Our Work

Health

Mobile Medical Unit (MMU)

As a part of our community health program, trust has launched its flagship “Mobile Medical Unit (MMU)” project across 3 rural locations in Maharashtra. We reach around 60 villages and more than 50 thousand beneficiaries every year. Many of the beneficiaries are from marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society. Through these MMUs trust provide promotive, preventive and primary healthcare services to beneficiaries. Services like doctor’ consultation, medicines and health and hygiene counseling to needy people is provided at community level. This is a donor supported free medical service project for the beneficiaries.

Health Camps in Urban Slums

Trust conducts regular health camps in urban slums of Mumbai. Every health camp is done through team of doctors, nurses, para-medical staffs and community mobilizers to provide medical check-ups, medicines, referral services, and health and hygiene sessions. Most of the vulnerable among slum dwellers like geriatric age group population immensely benefits out of these camps. Identifying non-communicable diseases and symptoms like High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cataract, lump or tumor in the body helps in initiating supportive treatment and referral to nearest tertiary care centers through these camps.

Affordable Health Clinics

Trust aims to start model “Affordable Health Clinics” in urban slums for the benefit of needy community to access affordable primary health care and ensure minimum burden is placed on secondary and tertiary healthcare facilities of the country. These clinics shall provide doctor’ consultation, medicines, diagnostic facilities and generic pharmacy services under one roof. This shall reduce health expenses of the community and will minimize out of pocket expenses on secondary and tertiary care when the primary care is cost prohibitive for majority of the marginalized community.

Environment

Plastic Waste Management Project: Awareness, Segregation, Collection & Recycling in Association with DOW.

There are more than 7 billion of us, and we’re producing waste every day. A staggering half of that waste isn’t collected, treated, or safely disposed of, and it’s causing a global waste crisis. Now is the time to recognize waste management is vital for global sustainable development. Sunanda Foundation envisions achieving the Global Goals along with Human Development Index as waste management is a powerful driver of sustainable development.

Sunanda foundation have taken an initiative to prevent plastic pollution and marine life. We are working with the societies and schools of Kurla,Ghatkopar and Vikhroli areas of Mumbai. The total amount of plastic collected & recycled is 2100kg. We aim to spread plastic waste management, its awareness institutionally in schools and societies bringing attitudinal and behavioral change in the community, contributing to the environment.

Covid Intervention

With the support of Doctors for You, Sunanda Foundation distributed 150 Sanitation Kit to 150 families provided by UNICEF during Covid19. These sanitation kit included sanitizer, a medium size bottle of floor cleaner for maintaining basic hygiene at home. Sunanda Foundation with the support of GOONJ & Angel Xpress foundation immediately and with their support, we were able to provide Dry Ration of 26kg to 200 families. The Dry Ration includes oil, spices, pulses etc.

Research

Sunanda foundation undertook a research project from Empower in the tribal belt of Karjat and spreaded awareness of Malnutrition, Importance of Adolescent age and Life skills, amongst 1000 adolescent tribal girls and 200 of them were identified as trainers for the Adolescent Project.

Education

Reading Rooms

Trust operates “Reading Room” facility for the benefit of children from urban slums. School students from 5th to 10th standards who are enrolled with local municipal schools are the primary beneficiaries of this project. These students reside in urban slums and for the want of hand-holding in teaching they dropout their studies before entering secondary schooling. Our teachers help them address their academic queries and also instill in them confidence to pass their exams with good grades. Along with providing conducing environment for studies, our teachers facilitate better learning outcomes through creation of joyful learning environment. Every year more than 200 students are benefiting out of this project.

Health, Hygiene and Sanitation Program in Schools

Trust aims to start “Health, Hygiene and Sanitation Program” in urban schools, especially in municipal and government schools to cultivate culture of personal hygiene and sanitation among school students. Through Behavior Change Communication (BCC) activities trust aims to reach more than 1 lakh school students on several issues like Nutrition, Hand Hygiene, Menstrual Hygiene, Sanitation at home level and at community level, etc. This program will be implemented in alignment with objects of Poshan Abhiyan and Swachh Bharat Mission of government of India.