[3:00 pm, 23/02/2022] Jan Ngo: In 10 villages of the project area, awareness programme  were held with the women’s group ,youth group,children group ,kishori group   in Kamta, Posanda, Nadaha, Krishnabigha, Akbarpur, Bhatbigha, Murarpur, Vabhandiha, Keshopur and Badua villages. In these meetings topics of women’s health, children’s health, nutrition, food habits, employment, and prevention of seasonal diseases, COVID-19, sanitation, drinking water, and kitchen garden were discussed. A discussion was also made on giving mother’s milk to children of 0-6 months and for children above 6 months giving pulse water, green leafy vegetables, and vegetable soup as a supplement and giving rice, green vegetables, pulse, chapati, and seasonal fruits to the pregnant women. Maintaining Social distancing in COVID-19 was also emphasized. People started getting rations from ration shops and mid-day meal rations from schools. On the pressure of women groups, mid-day meals ration being available in the schools. Weight check-ups for children and pregnant women were also conducted. Women facing diseases are sent to the hospitals for proper treatment. In the group meetings, it was decided not to involve children in child labour. Training of women groups was also organized in October’20 in which selected members of the women groups participated. In the training, topics of the kitchen garden, green vegetables, fruit cultivation, children’s health, and disadvantages of child marriages were discussed. Thus, by empowering the women’s groups their contribution is proving to be important in making the women, children, and youth empowered.

Achievements:  • Awareness has been generated on how malnutrition occurs in children and women and what can be done to solve it at a lesser cost. People have now started drinking clean water and taking balanced diets in the form of green vegetables and seasonal fruits. They are now paying attention to mother’s milk to children, a balanced diet for pregnant women, and also practicing organic farming. There has been increased awareness among the people about government schemes and most important people have started making collective efforts to achieve them. As a result, maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate have come down and the percentage of women being anemic has decreased in the project area.

[3:01 pm, 23/02/2022] Jan Ngo: 6. Social economic development programme .

The benefits of government schemes were provided by the people for the economic and social development of the deprived group and 200 adolescent girls of the deprived group of the project area were given training in sewing and cutting and made them self-reliant.