Acknowledgments

First off, I would like to thank my guide, Mr. Tarun Deep Girdher for being the driving force behind this project and for helping me select this topic, which is so close to my heart: women’s issues. I would also like to express my gratitude to Mrs. Lakshmi Murthy for her hospitality and time and for showing me her work. She is truly passionate about her work and it shows with the level of expertise she has acquired in the field of social communication. I would also like to thank my dear classmate Mudra, who had accompanied me to several of the meetings I had with the NGOs, their community health workers and of course the women residing in the slums. Throughout the project, Mudra let me bounce ideas off her and we had discussions on the same. Her sensitivity, concern and expertise in handling a subject like this is extraordinary for her age. Without her invaluable help, this project would not have culminated  into even a fraction of what it is. I would also like to thank my seniors Armeen Kapadia for her encouragement, Sanjay Basavaraju for his valuable feedback and all the others.
I am very lucky to have a supportive family and friends who have goaded me on all throughout my education. Thanks so much, Papa, Mummy, Yorick Pinto, Deepti Thomas and Anisha Crasto.
Lastly, but certainly not the least, a big thank you to Dr. Hanif Lakdawala, his team and all the Community Health Workers (CHWs) at Sanchetana. Without them, this project would not have been possible.

Bibliography

I used a lot of references, not in the actual documentation, but in my information collection. However the biggest source of information were interviews with the slumdwellers, and even more resourceful were the CHWs. So most of this list were books, journals, brochures and web documents I consulted as a sort of background. However I did not directly quote most of them in my documentation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Chetna. “Gender & Women’s Health”, “Anaemia, Health of Women in Indian Families”, “Women & HIV/AIDS”, “Violence and Health”, “Breast Cancer”, “Training for Women’s Health & Empowerment”, “Panchayati Raj and Women’s Health”, “Indigenous Health & Healing practices”, “Mahilaon ka Manasik evam Bhavnatmak Swaasthay” Ahmedabad. October 2008. A set of brochures. Language: Hindi.
• Chetna. “Surakshit Prasav” Ahmedabad. Language: Hindi.
• Chetna. “Swaasthay Dekhbhaal aur Sevaaen Praapt Karna....” Ahmedabad. October 2008. Language: Hindi.
• “India: Urban Poverty Report”. United Nations Development Programme. Web. . 2009.
• International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Macro International. 2008. “National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), India, 2005-06: Gujarat”. Mumbai: IIPS.
• Murthy L., Kagal A., Chatterjee A. “Learning from the Field, Experiences in Communication”, UNFPA, NID (National Institute of Design), July 2000.
• Murthy Lakshmi. Vikalp Design. Web. 17 Mar. 2010.
• Sanchetana. “Angst: Theirs and Ours; Domestic Violence: an epidemic on the upsurge”. Ahmedabad. January 2001.
• Sanchetana. “At a New Threshold” Annual Review. Ahmedabad. 2003.
• Sanchetana. “Reproductive Health Program” Ahmedabad. 2005-2007. 
• Sanchetana. “Why Some Men Beat their Wives?” Ahmedabad. 2003.
• Stoltzfus, Rebecca J., and Michele L. Dreyfus. “Guidelines for the Use of Iron Supplements to Prevent and Treat Iron Deficiency Anemia.” World Health Organization (WHO), International Nutritional Anemia Consultative Group (INACG), 1998. Web. 01 Apr. 2010.
• WHO Regional Office for the South-East Asia. “Adolescent Nutrition: a Review of the Situation in Selected South-East Asian Countries.” World Health Organization (WHO), 2006. Web. 01 Apr. 2010. .

REFERENCES

• IUPR (India: Urban Poverty Report) Published by United Nations Development Programme, 2009, www.undp.org