Health and Nutrition
As we all know Good nutrition is one of the keys to a healthy Person / Life. People can improve their health by keeping a balanced food / diet. People should eat foods that contain vitamins and minerals in their regular diet. This includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, and a source of protein. There are more than 40+ different kinds of nutrients in food that we need to take on daily basis and these nutrients are generally classified into 7 major groups like Carbohydrates, Proteins, fats, Vitamins, Minerals, Dietary Fibre and Water.
Malnutrition happens when a person’s diet does not provide enough nutrients or the right balance of nutrients for optimal health. Causes of malnutrition include inappropriate dietary choices, a low income, difficulty obtaining food, and various physical and mental health conditions.
Poor nutrition can impair our daily health and wellbeing and reduce our ability to lead an enjoyable and active life. The unhealthy eating habits can affect our nutrient intake, including energy (or kilojoules) protein, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals as well as fibre and fluid.
What are the challenges Our NGO faces?
India is the home of largest number of undernourished children in the world. The prevalence of malnutrition in India is extremely high and effecting or taking lives of many. Malnourished children are more susceptible to sickness and missing school, they also find it harder to concentrate and succeed in their studies and also career. Children are not getting the nutrition they need to survive and thrive. This is especially true for the poorest and most vulnerable children. Children from impoverished families often have only one meal a day, which is not enough. At least one in three children under 5 is affected by malnutrition in its most visible forms:
- Deters brain development
- Children succumb to diseases and infection
- Maternal health among girls below 18 years is jeopardized
- Children struggle with hygiene and lack of sanitation
- Appalling status of menstrual hygiene among girls
- Being overweight or obese
- Tooth Decay
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Heart Disease and Stroke
- Type-2 Diabetes Osteoporosis
- Some Cancers
- Depression &
- Eating Disorders
Educating Parents Issues:
The biggest challange is that we need to make the parents understand the importance and healthy and nutrition food intake. Because of poverty and lack of education, they don’t give importance at all towards health and nourished food provision for their Children.
Financial Issues:
We need to take care of the malnourished children at the best manner continuously otherwise there will be risk of their life. As we have increase of admissions of Children in this malnutrition section we have to expand our budget. We are trying our level best to keep the admitted children or people every day.
How Parivartan Sewa Sansthan is changing lives?
We Parivartan Sewa Sansthan Team takes every possible action to reach the communities / regions wherever our organization working and reach out people to firstly educating the people or the parents or providing medicines to the needy people or admitting people in the nearby institutes or in our organization and to provide them adequate food and nourished diet for them to recover
For Health & Nutrition, our Team works on:
- Educating the Communities / poor people
- Providing fresh & clean tap water regular water they take
- Detect ailments in children early and refer them for further treatment under proper medical guidance.
- Organizing regular camps which undertake Blood Check, Blood Grouping, Dental Check, ENT Check, Anaemia or Nutrition Evaluation of the children followed by guidance of medical officer
- Providing good & healthy foods every day
- Those who require specialised treatment are referred to higher medical institutions and such cases are treated at special counters in these institutions.
- Providing regular health check ups
- Our Team identifies children with health problems and bring it to the notice of the Organization and the paramedical Teams
- Serves fruit and Fresh Vegetables each day
- NGO Health Card is printed and issued to every person mentioning his/her blood group, name, address and emergency contact number
It is a very big challenge of taking care of people and their health which is not an easy task at all as it requires time, people and regular support of funds from all our well-wishers and good hearted people. However we Parivartan Sewa Sansthan Team will not stop TO PROVIDE PEOPLE THE BEST HEALTH AND NUTRIION.
