Access to basic social services is very limited among communities resulting in limiting real time impact on the poor population. HBT has been striving hard to ensure improvement on the availability of resources and services to the poor households by establishing linkages of the

community with social security schemes of the government and awareness / sensitization programs.

Major activities undertaken towards this are

• Facilitating vulnerable households under appropriate social security measures
• Increasing families access to proper infrastructure and basic amenities by advocacy
• Sensitization of frontline workers viz. ASHA, Anganwadi workers and Mahila Arogya Samiti members on various government health schemes and services
• Regular stakeholder meetings are conducted in the slums with participation of urban local bodies and community members to make the community aware about the social security measures.
• Awareness programs are also conducted on reproductive rights of women and family planning benefit with services through street plays.
• Towards making public health system adolescent and youth friendly and to make them aware about the sexual and reproductive health issues, Community Interface Programmes with Health and ICDS functionaries are being organized