OUR INTERVENTIONS
UMANG (Urgent Management and Action for Nutritional Growth)
In keeping with the need for multi-dimensional approaches to combat malnutrition, World Vision India conceived and developed a nutrition-specific intervention for underweight children across the country for a period of 90 days. Through this community based feeding programme, children receive one meal and snack meeting the basic 600k calories needed, 25 grams of protein and 400 micrograms of Vitamin A requirements of children.
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FOOD BASKET
Children with severe acute malnutrition are referred to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) and a monthly food basket is given to these families for a period of six months followed up with health, nutrition, hygiene messages and counselling. This food basket contains a combination of rice, ragi, masoor dal, green gram whole, refined sunflower oil, toor dal, wheat, Bengal gram dal, soyabean oil and jowar as per the context.
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