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Indu Capoor was an ARROW Board member from 1999-2005. She is the founder director of the Center for Health Education Training and Nutritional Awareness, CHETNA. She created CHETAN to give women and children, both literate and illiterate, a good practical understanding of preventive health care so that they can take effective charge of ensuring their own good health. Since 1992 she has been helping to focus health treatment in rural, tribal, and urban slum areas on the concerns of women and children, as well as creating a resource centres for gender and health issues. She has provided numerous trainings in preventive health care through CHETNA, India. She further seeks to coordinate and support the numerous private voluntary organizations working in children's health through her Child Resource Center (CRC). By providing these organizations with ongoing training and allowing them to exchange experiences, she hopes they will emerge as a broad, effective, far more influential pressure group at the local and state levels. In addition, Indu is attacking the problem at the policy level, by developing the Women's Health and Development Resource Center to act as a clearinghouse for information on women's and children's health issues and also as a lobbying group at the state and national levels. Indu is steadily designing new healthcare training methods and materials specifically for poor women and children. She has published widely. Immediately after completing her postgraduate work, Indu joined the Vikram A. Sarabhai Community Science Centre at Ahmedabad to start the nutrition and health activities there. Now independent, it has grown into CHETNA and CHETNA's new sister organizations, which is a reflection of Indu's lifelong concern and commitment toward health.
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