TRIBAL HEALTH

Tribal Health Initiative views health as a state of mental, social and economic well-being and not the mere absence of disease. Our health interventions go beyond merely providing curative and preventive medical services. We see our farming and craft initiatives as being directly connected to maintaining health and well-being in the communities we serve. Gram Swaraj is the ultimate aim and we are doing that too through active interventions at the Panchayat level... At Tribal Health Initiative we believe that every community has the resources needed to help themselves. That is why over 90% of our team is drawn from the Malavasi, Lambadi and Dalit communities that live in our field area... We have been training tribal girls as Health Worker Nurses and mid aged tribal women as Health Auxiliaries. They form the main stay of our health work.