Stories of the health frontline, Bihar
Posted on: April 9, 2014
By: Wasim Ahmed
Categories: Innovation, People |Tags: Bihar, Community Health Workers, Complementary feeding, Family planning, IPC training, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
The World Health Worker Week (April 7 – 11) aims to support, appreciate and raise awareness about the important role of Community Health Workers (CHW). I want to celebrate this week by sharing my stories about some of the CHWs we have been working with in Bihar – their challenges, their triumphs, their highs and […]
Read moreThe key to my baby’s health
Posted on: February 26, 2014
By: Md. Nasiruddin Ansari
Category: People |Tags: Complementary feeding, mHealth, Mobile Kunji
Our routine Health Sub-centre¹ meeting with the community health workers at Khagaria, a district in Bihar, was all but over when Rangina Devi, an Anganwadi Worker², walked up with a request. It was not the usual demand for allocation of more free minutes on Mobile Kunji that we hear at every meeting with community health […]
Read moreStories of failure. And success.
Posted on: August 20, 2013
By: Siddhartha Swarup
Categories: Innovation, Research, Strategy |Tags: Ek Teen Do, Khirki Mehendiwali, Kilkari, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
How did the education system get it so wrong? Remember those multiple-choice tests where we had to pick one right answer? From the day we join school we are taught that there is always one right answer to a problem. Fortunately, life teaches us otherwise. Get married or not? One child or two? Job or […]
Read moreA lifeline for mothers in Bihar
Posted on: August 12, 2013
By: Sara Chamberlain
Category: Innovation |Tags: Bihar, Kilkari, mHealth
Ram Lakhan frequently leaves his brothers, sisters and wife behind to work as a labourer in Mumbai. He uses his dual SIM Chinese mobile phone to talk to the folks back home: “I’ve got an Airtel SIM for Bihar and an Idea SIM for Mumbai – the Airtel network is better in Bihar, but Idea […]
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