nutrition support for 200 malnourished children

There are thousands of children in our work area who suffer from malnutrition in absence of care and nutrition. Pragati Bharat has been running Nutrition support for 200 Malnourish children to provide care and support to such children. 

It is due to generous support from Global Giving has been able to run this program. Thank you so much for your trust in us.

 Mahak was one of the Molnourished child.Nine months ago, when Mahak joined us, she was severely malnourished.  She belongs to ST family of village  Arjunkhiriya block Madawara Since, both her parents Jayanti (Mahak’s mother) and Manoj (Mahak’s father)  had to go out to work, she was often left neglected at home without care and nutrition required for her normal growth. Our team visited her home and got her enrolled. She diagnosed with malnutrition during health check-up and was referred to start treatment for malnutrition and provided her supplementary nutrition for three  months and also provided sanitation kit in an increased of 2 kilograms of weight in the next three months.

Additionally, parents were made aware about the benefits of cleanliness by counseling sessions and informed them various ways on how to keep the child away from unhygienic conditions, so that the child can stay healthy. After this, our team took follow-up of child. After contacting the child's parents, it was revealed that the child is completely healthy now.

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Very young children in the poorest tribal villages of Bundelkhand Uttar Pradesh are malnourished. In this age children requires excessive need for body development. But these children cannot get this nutrition on time so that these poor children become malnourished.    

        There is one of the child who has a chance at healthy start to life of village Gouna block Madawara. He is protected from malnutrition and related health issues.

This is the story of Arjun, her Mother’s name Saroj and Father’s name Mahesh. He is 2 years old, who was suffering from malnutrition. Arjun belongs to a poor ST and economically backward family from Gouna village block Madawara. When done a home visit by animator of Pragati Bharat team revealed that the child not only weights less, but was suffering from Fever and diarrhea.

Once identified as a malnourished baby, Pragati Bharat kept under special observation and got her to the Growth Monitoring session. It was confirmed that Arjun was a malnourished child her weight at the time of admission was 8.5 kgs. 

As a corrective measure, He was provided extra supplementary nutrition and medicines. He was provided nutritional care by the trained doctors. His mother was educated on child nutritional care and feeding practices. She was also taught the food preparation process and to make special Poshahar at home, she was already showing positive trends on his nutritional status. After this, the child was provided with clinical follow up several times by the trained doctor.

With the help of the special care, close follow ups by health workers and his mother’s focus on nutritional food, care and affection, the child has achieved its normal nutritional status gradually. Now, he weighs 10.500 kgs.