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When you live in a mud hut in a tribal village, over 20 km from the nearest road, you need a special kind of health support to stay healthy. there are no toilets, and flash floods wash bacteria from their waste into open, muddy wells. Sanitation is difficult in such remote locations, and parasites thrive on the skin, whilst worms reek havoc on your body. Malnutrition is common as families are too poor to afford foods rich in iron and calcium, and rotten teeth, ulceration of the eye and death in childbirth are the result.
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If you have a stroke or childbirth goes wrong, you'll have to walk 6-20 km and sit on a bus for 1 and a half hours to get to the nearest hospital. Make that 3 hours if you need more than first aid. When you get to the hospital, you may need to pay more than you can possibly pay.

Seb's Projects India is working with the most remote communities to develop a system run by the villagers, managed by the tribal community, that makes prevention, treatment and cure or these common problems a possibility through access to clean water, medical care and nutrition support for women and children.
More often than not, effective healthcare in a tribal community is not about having doctors on call. It is about having a constant support- someone who can give you first aid, and walk with you every step of the way to hospital, and through the steps you need to take to get care. It is not the distance that prevents these villagers from accessing care, but fear, illiteracy and lack of ability to communicate with hospital staff.

Our Seb's field staff monitor the health of the people in their community, run regular community health education events, refer patients to hospital when they need it, work with hospital staff to ensure that they access financial support where needed, and are there when they come home to ensure that treatments are properly administered.
case work
Balwadis
The most important days of our lives are the first 1000 days after we are born. That's why antenatal and postnatal care are so important, as well as our infancy. Many children in tribal communities do not have access to sufficient nutrition or healthcare, and a bad start in life can mean serious developmental impairment.
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Together in 2016, we are growing our Balwadi project - creating mother and child care centres in all 7 of our target areas where we provide nutritional balls to infants before school, monitor pregnants and nursing mothers, provide a stimulating early learning environment for the little ones, and support families to give their children the best start possible.
There are times when only a doctor will do. Sometimes it's a seizure patient who can't walk all the way to the road to go for treatment at hospital because the fits are so bad, or an outbreak of scabies amongst the school children in a remote village. Or a patient who developed gangrene after such bad burns that he had to have both legs amputated but needs regular check ups to monitor his health. Or a cerebral palsy affected child who needs special exercises to ever have a hope of walking.

For all these things, doctors from a local hospital volunteer trek out to the most remote villages to provide treatment and referrals for people in need.
outreach camps
community nursing
clean drinking water
Water is the greatest killer in the world, yet we can't survive without it! Unclean water sources can lead to dysentary, typhoid, cholera and much more.
Tribal communities in the Jawadhi Hills usually rely on one community well, which can be as far as 2 Km from the village as the area has been badly affected by drought for years. Most of these wells are uncovered, and the water becomes filthy with animal faeces and dirt from the area around.
Seb's works in these tribal villages to test water, protect the wells from contamination with walls and covers, install pumps to pump water to the villages and provide taps in the village so that washing, bathing and defection happens far from the water source.
One of the main reasons why tribal communities have such poor health indicators in India is because most of them live in reserved forest areas.
This means that with no roads, health centres or transport, government health providers cannot reach them.
One of the best thigns we can do for these communities is to equip them wiith the skills and knowledge they need to
Seb's selects and supports young people from the communities to train as Community Nurse Assistants, who will then return to their communities to ensure that the future is brighter.
One of the most important things to ensure a child's health is immunization against major diseases.
The Seb's team works together with the Tamil Nadu government to ensure immunization teams visit our target areas at least once every four months.
We also work as the government's implementing partner to ensure that all new government initiatives, such as deworming of schoolchildren, reaches the villages we work in.
Through our schools and balwadis, we keep a record of all the children under our care so that not a single child is missed out.
immunizations
