


The area we are working in is a complete tribal belt. While doing our work we found that due to
the remote locations and segmented geographic locations, the health and hygiene facilities and
very poor and many children died due to malnutrition. No clothes to wear, no healthy food, and
every second child is malnourished or underweight.
The area of implementation of our project is a mostly a tribal belt e. Trimbakeshwar and adjacent
villages of Palghar district, Harsul, Peth, Surgana etc. Approximately 3.5 lakh females population
residing in this area , out of which we found 8-10 thousand pregnant women every year. Early
marriage, lack of awareness about health, poor health conditions cause severe anemia in them.
Once a woman gets anemic in pregnancy period, shesuffered with it for life time, which also effects
on mental health also. Due to anemic conditions infant mortality is always high, and even if the
child survives, it also born malnourished with low weight and weak health conditions. A poor
prenatal nutrition contributes to health risks.