Non formal education health care
GBS believes that every girl deserves the chance to learn, and every woman deserves access to care. By bringing education and healthcare directly to the community, GBS has reached over 1,200 adolescent girls from backward castes — giving them literacy, skills, and a future — while ensuring that 5,000 women and girls who had no access to medical services received diagnosis and treatment right at their doorsteps.
Many adolescent girls from backward castes in the region had grown up without ever setting foot in a school. Not because they lacked ability — but because the system had simply not reached them. GBS changed that by going directly to these girls and opening the door to learning through evening classes held within their own communities. These sessions went beyond basic reading and writing. Girls were given literacy and general knowledge connected to their everyday lives — health, rights, finances, and the world around them. Alongside this, GBS provided hands-on skill development in weaving carpets and embroidery, equipping them with a craft and a livelihood they could call their own.
- 1,200 adolescent girls from backward castes reached
- Evening classes held within the community
- Literacy and reading skills provided
- General knowledge related to everyday life
- Focus on girls deprived of primary schooling
- Diagnosis for general ailments at the doorstep
- Treatment provided within the village
- 5,000 women and girls directly reached
- Services in areas with no existing medical facility
- Free of cost care for underserved communities
- Women and girls from backward castes
- Communities with no local healthcare access
- Girls alongside adult women
- Residents of remote villages in Rajasthan
- Those unable to travel to distant medical centres
In the villages where GBS works, there are no hospitals nearby and no clinics within easy reach. Women who fell ill had nowhere to go — and many simply suffered in silence. GBS responded by deploying an Outreach Medical Unit that brought doctors, diagnosis, and treatment directly to the villages, reaching 5,000 women and girls who would otherwise have gone without any medical care.
- Over 10,000 tribal women adopted health-seeking behaviour, who earlier hidden their health problems
- Infection from STDs/RTIs reduced by 60% among the women of target area
- 3,500 women provided with treatment for general disease and gynaecological problems free of cost
