Many challenges face Sangeeta

Several months ago, 20-year old Sangeeta was kicked out of her in-laws’ house along with her husband and one-year-old son, following a domestic dispute. The timing of this altercation couldn’t have been worse, because Sangeeta found out soon after that she is pregnant with her second child.

Currently, Sangeeta, her husband and their son store their belongings in another relative’s shack during the daytime and sleep outside on the cement ground at night. While Sangeeta wishes that she could afford her own house in the slum, with her and her husband’s combined income from begging and selling old clothes scraps hovering around only 1,500 rupees per month ($35), even renting a tiny hut is not a possibility.

Despite the challenges that Sangeeta and her small family are facing, one thing that Sangeeta always looks forward to is her regular visits to the AIC Health Outreach Centre, where she has been signed up for comprehensive antenatal care. This care includes nutritional supplementation, mid-day meals, medication and prescribed medical testing, routine check-ups and assistance at the time of her delivery.

Sangeeta is hopeful that she and her husband will be able to patch up their relationship with her in-laws before the birth of her baby and the onset of the Indian monsoon, but in the meantime she feels much better knowing that she has food to eat, comprehensive medical supervision and a support network taking care of her and her unborn child.

Thank you, Tara, Pooja, Sachin, Ganesh and Erin and Rob (x4)for helping AIC provide comprehensive antenatal care to Sangeeta to enable her baby to develop and grow. Thanks to your support, she has the best chance of giving birth to a healthy, normal child.