Project Doaba Vikas Evam Utthan Samiti (DVEUS)
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Donation Goal
$64,999
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Campaign Story
Project Doaba Vikas Evam Utthan Samiti (DVEUS)
About the project
Project Doaba Vikas Evam Utthan Samiti is working across 60 villages in the Kaushambi and Prayagraj districts of Uttar Pradesh to facilitate quality education and healthcare for community members. However, the lack of livelihood opportunities is forcing families to migrate seasonally, disrupting their children’s education and pushing many into child labor. Poor access to healthcare, combined with entrenched community traditions and gender inequality, has led to high rates of infant mortality, widespread malnutrition, and early marriages, putting the lives of mothers and children at risk.
Making a Difference
CRY America’s Project DVEUS ensures that communities and households are aware of appropriate child-rearing practices. The project works towards reducing infant mortality, including neonatal deaths, by strengthening home-based newborn care and ensuring access to quality healthcare and nutrition to combat malnutrition in infants and anaemia among pregnant women and adolescent girls. The project also ensures access to quality education by enrolling first-time learners in schools, mainstreaming irregular and out-of-school children, and strengthening child protection systems to reduce instances of child marriage and child labor.
The Way Forward
● Provide counseling to 1,200 pregnant women, 1,150 lactating mothers, 300 newly married couples, and caregivers on early ANC registration, immunization, and best child-rearing practices.
● Strengthen 57 mothers’ groups, 60 adolescent groups, and 60 fathers’ meetings using audiovisual tools to address superstitions impacting maternal and child health.
● Conduct 1,000 household visits to sensitize families on the consequences of home deliveries and newborn care practices.
● Conduct Life Skills sessions for 60 CRY’s Adolescent Girls Collectives
● Build the capacity of 30 community change agents and peer leaders to promote community-led awareness and behavior change.
● Conduct anemia testing for 1,000 adolescents.
● Track 1,200 pregnant women and 6,500 newborns to ensure timely access to healthcare.
● Sensitize 12 VHNCs (Village Health and Nutrition Committees) and 57 AWC (Anganwadi) mother groups on their participation in Community-Based Management of Malnutrition.
● Enable 1,000 households to adopt kitchen gardening practices, with a focus on malnourished children and pregnant women.
● Ensure nutrition counseling for caregivers of 1,751 SUW/MUW children on age-appropriate feeding.
● Link 500 vulnerable families with income opportunities.
Project Impact
10,797
Community members sensitized on maternal & child health care
2,700
Sanitary pads distributed to adolescents
1,127
Pregnant women received iron tablets & counselling sessions
610
Children aged 0-6 months received exclusive breastfeeding
1,112
Institutional deliveries ensured
1,127
Pregnant women received 100% immunization
884
Village Health and Nutrition Days conducted
675
Pregnant women completed their 3rd & 4th Ante Natal Care checkups
1,105
Children aged 0-1 fully immunized
19
Severely Underweight children (SUW) progressed to Moderate Underweight (MUW)
160
MUW children moved to complete recovery
1,822
Households practicing kitchen gardening
192
Children attending Child Activity Centers
180
Children aged 6-14 mainstreamed in schools
100
Adolescents completed Module 3 of Life Skill sessions
Last year’s disbursed grant: $74,790
Budget approved for Jan’26 to Dec’26:
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