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Module 1
Acitivties
undertaken by an NGO:
There
are several activities undertaken by an NGO. An
NGO can work at three levels.
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The
Primordial Prevention
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The
Population (Mass) Strategy
The
High Risk Strategy
The
Primordial Prevention:
The
primordial prevention is about prevention of the
emergence or development of risk factors in countries
or population groups in which they have not appeared
by favourably influencing the lifestyle of the target
group and by discouraging the adoption of harmful
lifestyles. For example, we are aware of the fact
that deforestation can cause a lot of environmental
hazards after few years. With the help of research
we are aware of the future hazards without actually
experiencing it and thus need to work towards the
prevention of deforestation. The NGO can play the
role of Information dissemination and thus
spreading awareness to all.
The
Population (Mass) Strategy:
The
Population Strategy aims at the whole population
irrespective of individual risk levels. This approach
is directed towards socio-economic, behavioural
and lifestyle changes. The government policies,
which aim at economic betterment, policies for women,
children, in fact the entire running of the government
is a part of this strategy. It works for the betterment
for the entire community. Schools, Colleges, Universities.Women,
Children, Men.Plants,
Animals, Environment.Caste,
Community, Country.
These
and others, all of them have a role in this strategy.
The NGO’s play their part working at different levels
by doing research on various areas and bringing
out issues that requires attention. They thus play
a very vital role in initiating and pushing several
policies.
The
High Risk Strategy :
High
Risk Strategy aims at providing preventive care
to the individuals at special risk like counselling
for youth, counselling for Aids patients, and other
chronically ill persons. The task involved here
is finding out areas with maximum risk and providing
intervention services to prevent the calamity. Like
bringing down pollution, preventing the killing
of animals, preventing private vehicles in the Borivili
National Park, providing night shelter to children
of commercial sex workers, getting the PUC done
on the entire vehicles etc.
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