The MBC Gallery
Training fieldworkers of the institutional outreach program, SPARSH (Shree Krishna Hospital Program for Advancement of Rural and Social Health) in Life Skill Education using Digital Storytelling as a self-sufficient tool. The workshops were intensely participatory and employed the following design: The to-be-trainers were encouraged to participate in the activities which they would be facilitating when they conduct LSE sessions in the community.
Community Engagement Program for Medical Students (Community-Based Learning Module): The program engaged medical students and rural children in a life skills education session. This session was designed to help medical students explore their potential beyond the classroom by equipping them to facilitate life skills sessions in the community. The sessions were a part of the process of helping medical students discover their self-worth as they helped the young rural kids discover their own.
Fieldworkers and staff of SEWA Rural (public health non-profit in Gujarat) being introduced to Life Skills Education through participatory workshops
Community Exposure Program for visiting international medical students from the University of Massachusetts. The program also included an immersive life skills education workshop conducted at a rural school in Bhadran village, Anand, Gujarat.
Participatory sessions to develop a library of lived experiences, which can be used as a self-sufficient tool to impart life skills education in remote regions
Participatory Life Skills Education sessions for adolescent girls at T.B. High School, Anand, Gujarat. Life Skills Covered: Self-awareness, Coping with Stress, Coping with Emotions; Some actvitites employed: River of Life, Stress Balloon
Community-Based Life Skills Education Sessions in Government Health Centres in Anand Gujarat:
Preparatory LSE Sessions employing Participatory Rural Appraisal Techniques to develop a research proposal for Developing Story Telling as a tool to impart Life Skills Education to Adolescent Girls
Field trips with UG and PG students:
Villages- Bhadran, Sihol, Ardi
Field Sites-Tribhuvandas Foundation, Vidya Dairy, Angadwadi in Bhadran, VIillage Stay Program in Virsad,
Some photos from many Health Education Sessions: 2018-19
Adolescent Health Sessions in Schools (Academic Heights, Anand)
Menstrual Hygiene Practices for Women of Pratapura Fadiya, Bhadran
Breastfeeding Week Awareness Program, August, 2019
World AIDS Day Awareness Program at Bhadran, December 2018
Field Work at Urban Health Training Centre, Petlad
Streamlining Menstrual Waste Disposal in the Medical UG Girls' Hostel: This project was designed to integrate community-based problem-solving with community-based medical education.
WHO Monitoring for Mission Indradhanush (Intensified Immunization Program), October, 2018
Academic Events:
National Conference for Health Professions Education (NCHPE),2018
Workshop on Qualitative Research Methodology 2019, Puducherry
Community Based Teaching of Integrated Management of Neonatal and CHildhood Illness (IMNCI) to 3rd year MBBS students at Jhol Primary Health Centre and Anganwadi Centre, Anand, Gujarat
2019
As an assistant facilitator for UG Field Visits to:
Hospital for Mental Health, Vadodara, Gujarat
Naturopathy Centre, Anand
(September 2019)
Health check up camp with MBBS students for children enrolled in schools setup by Bachpan NGO in Anand, September 2018