Urban Resilience Initiative of GRACE

GRACE continues to implement community-driven initiatives that promote health, nutrition, climate resilience, and sustainable livelihoods across its working areas. Key activities include:

• Formation of Mothers’ Groups: Eight mothers’ groups comprising 105 program participants have been established. Members actively practice improved dietary habits, safe food production, ANC/PNC care, EIBF, EBF, complementary feeding, disaster risk reduction, early warning, climate change adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, green environment practices, child education, and health education.

• Partnership for Health Services: GRACE has signed an MoU with a private hospital to deliver community-based free health camps and provide 40–50% discounts on indoor and outdoor services, including pathological tests, ensuring accessible and affordable healthcare for vulnerable communities.

• Participatory Cooking Demonstrations: 22 mothers and their family members with children aged 6–23 months are participating in complementary feeding sessions through hands-on cooking demonstrations, enhancing nutrition practices and food diversity at the household level.

• Monthly Community Health Camps: Regular community-based free health camps are organized to offer general treatment, referrals, SAM/MAM identification and referral, and health education, strengthening primary healthcare at the community level.