About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
Woman might be use nearly 5000-6000 napkins in her life time and when dioxin accumulates in the body it can cause serious health risks and diseases such as immune system damage diabetes, hormone dysfunction, pelvic inflammatory disease ovarian cancer and infertility –reproductive problems. IUCT proposed to conduct reproductive health education at each classroom in which personnel hygiene and reproductive health issue will be sensitized. In addition to the lack of factual information many women continue to practice cultural traditions related to menstruation, such as practices of seclusion at home, refraining from daily household tasks and prayer and remain absent from work. These practices reflect the perception of menstrual blood loss as an ‘impure’ state and not as a normal human physiological phenomenon. Consequentially the constraints placed by these social and cultural norms not only impact on the health but also on the livelihood and opportunities of women. Women struggle to sustain continuous employment and the education of adolescent girls is disrupted due to periodic menstrual related absences. In addition to poor awareness and traditional cultural practices there are further barriers to the practice of menstrual hygiene within village communities in India, which include lack of economic power and empowerment of rural women and Adolescent girls.