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.

These consumers are funding farmers to make food sustainable

(Many consumers give) direct monetary support to farmers who have been practising traditional millet-based biodiverse agriculture for decades.

Men in menstruation – are we addressing the elephant in the room?

... signal that men are coming forward to accept the elephant in the room.

Green Toilet in my backyard

Ecosan (short for ecological sanitation) toilets are improved versions of old dry toilets that do not demand water for flushing

How a farmers’ group is reviving the jackfruit

Pingara, run by 1000 farmers of Dakshin Kannada, employs 18 people and has the capacity to process over 400 kg of raw jackfruit a day.

The indigenous doctors and Healers of Chhattisgarh

Knowledge and a respect for ecology still enables the local traditional healers to ensure immense faith and following by Chhattisgarh folk.

A Farm of Hope and New Ideas in Rural Odisha

... provides an alternative to escape from current crisis-ridden and ecologically harmful farming practices creating serious health problems.

Maharashtra’s Feast in The Forest

The forest foods movement is about both ancient knowledge and the underlying wisdom of the forest people...

Gardens of Nutrition and Health

"Our seed diversity is preserved and cultivated, though we did loose some seeds like red maze but we have tried and revived the lost seeds"

Odisha plans to introduce millets in PDS, mid-day meal by year end

The southern region of Odisha is home to many tribals and millets have been their staple diet since generations.