Bal Sakha Assam is planning to start two new projects.

1. The project is SKILL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGON FAMILY-LEVEL HEALTH CARE AIDS (FLHA). It would be a Certificate Course.

At present, trained health service providers are a necessity for society. Health care is important in promoting people’s general physical and mental health and well-being. The changing work schedules of modern working couples, given their engagement in different places, have created a void in providing care to elderly dependents and other family members needing special care. For the young generation, with busy work schedules and daily responsibilities, it can be challenging to manage the needs of ageing parents, especially when they are living far away. 

A competency-based curriculum will be focusing on the following key areas:

FLHA will provide primary care and help patients with daily activities. They typically perform the following tasks:

Clean and bathe patients.

Prepare a special diet if needed, and Serve meals, and help patients eat

Improving safety: Care providers should take steps to prevent accidents and manage medications effectively by administering prescribed medication according to the attending doctor’s instructions.

Help patients use the toilet and dress.

Turn, reposition, and transfer patients between beds and wheelchairs.

Listen to and record patients’ health concerns and report that information to nurses.

Monitor patients’ vital signs, such as pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, Blood Sugar, and Oxygen saturation, and keep records for the attending registered practitioner.

• Keep a record of vital signs and inform the attending doctor about any emergency.
• Informing the consulting physician about the health status of the care recipient.
• Alerting family members and physicians regarding any upcoming emergency in the patient.
• Provide essential life support in medical emergencies and call for emergency services.

Reducing stress and anxiety: Care Providers should be able to re-providers learn stress management, coping, and self-care techniques.

Improving relationships: Caregivers can develop better relationships with the care recipient.

Improving work-life balance: Caregivers learn strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Validating expertise: Caregiver certifications can validate knowledge and open doors to better care giving opportunities.

Passing on skills: Caregivers can pass on their new skills to other family members.

Outcome: Bal Sakha Assam can provide FLHA to general people in Assam within the three months after starting the project can provide FLHA services in India after One year from the starting of project.  

We are starting to fundraising for this noble project. The minimum fund, which is needed to start the first batch, is Rs. 9, 00, 000 only (Rs. Nine Lakhs only). We are appealing all our followers and well wishers to give your maximum support. 

You can donate to us through crossed cheque favouring “Bal Sakha Assam” or through our website: “www.balsakhaassam.org.in“

Donation to Bal Sakha Assam is exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

1. Alternate Livelihood with skill development on Mushroom Cultivation

This project will be implemented in Merelipathar gaon, under Dinjoy Panchayat, Panitola Dev. Block, Chabua, Dibrugarh, Assam.

The people of Merelipathar village are vulnerable. 90 percent of them are daily wages labourer, they land for agriculture. The total population is 2810 with 650 households. The tea garden community, Motok, and Chutia are the main settler besides Ahom, Bihari, Muslim, Bengali, SC and ST is also living in this village. Motok and Chutia families are displaced and migrated families. They came from Rohmoriah in 2000, due to the erosion of their land and houses in Brahmaputra. They generally worked as seasonal agricultural labours in nearby villages. The tea garden communities are working in nearby tea gardens. They are mostly temporary workers and do not get the benefits under PLA. Rests are working as wage labourer in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. The annual income is around Rs. 50,000/ per households, sometimes it becomes less. It has its consequences in socio-political and economic life. The social evils like, illiteracy, drop-out, addiction to liquor, neglected childhood, gender discrimination, poor health and nutrition are still prevalent.

Project Intervention Plan: is to successfully establish and demonstrate a sustainable model for improving the livelihood status of the vulnerable families. The project will be launched in coordination with the local communities and the local authorities. By adopting a participatory and integrated approach the project will help the communities to upgrade their livelihood. The project will have two sets of activities, one set of activities will be towards community awareness focusing on health, nutrition and gender issues and the other set of activities will be towards improving their livelihood.

The proposed project will initially cover around 60 households in first year, then it will expand.

Goal:

To established sustainable model for livelihood for the people of Merelipathar of the Dibrugarh District, Assam.

Objectives of the Project:

1. To bring about a behavioural change in the communities with respect to women.
2. To Promote gender equality and catalyzing change in the gendered roles formed by society
3. Specific efforts to ensure to improve people’s physical (health, safety), psychological (stress, dignity) and social (leisure) well-being too
4. To enhance income of marginalized family/women
5. To strengthen community institutions.

Expected outcome/ benefits:

1. Enhance behavioural and mindset change for a healthy living
2. Empowered women will be able to make decisions that could enhance performance outcomes for the household and community as a whole. Women must participate and engage in household and community decisions.
3. Promote and be a major drive for Gender-Inclusive sanitation
4. To enhance income of 60 households in first year.

Sustainability of the project:

The Village is situated in the middle of two cities, namely, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. There is a growing demand of the Mushroom in both cities, which is not fulfilled at present. The successful implementation of the project will enhance the income of the 60 families and they will be become entrepreneur. It also brings the change in the behaviour and practices that are being currently used by the communities.

The initial funds, which is needed to start the project is Rs. 2, 50, 000 only (Rs. Two Lakhs and Fifty Thousand only).

We are appealing all our followers and well wishers to give your maximum support for the well-being of marginalized people. 

You can donate to us through crossed cheque favouring “Bal Sakha Assam” or through our website: “www.balsakhaassam.org.in“

Donation to Bal Sakha Assam is exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.