Right To Livelihood

This project is specially designed for the children up to 13 years of age living in the slums & rural areas. To screen environmental health diseases understand behavioral patterns, peer pressure, advise treatment & provide specially designed meaningful engagement programs. Supports: NMNH, Govt. of Delhi, Govt. of Uttarakhand, Min. of Environment & Forest, SNSF, DUSIB, St. Stephens Hospital, Delhi University, Schools Beneficiaries: Delhi: Kirari Suleman Nagar (Unauthorized Colony), Seelampur (Slum), Jal Vihar (Slum), Hauz Khas (Pahari Basti), Sakur Basti with Salam Balak Trust, Motibagh (Slum)

Khushi Centre for Rehabilitation and Research organized Environmental Health Week which commenced from 5th June the World Environment Day. The activity was planned to create awareness on environmental health issues, provide a platform to exchange ideas to discuss emerging critical issues, involve the common man/woman in conservation of environmental health concerns and create a healthy environment for all. The week long event was organised in association with Dainik Jagran as media partner, Radio Mirchi as radio partner, ICA, Pusa Road as logistic, American Library as knowledge partner, Ministry Of Environment And Forest and ICFE. The event was kick started with tying of green ribbons to support the cause and witnessed active participation from people of children, youth and elderly as the activities planned were such that they entailed participation from all age groups. This active participation not only contributed in making this initiative a huge success but also increased the impact of this initiative in multitudes.

Khushi Centre for Rehabilitation and Research (KCRR) recognizing the growing global environmental concerns over issues like ozone layer depletion, global warming, loss of diversity, economic security, social development and environment sustainability organized the 1st National Summit on Environmental Health: “INDIA 2010: Where do we go from here?". The link between the health and the environment we live in, from the water we drink, to the air we breathe, to the food we grow and eat has become a health concern globally. Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting the behaviour. The assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health is very important for the developing country like us. We need to have a target towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments. Preventing environmental risk could save as many as lives of four million children a year, in developing countries. Proper environmental management is the key to avoiding a quarter of all preventable illnesses which are directly caused by environmental factors. Hence, the objective of the summit was to create awareness on environmental health issues and to provide a platform to exchange ideas and discuss emerging critical issues. Highlights of the summit were Expert Talk, Exhibition, Youth Parliament, Poster/ Paper Presentation and Pledge.