Jyotikaur learns to nurture her new baby

Thank you for enabling Jyoti to learn how to care for her new-born child.

Jyotikaur (Jyoti) is a young mother who recently had her second child. Jyoti’s husband works as a part-time golf caddy at the golf course across the street from the slum in which their family lives. His salary is meager – 2,500 rupees ($50) each month, but Jyoti is determined to do what she can, even given their modest means, to give her children the best opportunities and upbringing possible. One of the things that she has done to improve her children’s futures is to enroll in a Mommy-Baby class at the AIC Health and Community Outreach Centre nearby to strengthen her parenting skills.  The class meets every week, and mothers bring their babies, and spend an hour learning about dietary needs of their children, baby growth and development, birth spacing and family planning, communication and relationships within the family, good parenting practices and many other topics through structured discussions led by local professionals, specialists and health workers. Since early this year, Jyoti has been attending Mother-Baby classes with her firstborn child, an almost 2 year old boy, and the two of them participate in the 12-24 month class.

However, a few months ago, she gave birth to her second child, a girl whom she has named Sakshi. Since Jyoti didn’t learn about the Mother-Baby class until her son was already over a year old, she missed out on critical information and skills taught in the first component of the class, for mothers and babies aged 0-12 months.  She is therefore very excited to have joined that class with Sakshi. Now, Jyoti is fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the class twice as often – she still attends the 12-24 month class with her son, and now is able to learn the best parenting practices to nurture and care for her tiny, new daughter as well in the 0-12 month class.

A bright future beckons little Sakshi thanks to your generosity.