Village Ways Charitable Trust
The trust enables the last mile rural communities of the remote mountainous areas of Uttarakhand to access preventive and primary health care.
The Trust
Leading with a vast network of trained grassroots level cadre, the Trust enables the last mile rural communities of the remote mountainous areas of Uttarakhand to access preventive and primary health care.
What the trust Does
Over the years, the Trust has been working to empower families, especially women, located in remote rural areas with health care knowledge to encourage adoption of healthy behaviour and reduce risk of diseases and malnutrition and thus bring change in health status at the level of individual and community. To ensure comprehensive primary health care, the Trust also enables primary health services in these remote areas through sophisticated and sustainable telemedicine solutions.
Where the trust works
Project areas include remote mountainous areas of Saryu and Pindar Valleys in Bageshwar
district and Ramgarh and Dhari blocks in Nainital district. The trust also works in Narsan and Khanpur blocks of Haridwar district.
why the trust choose these sites
The remote mountainous rural areas of Uttarakhand, having a scattered population, lack proper access to doctors and quality primary healthcare. Lack of connectivity with towns due to difficult terrain, lack of road and limited access to public transport has inhibited exposure to preventive healthcare knowledge and health services. In the light of such grave constraints, VWCT seeks to enable comprehensive primary health care services in the heart of such last mile communities.
OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS
Delivering preventive health awareness intervention ‘Tulsi Network’-
Partnering with BSR (Business Social Responsibility) to work relentlessly on women’s health issues, Tulsi Network is based on mobilizing women from within the communities to act volunteers and change agents for their 20
neighbourhood households. The volunteers are trained on how to educate their peers and their
families to bring sustained behaviour change and lead them towards improved health outcomes, good hygiene, nutrition, menstrual health, sanitation and importance of seeking timely healthcare for disease prevention.
Improving access to Primary Health Care via Tulsi Tele-health care
Units (fixed and mobile units)
that are set up right at the grassroots level. They are run by trained health assistants, recruited from within the community, to connect patients using a tab-based software to the backend doctor for tele-consultations.
Mobile units are set up as community health desks (CHDs)
At vantage points in the village as per
the prefixed schedule to connect patients living in remote rural mountainous areas with the doctors at the backend through a web-based communication system.
For example, back during the Covid years we supported the government’s vaccination drive, providing home based care for Covid patients in home isolation as well as providing concentrators, oxygen cylinders, and PPE kits at health facilities.
TRUST MISSION
The trust mission is to bring comprehensive and sustainable primary healthcare to the doorstep of the last mile marginalized communities of mountainous state of Uttarakhand to ensure improved health status. In order to realize this mission, our flagship programs seek to