Doubling its efforts to tackle the malaise of malnutrition among children, the Reliance Foundation (RF) on Thursday stated it will now extend its involvement during the programme from existing eight districts in Maharashtra to 16.
The Foundation signed and renewed its 2015 commitment within a tripartite MoU with all the Rajmata Jijau Mother-Child Health Nutrition Mission assuring Department of Women & Child Boost the use of state Minister for Rural Development Pankaja Munde and Reliance Foundation CEO Jagannatha Kumar.
The endeavour would strengthen the Central government’s agenda of Sustainable Development Goals 2 during the National Strategy for the children 2016 targeting “improved nutrition” as the key result.
Under the programme, the inspiration has become helping local neighborhoods establish small kitchens or backyard gardens called Reliance Nutrition Gardens (RNGs), covering targeted areas in Thane, Palghar, Pune, Jalgaon, Osmanabad, Yavatmal, Parbhani and Wardha districts in the first phase.
These RNGs are scientifically-developed, cost effective, organic kitchen gardens who use a multi-tier cropping system to allow for a number of vegetables and fruit which enables you to improve health and nutritional parameters among farmer families across villages in India.
Vide this initiative, over 100,000 young children are forwarded to some fruits and vegetables through 7,300 nutrition gardens positioned in Aanganwadis.
Under the revolutionary MoU signed on Thursday, Reliance Foundation will double its involvement from eight to 16 more districts – Beed, Jalna, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Gondiya, Solapur, Nandurbar and Chandrapur.
For implementing this, it will capacitate over 1,000 master trainers, for those 16 districts, to aid and develop 25,000 RNGs in Aanganwadis.
“The encouraging link between the 1st phase have motivated the state of hawaii government to inflate this program in eight new districts with RF as our knowledge partner. You should make certain that every child in anganwadis gets access to berries and vegetables through the state,” said Munde, lauding the initiative.
“The concept of RNGs also have an enormous positive have an effect on communities associated with us. RF is proud to partner together with the Maharashtra government to tackle the challenge of malnutrition among children in Aanganwadis and strengthen the centre’s agenda of nutrition inside the National Action Plan for youngsters 2016,” said Kumar.
The RF is a philanthropic arm of Reliance Industries Ltd, founded and led by its Chairperon Nita Ambani, working towards facilitating transformative changes to make certain overall well-being greater quality of life for a lot of in multiple sectors.
Over the time, it offers touched the lives more than 15 million people across India in many than 13,500 villages and a few urban centres.
