Male invovlement in their partner's pregnancy and childbirth (ePub)

My name is P Vijeyata and I am a student of Masters in Public Health program, University of Hyderabad. I have done my Bachelors in Biotechnology from Bhavan¿s Vivekananda degree college, Sainikpuri (Secunderabad). I am also a student of post graduate diploma in Governance from centre of distance and virtual learning, University of Hyderabad. The summers of 2014, during my second semester holidays I spent my time working as an intern/volunteer for a Chhattisgarh based NGO called `Tapasya¿ which mainly operates in my hometown `Bilaspur¿. The organization works mainly towards social causes like women empowerment, setting up of cottage industries, food processing, skill development in unemployed people etc. I assisted the organization in the food processing project wherein I was responsible for efficient use of the raw materials by the trainees. I worked for them for a period of two and a half months from May 6th 2014 to July 15th 2014 for which I was awarded a certificate of appreciation for my contribution in the project. The next year I was invited to participate in their next project which was a survey on `Collusive behaviour in Health services¿, in the view of my qualification as a public health student I was asked to work for them as a program co-ordinator. This offer happened to overlap with my dissertation work which I was supposed to submit in the final year of my masters. My study was also based in Bilaspur and required me to stay in the city for 2 months in order to collect data. The title of my thesis was ¿Male involvement in their partner¿s pregnancy and childbirth; An exploratory study in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh¿. I agreed to work for the organization in exchange for assistance from them in my study for conducting mass interviews. Thus I worked for the organization for a period of one month.
The motivation to commit for volunteering services comes from the values which are instilled in me right from my childhood. My family is my source of