“Good nutrition gives children the opportunity to survive, grow, develop, learn, play and participate and contribute. Malnutrition, on the other hand, deprives children to their future prospects and condemns young people to life of insecurity” – WHO/UNICEF.
As nutrition lead to cognitive, social and emotional development of a child. As healthy children learn better as compared to the child with nutritional deficiency. people with adequate nutrition are more productive and can create more opportunities to gradually break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
children who are underprivileged or in rural areas experience, the hunger arises not out of the lack of food but out of the lack of proper nourishment, which can also be called hidden hunger. It is a form of chronic hunger. Due to an unbalanced diet, important nutrients are lacking, such as iron, iodine, zinc or vitamin A. Initially, the consequences are not necessarily very visible, but over the long-term these nutrient deficiencies lead to serious diseases. In particular, children are unable to develop correctly, neither mentally nor physically. Hundreds of school going children suffer from hidden hunger. Parents provide whatever meal they can with the paltrier amounts they earn but it doesn’t fulfill the need of proper nourishment.
PRAYAS TRUST initiated a programme “Help And Beat Hunger”. From your support and help we provide a child adequate nutrition. This initiative also aims to sensitize the general public, teachers as well as family on the need of proper nutrition.
Most of us have proper nutrition and satiated with the food, so lets come forward help those who are suffering from emptiness and inadequate nutrition. LET’S BEAT HUNGER!
