Mother and Child nutrition are critical to build a healthy society. Also on the other hand, malnutrition remains a major challenge in India, as per the NHFS 5 report.

WIN Foundation, through partnership with Samerth Charitable Trust(MHT), Shrimati Malati Dahanukar Trust (SMDT) launched this project to reduce malnutrition among mothers, infant children and adolescent girls, in five Gram Panchayats of Sanand, through a self-sustainable market creation strategy, through following dual approach:

Create Demand or Pull for nutritious food and hygiene among poor communities through awareness and habit formation programs, through women field health workers training and tracking and supporting their counseling activities among mothers and communities.
Address the Supply or Push factors by training and supporting women led microenterprises for nutritious food production and sale to the community. This includes training and hand holding them for all aspects of business.

Mother and Child nutrition are critical to build healthy society. WIN Foundation, through partnership with Mahila Housing Sewa Trust(MHT), Rural Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Foundation (REAL) & Shrimati Malati Dahanukar Trust (SMDT) launched this project to improve health & well-being of slum dwellers through integrated nutrition & WASH intervention coupled with micro-entrepreneurship for nutrition – addressing Demand and Supply factors as follows:
Create Pull or Demand for nutrition and hygiene: Generate awareness and knowledge among communities for nutrition & hygiene. Train Health Champions / Leaders from within community to regularly train and counsel mothers and other stakeholders.
Create Push or Supply of nutritious food: Create and nurture women microentrepreneurs from within community, to make and supply nutritious food items to community and outside. This creates the Push or supply of nutritious food items to fulfil the demand and also creates livelihoods and economic value-add within the community.
This dual Push – Pull strategy is aimed to create sustainable transformation.

Spoken tutorials are created by the Spoken Tutorial Project Group at IIT Bombay, for self-learning with usage of audio-visual screen-casts. The duration of the tutorials are usually 10-12 minutes and are available in major Indian languages. The tutorials can be downloaded and used offline without internet access. The tutorials are on exclusive breastfeeding, recipes for complementary feeding, pre-pregnancy, adolescence, nutrition during pregnancy, nutrition during lactation, junk foods & health, science of nutrition and safety & food hygiene.

These tutorials are aimed at training of field health workers, training of mothers by Health workers, and self training.

Comprehensive Training on “First 1000 days – Maternal & Child Nutrition” for Health Workers over 3 days covering technical and counseling skills on Maternal, Infant & Young Child Nutrition (1st 1000 days) to prevent malnutrition in mothers and children thereby preventing underweight, stunting & wasting.

To provide nutritious breakfast packets for anganwadi children and to study its impact of their health, in selected villages in Bavla area in Ahmedabad district, along with health counselling to anganwadi workers, parents and children . The project covers 300 children over 1 year (approx. 250 days per year).

To set up a Diamond Jubilee Child Nutrition Centre – ChiNu, at CTARA (Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas), IIT Bombay, to assist in the task of a malnutrition free India as a knowledge partner, taking localized food recipes with measured nutrition values, and then spreading them in field using home cooking or local production, including through micro-entrepreneurship.