The Heaven opens a bit. 'And' it rains since last night. pouring rain, tropical. It 's the right time to visit the slums of Sanjay Colony, where Save the Children has a maternal health project - child.
would also be time for lunch and Indian colleagues do not want me to leave the office without first giving me refreshment. Because there is no time to order some food to take away, each one of them pulls out his homemade lunch and within minutes, I improvised a delicious local meal.
After lunch start for Sanjay Colony, in the midst of the chaotic traffic of Delhi but meek. Upon arrival I Rachna, project officer of the local organization, which leads me to see the mobile clinic, a van equipped with a corner for visits discreetly protected by a curtain, a machine-ray, a small table and chairs and a window from which you can distribute (for free) medicines. A real clinic covering various communities as Sanjay, illegal settlements, but much well organized, with furrowed alleys concrete raceways of putrid water and colored houses with blue and yellow. Here are the usual problems, associated with very poor hygiene, malnutrition, poverty. I speak a little 'with the medical clinic, a middle-aged woman who speaks perfect English and told me that the problems of women and children, "but" says "if you care about people too."
Yeah, man. While women, coordinated by a second doctor (woman) play group sessions to talk about family planning, they play cards. The women are tired of getting pregnant and end up having eight children each. They talk about contraception, they want to understand how the pill and the condom. They talk about abortion and sterilization. Most of them have or have had sexually transmitted diseases, transmitted by the same husbands.
"My husband is a truck driver, he sleeps outside most nights. Then when he comes home ..." their vision is lowered, the system sari over her head glistening with oil and sandalwood paste. Then when he goes home to make love with her, after having done so with other women on lonely nights away from home. So these diseases, assisted by the wet weather and lack of sanitation and hygiene (here at the Colony, there are two toilets for 10,000 people. They all use the channel or surrounding areas) proliferate.
What does Save the Children? In this case leads to a service where there is not even the shadow services. A practice that goes into the community, a staff that follows the women and talk to them. Because information is power, even personal choice.
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