Community Organizer

Description:

A secular, Mumbai-based non-profit organisation, SNEHA believes that investing in women's health is essential to

building viable urban communities. SNEHA is 450+ person strong, innovative and progressive organizationthat

worksonhealthandnutritioninurbanslumpocketswithwomenand their families. SNEHAfollows the life-cycle

approach to health and nutrition, byintervening at critical junctures (adolescence,preconception,conception,

pregnancy, postnatal,infancy andtoddlerhood, family planning) to ensure improved health and nutritional outcomes

for women and children living in some of Mumbai’s most vulnerable and deprived slums and in the Mumbai

Metropolitan Region (MMR) as well.

SNEHArecognises that, inorder to improve urban health standards, our initiatives must target both care seekers and care

providers. We work with communities residing in informal settlements to empower women and communities to be

catalysts of change in their ownright and collaborate with existing public health systems and health care providers to

create sustainable improvements in urban health. We have currently11 programs runningacross SNEHAwhichare

MaternalandNewbornHealth(MNH),Child HealthandNutrition(CHN)–Aahar,Empowerment,HealthandSexuality

ofAdolescents(EHSAS), Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) (e) SNEHA Centre, SNEHA Shakti,

Healthy Cities Project (HCP), Palliative Care, Livelihood Generation, Central Operations, Research and IM.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

SNEHA’s Program on Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) aims to develop high‐ impact

strategies for primary prevention, ensure survivors’ access to protection and justice, empower women to claim their

rights, mobilise communities around ‘zero tolerance for violence’, and respond to the needs and rights of excluded and

neglected groups. The Program prioritizes enhanced co-ordination of the state response to crimes against women

through a convergence approach that works with government and public system store in force their roles in

assuring basic social,civil and economic security.