Bhanu and Tishan never miss a single parenting class

Bhanu is a young mother of four. Her oldest child is 10, and the youngest, Tishan, is one and a half. Bhanu and her husband both sell old cloth material on the roadside, earning about Rs. 3000 ($ 67) per month. Neither Bhanu nor her husband ever went to school, so although they would like to improve their family’s socio-economic status, they find it difficult to do anything other than the traditional caste-based occupation of their community, dealing in used clothes and cloth.

Also a tradition of her caste, Bhanu was married to her husband and became a mother at a very young age, and has struggled quite a bit to raise her children and feel confident in her parenting abilities. Your donations, Akiko, Tom (x2) and Paris, enabled AIC to enroll Bhanu and her son, Tishan, in parenting classes. This is a weekly class that gives Bhanu the opportunity to meet with mothers of similarly-aged babies or toddlers and participate in interactive discussions and activities related to a variety of topics, such as dietary needs of their children, baby growth and development, birth spacing and family planning, communication and relationships within the family, good parenting practices and much more.

The class also gives AIC’s health workers a chance to be in regular contact with the babies and toddlers in the community to ensure that little ones like Tishan have received their vaccinations on time, are well-nourished and in good health. Bhanu and her son love the class, and have had very good attendance, so they regularly receive small incentive items (soap, baby shampoo, etc) to keep them coming back. Bhanu says that she is learning a lot from the lectures and hands-on activities, and wishes that she had known about the class earlier!

Thank you, Akiko, Tom and Paris, for enabling Bhanu to bring up a strong and healthy baby.

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Bhanu and Tishan never miss a single parenting class