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Mother NGO Project
Rajasthan Mahila Kalyan Mandal, (RMKM) has been selected Mother
NGO for Ajmer district by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare,
Govt. of India (GoI) in RCH - II.
Service delivery areas - MNGO Scheme:
- Maternal and Child Health. - Family
Planning Services.
- Adolescent Reproductive Health. -
Prevention and Management of RTI.
HIV/AIDS Awareness Programmes
Everybody is vulnerable to HIV today. Treatment is still not
easily accessible to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
RMKM is working on the HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme since 1991. In
Ajmer District, RMKM is the leader that has started AIDS awareness
programme. The first awareness exhibition of India on AIDS was
conducted by RMKM in Pushkar fair, 1992.
In its quest against HIV/AIDS, RMKM has worked on two major
projects. RMKM, as partner NGO, has implemented 2 sub projects
underIndia Canada Collaborative HIV/AIDS project. These projects
are - Sehat Sabki & Saksham in Ajmer & Jaipur district. The
commitment of RMKM is to understand the rural sex-work environment
and developing & replicating a HIV/AIDS prevention & care &
support programme model.
RMKM is still working on HIV/AIDS awareness with Traditional Sex
Workers in Ajmer & Jaipur district by own resources.
It is also worked on a research project with support from MAMTA
The guiding objective of the initiative was to develop viable
framework on information and strategies for communication on
HIV/AIDS for diverse sections of young people. The focus here was
on providing them with appropriate information and life skills for
the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
General Health
Health & Nutrition RMKM is also working intensively on Health
& Nutrition of women and children through awareness camps &
training to Anganwari workers & rural women on importance of low
cost and highly nutritional diet.
Safe Motherhood : To curb the mortality rate during and after
pregnancy and to bring awareness about general Health in women,
RMKM is also conducting awareness camps on Safe Motherhood. Women
are advised for regular medical check-up during pregnancy as
directed by doctor and to deliver their child only by doctor or
nurse or a trained midwife.
Immunizations Programme
To eradicate polio from community and to build healthy nation by
healthy child, organization supports Govt.. Immunizations
Programme and has arranged camps surrounding villages.
Families and Community
SGPP - Sponsor A Grand Parent Programme : Since 1997, through this
project (Adopt-A-Granny Earlier), RMKM is serving old, despaired
and neglected grannies. This is a project of HelpAge
International, U.K.which supports old aged people all over globe.
In India, HelpAge International and HelpAge India are running more
than 3000 projects. SGPP is one of those project. In this project,
very poor and leftout grannies are sponsored by young people in
U.K.
Being grannies' care taker, RMKM take care of their daily
requirements like food, grains, clothing, cash requirements,
medicines & health care, house repair and so on. At present RMKM
is supporting 65 vulnerable older people of urban, sub-urban and
rural areas of Ajmer district.
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