Non-governmental organizations are
organizations that are independent of any government. They are usually
non-profit. Many of them are active in humanitarian or social areas.
voluntary health agency. Any nonprofit, nongovernmental agency, governed
by lay or professional individuals and organized on a national, state, or local
level, whose primary purpose is health related. This term
applies to agencies supported mainly by voluntary public
contributions.
Some important health agencies are
1. HIND KUSTH NIVARAN SANGH (Indian Leprosy Association )-
The Hind Kusht Nivaran
Sangh (HKNS), the Indian Leprosy Association, registered in 1949 is successor of the British Empire Leprosy
Relief Association (BELRA), which was founded well back in 1925 with the
objectives of serving leprosy afflicted individuals, removing stigma of leprosy
from the society and promoting social & research activities in the field of
leprosy in India.
HKNS has been doing following
activities:
·
Opening of skin clinics,
roadside clinics & hospitals for leprosy
·
Looking after the inhabitants
of leprosy colonies
·
Production and distribution of
health education and publicity material on leprosy.
·
Publication of
quarterly Indian Journal of Leprosy and bi-monthly news bulletin
Kusht Vinashak for leprosy workers and the general public.
·
Production and distribution of
leprosy seals to create awareness about leprosy and help other organizations to
raise funds for their work through the sale of these seals.
·
Observance of Anti-Leprosy Day
on the 30th January every year to create mass awareness about leprosy.
2. THE
INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CHILD WELFARE-
ICCW was established in 1952. Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur was one of the founding members of ICCW. It has a network of state
councils and district councils all over the country
Activities of ICCW-
·
Advocating Children's
Rights
·
Creches for children
of working and ailing mothers
·
Training programmes
for child care workers
·
Sponsorship for School
Education of under-privileged children
·
Projects for Street
and Working children
·
Scrutiny of Adoption
Cases
·
Rehabilitation of
Abandoned Children
·
Institutional and day
care services for differently abled children
·
Programmes for
children in difficult circumstances
3. Bharat Sevak Samaj
Bharat Sevak Samaj is the National Development Agency sponsored by the
Planning Commission, Government of India to ensure public co-operation for
implementing government plans. The main purpose behind the formulation of
Bharat Sevak Samaj is to initiate a nation wide, non official and non political
organization with the objective of enabling individual citizens to contribute,
in the form of an organized co-operative effort, to the implementation of the
National Development Plan
Functions
1. The Samaj will render assistance:
a. In restoring and improving the social health
of the community by Building up standards of honesty in public conduct, public
administration and business relations.Creating a Social atmosphere conducive to
the observance of such standard.
b. In creating social awareness among the people
with regard to conditions and problems, and their own obligations, and the need
for unity, tolerance and mutual help.
c. In conducting campaigns and in the adoption
of practical measures
i. For the conservation and best utilization of
the public and private resources.
ii. For promoting the practice of economy in the
various spheres of country's life.
iii. For detecting and rooting out waste and
inefficiency in the nation's activities.
iv. For the general adoption of the practice of
austerity.
d. improvement of
sanitation in village is one of the important activity of BSS.
4. The Tuberculosis
Association of India (TAI)
The Tuberculosis Association of India (TAI) was founded in
1939. It is one of the oldest and largest voluntary organizations having its
affiliates all over the country. It was set up in February, 1939 as a
registered society by incorporating the King Emperor's Anti-Tuberculosis Fund
and King George Thanks-giving (Anti-Tuberculosis) Fund.
Its main objectives
are:
·
The prevention, control,
treatment and relief of tuberculosis.
·
The encouragement of
and assistance in the establishment throughout India of State Associations
having objectives similar in whole or in part to those of the Association.
·
The affiliation or
control of and the rendering of assistance to any institution having objectives
similar in whole or in part to the objects of the Association.
Main
Activities of the TAI are:
·
Publication of the
prestigious Indian Journal of Tuberculosis quarterly since 1953. it is the only
journal in India devoted exclusively to the cause of tuberculosis and chest
diseases.
·
Organization of the
National Conference on Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (NATCON). Since the year
1939 the Association is organizing an annual conference wherein around 500
delegates from all over India .
·
Providing quality
diagnostic and treatment services through its New Delhi TB Centre.
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5. Family Planning Association of India.
Family Planning Association of India was established in
1949. FPA India has seven decades of experience in the field of sexual and
reproductive health. It works in close partnerships with central and state
governments, NGOs and national and international funding agencies.
Currently, FPA India is a premier civil society organization
delivering essential health services focusing on sexual and reproductive health
in over 18 states and union territories of India, in regions where key
developmental indicators are poor and gender disparities are high.
Functions-
1.
Reproductive
Health and Family Planning Clinics (RHFPC) are static clinics which provide
sexual and reproductive health services. These services include sexuality
counselling, contraceptives services including emergency contraception, safe
abortion care.
2.
Outreach
model of service delivery. Satellite clinics
are located close to the community, staffed by
trained providers delivering a limited range of SRH services .
3. Mobile outreach units- Services are
provided through equipped vehicles reaching fixed locations at fixed times.
Contraceptive and other SRH as well as non-SRH services may be provided.
4.
Community-based
distributors or providers These are community volunteers trained and supported to
conduct home visits for identifying and following up with target populations
for the distribution of contraceptive products and other SRH-related
commodities.
5.
Family Planning Association of India (FPA
India) creates awareness among marginalised and vulnerable women on sexual and
reproductive health, including HIV and sexual and gender based violence (SGBV),
and empowers them to take action when their rights are violated. Men are also
sensitised about the patriarchal system and how it affects women’s health and
rights.
6.
Encouraging women and girls to be
self-sufficient through skilling is an important initiative under the gender
and empowerment portfolio. Women and girls are taught skills that provide them
opportunities to work within or outside their ecosystem or become self-employed
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