India Volunteering Programs

with Helping Hands Society NGO

Namaste - We need your help

Get involved with our mission by joining Child & Women Nutrition & Development Volunteer Program

Helping Hands programs focus on the assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition & menstrual health programs in rural villages surrounding Udaipur, India.

Our aim is for girls, boys & their caregivers, including pregnant and breastfeeding women, to have access to safe, adequate and appropriate health services, nutrition, education and food.

Our main focuses and current projects include:  

• Menstrual Health pilot study 

• Child Nutrition & Protection care

Child Nutrition & Protection

• We aim to address and work alongside of Child Care Centres called Anganwadi's in the villages around Udaipur.

• We work to assess the children's daily nutritional intake and evaluate deficiencies that may be present. Evaluation helps us understand implementations we can put into place in the villages.

• Conducting health camps for Mothers and Children based around severe nutrient deficiencies and chronic health issues. These health camps are kindly sponsored by Bioceuticals - Australian supplement company.

• Building connection with the local villages and community to build child protection committees to address various issues including children attending school, child marriage and violence at home.

Menstrual Health

• It is difficult to understand that many girls and women in India still have never seen or heard of a menstrual pad in their life. Menstrual health is a taboo topic in India where education is very lacking. Even if a woman wants to use a pad she may not have access to affordable pads or is too shy to buy one.

• The impact of having a period in India is huge which can cause illness, missing school or work and lack of self confidence.

  Our aims are to:

• Raise awareness around this taboo topic in India - the more that it gets spoken about, the more it will be normalised rather than it holding the stigma of seeming impure

• Provide educational workshops for girls and women around menstrual hygiene to prevent spreading of infections and illness

• Education around the use & disposal of pads and menstrual hygiene products

• Donations of reusable menstrual pads to the village women Empowerment - Workshops to empower women to sew their own menstrual pads