Help Us Feed Malnourished Children in India

Dear Donors,

Thank you for all your support over the last 8 months. The Mid Day Meal Project has had a great year. This year we learned about our children's health a lot more and simultaneously learned about how we can make our mid day meal programme a complete health improvement programme.

Over the last 3 months, here are the highlights of our work

• We analysed the health data of all the 2000 children who receive our mid day meal programme and found out that 19% of the total children are severly undernourished and very close to being malnourished. Their BMI levels were in the lowest range compared to the average BMI range. Also, we realised that the children in the age group of 5 to 8 years are the ones most affected
• We identified the schools in our programme that have the most number of affected kids, a certain school had nearly 101 severly undernourished students.
• We then conducted parents meetings in 4 of our 8 schools to enlighten the parents of these 190 children about the health issues with their children. We also talked to them about how they can better the diet of their children. Almost 60% of the parents were able to come for the meeting and then commit to making changes in the diet of their children.
• Along with parents meetings, we also conducted hygiene and sanitation improvement sessions for the all the schools in the programme.

Road Map for the next 3 months

• The Parents Meetings will the remaining parents will continue and a followup meeting for all parents is planned for April, post exams and before the summer vacation begins in order to help the parents plan and feed their children better
• All the students who have especially show severe undernourishment will be tracked more closely by the team and by the school authorities to check for improvement
• The next year's project will be not just a mid day meal programme but a school health improvement programme, with various aspects to it. 

Dharma Bharathi Mission would like to again thank all you donors for the continous support and we hope that our project continues to receive your support in the future.

• Case Studies of Children under the Programme (PDF)