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Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) runs a programme to provide malnourished and underprivileged children with rations for three months.
The Basics
- GVT has found a direct correlation between the backwardness of the region and the degree of malnourishment that children suffer from.
- The scheme provides for children to receive nutritious food through Anganwadis in their respective villages.
- Feedback on progress and the scheme itself is collected from Anganwadis as well as the children’s parents.
- Children group members are identified from the Anganwadi, and visit children at their homes or at the Anganwadi centre.
- They conduct nutritional assessment using recognised methods such as Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) measurement, and test the water using a Bacto H2 kit.
- A record of the child, including nutrition, diet composition and frequency, hand-washing practice, etc. is collected from parents.
- Parents are invited to a public video show and a street play on malnutrition.
- The water test reports are also shared with the parents.
- Adults and community leaders are encouraged to write appeals to political representatives to include malnutrition in their election manifesto.
The Statistics
- 80 - the number of villages surveyed in Bharuch district by GVT.
- 1-5 - the age group of children found malnourished.
- 17.4 - the percentage of children in the
- 1-5 - year bracket who were malnourished.
- 4.2 - the percentage of children in the
- 1-5 - year bracket who were severely malnourished.
- 41 - the percentage of the blocks under survey that had more than a quarter of their children malnourished.
Donation Options
Rations (pulses / rice / flour / oil / salt) - INR 810
500 gms tin of Horlicks - INR 190
1 kg of Milk Powder - INR 350
Glucose biscuits - INR 250
Unit Price - INR 6000