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HelpAge India is an Indian organization focused on the concerns of elders and support geriatric initiatives. Established in 1978, [ 1 ] The aim is to serve disadvantaged elders in a holistic manner, enabling them to live active, dignified, and healthier lives.
Self-help groups are started by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that generally have broad anti-poverty agendas. Self-help groups are seen as instruments for goals including empowering women, developing leadership abilities among the poor and the needy, increasing school enrolment and improving nutrition and the use of birth control.
A self-help group from Maharashtra, India, making a demonstration at a National Rural Livelihood Mission seminar held in Chandrapur. Self-help or self-improvement is "a focus on self-guided, in contrast to professionally guided, efforts to cope with life problems" [1] —economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
Self-help group may refer to: Support group , group in which members provide each other with various types of help for a particular shared characteristic Self-help group (finance) , village-based financial intermediary usually composed of between 10-15 local women
Self-help groups have had varying relationships with mental health professionals. Due to the nature of these groups, self-help groups can help defray the costs of mental health treatment and implementation into the existing mental health system could help provide treatment to a greater number of the mentally ill population. [2]
Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...
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Birth sex ratio map for India, boys per 100 girls in 0 to 1 age group according to 2011 census [73] In North America and Europe , the birth sex ratio of the population ranges between 103 and 107 boys per 100 girls; in India, China, and South Korea, the ratio has been far higher.