Health
We make primary healthcare accessible and affordable through trained community health volunteers who connect villages with government schemes and private partner hospitals, while also promoting health-seeking behaviour in rural communities.
We make primary healthcare accessible and affordable through trained community health volunteers who connect villages with government schemes and private partner hospitals, while also promoting health-seeking behaviour in rural communities.
We have built a strong community-led healthcare model by creating a dedicated cadre of trained community health volunteers called Swades Mitras, who focus on primary health care and first aid. Additionally, they facilitate specialized care in vision, maternal and child health, and pediatric cardiac care, while fostering community trust and collaborating seamlessly with government and private health stakeholders such as doctors, ASHA, Anganwadi, and ANM workers. Our work also extends to preventive healthcare through cancer screening and regular village health camps, helping rural families access quality healthcare close to home.
Over 4.5 lakh lives have benefited from Swades Foundation’s health programmes, improving access to timely
care and promoting health-seeking behaviour in rural communities.
screened for
vision care
trained within the communities
delivered to rural doorsteps
conducted to restore sight
screening & care for
19,000+ individuals
screened for
vision care
trained within the communities
delivered to rural doorsteps
conducted to restore sight
screening & care for
19,000+ individuals
Our vision for Universal Health Coverage in rural and tribal areas relies on Swades Mitras (trained community health volunteers). They are the first healthcare contact in remote villages, providing preventive care, helping with treatments, and offering post-treatment support.
Our Mobile Vision Care programme brings vital eye care to underserved communities through free screenings for cataracts, refractive errors, and other vision problems.
Through our Village and School Health Camps, we offer doorstep screenings for diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cataracts, and reproductive health issues. Those identified are referred to government or partner hospitals for timely care and follow-up.
We are committed to delivering free, high-quality healthcare to children with low vision and hearing disabilities. Our dedicated team identifies cases and ensures essential treatment through our partner hospitals.
Aarti Sudhir Pawar is a Swades Mitra par excellence. She has not only displayed extreme compassion for the community but has gone beyond her call of duty on several occasions. She saved the life of a newborn suffering from high fever by admitting her in the hospital just in time and in another instance consulted a family for allowing surgery on their child suffering from bad ear infection. In both these cases, timely medical intervention was critical.
She has also been instrumental in linking the community with multiple Government schemes, like grant for sonography of pregnant women, purchase of medicines and its distribution among community, availing Panchayat Samiti scholarships for deserving candidates, facilitating documentation for senior citizens so they can get their pensions seamlessly.
Her great engagement has made her a ‘Master Trainer’ as she continues to empower more from the community for better health and hygiene.
Aarti Sudhir Pawar is a Swades Mitra par excellence. She has not only displayed extreme compassion for the community but has gone beyond her call of duty on several occasions. She saved the life of a newborn suffering from high fever by admitting her in the hospital just in time and in another instance consulted a family for allowing surgery on their child suffering from bad ear infection. In both these cases, timely medical intervention was critical.
She has also been instrumental in linking the community with multiple Government schemes, like grant for sonography of pregnant women, purchase of medicines and its distribution among community, availing Panchayat Samiti scholarships for deserving candidates, facilitating documentation for senior citizens so they can get their pensions seamlessly.
Her great engagement has made her a ‘Master Trainer’ as she continues to empower more from the community for better health and hygiene.
