Community health activity
BLM-F Health Projects
Running since 1984 — Preventive & primary health care for rural communities
Location: Naogaon District & surrounding areas
Focus: Community health, adolescent SRHR, nutrition

Overview

The BLM-F has run health projects since 1984. The main objective is to improve the health of rural communities, aligned with the national health plan, by providing preventive and primary health care in target areas. Projects combine community mapping, capacity building, direct service delivery, and behaviour-change communication.

Objectives

  • Increase access to basic primary health care in remote communities.
  • Improve adolescent health and life-skills (SRHR and advocacy).
  • Enhance nutrition knowledge and practices among women and children.
  • Build local capacity for sustainable community health action.

Outputs & Main Activities

Adolescent Training

Leadership and life-skills training provided for adolescents through adolescent groups and clubs, including SRHR and advocacy modules.

Nutrition & Cooking

Community nutrition sessions and hands-on healthy-cooking demonstrations for caregivers and adolescents.

Mobile Clinics

Mobile health camps provide primary consultations, referrals, and basic medicines in hard-to-reach communities.

Community Mapping

Participatory mapping to identify vulnerable households, service gaps, and priority areas for interventions.

Who benefits

Adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, children under five, community health volunteers, and local health committees benefit from training, services, and awareness activities.

Sample indicators

  • Number of adolescents trained in life-skills and SRHR.
  • Percentage increase in exclusive breastfeeding rates in target villages.
  • Number of mobile clinic consultations held per quarter.
  • Community groups formed and active (adolescent clubs, mothers’ groups).