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.

A Farming city: Farming along the banks of Yamuna

The narrative strongly advocates for localised and decentralised farming as an alternative for ecological deterioration, urban food insecurity, and the weakening of social bonds.

Learning, Collaboration, and Sustainability in the Himalayan Landscapes

The gathering’s core objectives were to foster knowledge sharing, enhance collaboration, and promote ecological awareness and cultural exchange.

With Unity and Empowerment Women’s Groups Seek Many Paths of Progress

The 15 members of this group meet regularly and discuss social issues. It is this unity of the women which gave them the strength to confront those responsible for multiples issues in their hamlet.

A Simple Change Is Ending Saltwater Struggles & Period Woes for Women in the Sundarbans

To address health and sanitation issues, including menstrual hygiene, SEED focuses on increasing freshwater access as a strategic approach to address the complex issues affecting the mangrove forest.

क्रांतिकारी परिवर्तनाच्या दिशेने: भारतामधल्या विकल्प संगम प्रक्रियेचे दशक  (In Marathi)

आपल्याला प्रक्रिया जितकी लोकशाही, सहभागी, वैविध्यपूर्ण आणि उत्साहवर्धक करता येईल, तितकी, अपेक्षित उद्दिष्टांपैकी किमान काही उद्दिष्टे साध्य करण्याची, तसेच काही अनपेक्षित फायदे मिळण्याची शक्यताही जास्त.

मौलिक विकल्पों की राह (In Hindi)

विकल्प संगम पहल 'सामान्य' लोगों की नव प्रवर्तन, दृढ़ता, सहयोग और संकटों का समाधान खोजने की क्षमता का जश्न मनाने का प्रयास करती है। सार्थक भागीदारी की प्रक्रिया अपने आप में लोगों को सशक्त बनाती है।

Yogendra Yadav writes: What kind of India do we seek?

What does our future look like? What should it look like, if we could shape it? What kind of India do we seek? Can we envision something beyond the stale dream of a modern, developed, superpower with cutting-edge technology

Press Release: National Vikalp Sangam Concludes with Resolution to Work Towards Ecological, Social, and Economic Justice, for India and for Kachchh

They will promote policies and programmes that can generate creative livelihoods (including in crafts, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, pastoralism, small manufacturing, and services) and also protect our natural environment.

तमिलनाडु में आदिवासियों के लिए अस्पताल (In Hindi)

इस अस्पताल में आदिवासियों का कम कीमत पर अच्छा इलाज किया जाता है।