Arogya World

Healthy schoolshealthy schools is Arogya World's first program and is a two-year school-based healthy living education program that teaches children between the ages of 11 to 14 the basics of eating right and increasing physical activity (important behaviors for preventing diabetes) before children's lifestyle habits are set. By the end of 2022, the organization has educated over 750,000 school children across 13 states in india, some 60% of whom lived in rural or underdeveloped areas.currently, the program is implemented with partners including agastya foundation, child in need institute, school health annual report program (sharp) and sru innovations. By the end of 2022, the organization has educated over 750,000 school children across 13 states in india, some 60% of whom live in rural or underdeveloped areas. Most notably, the organzation together with its partner, child in need institute (cini) worked to reach 214,000 kids in 3 districts at very low socio economic levels in west bengal.

Global advocacy and awareness:in 2022, together with partners, rotary and bpac., the organization pioneered bangalore as india's first Arogya city. The program was launched with the first Arogya city summit in november. Throughout 2022, Arogya World continued to advance the "healthy dialogue" in india and globally. The organization engaged in and spoke at notable forums and conferences. The organization was invited to participate in strategic forums including occucon, csr mumbai, indiaspora, infhra global workplace innovations conference, amongst others.the organzation also won a prestigous 2022 un-who award in primary health care for its work in scaling up community-based delivery models to strengthen prevention and control of diabetes at the population level, across 19 states in india. The award was annouced during the un general assembly high-level meeting in new york.

Mythali:mythali is a nutritional tool that was developed based on the national institute of nutrition guidelines and fashioned after the united states' myplate tool. It shows clearly, in picture form, what cooked food someone should eat, and in what quantities, at each meal.mythali was first developed for urban women to empower them to prepare healthy meals for themselves and their families. With a recurring annual grant from the cigna foundation, the organization has leveraged social media, influencers, celebrity chefs, and groups such as bangalore foodies club and sheroes, and disseminated educational articles written by the organization's nutritionist, to promote eating right among urban indians. The mythali campaign has been one of the most successful awareness programs. And has reached over 26 million peope to date on social media and >50mm on traditional media.in 2022, the organization launched several targeted mythali campaigns: red saree challenge for women's heart health in march where male influencers show their support for women's heart health by wearing a red saree; and the highly successful annual #healthywalidiwali campaign in november. #healthywalidiwali, is a month long annual campaign, which amassed a huge reach on social media platforms.

Healthy workplaces:healthy workplaces is a 2013 clinton global initiative commitment from Arogya World in which the organization has worked with companies in india to earn recognition as healthy workplaces (bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels) according to a criteria the organization co-created with the industry in 2012. By shaping the culture of companies, the organization is helping employees lead healthy lives through a workplace no-tobacco-use policy, easy access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity, in addition to work-life balance and leadership endorsement. In 2020, mental health workplace criteria were added in collaboration with harvard professors, on par with the physical health criteria previously developed to create comprehensive healthy workplace criteria. Since the program was developed, the organization reached over 5.8 million employees across 186 companies by end of 2022. 38 of the companies are at the platinum level and track quantitative employee health data. In 2022, the organization recognized 34 new companies as healthy workplaces, with 5 companies acknowledged as platinum healthy workplaces.

Mdiabetes (mhealth/technology):in 2022, Arogya continued to expand its mdiabetes program by leveraging mobile health technology as a smart solution to the ncd crisis. Mdiabetes is the organization's proven mobile phone messaging system that has a cumulative reach of 1.5 million people to date. The organization has helped people lead healthier lives by sending them text and voice messages in their local language, educating them about diabetes prevention and healthy living. With the support of rural india supporting trust (rist), the organization forged a new partnership in 2021 with the renowned lv prasad eye institute (lvpei) in hyderabad, india to educate villagers over two years through mdiabetes voice messages sent in their local language, telugu. This project builds upon past mdiabetes projects with the integration of community healthy education and reinforcement of the messages by frontline community healthy workers. This project was completed in 2022 but follow up measurements were done in february 2023.in 2022, the organization partnered with gram vaani and expanded its mdiabetes messages to people in the states of bihar, jharkhand, uttarpradesh and madhyapradesh.