Adolescent Health Education sessions were conducted in Hadapsar community this month with adolescent girls. The objectives of this session were to
- Create awareness about health-related issues
- Control and prevent health-related problems
- Promote positive health and responsible behavior skills
- Support and help to develop an environment conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
The subject for this month’s session was the physical, mental and emotional changes that take place in adolescence. Our goal is for teens to understand the inner events that happen at this stage in life and learn how to regard and interact with them in a healthy fashion.
Under the Health Awareness Programs, we also had a Rubella Vaccination Drive for teen girls between 12 and 18 in the community . This vaccine is needed to prevent infection during pregnancy, when it can cause serious problems to the unborn baby. For this activity, we had a tie-up with Serum Institute, who provided Rubella vaccines at low cost. In this session we covered 46 teen girls.
