The project areas – VP Singh Camp and Nardaan Basti are slums consist of poorly built tenements, mostly of temporary nature, crowded together usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions. The inhabitants of these slums majorly belong to underprivileged communities largely migrated from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. The population in VP Singh camp is more of settled nature but the population in Nardaan Basti migrates more often in search of livelihoods.

CRY through its partner NGO Matri Sudha works for delivering proper health, nutrition and hygiene facilities for women and children in these slums to ensure their respective rights are protected. Simultaneously, we work with the whole community to raise demands for better services and to enable a community oriented holistic approach to ensure long-term sustainability of services. We also facilitate various departments to identify the gaps in the community and mitigate those. Due to partner’s efforts, the number of pregnant women accessing the Antenatal Care (ANC) services and children accessing anganwadi and health facilities have significantly increased over the years. There has been a good improvement in percentage of institutional deliveries, immunization among children and pregnant women, malnutrition status of children, sanitation and hygiene facilities in the community, etc.

• Training of Pregnant Women, Lactating Mothers & Mothers of Children aged 1 year above. Identification and registration of pregnant women within 12 weeks of pregnancy in Anganwadis Centres for Ante Natal Care registration and tracking high-risk pregnancies.
• Poper Ante Natal Care services have been initiated in the community
• Awareness generation through home visits on Post Natal care which includes safe deliveries as well as stay in hospital under observation for 48 hours after delivery and ensure they receive benefits under JSY.
• Mapping of SAM and MAM children in the V.P Singh Camp through regular growth monitoring using WHO growth monitoring tools.
• Formation of ICDS group and conducting a monthly meeting with the group for effective implementation of services, creating a support mechanism for the AWC
• 50 adolescence girl's from the project intervention area developed life skills through Life Skill Sessions module provided by CRY