Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.

When wasteland bears fruits

A neighbourhood forest, explains Anasuyamma, spreads across 12-16 hectares (ha) and usually grows timber, fruits and medicinal plants.

Idlis get a unique makeover at Visakhapatnam’s latest food startup

His venture called Vasena Poli has turned into a go-to place for many fitness freaks, medical practitioners and young college goers.

This Chemistry Professor’s Fight for Arsenic-free Water in Villages of Assam is Slowly Bearing Fruit

More and more schools adopt this technology, train teachers and ask students to build Arsiron Nilogon as science projects

Super seeds

“These seeds have had a huge role in diets as protein supplements. Some have been used in Ayurveda and Unani medicine..."

MILLETS – The Miracle Grains

Millet farming saves nearly six million litres of water per acre - they can stand up to the crisis of climate change.

Agroecology leading the fight against India’s Green Revolution

Women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition...

Casteless & Constitutional: Pune’s Padman Had a Unique Wedding That We Can All Learn From!

For wedding presents, they insisted upon only books! - they are set to open libraries, in their respective villages in Solapur and Kolhapur

This NGO Recycles Old Clothes & Provides Free Cloth Pads To Tribal Women

Each cloth pad takes up around half a meter of material and needs to be disposed of in six months.

Decoding Millet-based Diet

Apart from exclusive stores, farmers’ markets and stores in small towns have ample supply of these ancient foods.