This is a brief introduction of Sukarya which includes History, Vision, Mission, Objectives, Organisation structure, Projects undertaken, IEC material, capacity building trainings, fundraising activities, relief work, donors funding agencies and corporates, organisations Sukarya has worked with

1. SUKARYA
BEHTAR SWASTHYA
BEHTAR SAMAJ

2. Sukarya
Sukarya, is a non-governmental development
organization working on issues affecting the
health status of rural and urban communities in
Haryana since 1999. Registered in 2001, the
focus of our work is primarily to improve the
health status of urban and rural poor by making
primary health care services at both preventive
and curative levels accessible to underserved
and marginalized communities.

3. VISION
The Vision of Sukarya is health for all- 'Behtar
Swasthya Behtar Samaj’; a society where
everyone has access to basic health care
services and the fundamental development
need of communities are adequately met. Our
interventions are aimed at ensuring equitable
access to quality health services to all
including the poorest sections of the society,
especially women, adolescents and children.

4. Our Objectives
 To advocate, encourage and guide positive 'health-seeking
behavior' with special emphasis on overall health and well-
being.
 To improve maternal and child health through training,
awareness campaigns, workshops, and health related education.
 To advocate, promote and sensitize communities on Primary
Health Care, Reproductive Child Health and Community Health
issues.
 To empower women by strengthening their physical, mental and
emotional well-being and economic security.
 To initiate and implement social and community development
activities in the field of healthcare, income generation for women
as well as informal education for the weaker sections of society.
 To provide humanitarian assistance in areas affected by natural
calamities such as cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

5. OUR TEAM
The team of Sukarya includes volunteers,
professionals, consultants, doctors and the
working staff.

6. Board of Trustees
Ms. Meera Satpathy Chairperson
Ms. Kumkum Bhatia Trustee
Mr. Debabrata Satpathy Trustee

7. The list of volunteers is as follows:
Mr. D. S. Kataria
Mr. Asit Tarkhad
Ms. Pushpa Indernath
Ms. Renu Sood
Ms. Shipra Shukla
Ms. Neelam Kapur
Ms. Santosh Sharma
Ms. Reva Puri
Ms. Varsha Tarkhad
Ms. Rashmi Narayan
Mr. Naresh Wadhawan
Ms. Madhu Kataria

8. Advisory Committee
Mr. C.B. Satpathy, Retd. DGOI police ,Working as advisor corporate strategy and
security
Mr. S.K. Kain, I.P.S., Retd. DG Police, Worked as special commissioner WIP services,
Delhi, Member, PGC Delhi
Dr. Aasha Kapur Mehta, Professor Economics in IIPA, lecturer since 1975,Delhi
University, Reader in IIPA 1997- PRESENT
Dr. Suraj Kumar, National Programme Officer, UNDP, India Country Office, Delhi.

9. The list of Project staff is as follows:
Mr. Shahnawaz Shahid – BCC Coordinator [RCH Project]
Mr. Dharmveer Yadav – Assistant BCC Coordinator [RCH project]
Mr. Satnam Singh – Programme Manager [SHG & Health Initiative Projects]
Ms. Renu Bisht - Coordinator [SHG Project]
Mr. Devendra Sharma – Accounts cum Administration Officer
Mr.Fahad khan - Field Supervisor [RCH Project]
Mr.Pawan Kumar - Field Supervisor [ RCH Project]
Mr. Bunyad Ahmad - Field supervisor [ RCH project ]
Mr. Naresh Kumar - Field supervisor [ RCH Project]
Mr. Mohd. Iqbal - Field Supervisor [ RCH Project]
Ms Geeta Sharma - Field supervisor [SHG Project]

10. Sukarya initiated its activities in 1999 by
conducting various Health Camps, Health Melas
and Free Medical Services including free
distribution of medicines in various slums of
Delhi and Gurgaon with the help of expert team
of doctors. Subsequently Sukarya has been
implementing Income Generation and Life Skills
Projects in Gurgaon and covering JJ slum clusters
in DLF Phase-V and villages of Kanhei,
Wazirabad, Ghata, Tighra and Shamaspur.

15. PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
● GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION
● PERI URBAN INTERVENTION

18. GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION
A. Improving Reach and Access of RCH and FP services with Quality of Care
in partnership with Population Foundation of India (PFI)
B. Men as Partners in Improving the health Status of the Rural
Communities, this project is supported by Concern India Foundation
and Amadeus India.
D. Better health through Community based health centre, this project
is supported by Charities Aid Foundation and Incentive Destination
E. Women empowerment by strengthening self help group and micro
enterprise development, this project is supported by Charities Aid
Foundation and Godfrey Phillips India Limited

19. Improving Reach
and Access of RCH
with Quality of Care

20. This project is a direct implementation project by
Population Foundation Of India with active partnership of
Sukarya. The project is of 3 years period and covers a
population of 50,000 which includes 29 villages of Nuh and
Tauro Block of Mewat District. The goal of the project is to
improve the reproductive and child health and family
planning status in Mewat.

21. List of village for direct Implementation in Mewat
Cluster no. Sl.no. Block Village Population(2001)
1Taoru Bissar Akbarpur 2823
2Taoru Para 867
3Taoru Kalwari 2562
Cluster-1 4Taoru Sheikhpur 292
5Taoru Hasanpur 2746
6Taoru Sabras 1108
Cluster-2 7Taoru Guddhi(Guddha+Nihalgarh) 1089
8Taoru Khark 193
9Taoru Sunthaka 51
10Taoru Beri Nisfi 361
11Taoru Jafarabad 904
Cluster-3 12Taoru Goela 1123
Total population 14119
1NUH Untka 965
2NUH Murad bas 1608
3NUH Baroji 489
4NUH Bai 1728
5NUH Meoli 5569
6NUH Kherla 3161
Cluster-1 7NUH Khori nuh 126
8NUH Salamba 5093
9NUH Salaheri 3848
10NUH Ferozpur Namak 5102
11NUH Cahndni 3026
Cluster-2 12NUH Saidan 702
13NUH Palla 1278
14NUH Sonkh 1018
15NUH Biwan 625
16NUH Tapkan 2429
Cluster-3 17NUH Rehna 2734
Total population 39501
G.Total population 53620

23. Under the community health program, Sukarya is implementing a project
in the most backward and the deprived district of Haryana, Mewat.
Mewat is the land of the Meos, who have their genesis in the Meo tribals,
who are basically an agriculture based society. The area has a distinct
ethnic and socio-cultural tract. Historically, the region has had an
extremely turbulent history and has been subjected to repeated invasions.
The destruction and devastation over the centuries has resulted in
backwardness and gross underdevelopment both in the area and its
people. Sukarya initiated its work in Mewat District from June 2008. Our
project objectives focus on male partnership and participation in
improving the overall health status of rural communities. The thrust of
the project focuses on health education and awareness. Male health
groups will play a key role and will provide platform for health education
to identify health issues and problems and to take actions at the ground
level for seeking health products and services.

27. Major activities till now
• A baseline survey has been conducted by an external organization to understand
the health status prevailing in the area in the month of June, July and August.
• The project reaches to a population of 29000 in 13 villages of Tauro Block of
Mewat District.
• 8 male health groups have been formed and are active.
• 2336 females and 2228 males have visited the camps and have been benefited
• Diagnostic test like X-ray, ECG , blood and urine test has been conducted for
400 people

28. Better health
through
Community based
health centre

29. A number of programs have been initiated by policy makers in India since its
independence to bring about positive change in the health of the citizens of India. A huge
amount of money has been spent to provide quality health services to the rural population
of the country. However, there is still a large proportion of rural population that is
deprived of it. For instance Bandhwari, a village with a population of 5000, which falls on
the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, 18 kms from Gurgaon, has residents who were entirely
dependent on quacks for primary health services. There was no clinic or dispensary in the
village. Even the transport facilities in the village are very poor. Taking these facts into
consideration, Sukarya started a small but important joint venture in the village with the
support of CAF and Incentive Destinations.
The goal of the Project was to increase awareness and improve in the overall health of the
gram panchayat of Bandhwari. In order to achieve the goal in a perfect manner, we worked
with a well planned strategy. A health centre was established for the people of Bandhwari,
with an M.B.B.S doctor and a medical dispenser, active five days in a week. To strengthen
community participation, four community health workers were selected from the village
itself. These health workers played a vital role in bringing needy people to the health centre
and in conducting the follow-up of these patients. To address the issues related to
women’s health, visits by a female specialist doctor were scheduled twice in a month.
Further, IEC material is also being developed to generate awareness related to health and
sanitation.

32. Achievements till now
• More than 3500 household from the village benefited from the services of the
Health Centre like health check ups, provision of quality and effective medicines,
counseling by the doctor and the medicine in charge and time to time follow up
by the project staff.
• 3000 patients have received the treatment during the last two years including 995
women and 746 children. Patients are benefited by the mobile health clinic
services.
• More than 70% of the patients paid the user friendly fees of Rs.10 in the health
centre.
• Counseling and one to one interaction has been conducted with at least 50% of
the patients visiting the clinic. One to one counseling on health has lead to
improvement in the levels of personnel hygiene amongst people in the community.
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33. • Increase in the awareness level regarding good health, nutrition, safe drinking water,
sanitation, immunization and pregnancy care.
• Increased heath seeking behavior in the community. Patients started visiting the
health centre and the government dispensaries for primary health care services.
• The women from the community were particularly satisfied with the visit of 2
lady doctors twice in a month in the health centre. This opportunity gave them
ample scope to discuss their health problems freely with them.

35. Women in the rural areas of Haryana have very little control over their lives.
They have no power to take part in the process of decision making in family
matters. Dependency on male members of the family can be seen in almost
every sphere of their lives. These facts have motivated Sukarya to do something
for rural women in the economic front, as economic self reliance has been
considered a crucial factor in realizing the goal of women empowerment. A
pilot project on women empowerment by strengthening self help groups and
vocational training was an ambitious step toward this direction. Three self help
groups and one vocational training group were formed under this project.
Apart from the saving, two self help groups are involved in income generation
activity of spice and cereal making. The prepared spices and cereals are sold by
putting stalls at various corporate offices, housing societies and at the village
level.
An adolescent group having 15 members underwent six months training of a
beautician course under an experienced and a trained teacher. The Beauty
Parlor course was provided to the adolescent girls with an objective to provide
them with the basic skills of a beautician.

39. Achievements
• Bank linkages have been created for 3 self help groups. 2 self help groups have been
given a revolving fund of Rs.11,000 each
• 44 women directly and almost 220 people indirectly are getting monetary benefits.
• 2 self help groups are running their spice centers successfully in Bandhwari and Waliawas
villages.
•There is an increase of Rs.500 in the monthly income of the 16 women involved in the
spice and cereal making enterprise.
• 15 Adolescent girls have successfully undergone the vocational training on Beauty
Culture.
• The women now have a platform where they can discuss their problem and find a
solution. They get opportunities to recreate themselves as a group.
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40. • There is a significant change in the confidence and mobility of the women who belong to self
help group. Now, they have the capacity to go bank independently. The same women who had
the hesitation to come out of the four walls, now with immense confidence go to the corporate
offices and sell the spices.
• There is an active participation from the community through this empowerment program.
Firstly, the training venue has been a contribution to the project from the villagers. Secondly the
SHG women and their family members were active participants in the program by directly
involving in the program. The rest of the community was actively participating by their
supporting the promotion of the products (spices) by regularly buying them and building more
customers.
• There is an increased awareness among the self help group members about health, nutrition,
personal hygiene, numeric and calculation skills, self confidence and mobility.

42. RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS
A. Reduction in the prevalence of Anaemia – an
important factor of maternal mortality and morbidity
B. Promoting Rural Health by Health Promotional
Camps

45. Under the reproductive child health program, Sukarya is implementing a pilot
project to reduce the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women, lactating
mothers and adolescents. The project aims to reach 30000 people in 10
villages of Gurgaon distict in Haryana. It was initiated in May 2006 and its
projected duration is of 3 years. The project focuses primarily on behavior
change communication to effectively motivate the target group and high risk
people. This is done by promotion of knowledge, by encouraging the
adoption of healthy practices and the provision of needed health products
and services at the community level for anaemia reduction. This project is
supported by the Population Foundation of India, New Delhi.

50. Achievements
• Till July, 2009, the project has reached out to 1674
pregnant women, 2087 lactating and 2979 adolescents.
• The project has educated and brought awareness on anemia,
nutrition, safe motherhood, safe delivery and post natal care to
10000 women and their families.
• 2176 pregnant, lactating and adolescents have undergone
hemoglobin tests by Sahli’s method.
• 2439 pregnant, lactating and adolescents has been provided with
iron folic acid tablets
• 1255 adolescents has been de wormed from the project on a
regular basis

51. • 757 lactating women has been de wormed from the project
• 2047 pregnant and lactating women has been counseled by doctor
and nutritionist during the anemia camps
• 297 pregnant and lactating women have bought and are using iron
pans on a regular basis.
• 605 families are using double fortified salt on a regular basis
• 419 serious anemic cases (pregnant and lactating) has been
referred and treated in the project.
• Liasioning with the health department on a regular basis for better
coordination and utilization of the local level health services like
regular availability of IFA Tablets from the PHC, availing the services
of the government ANM and availing the facility of delivery huts.

52. The end line survey of the project was done by a
third party and Sukarya was successful in reducing
the prevalence of Anaemia by 65%

54. Sukarya has been implementing a project titled “Delivering Health Services by a
Mobile Diagnostic Clinic” in six villages of the Pataudi block from April 2007 to
May, 2008. This was the first intervention where Sukarya has initiated the mobile
clinic services in the rural areas of Haryana. Before the intervention of the
project, meetings were conducted with District commissioner, District
Development and Panchayat officer and Chief Medical Officer to seek their
support and guidance for implementing this project.
It was a conscious decision taken by Sukarya to work in the Pataudi Block. It was
the first mobile clinic intervention with Sukarya’s initiative, without any support
from donors. After visiting the villages in Patuadi Block and conducting a few
group discussions with stakeholders, six villages were short listed for the
implementation of the project. The list of the villages is as follows:
Sl. Name of the village Population
N
o
1 Bapas 1110
2 Titarpur Dhani 317
3 Pahari 2011 Source of data: CHC, Pataudi
4 Nanukhurd 1033
5 Daulatabad 1066
6 Khetiawas 1068

58. Achievements
◄A total of 18 camps were held in which total 651 men and 738
women were benefited from the camps.
◄ Improvement in the health seeking behavior was observed in the
community. The people took their initiative to attend the camps,
complete the course of medicines and follow up with the doctors.
◄ More number of people from the community was aware about the
government services and was benefiting from the service.
◄ More number of women were going for their pre natal check ups
and taking the TT injections.
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59. ◄ More number of women were opting for institutional deliveries
◄ The community became more cognizant about nutritive diet
◄ The elderly people, including both the women and men were
benefited by the inputs by the physiotherapist, who regularly took the
physiotherapy treatments for their joint and arthritis problems

62. PERI URBAN INTERVENTIONS
A. Reaching to the urban slums by Sukarya Sehat Centre
B. Health check-up of students in schools run by other NGOs
supported by Concern India Foundation and the Bird Group
C. Pahal project in Saraswati Kunj Slums Aector 53, DLF Phase-V
Gurgaon supported by Concern India Foundation and the Bird
Group and Hughes Systique
D.Physiotherapy Unit – An alternative Treatment
E. Women's Income Generation Group - Spice Making Project

64. “Better health–better society“ is the one line statement of Sukarya.
So, in order to strengthen its statement, the Sukarya Sehat Centre
was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya’s premises at Sushant lok. Since
then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work and is well
known for its service to poor and needy people.Sukarya Sehat
Centre was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya’s premises at Sushant
lok. Since then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work
and is well known for its service to poor and needy people. A
general practitioner is available 3 days a week between 10:30-1:30.

67. MAJOR ACTIVITIES
A general practitioner regularly attends to children (5 -15 years) from a non-
formal education centre called Sankalp based in slums of DLF phase V,
Gurgaon.
On Saturdays, the doctor of the health centre goes to the Saksham School,
Sushant Lok for a check-up of all the 120 students and teachers of the school.
Sukarya provides health check up facilities and counseling to all the HUMANA
People to People India non-formal schools running in Gurgaon. These schools are
running in Chakarpur, Jharsa, Sector 39, Basai Road. Sukarya provides health
facilities to approximately 700 students of various HUMANA schools.
Sukarya is providing health check up facilities to 300 students in a school
adopted by ICF (India Citizen Forum) in Nathupur.

72. Saraswati Kunj Slums has a total of 640 juggis with a population of 6040. Sukarya is
providing basic health care facilities to Saraswati Kunj slums through a sehat centre.
Counseling sessions are also done on a regular basis. A health card is maintained for each
family.
Activities
Formation of men and women Health Groups one men and one women group in the
village (Swasthya Samuh)
Capacity building of health groups
Development of IEC materials and wall writings
Health education sessions in health groups
Health education sessions in schools
Individual and group counseling sessions
Organizing Health camps and Diagnostic Health camps, and visits of specialist doctors
Networking and linkages with government health institutions like PHC, sub centers,
delivery huts, CHCs, government hospital
Networking and linkages with charitable and private clinics
Strengthening the referring system

73. General Health camps will focus on:
Health Check up by doctor
Free distribution of medicines
Close follow up of patients
Health education sessions
Diagnostic Health Camps will focus on:
Free consultancy and check ups by doctors
Free distribution of medicines by well trained medicine dispensers
Lab test facilities like the blood, stool, urine, ECG and X- Ray has been
provided by the mobile clinic for the community.
Free haemoglobin check up for all women in the camp was held to
understand the anemia status in the villages
Health education to women, school children and men on nutrition, personal
health and hygiene, community sanitation, safe deliveries and immunization
by talk shows, documentary films, leaflets and pamphlet distribution in the
community was held.
Referring serious patients to government hospital
Counseling sessions of serious patients were conducted on a regular basis.

78. The Physiotherapy Unit was started on 15 August, 2005, and operates in the premises of
Sukarya. The unit caters to 200 patients from rural and urban areas per month on average. It
has been functioning successfully for the last three years. The unit is open five days a week
from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm. We have a well motivated team that consists of development
professionals, a physiotherapist, volunteers and a support staff who execute their tasks in an
efficient manner. We serve almost 200 patients in a month. We use our organization’s vehicle to
bring marginalized people into the physiotherapy center. Our chief beneficiaries are the people
residing in the slums of Gurgaon. Neemtala, Nalapur, Saraswati Kunj, Sector-56 and Phase –V.
Our main focus is on the women who remain work continuously through the day domestic
help, at farms as laborers and at home. They suffer from various problems such as back pain,
cervical and body pain. The ignorance of these problems may lead to serious ailments such as
a disc prolapse or spondylolisthesis. In the last two years, 2630 patients has been benefited
by the physiotherapy treatment.

81. Started in 2004, this is a modest step towards assisting women of marginalized
communities in generating additional income for meeting their household needs, by
utilizing their skills in the production of unadulterated spices, pickles and chutney.
Sukarya provides women with space, capital investment, and other required
resources for grinding fresh spices (including Besan, Dhania, Haldi, Chilly, Jira,
Curry powder, Garam Masala) and packaging them. They are given wages for their
labour. The money received from the sale of the spices is used to keep the Project
running. The Project has benefited several women of Wazirabad and Kanhai
villages. Apart from production of spices we have also expanded our range of
products to include Papad, Achar and Chutney so that we can involve and reach
more families through this work.

113. Sukarya has been supported by the following
corporates:
● Godfrey Phillips India Ltd
● Incentive Destinations, Gurgaon
● Amadeus, Delhi
● Bird Group, Delhi
● RDM, Gurgaon
● BPCL Mumbai
● Gujrat Ambuja Cement Ltd., Delhi
● Maruti Suzuki India Limited
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114. ● HCL Infosy6stems Limited
● Hughes Systique, Gurgaon
● Maruti Udyog Limited, Gurgaon
● TATA, Mumbai
● IDFC Management Company, Mumbai
● Kusmunda Coal Transport Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

116. Sukarya has been supported by the following funding
organizations:
● Population Foundation of India
● Charities Aid Foundation, India
● Concern India Foundation
● Give India

118. Sukarya has worked with the following organizations:
● National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development
(NIPCCD) New Delhi
● Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of Government of India
● Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi
● South Delhi Medical Association
● Delhi Psychiatric Society
● Escorts Heart Care Centre
● Sir Ganga Ram Heart Care Centre
● Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Medical Sciences Centre for Diabeted and Life
Style Diseases
● Chetana, New Delhi,
● Prayatana, NGO New Delhi