Community Health
Community Health has been a major focus of ACTS right from the start of its operation. Preventive rather than curative approaches have been advocated. Today we have major community health projects outside Allahabad and Bangalore.

Allahabad

In Allahabad, under the leadership of Dr. Shireen David and her husband Pervez David, an active programme reaches hundreds of mothers and children. With a grant from Australia, the programme has widened.

Some of the new villages in the expansion project are remote and with no power supply and people walk long distances to get to the main roads for transport. There is no health facility available in some villages and mobile clinics operate to reach out to these poor people.

The integrated approach gives basic education to children and helps them settle down with some means of support. A Micro-finance project is conducted to assist where needed.

Bangalore

In Bangalore, the ACTS Health Centre has had many years of community health experience with projects in collaboration with CIDA – Canadian International Development Agency. Over 50 villages have benefited. A small hospital caters to the needs of nearby villages and the poor and downtrodden receive timely help through our mobile clinics.

ACTS students receive training in community health and are equipped for service in their own villages. They are taught basics and challenged to serve the poor wherever they go.