Program Coordinator

ABOUT SNEHA

SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action) is a Mumbai-based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, nutrition, and safety of women and children living in vulnerable urban informal settlements. Our mission is to empower urban women and children through integrated health and nutrition programs, education, and advocacy. We work through a dual approach engaging both care seekers and care providers. At the community level, we empower women and families to become agents of change, while simultaneously collaborating with public health and safety systems to drive sustainable improvements in urban health outcomes. SNEHA s key programs include:

Maternal and Child Health

Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescent

Prevention of Violence against Women and Children

Public System Partnership

SNEHA Shakti

Palliative Care

Livelihood Generation Between 2016 and 2025, SNEHA directly reached over 620,555 women, children, and healthcare workers, and indirectly impacted a population of over 3.63 million across seven municipal corporations and three municipal councils in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Today, SNEHA is a 500+ member organization with deep grassroots presence and a strong track record of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, child malnutrition, adolescent anaemia, and gender-based violence key determinants of health equity for families and communities. ABOUT THE PROGRAM SNEHA CENTER: SUSTAINABILITY INTERVENTION (SI): The goal of this program is to improve the health, and nutritional status of women and children in vulnerable communities in Mumbai by influencing caregivers behaviors and strengthening the capacities of communities and systems stakeholders. . The SNEHA Centre Program in the M/E ward has been in operation since 2012, with a long- term intervention to improve the health and nutrition status of women and children in selectively vulnerable pockets. From 2012 to 2022, the program had direct intervention in four vulnerable communities of the M/E ward, which later entered into indirect/hybrid intervention (2022-2024) by engaging the community volunteers in the community intervention. To achieve the sustainability of this maternal, and child health intervention (MCH), this program initiated its last phase of sustainability intervention, in April 2024 where the limited human resources work in collaboration with the Community Action Groups (CAGs) i. e. the community volunteers and BMC health, and ICDS system to strengthen and sustain the uptake of health, and nutrition services for women and children.