Description

At her home in Badundia Village, Bagdunda Cluster, Udaipur, Shanta, a mother of two children, poses following a counseling session with Meena, a Taruni Sakhi (community volunteer). Since November 2014, ARTH has implemented the Taruni project in 467 villages in the districts of Udaipur and Rajsamand. The project employs an innovative model to deliver sexual and reproductive health information; community volunteers such as Meena enable women to self-assess their pregnancy status, consult a telephone helpline, seek information and commodities from neighborhood entrepreneurs, and access reproductive health counseling and services at primary care clinics facilitated by escorted referral to specialists.