{"id":37,"date":"2024-10-23T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/103.99.202.191\/nawidunia-wp\/?p=37"},"modified":"2024-10-23T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:01:08","slug":"an-asha-stands-up-for-herself-and-the-women-in-her-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"An ASHA stands up for herself and the women in her community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Santosh Charan, and I\u2019ve been an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ashasoft.rajasthan.gov.in\/Private\/login.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ASHA<\/a>\u00a0sahyogini (ASHA worker) for the last 14 years. I live in Kapasan, a municipality in Rajasthan\u2019s Chittorgarh district, with my husband and two sons. I have been working on the ground in the village of Hapakhedi since 2004. Having started out as an Anganwadi helper, I became an ASHA sahyogini in 2008. This role involves connecting pregnant women to government healthcare facilities and policies, and assisting them throughout the course of their pregnancy. I also help run vaccination drives for infants and children in the village, along with conducting regular healthcare surveys to better understand and address the community\u2019s health needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7 AM:&nbsp;<\/strong>The bus drops me at a little distance from the main village. Sometimes I take a rickshaw to the village, and other times I walk. On these walks, I frequently encounter women from the surrounding villages going to their agricultural fields, and we chat about our lives. I often ask them if they are facing any health-related issues and make a note of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an ASHA sahyogini, I help people\u2014particularly women\u2014avail of various healthcare services. Today, I\u2019m helping people file for Ayushman cards, which allows them access to free healthcare in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Santosh Charan, and I\u2019ve been an\u00a0ASHA\u00a0sahyogini (ASHA worker) for the last 14 years. I live in Kapasan, a municipality in Rajasthan\u2019s Chittorgarh district, with my husband and two sons. I have been working on the ground in the village of Hapakhedi since 2004. Having started out as an Anganwadi helper, I became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nawidunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}