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Public Health
Resource Society
(PHRS)
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Skill-teaching inside and outside the classes
Founded by a group of development
professionals in 2008
Public Health Resource Society is
the core group that has initiated the
Public Health Resource Network
– an organization that constantly
reinforces efforts to promote public
health, equitable distribution of
health services, and building capacity
of frontline health workers. It works
for the underserved and marginalized
people of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh
and Odisha. With the belief that
appropriate, and responsive public
health services are imperative
for the health and well-being of
the population, it has designed
programmes like the ‘Mental Health
Literacy Project’ in collaboration with
De Montfort University, Leicester,
and ‘Rural Creche Initiative’ with the
aim of reducing malnutrition in the
state of Odisha.
sneha’s family
couldn’t understand why
she wanted to study aſter Class 8. Besides,
they couldn’t afford it, and the school was far.
Vinita loved school, but one day she stopped
coming. Her friends told her teacher that she
was going to be married so had dropped out.
Siddhu was born differently abled, and his
family had no idea how to improve or manage
his condition. Aſter the intervention of field
co-ordinators from Public Health Resource
Society (PHRS), who spent many hours talking
to and convincing their families, Sneha is
now back at school with a scholarship from
the Savitribai Phule Kishori Samriddhi Yojna;
Vinita’s marriage has been postponed till she
turns 18; and Siddhu is going to a community
crèche where his diet, growth and development
are being monitored. He is now crawling and
playing with the other children.
PHRS focuses on strengthening public
health systems and building the capacity of
frontline health workers through training and
designing curricula for state governments to
use. ‘We facilitate community mobilisation
on health and nutrition and the integration
of communities into health planning to make
it more equitable and effective… e State