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Swabhiman organized a meeting for its stakeholders

Swabhiman endeavors to empower the underprivileged women and adolescents in the community and inculcate a health seeking behavior amongst them by creating awareness on issues concerning Reproductive Health and safe motherhood practices. The project is an initiative of Smile Foundation and is supported by the Population Foundation of India.

With the objective of enhancing the involvement of stakeholders in the project,
Smile foundation under its Swabhiman project held meetings from 11th to 18th Dec’07 with the stakeholders of the project in select urban slum pockets of East and South Delhi. The Aaganwadi Supervisors, the Auxiliary Nurse Maids, the Balwadi teachers, the Pradhan of the community, the local Doctors, community leaders and various other influential people of the vicinity participated in the meetings. Various documents and publications of the project were shared with the stakeholders of the project to ensure their wholehearted involvement in the implementation phase of the project. The meetings ended on a happy note with stakeholders committing cent per cent participation in the project.   Smile Foundation is also networking with other civil society partners working in the areas, link up and utilize their expertise or other services like non formal education, nutrition etc. to support the project.