In India, thousands of women die of pregnancy-related complications, anaemia, and malnutrition. These are easily preventable deaths, requiring only good nutrition and education in basic health care. In large parts of rural and urban India, the public health system lacks basic infrastructure like labour rooms and blood banks, as well as staff and proper equipment for childbirth. Here, an attempt has been made to educate women about pregnancy and maternal health, especially in rural areas, by providing them with pregnancy-related information. The output of the project is a pregnancy calendar from which pregnant women could learn what important steps should be taken during their entire pregnancy period. because the calendar is the common medium of information in rural areas. A calendar is a form that generates clues as to how one should read information. This information is provided in the pregnancy calendar in the form of images, informative poems, and instructions. It is also providing a system for midwives to visit pregnant women at least once a month.

This project is an attempt to find an alternative solution to my previous project, which involved designing, testing, and documenting it.

This project is aimed at getting a personal understanding of maternal health in rural areas of Rajsamond District. For this, I have done an internship at an NGO called Jatan Sansthan, based in the Rajsamond district of Rajasthan. In this internship period, I talked with the actual audience in rural areas and tried to understand the actual problems. During field work, we have done assessments of the quality of maternal and newborn health services and had discussions with females.

My next step will be to focus on the customs of a particular community regarding maternal problems, which will include an audiovisual document on this particular topic.

In India, thousands of women die of pregnancy-related complications, anaemia, and malnutrition. These are easily preventable deaths, requiring only good nutrition and education in basic health care. In large parts of rural and urban India, the public health system lacks basic infrastructure like labour rooms and blood banks, as well as staff and proper equipment for childbirth. Here, an attempt has been made to educate women about pregnancy and maternal health, especially in rural areas, by providing them with pregnancy-related information. The output of the project is a booklet from which pregnant women could learn what important steps should be taken during their entire pregnancy period. This information is provided in the booklet in the form of images, short poems, and instructions.

The people of our society don’t want to accept reality. People have something in their minds, and they think this is right because they have spent most of their lives in that thought. So they refuse to accept the other ways of life, and they become blind to them. This is because, with less education, their minds are not flexible enough to think beyond their own limits.

They are only seeing what they want to see. They are unable to see the other ways, and even if they come across them, they are not ready to accept them. They accept it only as far as they acknowledge it. I wanted to communicate this issue through a film based on the life of a little boy who lived out his dream of living in a city.