It Takes A Village: How Tribal Hamlet Now Knows Its Nutrition Rights

Truck drivers prepare food on a highway in Ghaziabad (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Preparation of food for doctors in Park Hotel in New Delhi (Image Courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

A seven -year-old boy from a labourer's family carrying ration kit to his home being distributed in Vaishali (Image Courtesy: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Delhi: Locals queuing up for thermal screening before being provided meal packages (Image Courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

Braving the heat, people stand in long queues outside Congress office in New Delhi for food (Image courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

A food delivery agent enjoys a quick lunch aboard his bike before resuming work in New Delhi (Image credit: Jitender Gupta)

People in Vaishali, Delhi, buy vegetables across a gate as the lockdown eases across the country (Image courtesy: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

People in Vaishali, Delhi, buy vegetables across a gate as the lockdown eases across the country (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Stranded migrants waiting for food at Kalyanpuri in New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Kimar Pandey)

Stranded migrants waiting for food at Kalyanpuri in New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Kumar Pandey)

Food packets being handed out to hungry and thirsty migrants in Kolkata

Hungry and thirsty, migrant labourers trudge homewards without knowing where their next meal will come from...

Hungry and thirsty, migrant labourers trudge homewards without knowing where their next meal will come from...

Timely intervention by local health workers ensured that a severly malnourished 16 month old Rani Behera from a remote Odisha village turned into a healthy happy child in just two weeks.

Timely intervention by local health workers ensured that a severly malnourished 16 month old Rani Behera from a remote Odisha village turned into a healthy happy child in just two weeks.

The incidences of stunting, wasting and malnourishment is high among many of indigenous tribal groups in Chhattisgarh, with an inordinately large number of children falling in the Severe Acute Malnutrition

Daily Bread

Roti Bank has inspired similar initiatives in other towns

Photograph by Jitender Gupta

Charmed Circle

Chandra Sekhar Kundu serves a wholesome meal to children in Asansol

Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan with Secretary, (H&FW), Preeti Sudan (R) inaugurates a ‘Poshan Maah 2019’ (National Nutrition Month) programme, at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi. The scheme was launched in March 2018 to addresse various malnutritional challenges.

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Harvest Season

Launch of Poshan Maah in Manipur’s Thoubal district

Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Smriti Irani with Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma visits 'Umdihar Anganwadi Centre' to oversee the implementation of 'Poshan Abhiyaan', in Shillong. The national nutrition mission, 'Poshan Abhiyan', aims to bring down stunting of children in the age...

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ANM training on importance of weight gain during pregnancy and counselling on diet in Udaipur

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

PMMVY beneficiary tracking in Udaipur

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

Observance of monthly sector meeting by health department in Udaipur, Rajasthan

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

Capturing weight of new born using Digital Weighing Machine in Hanumangarh SNCU facility in Udaipur

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Installation of Digital Weighing machine to capture accurate weight of new-born infant in Udaipur

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

ASHA in Udaipur, conducting POSHAN Varta meeting in the community. POSHAN Varta is based on Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) method.

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

ANM of Udaipur got trained on diet counselling and importance of weight gain during pregnancy. In the photograph: trained ANMs with their counselling tool

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

ANM checking the weight of pregnant during ANC check-up, Udaipur

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

ANM counselling expectant mothers on importance of weight gain during MCHN day in Udaipur

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Spreading awareness through wall painting, reaching out to male members of the community too, Udaipur.

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

Wall painting in Gogunda disseminating messages on care during pregnancy, Udaipur, Rajasthan

Photo Credit: Rajpusht, IPE Global – Supported by CIFF

Taboo-Busting

A Poshan workshop at a village in Murshidabad, West Bengal

Women at an Anganwadi centre

Picture Courtesy PCI

Women at an Anganwadi centre

Picture Courtesy PCI