Tag: malnutrition
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Hunger action month: 5 NGOs you can support to alleviate hunger and malnutrition
HUNGER Action Month holds significant potential and impact in India, a nation where malnutrition and food insecurity continue to be critical issues. This month-long campaign, observed in September, serves as a clarion call to address these challenges and ignite collective efforts towards ending hunger. In India, where a substantial portion of the population still struggles…
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How malnutrition impacts children
MALNUTRITION remains a pressing issue affecting millions of children in India and leads to severe physical and cognitive developmental challenges. This article explores the impact of malnutrition on children in India and sheds light on the significance of ensuring food safety, leveraging crowdfunding platforms and encouraging charitable donations to combat this crisis. By raising awareness…
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‘As a nutrition education org, we’ve never distributed food’
SHRUTHI IYER spearheads Foundation for Mother and Child Health India (FMCH), an organisation that empowers pregnant women and new mothers belonging to vulnerable communities through innovative, community-based nutrition specific interventions. Founded in 2006 as a grassroots organisation, FMCH has been focusing on encouraging preventive health, balanced nutrition and child developmental practices in underprivileged communities by…
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Tribal children have the least access to food and education
LIKE many other tribal children, Sibani Wadaka was born prematurely and weighed only 1.4 kgs at birth. Her mother visited several district hospitals in Odisha to improve the infant’s health and increase her chances of survival. She was even kept under observation at the Christian Medical (CHB), Bissam Cuttack for 13 days but her condition…
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Small Talk With Samir Chaudhuri
CHANGE leaders do great things, and often that is all we know about them. Here we want to get a different glimpse of the personalities that constitute the development space. Every month we get one leader to answer four questions, not necessarily about their work, but about themselves. This week we catch up with Samir…
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What It Takes To Be A Mindful Giver
By CHAITHALI PISUPATI —- THE conventional list of basic needs of a human being is food, water, clothing and shelter and the lack of these means poverty, which seems simple enough to comprehend. I am often faced with a lot of questions regarding my work with underprivileged people. A common one that makes me very happy…