KCS is organizing a health check-up and awareness camp in Panjgrain

Excelsior correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: Kalamkari Center Society (KCS) under its community project ‘Anant Gram’ organized another health and wellness initiative in the form of health check-up and awareness camp at the village center in Panjgrain under the expertise of Dr. Vinay Bhagat (MBBS, MS Surgery, FMAS).
The camp was attended by local village elders, women and children along with Purnima Chaudhri, Gagan, Subash and other team members of the association. Free medical advice, health awareness, interaction on personal hygiene and distribution of medicines and vitamins along with refreshments were sponsored by the Society.
The Society under its health and wellness initiative has been working to improve the health and nutrition issues among the children and women of the community by connecting pregnant and lactating members of the villages with the health experts for improved pre and postnatal care and by organizing health wellness camps. It also proposes to conduct workshops on preventive health care for women.
KCS has put together workshops on personal hygiene, safe drinking water and waste management. It has introduced innovative training tools, such as plays, puppet shows and audiovisual presentations, to reach vulnerable, often uneducated women and children.
Founded in 1983 by Purnima and Umang Sagar Chaudhri, the KCS continues to improve social impact among rural communities. The Society started its Anant Gram outreach project in the year 2021. Natasha Chaudhri and the team have been working on entrepreneurial training for women, besides setting up an effective learning center and a mobile library for the young village children.
The Anant Gram Project at Village Panjgrain is a pilot initiative and it is Purnima Chaudhri’s vision to continue the initiative at regular intervals and scale it up to other villages on social issues.