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Children's Collectives - Children Health Co-operative
Child Health Co-operative is a very unique initiative and forms one of
the main components of the Butterflies Health programme. Over the years
Butterflies mobile health care project has grown into a child health
co-operative, owned by the children. Child health cooperative is a forum of
street children where they discuss their health problems and chalk out
strategies to combat health problems. Each child pays Rs.5 towards monthly
memberships. The proceeds are used to provide medical care to the children.
The cooperative has regular workshops where children deliberate on health
issues and gain knowledge regarding diseases. This has instilled a sense of
collective ownership and participation amongst them. The cooperative is open
to any street and working children.
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Aims of the Child Health Cooperative |
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● To protect children from
illness, especially preventable ones
● To encourage children to remain
healthy by giving them information and skills to make informed choices and decisions
● To develop a feeling of
collective responsibility among all children towards health
● To form support groups of
children to reduce risk behavior
● To make provisions for treatment
of children who are ill
● To make children aware of the
precautions that they can take against diseases while they are on the streets
● To make them aware about the
precautions against sexually transmitted diseases
● To organize immunization
programmes so as to safeguard children from certain diseases
● To protect children from
substance abuse
● To train a cadre of Child Health
Educators
● To access government health care
facilities and ensure that poor children are given medical care |
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Child Health Cooperative Rules |
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● The membership fee for the
health cooperative would be Rs. 5 per month
● Children will be motivated to
regularly pay their membership fees
● 2 children in each contact point would be trained as child health educators so that they could help children who are ill at their contact point
● A member of the health
cooperative should regularly take part in all the activities of the
health cooperative
● Membership fees should be
collected regularly
● Other children should be
motivated to become members of the health cooperative
● Workshops on health issues
should be organized regularly
● Each contact point shall have a
unit of the cooperative |
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