Announcing a Unique Inter-disciplinary 2 Credit Course, the first of its kind, “Public Nutrition, Human Capital and Demographic Dividend”Launching on line on 20-01-2025.Auro Centre for Public Nutrition, Public Health and Public Policy, (ACPN) Bangalore, in collaboration with The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences & Technology (TDU). The Course will be launched on January 20, 2024 […]
Announcing a Unique Inter-disciplinary 2 Credit Course “Public Nutrition, Human Capital and Demographic Dividend” Auro Centre for Public Nutrition, Public Health and Public Policy, Bangalore, a vertical of Sri Aurobindo Society, in collaboration with The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences & Technology (TDU) is launching a unique interdisciplinary 2 credit on-line course, “Public Nutrition, Human
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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.
Marketing training meetings for Women SHGs are being conducted regularly by our BIAF field team.They are so much more enthused now, as they have actually received free samples of VitaPoshan Baalya for children, produced by their own sister SHG in Yadgir. The novelty of VitaPoshan for mothers is really very simple. For the first time
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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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