Infrastructure initiatives within the center aims at making the Anganwadi’s child friendly and also convert them into a conducive learning environment for the children attending the centers. The implementation comprises of identifying the worn out spaces, renovating and repairing them and placing educational wall murals for better understanding of alphabets, numbers, colours and shapes.
This focuses on providing educational materials and daily teaching activities like shape stackers, lacing plates, hand puppets, puzzle on body parts and many more. The team also develops flipcharts that will act as teaching aids for the facilitators.
Children at home are taken care of by the caregivers when parents go out to work. The team conducts numerous activities and awareness camps for the caregivers and topics like nutrition, breast feeding and maternal health are covered during these awareness camps.
GCI focuses on the mental health of parents to improve the relationship between parent and child. This includes assessing the mental health of would be mothers and mothers who are already a part of the program. Recreational activities like yoga, meditation, stress management camps, counselling and regular workshops and awareness sessions on dealing with taboo attached with mental health, understanding signs & symptoms etc. are conducted on regular basis.
