Activities for improving the health conditions of marginalized children by Normisjon in Okhaldhunga district in Nepal

Abstract

Normisjon being a Christian organization has been overhauling the poor health condition of those marginalized and destitute children in the Okhaldhunga district financing patient relief fund in the Okhaldhunga hospital which is in the very district. The fund benefits those poor children paying bills to the hospital for them. On the other hand, the organization is conducting many health awareness programmes forming a group of women in all the VDCs in the district to provide the health services relating to children and women health concerning on preventive methods for a healthy and sound life. As a qualitative researcher, I applied a semi- structured interview as a research method to collect the information for the dissertation to find out the activities of the organization for the enhancement and endorsement of healthiness of the poorest children of the district. A development theory was implemented for the probe of the data which exhibited the information in regarding to the accumulated information and previous studies had mutual collective ideas and propaganda which proved a pace of progress in the health situation of the children now can be taken as an emblem of development in physical and mental health of those children. The marginalized and downgraded children in the Okhaldhunga district acquiring the free health services and treatment from Normisjon patient fund experienced a change in living of life and many improvements in physical and mental health condition that lead them to stay a quality of life and ponder a golden future for them ahead.