What We Do?

 School Health Annual Report Programme

(SHARP) is a non-government organisation that
runs scientifically-planned health programmes for
school children, professionally managed under
the guidance of eminent medical experts,
sociologists, educationists, psychologists,
nutritionists and others who have the vision of
promoting the healthcare of children throughout
the third world countries. It is one of India’s
largest health network with various projects
running all across the country.
 SHARP NGO was founded in 1999 by Dr. Puran
Prakash. It addresses the health concerns of
school going children in the country by
conducting regular health checkups and health
awareness sessions
 School Health Annual Report Programme
(SHARP) is a non-government organisation that
runs scientifically-planned health programmes for
school children, professionally managed under
the guidance of eminent medical experts,
sociologists, educationists, psychologists,
nutritionists and others who have the vision of
promoting the healthcare of children throughout
the third world countries. It is one of India’s
largest health network with various projects
running all across the country.
 SHARP NGO was founded in 1999 by Dr. Puran
Prakash. It addresses the health concerns of
school going children in the country by
conducting regular health checkups and health
awareness sessions and digitising the health
record of each child and making it available
online. SHARP has created a panel of network
hospitals to which a child is referred in case of
ailments. The organisation covers 2.5 million
children across 20,000 schools in the country.
Mission

 To prevent, detect, address and resolve

health problems, increase educational
achievement and enhance the quality of life of
school-aged children and youth.
 To implement cost effective and efficient
health care delivery system for school going
children of India and other developing nations.
 To provide a platform for research in the
field of school health.
 To ensure follow-up arrangements along
with providing services of specialists.
 To make school authorities and parents
aware of the health status of their children.
 To provide sustainable living to under
privileges women.
Benefits

How the member of SHARP NGO get benefitted?

Promotion and development of SHARP involves
four main strategies:
 Advocacy
For promoting the concept of school health,
advocacy to create awareness among policy
makers, the general population, training and
academic institutions, the community,
parents, schools and students is very
important.
 Advocacy to achieve a common
understanding of the concept, its trengths,
strategies and priority action areas is
required. Consensus on goals, strategies,
plans of action and resources need to be
built.

Partnerships and Alliances
  The multiple factors which affect the health
status of school children, as well as teachers
and school personnel demand an intersectional
action. Building a sustainable partnership
between the focal ministries of education and
health and other sectors such as environment,
urban and town planning, finance and
economic planning, NGOs and the private
sector should be a priority.
 Alliances with professional bodies, unions,
associations and private companies would not
only provide the necessary platform for
advocacy but also help mobilize the necessary
resources. For reflective school health
promotion, communities and schools should
necessarily be partners in this Endeavour
 Strengthening national and local capacity
 Capacity building by necessity should be at
all levels, from the national level to the
schools in communities. The capacity and
capability of health promotion advocates to
promote health through schools, is an
 important requirement. Health promoters
need to be trained, among others, in research,
documentation and dissemination of success
stories.
 Orientation of policy makers, training of
teachers, community leaders and school
leadership could ensure their active
participation in needs assessment,
programmed planning, monitoring and
evaluation. Development of appropriate
guidelines, manuals and tools are necessary
to support capacity building.
 Research, monitoring and evaluation
Effective sensitive programs are built on
good baselines data. Programs should be
designed to have a research and evaluation
component that helps in constantly
monitoring and fine tuning the programs.
 Appropriate methodologies, guidelines,
protocols and tools for situation analysis and
monitoring of planning and implementation
processes as well as evaluation are crucial
 requirements. Evaluation is crucial
requirements. Evaluation and documentation
of programs should be used as tool to
legitimize the cause of health promoting
schools.

Our Work
School Health Screening Program

 School health programs has a very positive

impact on the academics as well as general
performance of the child. Healthier children
are more likely to attend school, and modest
improvements in schooling will allow for
the continuation of education. Education and
good health offer children the power of
choice

Adolescent Menstrual Health &

Hygiene Program

 Lacking information, infrastructure, economic

means, and the confidence to manage their
menstrual health, many women are subjected to
cultural discrimination, exposed to dangerous
health risks, and lose out on economic and
educational opportunities.
SHARP Vision Care Program

 India loses $37 billion (about Rs 203,500

crore) in annual productivity on account of
poor eye vision among its people. A study
among Indian workers found that vision
correction led to an over 30% increase in
their incomes and a 25% increase in
productivity.

School Nutritional Program

 India houses the highest number of

malnourished people in the world with one
third of about two billion global sufferers of
vitamin and micronutrient deficit being in
India.
 The objective of the School Nutrition Program
is to reduce micronutrient deficiency status of
children in the country by focusing on 0-10
years of a child’s life - the most critical period
in a child’s development. To attain the
objective, AAA Approach i.e. Assessment,
 Analysis and Awareness is being used which
includes Liaising/ Networking with local key
stakeholders, Trainings/ Capacity Building of
the school teachers and parent volunteers, Pre
& Post Nutritional Assessment of primary
school children and IEC/ BCC Activities for
behavioural change.

Community Health Programmed

 Community Health Programme is an effort

to improve health status of present and
future generation of the Country. This
includes general health check up , super
specialty health camps , provision of regular
follow up as well as treatment and
preventive health awareness programmes. It
is a society centred program which covers
all sections of the society irrespective of
gender & age.
School Health Screening Program
Adolescent Menstrual Health & Hygiene Program
SHARP Vision Care Program
School Nutritional Program
Community Health Program