CORE GROUP POLIO PROJECT

    CORE GROUP POLIO PROJECT is working in Saharanpur district in 4 blocks respectively City, Sunehty, Sarsawa and Nakur. The project's main objective is to motivate polio eradication and immunization. Under Saharanpur district 78 villages and 20 urban wards (HRA) is being covered. In this work 98 CMCs, 5 BMCs, 1 MIS and 1 DMC are employed. Mobilization activities are done at the ground levels which are as follows:

    Polio Eradication Program

    We can come to know that our program has changed this country and made it polio free as it was announced by W.H.O.on 27 March, 2014, that our country has become polio free. In every year, under this program of each round approx 10 Lacks children were immunized in the whole district by Meerut Seva Samaj team. The task was done by the following activities at ground level.

    Polio Class/ Children Rally
    Under this activity, children from the local schools take part to organise a group which is known as Polio class, through play we teach them how to keep cleanliness and how to prevent disease of polio is advised. Polio classes were done before every polio round  in all 98 areas.

    Bulawa Toli
    Bulawa Toli is made for the reason so that more and more children must get immunized on that day. Bulawa Toli is made by gathering children between the ages of 8–14 years. These Bulawa Toli children call other children from their house so that maximum amount of children may get immunized. Before each polio round Bulawa Tolies have been made in which more than 1000 children had taken part.

    Influencer/Stakeholder’s Meeting
    To make our program successful, influencers has a great role. To avoid resistance in any area and to promote the awareness for polio, local influencers have a great role to play. So we formed 4 block level and 1 district level and 98 village level influencers groups and their meeting were organised before each and every round, in which total 251 influencers were added to our program to make awareness and help people get immunized.

    R.I. STRENGTHENING PROGRAM

    By the help of this program we provide medical helps in those areas in which there are no such kind of health centres. In this program we distribute medicine and other health related things by organising health camp in those areas which are out reached. Some children, who are left unimmunized, are immunized in these health camps. Blood tests, Urine test &weight measures for pregnant women are also done for free in the health camps.

    Community Meeting
    Community meeting is done in each block to make the health and sanitation better with the guidance of Government of India. We organise such type of meeting in the all block we work in. We need to strengthen community meetings so that VHNSC committee may get active and take the responsibility of health and sanitation in their village. 

    Mother/ Father/ Adolescent Girls/ Boys meeting
    The main purpose of this activity is to take out all the myths which are spread in the community & to make aware all the community about the real facts. In such type of meetings many people ask questions and gets aware about the real facts. In every year total of 1000 mother /Adolescent. Girls meetings were organised.

    I.P.C.
    The main motive of this activity is to solve problem of mothers and aware and motivate them for immunization. It is done between CMCs and mothers by visiting houses one by one.

    BEHAVIOUR CHANGE COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY

    ASHA Coordination meeting
    This activity is done to strengthen AAA i.e. ASHA, AWW & ANM along with the CMCs, so that they may provide better hospitality to the community by working in a good coordination with each other. Such as, making due list, Mother and child tracking etc. 

    Kuk-du-ku Rally
    This rally is conducted to promote the habit of doing toilet in the permanent urinals instead of doing it in open land. In this activity we spread the awareness of permanent toilets by making a kuk-du-ku rally which is made by school children.

    Masti ki kaksha
    This is a fun learning activity; in this activity we teach children that disposal of garbage must be done in the garbage bins and nowhere else, teeth cleaning and hand wash is also a part of this activity. 

    VHSNC Meeting
    VHSNC meeting is done in each village to make the sanitation better with the guidance of Government of India. We organise such type of meetings in all the villages we work in. We need to strengthen VHSNC meetings so that committee may get active and take the responsibility of sanitation in their village. 

    Khushi Express Van
    The main purpose of this activity is to take out all the myths which are spread in the area& to make aware all the community about the real facts.The main motive of this activity is to solve problem of Community aware and motivate them for immunization.

    NukkarNatak
    Under this activity we teach community to aware for immunization with help of Government of India. We organise such type of Nukkarnatak in our four block we work in. we need to strengthen Nukkar Natak so that committee may get active and take the responsibility to sanitation in their village.

    Capacity Build of Asha Training
    This activity is done to strengthen Asha & Asha Sanghni along with the CMCs, so that they may provide better Communication to the community by working in a good coordination with each other. Such as, making due list, Mother and child tracking etc.

    CMC Sakhi Meeting
    In this meeting CMC sakhi takes part along with CMC, BMC & DMC. In this meeting we discuss all key discussion regarding child immunization, sanitation, health & help to CMC for aware the community.

    BMC Review Meeting
    In this meeting all our staffs takes part along with the Director – MSS, & Secretary – MSS. In this meeting we discuss all the key discussions of all 4 blocks. After discussion of the key points we discuss action points, in order to seek out the problem. We also do power point presentations from all the BMCs of all four blocks from which we can see how things are going in all the blocks. This activity is done to improve the capability of all the staff. 

    CMC Induction Training
    Every year follow up trainings are organized for all the CMCs for updating the immunization methods/schedules. These trainings are imported to the CMCs by the senior project staff after getting trained by CRS/CORE. This year also such trainings were given to all the CMCs. Also during the year all the new CMCs number 98 were given three days induction training in a city hotel to get them acquainted with the all the immunization methods.