1. NOURISH TO FLOURISH-REDUCING MALNUTRITION
Team Members
Samskruthi Reddy
Apoorva Ganthi
Kolluru Sneha
S Pavani
Apoorva Reddy

2. One in every three malnourished children lives in India
 According to a UNICEF report on
child malnutrition, it is found that
India is home for 61 percent stunted
children under 5 and 38 percent of all
stunted children in the world.

3. Problems causing Malnourishment
Factors causing Malnutrition
1.Inavailability of nutritious food
 Malnourishment is prevailing in many sections
of society due socio-economic factors and
ignorance
2.Lack of education
 Malnutrition is higher among kids whose
mothers are uneducated or have less than 5
years of education.
3.Inefficiency of Public distribution system
 This is due to poor transport infrastructure and
poor ID mechanisms

4. Use of fortified food and conducting awareness
campaigns provides a solution to reduce Malnourishment
Solutions can be classified depending on
the foresight of results as:
 Short term solutions
1. Regional centers to create
awareness about malnutrition
2. Training unemployed people about
effects and solutions of
malnutrition and employing them
in the above centers
3. Providing vitamin supplements to
the people affected by malnutrition
through these centers.
4. Inspection in schools through
medical practitioners and giving
proper supplements
 Long term solutions
1.Providing Peanuts+Jaggery bars(chikki)
to school students
2.Making the Fortified buttermilk
available at low cost
3.Making of kichidi(cooked rice along
with vegetables) making as a part of
the mid-day meals
4.Making of porridge from finger millets
also known as KOOZH
5.Providing vitamin supplements and
fortified food to pregnant and lactating
women.

5. SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS
1.Creating centers in existing primary health centers and appointing medical
practitioners and volunteers after being trained to spread awareness about
malnutrition
2.As we know poverty is one of the factors for malnutrition , creating employing
opportunities help in eradicating it . unemployed persons are recruited and
trained sufficiently to work in the centers for malnutrition awareness
3.These centers’ main function is to spread awareness and also giving sufficient
supplements in case of people with malnutrition
4.As we know majority of malnutrition in India is in children , measures are to be
taken to decrease the cases of malnutrition. To eradicate
 Schools must be inspected regularly by medical professionals
 vitamin supplements must be provided to students who are affected with
malnutrition
 students must be made aware of the consequences of malnutrition and how
hazardous it can be.

6. PEANUT JAGGERY BARS
 Peanuts are known for their
nutrition values and for protein
content
 Jaggery is known for the iron and
calcium contents
 Use of peanut and jaggery in
making bars is economical and
very healthy and it helps in
eradicating malnutrition
 Peanuts consists of vitamins of b
complex like thiamine riboflavin
etc and proteins and amino acids.1
 Cost of 1kg is nearly INR 300
 Schools must be supplied with this
at low cost so that every student
should have it everyday
 Students are given a bar of 4X2 cm
every two days
 Even the regional centers are to be
supplied with these bars so that
they may be provided to people
with malnutrition

7. FORTIFIED BUTTER MILK
 Buttermilk being a milk product is
rich in calcium
 By fortifying buttermilk ,
eradication of malnutrition is more
effective
 Malt made from sorghum and
millets are to be mixed with butter
milk. This helps in improvement
of nutrition values
 Schools are made to provide this
to students and also should be
available in regional centers
 By making this available to
everyone malnutrition can be
tackled
 Millets are rich in energy , iron
and vitamin b complex
 Sorghum is also rich in energy and
iron
 This can be made at a very low
cost of INR 5

8. MID-DAY MEALS
 As we know our government has
started a innovative approach to
tackle malnutrition that is mid-day
meals
 But these mid-day meals are not
effective in their function and they
have failed to eradicate
malnutrition in many cases
 The main reason for the failure is
due to negligence and corruption
of authorities
 This can be solved by maintaining
transparency and involving other
volunteers in it
 By making khichidi that is
vegetables cooked along with rice
we could make sure that the proper
nutrient supplements are given
 Using brown rice instead of rice is
also a better option as it is more
nutritious
 Introducing Koozh which is made
from finger millets is also helpful

9. AWARENESS AMONG PREGNANT AND
LACTATING WOMEN
 Malnutrition during pregnancy and
lactation puts the life of the mother
and the child in danger
 Anaemia during pregnancy is
dangerous and may lead to death
 The child is born underweight and
is weak. On a long run the child is
prone to many diseases .
 So pregnant and lactating women
are educated about malnutrition
and its effects for the safety of her
and her child
 92% of the women state that they
don’t know about malnutrition. So
awareness must be spread
 Women are to be given vitamin
supplements and proper care must
be taken
 Breastfeeding must be encouraged
for preventing malnutrition

10. IMPROVISING THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM
 In India, it is difficult to know who
is getting benefits hence proper ID
mechanisms can help create nation
wide identification
 There is no proper transportation
and infrastructure, hence better
roads and railways is the key
solution
 GDP per capita is $1000/person
which is very small, hence proper
awareness must be created among
the people
 The awareness can be created
through counters in primary
healthcare centers wherein the
volunteers must be employed to
spread awareness
 The primary healthcare centers
population coverage is around
30,000 in plain areas and 20,000 in
hilly areas, hence at least 500
volunteers for total population
coverage taking 1 volunteer for a
group of 100 people, are required

11. CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS
 With out transparency in the
activities of authorities it is
difficult to achieve
 Due to ignorance many people try
to avoid taking vitamin
supplements by thinking that it is
harmful to health
 Allergy to peanut can be seen in
some individuals
 Butter milk must be pure without
adulteration
 Water used for cooking in
Mid-day meals must be clean
TO TACKLE THESE
PROBLEMS
 Awareness must be created among
people about malnutrition and they
should be encouraged to take
vitamin supplements
 Sanitation must be taken care of
and cleanliness must be
maintained
 previous records of allergy must be
noted and first usage of peanut
must be under supervision

12. References
 http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-
poverty/statistics-on-hunger/
 http://challengedkidsinternational.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/figure-3-
article-3.jpg
 http://apps.who.int/nutrition/landscape/report.aspx?iso=ind
 http://southasiainvestor.blogspot.in/2010/03/creative-solutions-for-
child.html