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'Right to
education helping kids' health too'
Thursday February 03, 2011 07:42:34 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Right to Education (RTE) Act, besides giving children between
six and 14 years access to free and compulsory education, also
helps their health as voluntary groups often target schools for
their programmes, experts said Thursday.
Deworm the World (DTW), a voluntary organisation giving deworming
medicine against intestinal parasites to children between 6 to 14
years, will soon be covering the capital's government schools and
slums.
"After a year-long successful work in seven districts of Andhra
Pradesh since 2009, we will now target Bihar and Delhi where our
prevalence studies have been going on for quite some time," DTW's
executive director Lesley Drake told IANS on her visit to India.
"We realised how effective health plans can be when they are
pitched in with educational schemes. RTE is an important catalyst
for our policy in India," added Drake.
The NGO, in its massive action plan, stated that the programme in
Bihar will be rolled out in over 67,000 schools of its 38
districts from February to April.
"Deworming is often ignored in developing nations because it does
not affect the mortality rate. The need is to realise its impact
on the cognitive growth of the child, his education, mental and
physical abilities," explained Drake.
The deworming schemes will also rope in the state governments and
additional technical support from the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
"In Delhi, our studies across slums and schools are underway, and
a school-based deworming programme will be launched in identified
at-risk areas later this year," said Prerna Makkar, regional
director of DTW's south Asia wing.
"Adequate sanitation, hygienic living conditions, and safe
drinking water are other key approaches to the deworming plan,"
added Makkar.
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