organized journalist meet by Fight Hunger Foundation

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In National Nutrition Month, Fight Hunger Foundation (NGO working on Malnutrition) organized a journalist meet in Udaipur, with the support of Public Relation Department. In the meet, Mousumi Gupta, HoD Advocacy explained that, around 20% of India’s children under five years old suffer from acute malnutrition-that is 8 million children. Under nutrition kills around 1 million of those children each year and is the reason behind 50% of all child deaths in India. The high percentage of malnutrition has led to the launch of POSHAN Abhiyan by the Govt. of India, which aims to decrease the rate of malnutrition to 25% from 38.4%.


Jan Andolan, a very important part of POSHAN Abhiyan under which the government has requested support from the citizens of India, Public Representatives, Panchayat Representatives, School Management, All government Offices, Non Governmental Organizations, Youth and Private organizations to support in building awareness of POSHAN abhiyan and help in forming a Jan Andolan (Public Movement)


Inorder to give an opportunity to the public to support the Abhiyan, government has declared this month (September) as POSHAN Mah.


Media is the best way to reach the public. Thus the meet was an effort to sensitize the media about POSHAN abhiyan and request their support in working for the cause and acting as a medium to create awareness about the abhiyan.


Sanjay Kumar, Programme Manager requested the media to support in building awareness about the abhiyan and thanked the journalists being a part of the meet.



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