Deepshikha Mahila Bal Utthan Samiti

Deepshikha adopts a multidimensional methodology concentrating on Integrated Community Development to build awareness. They have been running the Kiran Nursing Home for the past 30 years. They also run a De-addiction cum Rehabilitation Centre with assistance from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment at Kiran Nursing Home. Their Reproductive and Child Health Centre in Jaipur, which was sanctioned in 2008 has been providing free medical services and aids to those in need. The Centre is assisted by the National Rural Health Mission. From FY15, the organisation has started a computer programme for training youth in basic computers and making them employable.

Established with the idea of serving society, Deepshika’s core focus areas are:

• Medical health, health awareness, family welfare, reproductive & child health, immunization, school health, health education, prevention of AIDS, cancer, hepatitis, de-addiction, blindness, malnutrition, and anaemia.
• Organising medical mobile camps, orientation camps, vocational training camps, women empowerment camps, services for the disabled, environment protection campaigns, safe motherhood, water & sanitation, rural development, human & women rights, ‘Nasha Mukti’ camps, polio correction surgery camps, artisan/cluster development, old age welfare, human resource activities, youth & tribal welfare.
• Mobilization and promotion of Self-Help Groups (SHGs), empowerment of girl child, prevention of infanticide and foeticide, upliftment of rural youth, and of the poor living in urban slum and rural areas.
• Trainings to youth in job-oriented courses like computer, accounting, etc. and to women in tailoring and embroidery.