A nutrition intervention in Urban Slums Nutrition and access to healthy food are the rights of all sections of society, however, the needs of the urban poor are complex & multifaceted. The nutritional status of urban slum populations is worse than the rural population. SHODH's nutrition project is working with households from urban slums & those having young children to improve quality of local diets and improve eating & feeding practices by increasing awareness.
Nutrition & access to healthy food are the rights of all sections of society, however, the needs of the urban poor are complex & multifaceted. The nutritional status of urban slum populations is worse than the rural population. SHODH's nutrition project is working with households from urban slums & those having young children to improve quality of local diets and improve eating & feeding practices by increasing awareness & including low cost, high nutrition & impact solutions as our strategy.
SHODH's nutrition project is working with households from urban slums & those having young children to improve quality of local diets and improve eating & feeding practices by increasing awareness & including low cost, high nutrition & impact solutions as our strategy. Regular health camps for children, breastfeeding awareness, WASH awareness are some of the other activities that are regularly conducted as part of the intervention.
We aim to cover all the families in urban slums of Delhi. Currently we are covering around 200 families. The long term impact would be increased nutrition resulting in reduced morbidity, reduced expenditure on medicines & Doctors and increased income by reduction in loss of wages due to illness.
