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Children health and nutritional status has a direct bearing on nation building. Poor health and nutritional levels during early childhood and adolescence, recurring bouts of illness, may lead to stunted growth and act as a barrier to achievement of academic excellence. Promoting healthy practices during adolescence, and taking steps to better protect young people from health risks are critical for the prevention of health problems in adulthood, is important for countries’ future health and social infrastructure. The leading causes of illness and death among adolescents and young adults are largely preventable. Health outcomes for adolescents and young adults are grounded in their social environments and are frequently mediated by their behaviours. The behaviour of young people is influenced at the individual, peer, family, school, community, and societal levels by various factors. The financial burdens of preventable health problems are large and include long-term costs of chronic diseases which are a result of behavioural glitches which begun to show during adolescence. A comprehensive child healthcare programme assuring health education and nutrition services for children is needed to address the 4 Ds of Diseases, Deficiencies, Disability and Developmental delays. Poor nutrition affects the cognitive and emotional development of the child. It is seen that the under-nourished children find difficulty in maintaining attentiveness and this hampers their academic performance. 
 Visamo adapts an integrated approach towards combating malnutrition to improve health and nutrition status of the kids at the parentage home, to ensure that the kids attain optimum academic achievement in a secured and wholesome environment.The strategies are:1. Hot meals (three times a day)2. Nutritional supplements3. Health screening (annually)4. Referral system5. Socio-psycho counselling services6. BMI screening and monitoring7. Sports (outdoors and indoors)8. Life skill training programmes9. Self defence classes10. Supplementary Education at Visamo 
 Visamo was initiated in 2002, as a response to the killer earthquake of 2001. It started with 18 kids affected or displaced/dropped out of education due to the earthquake in Gujarat.Till date, around 35+ kids have completed their stay of 12 years at Visamo and moved out of the home after finishing Class XII studies from their respective schools. We have groomed kids to help them take up higher studies and pursue jobs in different sectors. Ashish, son of salt pan workers, has completed engineering studies and is currently working in real estate company at Bengaluru. Chandni, daughter of a single mother, is working in e-Infochips after completing ECS. Sanjay Parmar is in his final year of college, in the premiere design institute, NID, Ahmedabad. He was a child rag picker. Gayatri Chavda serves at Domino's as the Customer Delight Manager, after completing hotel management from IHM, Ahmedabad. Her mother is a housekeeping staff in an office.Our students are foraying into the world of social work. Kajal Sonawane, a graduate in Psychology is currently pursuing maters in Social Work at the premiere institute, TISS, Mumbai. Her mother is a housemaid in Surat.Arpit Gamit, a tribal kid, has cleared CLAT and got admission in Raipur National Law University. His parents are farmers. We have groomed national level basket/volley ball players. Visamo is building lives of kids who in turn are making a difference by giving back to the society.

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Impact Kajal was born in Gujarat to an alcoholic father who works as a labourer. Her mother supports the family of eight by working as a housemaid in Udhna, Surat. The family is in poor condition both financially and otherwise with Kajal's father being a regular abuser to her mother. Despite unsupportive environment at home, Kajal aspires to do well in her life. She aims to contribute to the upliftment of the poor by pursuing social service.One day Kajal got to know about Visamo Kids Foundation and joined their residential centre on 31.07.2002. With its support, she completed her 12th in 2015 and did her graduation in Psychology. To chase her dream of becoming a social worker, she continued her studies at premiere institute of Social Work Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She is currently doing her MA, specializing in Women Centered Studies. Recently, she was also chosen as one of the team members who went to Kerala to support the flood affected victims. About The Program Visamo Kids Foundation runs a residential centre where they look after poor boys and girls from different districts of Gujarat. They provide a warm and safe environment for these children to live, study and play. Children are also provided with nutritious food and are fully supported to complete their education. The support includes transportation to school, basics like stationery, books, uniforms and also after school coaching. To identify the children who need support, VKF partners with NGOs operating at the grass roots level or in the interior of the state. These NGOs also promote VKF's philosophy and help verify the eligibility of the beneficiaries. About The NGO Visamo Kids Foundation (VKF), an Ahmedabad based NGO, works towards providing free education to poor children coming from underprivileged (under poverty line) families from all over Gujarat.Visamo, a truly sustainable, fresh, vital and dynamic initiative. They started off with 18 underprivileged children from the poorest of the poor families from earthquake affected regions of Gujarat. Since its initiation in 2002, soon after the massive earthquake that shook the whole of Gujarat, VKF has focused on working towards empowering lives by facilitating access to quality education and secured environment to the underprivileged children of Gujarat.Their educational programme provides boarding, lodging, medical support, psychological counselling and help to young residents who stay with VKF till they complete their 12th grade.

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Visamo Kids Foundation (VKF), an Ahmedabad based NGO, works towards providing free education to poor children coming from underprivileged (under poverty line) families from all over Gujarat.Visamo, a truly sustainable, fresh, vital and dynamic initiative, started off with 18 underprivileged children from the poorest of the poor families from earthquake affected regions of Gujarat. Since its initiation in 2002 soon after the massive earthquake that shook the whole of Gujarat, VKF has focused on working towards empowering lives by facilitating access to quality education and secured environment to the underprivileged children of Gujarat.Our educational programme provides boarding, lodging, medical support, psychological counselling and help to young residents who stay with VKF till they complete their 12th grade.

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