By Veenaa Annamalai | Cradle Health Update
Cradle Health Workshop Part 2 Completed!
We successfully finished our cradle health workshop - part 2 about breastfeeding with our cradle mothers. 27 of our mothers have successfully completed this virtual workshop that happened on a weekly basis since the national lockdown (announced in March) due to the pandemic. We conducted a survey at the end to assess the impact of the workshop. All mothers learnt about various myths and misconceptions related to breastfeeding and believe that they have learnt immensely from these sessions. Our cradle mothers are now empowered to care for their children and their family. Part 3 of our cradle workshop will focus on cognitive development for infants.
Cradle Workshop in a new community
We started our virtual cradle sessions at a new community in Ramapuram, Chennai. We found a community cradle staff Saranya, who helped us bring in more women from the community.
Having started out in one community with less than 10 women, cradle has now expanded to 2 communities with over 40 women and 40 infants in our program. We plan to expand to a new community in 2021!
Pongal Celebrations!
On lieu of Pongal in January of 2021 (South Indian farmers festival) we distributed special Pongal gift boxes to our Cradle infants and mothers. Ingredients in the kit were based on pongal ingredients like jaggery, ghee, dry fruits and nuts which are good for maternal health and infant brain development. Every Pongal cradle kit had a hand-crafted message written by our Pudiyador Cradle Team. We thank Viji and Saranya for making all the efforts to prepare these Pongal Gift boxes for our cradle mothers and infants!
Cradle Kit Distribution
Our cradle health kit is a weekly kit designed to provide a variety of healthy and nutritious supplements which supports one mother and child. Items in the kit include eggs, legumes, vegetables and fruits, milk, ghee, nuts and seeds, cereals. We have continued to distribute these kits to our cradle mothers. Every week we change the items and include new ingredients to give more variety to our cradle mothers.
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