RECPHEC

RECPHEC has been making concerted efforts in addressing health issues through empowering the rural people. For this, it has been mobilizing rural women to assert their rights by empowering them and by building capacity to uplift their economic status by implementing various programs in different communities. The outreach program implemented at the community level, has contributed in the areas of: 1. NFE classes (Non-formal Education) 2. Saving and credit group formation 3. Toilet support 4. Drinking water support 5. Skill training program 6. Community Health Facilitators (CHF), training/ mobilization 7. Awareness campaigns.

In the project areas, people live in rural areas and depend on subsistence farming for their livelihoods. Household food security and poor nutrition are still major concerns. Most households have little or no access to basic social services such as primary health care, education, clean drinking water and sanitation services. They is high rates of illiteracy and are also concentrated in specific ethnic, caste and minority groups, particularly those of the lowest caste (dalits) and indigenous peoples (janajatis). The most vulnerable and marginalized groups are the lowest social castes, indigenous peoples differently disabled people and women.

Focusing this, RECPHEC is working in such selected VDCs of Udayapur, Saptari and Gorkha. It is working in 4 VDCs of Udayapur District: Basaha, Chaudandi, Sundarpur & Beltar and 4VDCs of Saptari District: Fattepur, Odhara, Kamalpur & Ghoganpur and 8 VDCs of Gorkha District: Bakrang, Taklung, Bungkot, Finam, Ghirung, Taplae, Aarupokhari & Pandrung.

It is involving the community people in different skill development programs to enhance their income generating activities. Gender-based training, group formation and organizational capacity building training have also contributed in mobilizing them. It is committed to help the poor and the marginalized to liberate them from high interest loan from the local landlords. It also advocates the women and deprived communities to get organized in order to assert their rights and to render local public and private services structures people oriented.

Outreach program has lead to increase in the literacy rate of target project area, encourage women to participate in collective saving and empower women to utilize the credit facility with low interest available through saving groups, aware rural community for better health behavior and sanitation, providing better reproductive health service through CHFs and encourage them to refer the patients to the nearest health post, enable target group to generate income through skill trainings, strengthen public health posts and its service delivery mechanism at community level, and mobilize local NGOs and CBOs in conducting health related campaigns.

 

Activities in 2010