Annual Report 2016-2017
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ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 SUNDARBAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE www.ssdcindia.org.in COMMITTED TOWARDS UPLIFTMENT OF THE DEPRIVED About SSDC Sundarban Social Development Centre (SSDC) is a not for profit making non-government organization situated at Sundarban delta region of West Bengal in India. Since its advent as a social development organization from 1986, SSDC has been keeping itself involved for the wellbeing of the people living at disaster prone Sundarban island areas which are typically identified as socio economically backward in all senses of remoteness and poor living standard. Being a registered NGO under Society Registration Act 1961 and FCRA, SSDC is devoted and has been working on community based development activities. SSDC believes in collaborative approach and right from the situation analysis & project planning stage up to evaluation at the end, it involves people of all strata in the community. VISION: Build up a society where love, MISSION : Uphold the human dignity peace and equality is discovered, lived of the poor and marginalized through and nurtured. the process of empowerment. OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION I. Community wellbeing through service, facilitation, empowerment & behavior change on practice. II. Close association with community & adopt participatory development initiatives. III. Undertake rural development projects in joint hands with Govt., NGOs, INGOs, donor agencies & individual donors. IV. Make all endeavor fit to survive, all round development & check on poor indicators in standard of life. V. Organizational infrastructure development & create child friendly atmosphere . STRATEGY Sundarban Social Development Centre (SSDC) continues its unending journey in a collaborative approach involving each and every people of the Community for a better future. SSDC believes in collaborative approach and right from the situation analysis & project planning stage up to evaluation at the end, it involves people of all strata in the community. The organization involves all the l ocal youth organizations, women’s group & Samities, Village Education Committees, children, adolescents, ICDS workers, Government health personnel and others in development process in a range from advocacy and strong network. The organization also takes in itiative to form Child Parliaments, Kishor Kishori Bahinies, Child protection groups & committees, Village Development Committees and ensures participation of these groups & committees in the community level actions, which makes the initiative people orien ted and also generates sense of ownership on developmental programmes. The organization does not believe in free service delivery and always motivates people for their physical, psychological & financial contribution. CORE INTERVENTION AREAS Eye Hospital services Maternal & Child Health care (MCH) Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) WASH intervention Child protection Adolescent health & anemia control Women empowerment & livelihood promotion Environment protection & disaster risk reduction Clinic Boat services Health Interventions TOWARDS A HEALTHY COMMUNITY Eye care • Sundarban Eye Hospital • Vision Centre • Outreach Eye Camp Nutrition MCH • NRC HEALTH • Clinic Boat service • Community based • Home Visit initiatives INTERVENTIONS Adolescent health & anemia control WASH Eye Care SUNDARBAN EYE HOSPITAL SSDC has extended Eye Care service for the community at hard to reach areas of Sundarban delta region in South 24 Parganas. It has its base hospital well equipped with modern instruments and state of the art facilities with a patient friendly environment, hospitality and clinical follow ups to reach at door steps. The hospital has been rendering a bucket of services like cataract surgery with medicines & black spectacles, pathological investigation, biometry test, check up by physician before surgery etc. u nder one roof. In addition to that, SSDC has developed a community based process of VISION FOR SOCIETY FOR SOCIETY VISION continuous awareness & knowledge sharing on health issues, especially eye care. MAJOR SERVICES THIS YEAR’S MILESTONES Low cost eye screening, OPD patientsp treated (New 21456 & Old examination & treatment facilitiesities 15462) Cataract & other surgical incidentsdent s TotalTota cataract surgery cases: 5279 PHACO surgery Free-2961;Free Paid-1102; RSBY 1216 Free medical camps & check upsups SpectacleSp distribution to 14048 patients Optical & Pathology opportunitiesti es ExtensionExten s of OPD, OT & Vision Centers Clinic Boat, Ambulance & Mobilee vanv an services MobileMobi Van introduction for patients School screening camp InclusionIn under ‘Sastha Sathi’ Scheme RSBY accessibility VISION CENTER ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN v Refraction test for eye examination. v Spectacle distribution in minimal cost. v Cataract screening & other diagnosis. v Referral to eye hospital for advanced cases. MAJOR IMPACTS v Total 8 Vision Centers in 7 blocks. v Low cost & affordable eye testing, diagnosis & spectacle for the poor community. v Bringing the service at the door step of rural people. v Total 15983 patients attended in the reporting year. OUTREACH EYE CAMP Key features of Outreach Camps Eye care service in remote areas at doorstep Treatment to general & refraction patients Refer surgery & critical patients to base hospital Awareness on eye health care & Govt. schemes Message dissemination on Vision Centre & Base Hospital Major impacts Poor & unable people getting access to basic eye care facilities at door step Reintegration of working youth in normal life Social rehabilitation to aged people Decreasing misconception on cataract & other eye ailments A CASE STORY 51 years ago, Abdul Gaffar Sheikh was born in a poor family at Monirhat village at Joynagar, South 24 Parganas. At present, Abdul Gaffar Sheikh is 51 year old but he still lives in a poor family. He has 8 children, which includes one son and 7 daughters. All the daughters of Mr. G affar have been got married while his son lives separately with his wife. Mr Gaffar’s daughter-in-law never took any care of her father-in-law and mother-in- law and they abandoned them. After that incident, Gaffar and his wife were forced to spend their lives in empty stomach. Having no option left in his hand, he started repairing of nets of the villagers, engaged in the jori work, operating tailoring machine to weave shirts and pants, making basket from bamboo stick and selling in the market at high price rate. Thus Abdul Gaffar Sheikh started spending his days on earning wage as daily labour and was enjoying a simple life. But after some days, his eye sight becoming very low. He could not see anything as earlier which results to hamper his daily economic activities. As a result, his family income started becoming low, his debt had started to increase day by day. In such a condition he went to a homeopathy doctor for eye treatment with his wife. The doctor prescribed him some medicine for a month. But there were no improvement of his eye sight after one month went past. Abdul after the surgery Abdul after recovery One day, he attended an eye camp organized by Sundarban Eye Hospital in the primary school of Mr. Gaffar’s village. He was screened and identified as a cataract patient at the eye camp. Immediately he had been provided an opportunity for cataract operation in free of cost from Sundarban Eye Hospital. After successful operation, now he is seeing everything clearly as earlier. He told his neighbors that he is able to see everything very clear as compared to his childhood. Mr. Gaffar and his wife are so mu ch happy now after the successful cataract operation of him. After the operation, Mr. Gaffar took a month’s rest before he has started his works again efficiently. Nowadays he is getting orders again from the neighbors to repair their net. Now he is able t o operate the tailoring machine quickly and there is no problem for him even to attach thread in the needle. In addition, he can now do the jory work more quickly comparing to the earlier past. He expressed his heartiest gratitude to the SSDC Eye Hospital for the hospitality he received there from the medical team. He prayed to the God for prosperity of the Sundarban Eye Hospital. HEALTH FOR EVERYBODY Adolescent Health & Anemia Control Adolescent Health & Anemia Control is a part of Basic Health Care & Support programme, which is an integral part of SSDC’s health care intervention in joint hands with Govt. health service providers based on Sub Health Centers, ICDS centers and through pocket outreach health camps and clinic boat services. SSDC workers & medical t eam are dedicated to cover the whole population of Patharpratima, Gopalnagar & Durbachati GP under Patharpratima Block, South 24 Parganas district. IMNCI Promotion-27 SHG Group Members 18 Adolescent networks formed (116 adolescent Girls referred to clinic for Anemia treatment) VHSNC formation in 49 Sansads Capacity building of ASHA/ANM/PRI ACHIEVEMENTSTHIS OF YEAR members A CASE STORY Rakhi Pattanayek is an adolescent girl who lives with her parents in Chintamonipur village of South 24 Parganas district. Her father Rajaram works as a daily labour to earn a living for the whole family. Rakhi studies at 10 th standard but used to suffer from weakness and gets tired very easily. Even she was having an interrupted menstrual period because of her ill health. On a certain day, SSDC health workers visited her home and talked to Rakhi’s mother Anjali and came to kno w about her ailment. They advised her to send Rakhi to the adolescent health meeting organized by SSDC. Rakhi attended the meeting and found out the exact reason for her illness which was haemoglobin deficiency in blood or anemia. She also knew about sub c enter where she can do blood test and sensitized on nutritious diet needed for adolescent girls of her age. On 7 th February, 2017, Rakhi got her test report which revealed that haemoglobin content in her blood was 8 grams/DL which is way below normal (10 grams/DL). After knowing that, her parents started to maintain a nutritious diet for her containing fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, pulses, eggs, meat etc. She also developed the habit of having lemon with her meals which enables body to absorb more iron fr om the food.