barabanki district.       Rallies: The celebrations started with nearly 75 rallies on March 8th in different villages which saw a huge turnout of women, health workers, CARE staff and primary and upper primary students...
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