Trial production of VitaPoshan Baalya and VitaPoshan Yuva is completedFree samples were distributed to families in several villages. Feedback has been excellent. The children love it and ask for more. This is the first time that the children have eaten such tasty and nutritive food, which is ready to eat after mixing with hot milk […]
Several training programmes for SHG women have been going on after the machinery was successfully tested in the Yadgir Production Unit.. We are grateful to Dr. Shantha Maria, former Dean, Mount Carmel College, who was in Yadgir last week to train the SHG women who will be working in the production unit on Safety and Hygiene Protocols.
We are happy to announce that the machinery for the production unit at Yadgir has arrived. The KSCST staff is busy setting it up. We have also conducted our first marketing training programme for SHG women, after which they visited a little tour to see the production unit and the newly arrived machinery. The SHG
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Training programme for Marketing The Aspiration District Yadgir will be getting its first medium scale industry by May end. Women from Self Help Groups will produce VitaPoshan, the delicious nutritive, fortified and affordable food made from locally available ingredients, for all age groups of the community. We are happy that the Aspiration District Yadgir will
Very Encouraging Feedback from the Field Our field team has done a follow up in around 600 households to check whether the behaviour changes we were advocating through students have sustainedWe are extremely happy to learn that indeed the behaviour changes regarding balanced diet and including locally available fruits and vegetables in daily meals, about hygiene
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Our marketing team did their first recce visit to Yadgir to figure out the most effective manner in which to reach VitaPoshan to the weakest sections of the community through the open market.We are grateful to Shri Abhijit Bhattacharya, an expert who led the team, and is helping us gratis.After seeing what he saw, he
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The School IEC programme has been conducted in 2 Government High Schools in 11 villages. Our field team reports that the children showed great interest in all the themes and gave their full attention to the information in the posters and of course in the the films.They asked many questions regarding the kind of foods,
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Our field team, BAIF Yadgir, has been in regular contact with women SHGs across the District mobilizing them through personal interaction and specially designed IEC for starting the process of positive behavior change.We explained some of the more serious findings of the Base Line Survey, particularly regarding the general poor nutritional and health status of
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We have been regularly posting details about the extraordinary and highly successful IEC and behavior change programmes we have been having in the government schools in Yadgir District. And we continue to learn more and more as we proceed in this poorest District of Karnataka. At one of our review meetings, our field team BAIF
A very successful Middle School IEC Programme which has resulted in 65% behvaiour change regarding healthier, more nutritive diet with locally available fruit and vegetables within the family. Impact Assessment Report When community behaviour is hardened by centuries old custom and tradition, behaviour change through evidence based time tested success stories fails. This is what
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