Aastrika Outreach Programmes

Creating demand for high quality care

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Advocacy Efforts

Advocating for high-quality, respectful maternity care through innovative outreach efforts, including conference stalls, media interviews, podcasts, and social media campaigns.

Our Focus

The need for capacity building and continuous professional development of healthcare workers

The rights of childbearing women (including privacy, informed consent, and freedom from physical or verbal abuse)

The harms of over treatment prevalence of needlessly high caesarean rates

Our Awareness and Advocacy Initiatives

  • Thought leadership and presentations
  • Interviews in the media
  • Social media and digital campaigns
  • Events and conferences on healthcare
  • Grants to community organisations

We Advocate

Innovative learning tools to enhance knowledge and skills

Evidence-based practice and adhering to international standards

Professional midwifery as a scientific practice

Voices of Change

Voices of Change: Best Practices in Birthing

This initiative highlights individuals who promote positive birthing experiences through impactful practices, inspiring others with their stories. It also honors their contributions, celebrating their role in advancing respectful maternity care.

Voices of Change

Aastrika Foundation at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting in New Delhi (2025)

Aastrika Foundation at the IAPSMCON conference in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir (2025)

Aastrika Foundation at the SOMI National Conference, Guwahati, Assam (2025)

AVPN South Asia Summit – Collaborating for Impact, Mumbai (2023)

Panel Discussion at Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore – The Childbirth Experience: Advocating for Respect and Dignity (2024)

At the 3rd International Conference on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety organised by Nationwide Quality of Care Network (NQOCN) 2024 in New Delhi

Aastrika Foundation celebrates #5YearsofImpact at its Transforming Birthing Conference, paving the way for newer ideas in healthcare capacity building and professional midwifery. (2024)

Aastrika Foundation presented their work through a booth at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 33rd Triennial Congress in June 2023, in Bali, Indonesia

Aastrika Foundation attended the first biennial International and Maternal Health Conference organised by AlignMNH in May 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Aastrika Foundation attended the first biennial International and Maternal Health Conference organised by AlignMNH in May 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Aastrika Foundation had a booth, showcasing their initiatives and work at the National Maternal Health Workshop organised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in New Delhi, in December 2022

Aastrika Foundation organised its first public event, titled "Too Much, Too Soon: India’s Rising C-Section Rates and Potential Solutions" in September 2022, in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Did you know?

“Both WRA India and Aastrika Foundation believe that respectful maternity care (RMC) is a universal human right for all childbearing women and their newborns,”
-Dr. Aparajita Gogoi