Adolescent training at Raigad District
Since 2022, 18 adolescent groups have been participating in a two-year preventive health care training program organized and implemented by the Health Promotion Trust in Raigad District. The training sessions are facilitated by HPT health workers who have received training and guidance from HPT on various health care topics. To promote traditional nutritional dietary practices, healthy snacks are provided to the girls during each program.
The training covers a range of topics, including:
1. Menstrual health care and hygiene
2. Superstitious practices affecting health care
3. Health and hygiene
4. Understanding physiology for optimal health
5. Healthy and traditional dietary practices
6. Nutritional dietary practices addressing adolescent health care issues
7. Kitchen gardening and its environmental and health benefits
8. Benefits and uses of medicinal plants
9. Social discrimination and its effects on the health of the girl child
10. HIV/AIDS
11. Common ailments and their herbal and home remedies
12. Physiological changes during adolescence
13. Yoga and pranayama
14. Acupressure and mudras
15. Demonstration of herbal and home remedies
16. Seasonal diseases