Ambuja Foundation is promoting adolescent health through a peer led, life skills based, education programme called APEKSHA (Adolescent Peer for Enhancement of Knowledge, Skill and Healthy Association) - reaching over 28,170 youth by training just 970 peer educators from 72 Schools.

The health team of Ambuja Foundation has been at the forefront during this critical time in creating awareness about COVID19 in our core villages

Ambuja Foundation in partnership with NGO Arogya World, launched the m-Diabetes App across all locations as a major initiative in its effort to impact Non-Communicable Disease via behavior change of 2lakh people over the next 3 years across Ambuja Foundation communities.

Ambuja Foundation Nalagarh recently organized a general health camp with an objective to provide general health check-up facilities to rural populations for reproductive health, eye strength, and blood sugar / haemoglobin levels. The doctors recommended treatment to those who required and distributed free medicines.

Ambuja Foundation is tackling Diabetes through an association with mDiabetes - circulating information through pre-recorded messages on mobile phones about diabetes prevention, nutrition and lifestyle modifications to the community along with other efforts.

SHG women in Chandrapur have set up and are managing an outlet to provide Health & Safety equipment to key stakeholders at Maratha Cement Works, a unit of ACL Upparwahi, Maharashtra - helping rural women earn another revenue stream to support them and their families.

Swachhta Hi Seva, launched under the Swachh Bharat Mission, was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and kickstarted a nationwide campaign in September to tackle plastic waste awareness and management.

Mahatma Gandhi gave equal importance in terms of effort invested, to his mission to secure Independence for India, and his vision for a 'clean India'. Though he was successful in gaining freedom for the country, his dream for sanitation was left unfulfilled.

Raising awareness of health issues in rural communities plays a critical role in prevention and influencing the health seeking behaviour of families. A variety of activities were recently organized across locations to advocate 'better health.'

On the occasion of World Health Day on 7th April, Ambuja Foundation organized a drawing competition in a Government school in Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh with the theme: 'Health: Everyone, Everywhere.'

Dr. Lindsay Jaacks, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, will be participating in a Symposium on 'Models for Control of Non-Communicable Disease in Global Health.' In this candid conversation, she sheds light on Non-Communicable Disease in India in the context of global trends.

The evidence to mount strong interventions against Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India, is compelling - a recent Harvard University and World Economic Forum Report on NCDs claimed that India stands to lose $4.5 trillion before 2030 due to NCDs alone.